Wetland Farming (Other Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Daniel Leonard. Jeffrey Vadala.

This paper explores how the ancient Maya of the Yalahau region generated and used ecological knowledge of their unique wetland environment in the Preclassic period. We approach ecological knowledge generation as a process that arises within the context of observable seasonal environmental events and changing and evolving pragmatic goals. Using paleoenvironmental reconstructions, we isolate the key seasonal events that would parametrically structure how environmental capacities could be...