Visualizing Maya Agriculture along the Rio Hondo
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Chapter 5 draws on a broad range of evidence to develop a view of what the agricultural landscape of the Rio Hondo basin, now on the Belize-Mexican border, must have looked like in the heavily populated Classic era landscape. The authors use Contact period Spanish accounts to describe trade in agricultural products–especially cacao, but also achiote and vanilla–that were particularly prized from this region. Ten years of research on the drained field agricultural systems, such as the Chan Cahal fields near Blue Creek, identified the timespan for commercial level production, and computer assisted analysis of aerial and satellite photographs are beginning to document the massive scale of this enterprise.
1996 ◽
Vol 54
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pp. 284-285
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1980 ◽
Vol 13
(6)
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pp. 493-504
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1985 ◽
Vol 38
(2)
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pp. 203-211
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1982 ◽
Vol 6
(4)
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pp. 409-420
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2017 ◽
Vol 15
(02)
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pp. 1650041
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