Once Beneath The Forest

Prehistoric Terracing In The Rio Bec Region Of The Maya Lowlands

Bl Turner Ii

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2019
• ISBN:
  9781000307498
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Politics
• Index: Politics & International Relations

My interest in ancient Maya agriculture began late in the year of 1971 when William M. Denevan encouraged me to pursue the topic. Our interests had been perked by reports from Joseph W. Ball, JaCk Eaton, and Irwin Rovner of the presence of terrace-like features throughout the Rio Bee region of the soutnern Yucatan Peninsula. Denevan maintained a long-term interest in pre-Hispanic agriculture and population in the New World. Our studies with the emerging Rio Bee research group at the University of Wisconsin led to the conclusion that the then dominant themes of Maya agriculture were in need of reevaluation and that a number of remains of intensive forms of agriculture were likely to be found in the Central Maya lowlands of Mexico, Peten (Guatemala), and Belize, particularly wetland or raised fields in addition to the reported terraces. Our interests were heightened at this time by notification from Alfred Siemens of the finds of wetland fields in the vicinity of the Rio Bee region in the Chetumal, Mexico-northern Belize area.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Page
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of Tables
• List of Figures
• Preface
• Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION
• Chapter 2 LOWLAND MAYA AGRICULTURE
• Chapter 3 THE RÍO BEC REGION
• Chapter 4 RÍO BEC TERRACES AND RELATED FEATURES
• Chapter 5 RÍO BEC SLOPE AND MAYA AGRICULTURE: INTERPRETATIONS AND PERSPECTIVES
• Appendixes
• Bibliography
• Index
• List of Dellplain Latin American Studies