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245 04 $aThe great Maya droughts in cultural context :$bcase studies in resilience and vulnerability /$c[edited by] Gyles Iannone.
264 1 $aBoulder, Colorado :$bUniversity Press of Colorado,$c[2013]
300 $axx, 466 pages :$billustrations, maps ;$c24 cm
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 359-450)and index.
520 $a"In The Great Maya Droughts in Cultural Context, contributors reject the popularized link between societal collapse and drought in Maya civilization, arguing that a series of periodic "collapses," including the infamous Terminal Classic collapse (AD 750-1050), were not caused solely by climate change-related droughts but by a combination of other social, political, and environmental factors. New and senior scholars of archaeology and environmental science explore the timing and intensity of droughts and provide a nuanced understanding of socio-ecological dynamics, with specific reference to what makes communities resilient or vulnerable when faced with environmental change.Contributors recognize the existence of four droughts that correlate with periods of demographic and political decline and identify a variety of concurrent political and social issues. They argue that these primary underlying factors were exacerbated by drought conditions and ultimately led to societal transitions that were by no means uniform across various sites and subregions. They also deconstruct the concept of "collapse" itself--although the line of Maya kings ended with the Terminal Classic collapse, the Maya people and their civilization survived.The Great Maya Droughts in Cultural Context offers new insights into the complicated series of events that impacted the decline of Maya civilization. This significant contribution to our increasingly comprehensive understanding of ancient Maya culture will be of interest to students and scholars of archaeology, anthropology, geography, and environmental studies"--$cProvided by publisher.
520 $a"In The Great Maya Droughts in Cultural Context, contributors reject the popularized link between societal collapse and drought in Maya civilization, arguing that a series of periodic "collapses," including the infamous Terminal Classic collapse (AD 750), were caused not solely by climate change-related droughts but by a combination of other social, political, and environmental factors. New and senior scholars of archaeology and environmental science explore the timing and intensity of droughts and provide a nuanced understanding of socio-ecological dynamics, with specific reference to what makes communities resilient or vulnerable when faced with environmental change. Contributors recognize the existence of four droughts that correlate with periods of demographic and political decline and identify a variety of concurrent political and social issues. They argue that these primary underlying factors were exacerbated by drought conditions and ultimately led to societal transitions that were by no means uniform across various sites and subregions. They also deconstruct the concept of "collapse" itself--although the line of Maya kings ended with the Terminal Classic collapse, the Maya people and their civilization survived"--$cProvided by publisher.
505 00 $gIntroduction:$tResilience, vulnerability, and the study of socioecological dynamics /$rGyles Iannone --$tThe dynamics of ancient Maya developmental history /$rJames Aimers and Gyles Iannone --$tAssessing the great Maya droughts : some critical issues /$rGyles Iannone, Jason Yaeger, and David Hodell --$tAgricultural landscapes, deforestation, and drought severity /$rRobert Griffin, Robert Oglesby, Thomas Sever, and Udaysankar Nair --$tClimate change in the ancient Maya forest : resilience and adaptive management across millennia /$rAnabel Ford and Ronald Nigh --$tThe end of the beginning : drought, environmental change, and the preclassic to classic transition in the east-central Maya lowlands /$rNicholas Dunning, David Wahl, Timothy Beach, John Jones, Sheryl Luzzadder-Beach, and Carmen McCane --$tA tale of three cities : effects of the AD 536 event in the lowland Maya heartland /$rBruce H. Dahlin and Arlen F. Chase --
505 00 $tCollapse without drought : warfare, settlement, ecology, and site abandonment in the Middle Pasion region /$rMatt O'Mansky --$tThe classic Maya collapse, water, and economic change in Mesoamerica : critique and alternatives from the "wet zone" /$rArthur A. Demarest --$tWater in the West : chronology and collapse of the classic Maya river kingdoms /$rAndrew K. Scherer and Charles Golden --$tOxygen isotopes from Maya archaeological deer remains : experiments in traciong droughts using bones /$rAntoine Repussard, Henry P. Schwarcz, Kitty F. Emery, and Erin Kennedy Thornton --$tThe prehistoric Maya of northern Belize : issues of drought and cultural transformations /$rFred Valdez and Vernon Scarborough --$tAn archaeological consideration of long-term socioecological dynamics on the Vaca Plateau, Belize /$rGyles Iannone, Arlen F. Chase, Diane Z. Chase, Jaime Awe, Holley Moyes, George Brook, Jason Polk, James Webster, and James Conolly --
505 00 $tTracking climate change in the ancient Maya world through zooarchaeological habitat analyses /$rKitty F. Emery and Erin Kennedy Thornton --$tMaya drought and niche inheritance /$rDavid Webster.
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650 0 $aMayas$xSocial conditions.
650 0 $aMayas$xAntiquities.
650 0 $aDroughts$zCentral America$xHistory.
650 0 $aIndigenous people$xEcology$zCentral America.
650 0 $aHuman beings$xEffect of climate on$zCentral America.
650 0 $aCrops$zCentral America$xEffect of drougt on.
650 0 $aEnvironmental archaeology$zCentral America.
650 0 $aSocial archaeology$zCentral America.
651 0 $aCentral America$xAntiquities.
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