Sky-earth, lake-sea: Climate and water in Maya history and landscape

Sheryl Luzzadder-Beach; Timothy Beach; Scott Hutson; Samantha Krause

doi:10.15184/aqy.2016.38

Sky-earth, lake-sea: Climate and water in Maya history and landscape

Sheryl Luzzadder-Beach, Timothy Beach, Scott Hutson, Samantha Krause

Anthropology

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In recent years, a growing body of research has focused on the importance of water management for ancient Maya societies, and more generally on the cultural and economic significance of water as a resource. But how did this change across the centuries as cycles of drought and sea level rise, together with the growing Maya footprint on the landscape, presented new challenges? As the resolution of climatic records improves, the authors can begin to show in detail how Maya water management responded and adapted to such shifts. This included the manipulation of aguadas and the development of wetland field systems, in the process transforming large areas of the Maya landscape.

Idioma original	English
Páginas (desde-hasta)	426-442
Número de páginas	17
Publicación	Antiquity
Volumen	90
N.º	350
DOI	https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2016.38
Estado	Published - abr 1 2016

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The authors thank the National Science Foundation; the National Geographic Society; the University of Texas, Austin C.B. Smith Sr Centennial Chair; the Georgetown University Cinco Hermanos Chair; N. Dunning; F. Valdez, Jr; T. Guderjan; S. Houston; T. Garrison; J. Doyle; B. Dahlin; H. Lopez Rosas; our research host countries of Guatemala, Belize andMexico; our students; and the anonymous reviewers. Errors or omissions are the authors responsibility.

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Georgetown University Cinco Hermanos Chair
Texas AandM University
U.S. Department of Energy Chinese Academy of Sciences Guangzhou Municipal Science and Technology Project Oak Ridge National Laboratory Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment National Science Foundation National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center National Natural Science Foundation of China
National Geographic Society

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