Constructing the Maya

The Maya Forest: destroyed or cultivated by the ancient Maya?

B oth academic and popular perceptions concerning the relationship between the Maya (ancient and modern) and the Maya Forest in which their culture developed and persisted formore than three millennia are varied and continuously subject to change (1). The analysis of a sediment core from a pond located near the ancient Maya city of Copan, Honduras, interpreted byMcNeil et al. (2) in this issue ...

Origins of the Maya Forest Garden: Maya Resource Management

Who Were the Maya ?

12 volume 54, number 1 expedition he ancient maya created one of the world’s most brilliant and successful civilizations. But 500 years ago, after the Spaniards “discovered” the Maya, many could not believe that Native Americans had developed cities, writing, art, and other hallmarks of civilization. Consequently, 16th century Europeans readily accepted the myth that the Maya and other indigeno...

Visualizing Maya

Pervasive animation in games, animation, films, numerous websites and stand-alone information interfaces, means that software increasingly influences how we imagine fictions, display information and interact with a digitally mediated world. Given its centrality in creating image, how can a 3D software package be made visible beyond the images seen in cinema, in games, commercials and visualizat...

Maya Rossin

…………………………………………………………………… 1 Introduction ……………………………………………………………….. 1 Contributions of My Study and Literature Review ……………………….. 3 Data ………………………………………………………………………. 19 Theory and Method ………………………………………………………. 21 Preliminary Analysis and Summary Statistics …………………………… 24 Results and Discussion …………………………………………………… 27 Policy Recommendations and Conclusion ……………………………….. 38