Sociopolitical organization, landscape change, and hydraulic engineering in the Teotihuacan Valley, Mexico: 1250 BC–AD 1810

AG Mejía Ramón, NE Johnson - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The Teotihuacan Valley has witnessed the rise and fall of various civilizations since it was
first inhabited by sedentary societies 3,500 years ago. Given its location in a semi‐arid …

Late Holocene anthropogenic and climatic influences on the regional vegetation of Mexico's Cuenca Oriental

T Bhattacharya, R Byrne - Global and Planetary Change, 2016 - Elsevier
Scholars continue to debate the relative magnitude of pre-and post-Conquest anthropogenic
landscape transformation in many regions of Mesoamerica. These debates have important …

Population and Environmental Correlates of Maize Yields in Mesoamerica: a Test of Boserup's Hypothesis in the Milpa

L Pacheco-Cobos, MN Grote, DJ Kennett… - Human Ecology, 2015 - Springer
Using a sample of 40 sources reporting milpa and mucuna-intercropped maize yields in
Mesoamerica, we test Boserup's (1965) prediction that fallow is reduced as a result of …