In the first decades of Franciscan evangelical campaign in Yucatán, Mexico (1540–90), Maya builders and artists directed construction pictorial decoration hundreds Christian edifices, ranging from small-scale chapels to larger churches entire monastic complexes, offering a material record peninsula’s religious transformation. Strategic color selection deployment blue pigment particular architec...

A description and illustrations of Monohelea maya, new species, based on male and female characteristics are provided. The specimens were collected in the special biosphere Reserves of Ria Lagartos and Ria Celestun, Yucatan State, Mexico.

Mortuary analysis is used for discerning social differentiation and elucidating models of sociopolitical organization. Previous research among the Classic Maya has often been ambiguous and even misleading, as evidenced by studies where similar data yielded divergent conclusions. A comprehensive and unreported database (683 Copán individuals) forms the core of our multivariate, predictive model,...

Previous work has found that experience with the directionality of a writing system (e.g., left-to-right in English, right-toleft in Hebrew) can affect constituent ordering during spoken language production. Specifically, this work found that speakers of languages with left-to-right writing systems exhibit the same directionality bias in the sequential mentioning of objects when describing pict...

Little information is available on the genetics of physiological traits for drought tolerance in Indian mustard. Generation mean analysis was performed using two crosses (Maya x BPR543-2) and (BPR543-2 x BPR2) to study the nature and magnitude of gene effects on seed yield and physiological characters in Indian mustard. The F1, F2, BC1 and BC2 of these crosses, along with P1 and P2, were studie...

BACKGROUND Childhood stunting has been associated with an increased risk of obesity in adulthood, but the causes are unclear. This study hypothesizes that stunting significantly reduces both resting and activity energy expenditure. AIM To assess and describe energy expenditure of low socio-economic Maya children and to determine whether stunting is independently related to energy expenditure ...

Over the last 40 years, the Yucatan Peninsula has experienced the implementation and promotion of development programs that have economically and ecologically shaped this region of Mexico. Nowadays, tourist development has become the principal catalyst of social, economic, and ecological changes in the region. All these programs, which are based on a specialization rationale, have historically ...

D.C. Comer, A Primer on Space Archaeology: In Observance of the 40th Anniversary of the World Heritage Convention, SpringerBriefs in Archaeology 5, DOI 10.1007/978-1-4614-6074-9_15, © Springer Science+Business Media New York 2013 Abstract With its ability to penetrate dense tropical canopies, LiDAR is revolutionizing how ancient Mesoamerican landscapes are recorded. Locating ancient sites in th...