Lowland Maya Settlement Patterns

1983 ◽  
Vol 59 (1) ◽  
pp. 91 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert McC. Adams ◽  
Wendy Ashmore
Keyword(s):  
Settlement Patterns ◽  
Lowland Maya

scholarly journals Lowland Maya Settlement Patterns

1982 ◽  
Vol 62 (3) ◽  
pp. 483-484
Author(s):  
John W. Fox
Keyword(s):  
Settlement Patterns ◽  
Lowland Maya

Lowland Maya Settlement Patterns.

1982 ◽  
Vol 62 (3) ◽  
pp. 483
Author(s):  
John W. Fox ◽  
Wendy Ashmore
Keyword(s):  
Settlement Patterns ◽  
Lowland Maya

Changing Living Patterns of the Yucatan Maya

1956 ◽  
Vol 22 (2Part1) ◽  
pp. 162-164 ◽  
Author(s):  
George W. Brainerd
Keyword(s):  
Population Density ◽  
Settlement Patterns ◽  
Modern State ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Archaeological Data ◽  
History Of ◽  
Lowland Maya

The purpose of this paper is to review the archaeological data on the settlement patterns of the Yucatan Maya with a view to reconstructing the history of their changing way of life.There is little evidence that the population density of the lowland Maya during their cultural heyday was substantially greater than that of the modern State of Yucatan, about 30 persons per square mile.

MAYA HETERARCHY AS INFERRED FROM CLASSIC-PERIOD PLAZA PLANS

2004 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 127-138 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marshall Joseph Becker
Keyword(s):  
Settlement Patterns ◽  
Rural Settlement ◽  
Classic Maya ◽  
Classic Period ◽  
Terminal Classic ◽  
Lowland Maya

Recognition of architectural patterning among groups of structures at lowland Maya sites dating from the Classic period provides insights into the ways that residences and ritual complexes were organized. Each structured group arrangement, or Plaza Plan (PP), reveals an architectural grammar that provides the database enabling us to predict urban as well as rural settlement patterns. Wide variations in sizes among examples of residential PPs suggests that heterarchy was an important aspect of Classic Maya society. Examination of PP2 at Tikal indicates that a heterarchic pattern of organization existed. Heterarchy may relate to the fragility of the structure of lowland Maya kingship, and this may explain the gradual demise of states during the Terminal Classic and Postclassic periods and their replacement by re-emergent Maya chiefdoms.

Lowland Maya Subsistence: Notes from Ethnohistory and Ethnography

1980 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 74-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruben E. Reina ◽  
Robert M. Hill
Keyword(s):  
Settlement Patterns ◽  
Research Effort ◽  
Potential Interest ◽  
Tropical Highlands ◽  
Highland Maya ◽  
Subsistence Activities ◽  
Alta Verapaz ◽  
Lowland Maya

Recent ethnohistorical investigations by the authors as part of a larger research effort focusing on Highland Maya ethnohistory have produced information on settlement patterns and subsistence activities for the Maya of the Alta Verapaz region. The environmentally transitional nature of this area—from tropical highlands to lowlands—makes this information of potential interest to Mayanists concerned with lowland civilization. Parallel subsistence activities known ethnographically from the present-day Itza of the Peten strengthens the applicability of this ethnohistorical information.

Taking the high ground: A model for lowland Maya settlement patterns

2021 ◽  
Vol 64 ◽  
pp. 101349
Author(s):  
Marcello A. Canuto ◽  
Luke Auld-Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Settlement Patterns ◽  
Lowland Maya

THE HIATUS AT TIKAL, GUATEMALA

2003 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hattula Moholy-Nagy
Keyword(s):  
Political Development ◽  
Settlement Patterns ◽  
Classic Period ◽  
Preliminary Conclusion ◽  
Late Classic ◽  
Stone Monuments ◽  
Lowland Maya

Research on the Lowland Maya Hiatus that focuses solely on the inscriptions on monuments is too limited to provide information about its causes, nature, and consequences. I consider the hiatus at Tikal using additional evidence from architecture, settlement patterns, caches and burials, domestic artifacts, and inscriptions on portable objects. A preliminary conclusion is that Tikal's long hiatus can be regarded as part of a sequence of internal political development rather than due to conquest from outside. The displacement and destruction of inscribed and plain stone monuments was an ongoing phenomenon at Tikal. It was present from Terminal Preclassic times and occurred with increasing frequency until the beginning of the late Late Classic period. Monument destruction may have come to a halt then under a series of powerful rulers. The setting of inscribed stone monuments and wooden lintels continued for another two centuries until the disappearance of dynastic rule itself.

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