Urban adaptation to climate change is a global challenge requiring a broad response that
can be informed by how urban societies in the past responded to environmental shocks. Yet …

Inequality is present in all human societies, but building a robust understanding of how that
inequality developed and persisted for centuries requires historical and archaeological data …

Gini coefficients for residential groups at Coba for roofed surface area, volume of
architecture, and houselot space range from 0.423 to 0.551, fitting well within the range of …

Present theory suggests that neighborhoods form through frequent, repeated face-to-face
interactions among people in groups of spatially co-located residences. Over time, layered …

Located at the western edge of the Classic Maya heartland, El Peru-Waka'was one of the
most densely aggregated urban cores in the Lowlands. With households packed next to …

Being a form of labor investment, house size is frequently analyzed as an index of
socioeconomic inequality. However, datasets that lack wide-ranging residential stratigraphic …

This article synthesizes monumentality, governance, urbanism, and regional statecraft in the
Northern Maya Lowlands during the Preclassic and Classic periods. As in some parts of the …

Archaeological investigations at Caracol, Belize, have been carried out within this ancient
Maya city for almost four decades. This research trajectory has resulted in an initial, but still …

BACKGROUND A key factor for almost any archaeological study is the reconstruction of
ancient population. Population size and density are particularly important for considerations …

Archaeological investigations at Caracol, Belize, have been carried out within this ancient
Maya city for almost four decades. This research trajectory has resulted in an initial, but still …