Landscape and Settlements in the Bolonchen District, Puuc Region, Mexico

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Landscapes: Archaeological, Historic, and Ethnographic Perspectives from the New World / Paisajes: Perspectivas arqueológicas, históricas y etnográficas desde el Nuevo Mundo" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

This paper combines the results of settlement and vegetation surveys in the Puuc Region of Yucatan, Mexico, with an emphasis in the Bolonchen District and the archaeological Maya site of Kiuic. The extensive settlement study conducted by members of the Bolonchen Region Archaeological Project, based on lidar technology, allowed us to realize the intensity in the interaction of natural resources as soils and limestones with the ancient communities. This resulting information is used for analyzing the distribution of functional types of trees and for observing how they correlate with intensity of occupation, the main landforms, and archaeological features related with the main economic activities: extensive seasonal agriculture and the procurement and transformation of limestone.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 86th Annual Meeting, Online (2021)   •
• Landscapes: Archaeological, Historic, and Ethnographic Perspectives from the New World / Paisajes: Perspectivas arqueológicas, históricas y etnográficas desde el Nuevo Mundo

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Record Identifiers

Abstract Id(s): 33008