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Few regions can boast of the interdisciplinary efforts to investigate the recursive nature between the rise of intensive agriculture and complex society as the lowland Maya area of Northern Belize and southern Quintana Roo, Mexico. Ancient Maya Wetland Agriculture continues this multidisciplinary tradition, with 15 chapters detailing the deposits and fluvial geomorphology, biology and biostratigraphy, and archaeology of the Rio Hondo ditched fields in Northern Belize. This text augments previous glimpses of Maya intensive agriculture on Albion Island (Pohl, 1985). Pohl's introduction discusses the history of the Rio Hondo Research Project from its 1973 inception by Siemens and Puleston emphasizing cultural ecology to her own research in the 1980s on political ecology. She then provides a cursory site description of Albion Island, introduces the remainder of the volume, and briefly summarizes the history of Maya agricultural research. In Chapter 2, Kent Mathewson interweaves a discussion of Puleston's contributions to Maya Archaeology with a history of research on prehistoric New World intensive agriculture, the nature of archaeological investigation, and the importance of the Albio

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Author

William Gustav Gartner

Publisher

John Wiley and Sons; Wiley (John Wiley & Sons); John Wiley & Sons Inc.; Wiley (ISSN 0883-6353)

Published

1991

Language

EN

Field

Earth and Planetary Sciences (Physical Sciences)