Since prehistoric times, farmers have faced the challenge of balancing the demand for
increasing food production from existing soil resources with conservation of these resources …

The measure of the “Mayacene,” a microcosm of the Early Anthropocene that occurred from
c. 3000 to 1000 BP, comes from multiple Late Quaternary paleoenvironmental records. We …

Episodes of population loss and cultural change, including the famous Classic Collapse,
punctuated the long course of Maya civilization. In many cases, these downturns in the …

When the Maya kings of Tikal dedicated their first carved monuments in the third century AD,
inaugurating the Classic period of Maya history that lasted for six centuries and saw the rise …

In the Maya Lowlands of Mexico, Belize, and Guatemala two main types of wetlands have
played important roles in human history: bajos or intermittently wet environments of the …

Pre-Columbian food production in the Maya Lowlands was long characterized as reliant on
extensive, slash-and-burn agriculture as the sole cultivation system possible in the region …

We report 87Sr/86Sr and ion concentrations of sulfate, chloride, and strontium in the
groundwater of the northern and central Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico. Correlation between …

The Yucatan Peninsula is one of the world's largest karstic aquifer systems. It is the sole
freshwater source for human users and ecosystems. The region hosts internationally …

Getting at the Maya Collapse has both temporal and geographic dimensions, because it
occurred over centuries and great distances. This requires a wide range of research sites …

The aim of this paper is to present the evolution of aqueduct technologies through the
millennia, from prehistoric to medieval times. These hydraulic works were used by several …