The Classic Maya have long presented scholars with vexing problems. One of the longest
running and most contested of these, and the source of deeply polarized interpretations, has …

The decline of the Classic Maya civilization was complex and geographically variable, and
occurred over a~ 150-year interval, known as the Terminal Classic Period (TCP, CE 800 …

Interest in the lowland Maya collapse is stronger than ever, and there are now hundreds of
studies that focus on the era from approximately AD 750 to AD 1050. In the past, scholars …

Studies of the organization of Maya pottery production have been pursued via numerous
methods but without theoretical models. I review available data on production of Late …

Over the past two decades, household studies have coalesced into a recognized subfield
within archaeology. Despite this relatively short history, household archaeologists are now …

The archaeological remains of ancient water storage and irrigation technologies are often
prominent features on the landscape. Dams, canals, and irrigation ditches required great …

In The Great Maya Droughts in Cultural Context, contributors reject the popularized link
between societal collapse and drought in Maya civilization, arguing that a series of periodic …

Landscape interactions of Trypanosoma cruzi (Tc) with Triatoma dimidiata (Td) depend on
the presence and relative abundance of mammal hosts. This study analyzed a landscape …

Complexity is both a buzzword and a paradigm in the biophysical sciences and,
increasingly, the social sciences. We define “social complexity” as the nonlinear escalation …

This thesis offers a contextualised approach to the collapse of the Mycenaean palace
societies of mainland Greece, c. 1200BC, and aspects of Mycenaean society in the …