Monumentality as traditional ecological knowledge in the northern Maya lowlands

The emergence of monumentality in the Maya lowlands has been linked to political complexity. But how did these monuments relate changing human-environment interactions? Here, author proposes that embodies traditional ecological knowledge, or TEK. Taking example Tzacauil, gathering fieldstone for preparation land cultivation is connected agricultural intensification and florescence Late Terminal Formative period (300 BC–AD 250). Exploration relationships between monumental traditions localised TEK practices may illuminate entanglement complexity, subsistence interactions other parts world.