The Resilience and Vulnerability of Ancient Landscapes: Transforming Maya Archaeology through IHOPE

INDICE: Table of Contents  iii   Foreward v   INTRODUCTION   Chapter 1. Diversity, Resiliency, and IHOPE–Maya: Using the Past to Inform the Present  Arlen F. Chase and Vernon Scarborough   1   Chapter 2. Tropical Landscapes and the Ancient Maya: Diversity in Time and Space  Arlen F. Chase, Lisa J. Lucero, Vernon L. Scarborough, Diane Z. Chase, Rafael Cobos, Nicholas P. Dunning, Scott L. Fedick, Vilma Fialko, Joel D. Gunn, Michelle Hegmon, Gyles Iannone, David L. Lentz, Rodrigo Liendo, Keith Prufer, Jeremy A. Sabloff, Joseph A. Tainter, Fred Valdez Jr, and Sander E. van der Leeuw   11   Chapter 3. Water and Landscape: Ancient Maya Settlement Decisions  Lisa J. Lucero, Scott L. Fedick, Nicholas P. Dunning, David L. Lentz, and Vernon L. Scarborough   30   CASE STUDIES   Chapter 4. Growth and Decline in Classic Maya Puuc Political Economies  Christian Isendahl, Nicholas P. Dunning, and Jeremy A. Sabloff  43   Chapter 5. Ancient Climate and Archaeology: Uxmal, Chichen Itza, and Their Collapse at the End  of the Terminal Classic Period  Rafael Cobos, Guillermo de Anda Alanýs, and Roberto Garcýa Moll  56   Chapter 6. A Reassessment of Water and Soil Resources in the Flatlands of the Northern Maya Lowlands  Scott L. Fedick   72   Chapter 7. Population Dynamics and Its Relation to Ancient Landscapes in the Northwestern  Maya Lowlands: Evaluating Resilience and Vulnerability  Rodrigo Liendo, Elizabeth Solleiro–Rebolledo, Berenice Solis–Castillo, Sergei Sedov, and Arturo Ortiz–Perez   84   Chapter 8. Calakmul: Agent Risk and Sustainability in theWestern Maya Lowlands  Joel D. Gunn, William J. Folan, Christian Isendahl, Mar´ýa del Rosario Dom´ýnguez Carrasco, Betty B. Faust,  and Beniamino Volta  101   Chapter 9. The Alternative Economy: Resilience in the Face of Complexity from the Eastern Lowlands  Vernon L. Scarborough and Fred Valdez  124    Chapter 10. Path Dependency in the Rise and Denouement of a Classic Maya City: The Case  of Caracol, Belize  Diane Z. Chase and Arlen F. Chase  142   Chapter 11. Resilience and Vulnerability in the Maya Hinterlands  Gyles Iannone, Keith Prufer, and Diane Z. Chase   155   COMPARATIVE STUDIES   Chapter 12. Transformative Relocation in the U.S. Southwest and Mesoamerica  Ben A. Nelson, Adrian S. Z. Chase, and Michelle Hegmon   171   Chapter 13. Comparative Landscape Analysis: Contrasting the Middle East and Maya Regions  T. J. Wilkinson   183   Chapter 14. Collapse and Sustainability: Rome, the Maya, and the Modern World  Joseph A. Tainter   201   CONCLUSION   Chapter 15. Transforming Lessons from the Past into Lessons for the Future  Sander E. van der Leeuw   215 List of Contributors  232

• ISBN: 978-1-119-01673-1
• Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 200
• Fecha Publicación: 23/10/2014
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés