The Southeast Maya Periphery

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 ...

The Center and Periphery of Composite Graphs

The center (periphery) of a graph is the set of vertices with minimum (maximum) eccentricity. In this paper, the structure of centers and peripheries of some classes of composite graphs are determined. The relations between eccentricity, radius and diameter of such composite graphs are also investigated. As an application we determine the center and periphery of some chemical graphs such as nan...

Origins of the Maya Forest Garden: Maya Resource Management

Faded Images of Old Tidore in Contemporary Southeast Seram: a View from the Periphery

Some published accounts—generally, but not exclusively, older ones— describe the activities of Ternate and Tidore with respect to their historic peripheries in terms of boundaries, territories, and conquest, and speak of entire “islands” being “subject” to these centers of power.2 The prevailing view seems to have been of two polities dividing up Maluku into spheres of influence, Ternate to the...

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...