"Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes": Transitions and Thresholds throughout Central America and Beyond
Part of: Society for American Archaeology 81st Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL (2016)
The archaeological record presents both opportunities and challenges to archaeologists studying societal and environmental change in Mesoamerica and globally. This session explores multidisciplinary techniques to better understand the complexities of societal transitions in the ancient Maya world and beyond. Environmental and societal transitions are a complex but vital aspect of archaeology. Shifts in environmental patterns, social behaviors and changes in land use provide multiple datasets for analyzing resource extraction and human resilience. We consider case studies on diachronic change from archaeological investigations throughout Mesoamerica and neighboring regions. Patterns of change can include the shift from hunting and gathering to long term sedentism, the regional climate and soils, historical changes in trade, and shifts in political and economic power. This session will examine how we can search for and detect connections between environmental and societal changes throughout the archaeological record.
Other Keywords
Maya •
Geoarchaeology •
Belize •
Ceramics •
bioarchaeology •
Paleopathology •
Environment •
Religion •
Chiefdoms •
Health
Geographic Keywords
Mesoamerica •
Central America •
South America •
Europe •
North America - Southwest •
East/Southeast Asia
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- Documents (12)
- The Blue Creek rejollada revisited: transitional imprints on sedimentological records (2016)
- BREACHING SPIRITUAL BORDERS: How Indigenous Religious Ontologies Colonized Christianity (2016)
- Climate Change and Chiefdom Ecodynamics in the Eastern Andean Cordillera of Colombia (2016)
- Creating an Interdisciplinary Map of Social and Environmental Change through Topography and Bioarchaeology (2016)
- Did restructuring at the end of the Maya Classic period include the beginnings of private land tenure? (2016)
- Late Classic to Terminal Classic Maya Transitions: Modeling from NW Belize (2016)
- Life is Bittersweet: The Rise and Fall of the Sugarcane and Rum Industry in the Nineteenth Century (2016)
- Maya Health Though Time in Northwestern Belize (2016)
- Romanizing Production: A study of Castro Ceramics before and after Roman Imperial Expansion in Northwestern Portugal (2016)
- Subsistence ecology in the making of the Shang state, Eastern China (2016)
- To the Four Winds – Identities and Destinies on New Spain’s Far Northern Frontier: the Piro and Tiwa Provinces of New Mexico, c. 1540-1740. (2016)
- Understanding Environmental Thresholds through Geoarchaeology: Case Studies from the Maya Lowlands (2016)