Population Dynamics in Coastal Population of Peninsula of Yucatan

Summary

This is an abstract from the "The Maritime Maya: Current Archaeology of Coastal Yucatan, Mexico, and Belize" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Palaeodemograhic analysis has been a useful tool to understand the evolution and adaptability of ancient populations. Because, historically, the small number of individuals exhumed in archaeological surveys along the coastal sites in the peninsula of Yucatan, the application of this methodology have been hard to do. Nowaday the number of individuals has grown and several sites of Late Postclassic times have been surveyed. The goal of this presentation is to show several palaeodemographic simulations of the northern coastal populations of the peninsula of Yucatan, focused in Late Postclassic period, when the population reached the peak of population growth. I will discuss the results with several etnohistorical references of the first spaniards who saw these towns , and can explain the fast population growth.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 90th Annual Meeting, Denver, CO (2025)   •
• The Maritime Maya: Current Archaeology of Coastal Yucatan, Mexico, and Belize

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Abstract Id(s): 50399