Origins of the Maya Forest Garden: Maya Resource Management

Origins of the Maya Forest Garden: Maya Resource Management

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 ...

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...

Ecology of the Maya Forest and El Pilar

El Pilar is a major Maya archeological site with components located on either side of the Belize-Guatemala frontier. This site presents an opportunity to explore the concept of "multiple use" of the natural resources of the greater Maya Forest in ways that have not yet been attempted. Success in such an endeavor would provide benefits to Mexico, Guatemala and Belize that envelop, countries with...

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