Development and Disintegration of Maya Political Systems in Response to Climate Change
- D. Kennett, S. Breitenbach, G. Haug
- Environmental ScienceScience
- 9 November 2012
A precisely dated subannual climate record for the past 2000 years from Yok Balum Cave, Belize is presented and it is proposed that anomalously high rainfall favored unprecedented population expansion and the proliferation of political centers between 440 and 660 C.E.
Airborne LiDAR, archaeology, and the ancient Maya landscape at Caracol, Belize
- Arlen F. Chase, Diane Z. Chase, William Eugene Carter
- Environmental Science
- 1 February 2011
Preceramic Occupations in Belize: Updating the Paleoindian and Archaic Record
- J. Lohse, J. Awe, Cameron S. Griffith, R. Rosenswig, F. Valdez
- GeographyLatin American Antiquity
- 1 June 2006
Abstract Evidence from preceramic Paleoindian and Archaic time periods in Belize has been recorded over the past quarter of a century by a number of projects. This paper summarizes previously…
Aerosol forcing of the position of the intertropical convergence zone since ad 1550
- Harriet E. Ridley, Y. Asmerom, G. Haug
- Environmental Science
- 1 March 2015
The position of the intertropical convergence zone may be influenced by aerosols. A 450-year-long precipitation record from Belize confirms a southward shift associated with increasing anthropogenic…
Linking late Paleoindian stone tool technologies and populations in North, Central and South America
- K. Prufer, Asia Alsgaard, D. Kennett
- GeographyPLoS ONE
- 18 July 2019
A late Pleistocene/early Holocene stone tool tradition from Belize is document, which represents the first endogenous Paleoindian stone tool technocomplex recovered from well dated stratigraphic contexts for Mesoamerica.
The Use of LiDAR in Understanding the Ancient Maya Landscape
- Arlen F. Chase, Diane Z. Chase, M. Kathryn Brown
- Environmental ScienceAdvances in Archaeological Practice
- 1 August 2014
Abstract The use of airborne LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) in western Belize, Central America, has revolutionized our understanding of the spatial dynamics of the ancient Maya. This technology…
Ancient Maya Regional Settlement and Inter-Site Analysis: The 2013 West-Central Belize LiDAR Survey
- Arlen F. Chase, Diane Z. Chase, J. Diaz
- Environmental ScienceRemote Sensing
- 16 September 2014
The initial results of the 2013 LiDAR campaign in West-central Belize are presented and a developmental model for ancient Maya polities is suggested, suggesting both the composition and limits of ancient Maya political units.
The Ancient Maya Drought Cult: Late Classic Cave Use in Belize
- H. Moyes, J. Awe, G. Brook, J. Webster
- GeographyLatin American Antiquity
- 1 March 2009
Abstract Caves were used as ritual venues by the ancient Maya from the Early Preclassic to the Postclassic period. These sites have been intensively investigated, but little research has been devoted…
Early isotopic evidence for maize as a staple grain in the Americas
- D. Kennett, K. Prufer, S. Gutierrez
- Geography, Environmental ScienceScience Advances
- 1 June 2020
Direct isotopic dietary evidence from 52 radiocarbon-dated human skeletons from two remarkably well-preserved rock-shelter contexts in the Maya Mountains of Belize spanning the past 10,000 years indicates that maize became a persistently used staple grain comparable in dietary significance to later maize agriculturalists in the region.
Possible Variation in Late Archaic Period Bifaces in Belize: New Finds from the Cayo District of Western Belize
- W. James Stemp, J. Awe
- Geography
- 1 March 2013
Abstract Six additional barbed bifaces have been recovered from the Cayo District of Western Belize, bringing the total number of known Late Archaic Lowe and Sawmill points from this part of the…
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