LEADER 06300nam 2200805 450 001 9910464851403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-4920-1325-0 010 $a1-60732-280-3 035 $a(CKB)3710000000093736 035 $a(EBL)3039832 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001133952 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11716371 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001133952 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11176365 035 $a(PQKB)10482778 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3039832 035 $a(OCoLC)873807557 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse27986 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3039832 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10850174 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL910590 035 $a(OCoLC)878142775 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000093736 100 $a20140403h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 04$aThe great Maya droughts in cultural context $ecase studies in resilience and vulnerability /$fedited by Gyles Iannone 210 1$aBoulder, Colorado :$cUniversity Press of Colorado,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (489 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-60732-279-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a""Contents""; ""Figures""; ""Tables""; ""Contributors""; ""1: Introduction""; ""2: The Dynamics of Ancient Maya Developmental History""; ""3: Assessing the Great Maya Droughts""; ""4: Agricultural Landscapes, Deforestation, and Drought Severity""; ""5: Climate Change in the Ancient Maya Forest""; ""6: The End of the Beginning""; ""7: A Tale of Three Cities""; ""8: Collapse without Drought""; ""9: The Classic Maya Collapse, Water, and Economic Change in Mesoamerica""; ""10: Water in the West""; ""11: Oxygen Isotopes from Maya Archaeological Deer Remains"" 327 $a""12: The Prehistoric Maya of Northern Belize""""13: An Archaeological Consideration of Long-Term Socioecological Dynamics on the Vaca Plateau, Belize""; ""14: Tracking Climate Change in the Ancient Maya World through Zooarchaeological Habitat Analyses""; ""15: Maya Drought and Niche Inheritance""; ""References""; ""Index"" 330 $a"In The Great Maya Droughts in Cultural Context, contributors reject the popularized link between societal collapse and drought in Maya civilization, arguing that a series of periodic "collapses," including the infamous Terminal Classic collapse (AD 750), were caused not solely by climate change-related droughts but by a combination of other social, political, and environmental factors. New and senior scholars of archaeology and environmental science explore the timing and intensity of droughts and provide a nuanced understanding of socio-ecological dynamics, with specific reference to what makes communities resilient or vulnerable when faced with environmental change. Contributors recognize the existence of four droughts that correlate with periods of demographic and political decline and identify a variety of concurrent political and social issues. They argue that these primary underlying factors were exacerbated by drought conditions and ultimately led to societal transitions that were by no means uniform across various sites and subregions. They also deconstruct the concept of "collapse" itself--although the line of Maya kings ended with the Terminal Classic collapse, the Maya people and their civilization survived"--$cProvided by publisher. 330 $a"In The Great Maya Droughts in Cultural Context, contributors reject the popularized link between societal collapse and drought in Maya civilization, arguing that a series of periodic "collapses," including the infamous Terminal Classic collapse (AD 750-1050), were not caused solely by climate change-related droughts but by a combination of other social, political, and environmental factors. New and senior scholars of archaeology and environmental science explore the timing and intensity of droughts and provide a nuanced understanding of socio-ecological dynamics, with specific reference to what makes communities resilient or vulnerable when faced with environmental change.Contributors recognize the existence of four droughts that correlate with periods of demographic and political decline and identify a variety of concurrent political and social issues. They argue that these primary underlying factors were exacerbated by drought conditions and ultimately led to societal transitions that were by no means uniform across various sites and subregions. They also deconstruct the concept of "collapse" itself--although the line of Maya kings ended with the Terminal Classic collapse, the Maya people and their civilization survived.The Great Maya Droughts in Cultural Context offers new insights into the complicated series of events that impacted the decline of Maya civilization. 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