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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewAn encyclopedic treatise of ancient Maya environmental archaeology and paleoenvironmental science...I highly recommend The Maya and Climate Change to both scholars and students interested in environmental archaeology and the Maya. As a readable, afordable, short, and comprehensive monograph, this would be a great textbook for a Maya-focused, environmental archaeology course. This valuable contribution to the feld will no doubt become a classic reference on ancient Maya ecology. * Maxime Lamoureux-St-Hilaire, The Mayanist *
This book provides a thorough, up-to-date, and well-written introduction to the ecology of the Maya civilization, especially during the Classic period...Excellent for courses on, and readers interested in, Mesoamerican archaeology, human ecology, and studies of ancient civilizations... Highly recommended. * Choice *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Chapter 1: Shifting the Focus Chapter 2: From Camera Lucida to Lidar: A Brief History of Maya Archaeology Chapter 3: Forests Chapter 4: Fields Chapter 5: Water Chapter 6: Stone Chapter 7: Collapse and Resilience Chapter 8: Looking Forward References
