Ancient Maya impacts on the Earth's surface: An Early Anthropocene analog?

T Beach, S Luzzadder-Beach, D Cook… - Quaternary Science …, 2015 - Elsevier
The measure of the “Mayacene,” a microcosm of the Early Anthropocene that occurred from
c. 3000 to 1000 BP, comes from multiple Late Quaternary paleoenvironmental records. We …

Paleoenvironmental evidence for first human colonization of the eastern Caribbean

PE Siegel, JG Jones, DM Pearsall, NP Dunning… - Quaternary Science …, 2015 - Elsevier
Identifying and dating first human colonization of new places is challenging, especially when
group sizes were small and material traces of their occupations were ephemeral. Generating …

The Columbian encounter and the Little Ice Age: Abrupt land use change, fire, and greenhouse forcing

RA Dull, RJ Nevle, WI Woods, DK Bird… - Annals of the …, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
Pre-Columbian farmers of the Neotropical lowlands numbered an estimated 25 million by
1492, with at least 80 percent living within forest biomes. It is now well established that …

Defining the spatial patterns of historical land use associated with the indigenous societies of eastern North America

SE Munoz, DJ Mladenoff, S Schroeder… - Journal of …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Aim To review and synthesize multiple lines of evidence that describe the spatial patterns of
land use associated with prehistoric and early historical Native American societies in …

Integrating zooarchaeology and paleoethnobotany

AM VanDerwarker, TM Peres - A Consideration of Issues, Methods, and …, 2010 - Springer
2 AM VanDerwarker and TM Peres several additional colleagues agreed to contribute to
help round out the geographical and methodological breadth of the volume. Integrating …

[图书][B] Ancient Maya commerce: multidisciplinary research at Chunchucmil

S Hutson - 2017 - library.oapen.org
Nearly two decades of research at Chunchucmil, Yucatan, Mexico documented a thriving
city of 40,000 people without the powerful kings and massive temples seen at other Maya …

Beyond the Mayan lowlands: impacts of the terminal classic drought in the Caribbean Antilles

CS Lane, SP Horn, MT Kerr - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2014 - Elsevier
High-resolution paleoclimate records from the Mayan Lowlands and the Cariaco Basin have
shown that the collapse of the Mayan socio-political structure at the end of the Classic …

Methodological issues in paleoethnobotany: a consideration of issues, methods, and cases

PJ Wright - … and paleoethnobotany: A consideration of issues …, 2010 - Springer
This chapter summarizes the current perspectives on paleoethnobotany, and the methods
and techniques involved in the analysis of archaeological plant remains. The topic is not …

[图书][B] Case studies in paleoethnobotany: understanding ancient lifeways through the study of phytoliths, starch, macroremains, and pollen

D Pearsall - 2018 - taylorfrancis.com
Case Studies in Paleoethnobotany focuses on interpretation in paleoethnobotany. In it the
reader is guided through the process of analyzing archaeobotanical data and of using that …

A 3400 year paleolimnological record of prehispanic human–environment interactions in the Holmul region of the southern Maya lowlands

D Wahl, F Estrada-Belli, L Anderson - Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology …, 2013 - Elsevier
The timing, magnitude and drivers of late Holocene environmental change in the Holmul
region of the southern Maya lowlands are examined by combining paleoenvironmental and …