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Changes in the orientation of archaeological research in the
post-World War n period affected Maya studies. The cultural
ecological perspective, which was rising to prominence, put an old
debate in bold relief: How had this prehistoric civilization
adapted to the tropical forest environment? How could swidden
cultivation have sustained the unexpectedly high population
densities that settlement pattern studies appeared to be revealing?
Had the ancient Maya practiced some from of intensive agriculture?
Archaeologist Dennis E. Puleston went to the Maya Lowlands to
investigate geographer Alfred H. Siemens's reports of possible
intensive agriculture ("ridged fields") seen from the air and to
study prehistoric Maya cultivation and civilization from a cultural
ecological perspective. This volume presents the results of the Rio
Hondo Project field research on Albion Island in northern Belize
from 1973 to 1980 with the addition of selected results from Pohl's
continuing work in northern Belize.
Changes in the orientation of archaeological research in the
post-World War n period affected Maya studies. The cultural
ecological perspective, which was rising to prominence, put an old
debate in bold relief: How had this prehistoric civilization
adapted to the tropical forest environment? How could swidden
cultivation have sustained the unexpectedly high population
densities that settlement pattern studies appeared to be revealing?
Had the ancient Maya practiced some from of intensive agriculture?
Archaeologist Dennis E. Puleston went to the Maya Lowlands to
investigate geographer Alfred H. Siemens's reports of possible
intensive agriculture ("ridged fields") seen from the air and to
study prehistoric Maya cultivation and civilization from a cultural
ecological perspective. This volume presents the results of the Rio
Hondo Project field research on Albion Island in northern Belize
from 1973 to 1980 with the addition of selected results from Pohl's
continuing work in northern Belize.
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