Wetland Manipulation in the Yalahau Region of the Northern Maya Lowlands

Fedick, Scott L.; Morrison, Bethany A.; Andersen, Bente Juhl; Boucher, Sylviane; Acosta, Jorge Ceja; Mathews, Jennifer P

doi:10.1179/jfa.2000.27.2.131

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“…Lowland resources such as salt (A. P. Andrews 1983;McKillop 2002), chert (Potter and King 1995;Shafer and Hester 1983), and cacao (McAnany et al 2002) are famously patchy. But even in areas without such assets, other features such as escarpments , swamp edges (Kunen 2004), karst depressions (Kepecs and Boucher 1996;Munro Stasiuk and Manahan 2010), rivers (Siemens 1996), terrace-able hills (Chase and Chase 1998), and fracture zones (Fedick et al 2000) each permit local resource specializations. Such resource diversity and community specialization have fueled market-based models of ancient Maya economies: "By combining the variety and abundance of specialized production at a marketplace .…”

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Ancient Maya Commerce : Multidisciplinary Research at Chunchucmil

Hutson¹

2017

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Section: Definitions and Delays In Economic Anthropologymentioning

confidence: 99%

Ancient Maya Commerce : Multidisciplinary Research at Chunchucmil

Hutson¹

2017

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“…More recently, however, soil chemistry has been incorporated into large, multidisciplinary projects that combine archaeological survey and excavation with physical and chemical analysis of sediments and palynology. For example, Dunning (1993Dunning ( , 1996Dunning & Beach 1994, 2000Dunning et al 1997, 1998), Fedick (1995Fedick et al 2000;Fedick & Morrison 2004), and others (e.g. Pope et al 1996;Wingard 1996;Beach 1998;Rosenmeier et al 2002) examine anthrosols produced by the pre-Hispanic Maya peoples of Central America to answer questions about the nature and variability in agricultural practices and how these practices allowed the Maya to adapt to a complex mosaic of microenvironmental variations in soil since at least 1000 BC.…”

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Cultural soilscapes

Wells

2006

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While soil is normally studied as the outcome of natural geological and chemical processes, soil research by archaeologists, geographers and other social scientists focuses on the human behavioural dimensions of soil formation. As a result, 'cultural soilscape' is an analytical concept common to both Earth and social sciences that encourages a more holistic, transdisciplinary approach to studying soil formation processes. This paper introduces the concept of cultural soilscape and reviews important archaeological work on this theme over the past decade.

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“…The ancient use of wetlands for agriculture is well documented for different parts of the Maya lowlands and for all periods (including modern times: see Culbert et al 1990Culbert et al , 1997Dunning et al 2002;Fedick et al 2000;Kunen 2004;Pohl 1990;Wilk 1985). At the very least, the Río Bec swamps probably provided water during part of the year and continuous moisture on edges during the dry season.…”

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Agrarian Features, Farmsteads, and Homesteads in the Río Bec Nuclear Zone, Mexico

Lemonnier

Vannière

2013

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With its overall settlement pattern more dispersed than those of other contemporary Maya sites, and many associated land use features still preserved, the spatial layout of the Río Bec nuclear zone (159 ha) leads us to give priority to the hypothesis of a production economy based on infield agriculture. Through a multidisciplinary and multiscalar research strategy, including several geoarchaeological methods developed on three different spatial scales, it is possible to forward a model of territorial occupation and land use for the Río Bec apogee period (a.d. 700-850). Geographical and archaeological data, along with chronological and spatial analyses, allow us to reconstruct a built field system made up of distinct agricultural production units. From a socioeconomic perspective, the model suggests that agricultural production was managed at the household scale and that each unit or farmstead was distinct and autonomous from its neighbors.For the past 60 years, the societal-environmental relationship particular to the Southern Maya Lowlands has been debated

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Wetland Manipulation in the Yalahau Region of the Northern Maya Lowlands

Cited by 41 publications

References 33 publications

Ancient Maya Commerce : Multidisciplinary Research at Chunchucmil

Ancient Maya Commerce : Multidisciplinary Research at Chunchucmil

Cultural soilscapes

Agrarian Features, Farmsteads, and Homesteads in the Río Bec Nuclear Zone, Mexico

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