• DOI:10.1111/1467-8306.00290
Corpus ID: 53545012

Arising from the Bajos: The Evolution of a Neotropical Landscape and the Rise of Maya Civilization

@article{Dunning2002ArisingFT,
  title={Arising from the Bajos: The Evolution of a Neotropical Landscape and the Rise of Maya Civilization},
  author={N. Dunning and S. Luzzadder-Beach and T. Beach and J. G. Jones and V. Scarborough and T. Culbert},
  journal={Annals of the Association of American Geographers},
  year={2002},
  volume={92},
  pages={267 - 283}
}

• N. Dunning, S. Luzzadder-Beach, +3 authors T. Culbert
• Published 2002
• Geography
• Annals of the Association of American Geographers

The conjunctive use of paleoecological and archaeological data to document past human-environment relationships has become a theoretical imperative in the study of ancient cultures. Geographers are playing leading roles in this scholarly effort. Synthesizing both types of data, we argue that large karst depressions known as bajos in the Maya Lowlands region were anthropogenically transformed from perennial wetlands and shallow lakes to seasonal swamps between 400 bc and ad 250. This… Expand

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