Maya Archaeology and Ethnohistory

Airborne LiDAR, archaeology, and the ancient Maya landscape at Caracol, Belize

Advances in remote sensing and space-based imaging have led to an increased understanding of past settlements and landscape use, but e until now e the images in tropical regions have not been detailed enough to provide datasets that permitted the computation of digital elevation models for heavily forested and hilly terrain. The application of airborne LiDAR (light detection and ranging) remote...

Title: Airborne Lidar, Archaeology, and the Ancient Maya Landscape at Caracol, Belize

Advances in remote sensing and space-based imaging have led to an increased understanding of past settlements and landscape use, but – until now – the images in tropical regions have not been detailed enough to provide datasets that permitted the computation of digital elevation models for heavily forested and hilly terrain. The application of airborne LiDAR (light detection and ranging) remote...

Temporal Cycles in the Archaeology of Maya Residential Groups from Caracol, Belize

Considerations of ancient Maya cycles of time often focus on dated events obtained from texts on carved stone monuments or on Maya prophecies recorded in ethnohistoric documents. However, temporal cycles are also in evidence in the archaeological records of Maya households. Archaeologically recognizable cycles can be seen in the contextual data of Caracol’s residential groups, specifically in t...

Archaeology in the Maya Heartland: The Tayasal - Paxcaman Zone, Lake Peten, Guatemala

Ethnohistory, genetics, and cancer mortality in Europeans.

Geographic variation in cancer rates is thought to be the result of two major factors: environmental agents varying spatially and the attributes, genetic or cultural, of the populations inhabiting the areas studied. These attributes in turn result from the history of the populations in question. We had previously constructed an ethnohistorical database for Europe since 2200 B.C., permitting est...