The Maya Forest Garden: Eight Millennia of Sustainable Cultivation of the Tropical Woodlands - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Anabel Ford, Ronald NighSeries:New Frontiers in Historical Ecology #6Publish date:2015-06-30Pages:260
Language:EnglishPublisher:RoutledgeISBN-13:9781611329988ISBN-10:1611329981UPC:9781611329988Book Category:Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Anthropology, Archaeology, Indigenous StudiesSize:8.90 x 6.30 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.9017Product ID:SCMGDVEX4P
The Maya Forest Garden: Eight Millennia of Sustainable Cultivation of the Tropical Woodlands
The conventional wisdom says that the devolution of Classic Maya civilization occurred because its population grew too large and dense to be supported by primitive neotropical farming methods, resulting in debilitating famines and internecine struggles. Using research on contemporary Maya farming techniques and important new archaeological research, Ford and Nigh refute this Malthusian...
Series: New Frontiers in Historical Ecology #6
Language:EnglishPublisher:RoutledgeISBN-13:9781611329988ISBN-10:1611329981UPC:9781611329988Book Category:Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Anthropology, Archaeology, Indigenous StudiesSize:8.90 x 6.30 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.9017Product ID:SCMGDVEX4P
Anabel Ford is director of the MesoAmerican Research Center at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and President of the nonprofit organization Exploring Solutions Past: The Maya Forest Alliance. She has done extensive research on patterns of Maya settlement and landscape ecology, and is recognized for the archaeological discovery of the ancient Maya city center of El Pilar, on the border...
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