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2019 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

Using Water Chemistry to Understand Ancient Maya Land and Water Use Interactions

Authors : Sheryl Luzzadder-Beach, Timothy Beach

Published in: Exploring the Nexus of Geoecology, Geography, Geoarcheology and Geotourism: Advances and Applications for Sustainable Development in Environmental Sciences and Agroforestry Research

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

A major goal of Geoarchaeology is to understand complex societies and their relationship with the environment. The Ancient Maya encountered numerous environmental challenges to live in the tropical landscape of Mesoamerica. This research was intended to provide insight into Ancient Maya Collapse and Resilience, and provide environmental models for society now and in the future. Here we focused on using geochemistry, with special attention to water, as a tool for geoarchaeological understanding of ancient Maya land and water use potentials.

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Literature
Beach, T., Luzzadder-Beach, S., Krause, S., Walling, S., Dunning, N., Flood, J., Guderjan, T., Valdez, F.: ‘Mayacene’ Floodplain and wetland formation in the Rio Bravo watershed of northwestern Belize. The Holocene 25(10), 1612–1626 (2015a)CrossRef
Beach, T., Luzzadder-Beach, S., Guderjan, T., Krause, S.: The floating gardens of Chan Cahal: soils, water, and human interactions. Catena 132, 151–164 (2015b)CrossRef
Luzzadder-Beach, S., Beach, T.: Water chemistry constraints and possibilities for ancient and contemporary Maya wetlands. J. Ethnobiol. 28(2), 211–230 (2008)CrossRef
Luzzadder-Beach, S., Beach, T.: Arising from the wetlands: mechanisms and chronology of landscape aggradation in the northern coastal plain of Belize. Ann. Assoc. Am. Geogr. 99(1), 1–26 (2009)CrossRef
Luzzadder-Beach, S., Beach, T., Dunning, N.: Wetland fields as mirrors of drought and the Maya abandonment. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. 109, 3646–3651 (2012)CrossRef
Metadata
Title
Using Water Chemistry to Understand Ancient Maya Land and Water Use Interactions
Authors
Sheryl Luzzadder-Beach
Timothy Beach
Copyright Year
2019
Book
Exploring the Nexus of Geoecology, Geography, Geoarcheology and Geotourism: Advances and Applications for Sustainable Development in Environmental Sciences and Agroforestry Research

Print ISBN: 978-3-030-01682-1

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-01683-8

Copyright Year: 2019

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01683-8_1