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 …

Understanding the ways in which human communities define themselves in relation to
landscapes has been one of the crucial research questions in anthropology. The present …

The Pre-Columbian Mayan hieroglyphic script utilized logograms, representing CVC roots or
CVCVC stems, and CV syllabograms. Starting with Knorozov's (1952 etc.) initial …

La Milpa, situated in northern Belize, stands out as one of the region's largest archaeological
sites, having served as the capital of an ancient Maya city-state. Its significance is indicated …

The ancient Maya community of Lamanai, Belize, is well known for its span of occupation
from the Early Preclassic (before 1630 BC) to the present. Although most centers in the …

Abstract Our understanding of Late Classic Maya culture relies in great part on the analysis
of a wealth of visual and textual information that appears on polychrome ceramics. When …

N orthwestern fined Region, study which area Belize encompasses known is in a as
geographically the adjacent Three Rivers terridetory in northeastern Petén, Guatemala, and …

Under the premise that individuals can embody their sociocultural environment, this project
was undertaken to analyze differences in age-at-formation and duration of linear enamel …

This master's thesis focuses on understanding the period of reoccupation during the Late to
Terminal Classic at Group E, Xunantunich. This topic is examined through an investigation …

In 1995, during a preliminary survey and mapping expedi-tion, remnants of hieroglyphs
were found in a painted tomb at the ancient Maya site of Ka'kabish in north-central Belize …