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The Health and Biodiversity of the Ancestral Maya Forest: A Zooarchaeological Perspective
The Health and Biodiversity of the Ancestral Maya Forest: A Zooarchaeological Perspective
상세정보
- 자료유형
- 학위논문 서양
- 최종처리일시
- 20260202105659
- ISBN
- 9798263307592
- DDC
- 571
- 저자명
- Taylor, Rachel.
- 서명/저자
- The Health and Biodiversity of the Ancestral Maya Forest: A Zooarchaeological Perspective
- 발행사항
- [Sl] : University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2024
- 발행사항
- Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2024
- 형태사항
- 277 p
- 주기사항
- Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 87-05, Section: B.
- 주기사항
- Advisor: Lucero, Lisa J.
- 학위논문주기
- Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2024.
- 초록/해제
- 요약The Classic Period Maya thrived in Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, southern Mexico and El Salvador for nearly eight centuries, constructing massive cites of limestone under a worldview that merged natural and human-constructed together. Zooarchaeology in the region has contributed to this understanding of the Maya's non-anthropocentric ontology with an array of studies into how the Maya used animals in their diet, ritual, and daily life, and viewed them as part of the natural landscape. Studying faunal remains in the southern Maya lowlands has contributed to the reconstruction of the environments that the Maya lived in over the course of their deep ancestral past. Using zooarchaeological data previously unanalyzed from the Valley of Peace Archaeology project in central Belize, along with principles and theories from conservation biology like surrogate and umbrella species, I have attempted to analyze past biodiversity and forest health through the Preclassic to Postclassic (500 BCE-1500 CE) at three sites: Saturday Creek, Yalbac, and Cara Blanca. Preliminary trends in the faunal record suggest that at Saturday Creek, the Maya did not degrade their environment to necessitate the abandonment of the site, but at Yalbac and Cara Blanca, the Maya abandoned the sites prior to the Postclassic, possibly due to environmental changes. The sample size taken for this project is considerably smaller than other regional assessments through the lowlands, so these environmental trends are preliminary at best. However, analysis of the zooarchaeological record from these sites also indicates some level of differential access to animals and gives further insight into ritual activity occurring at all three sites during the Late and Terminal Classic (600-900 CE).
- 일반주제명
- Archaeology
- 일반주제명
- History
- 일반주제명
- Forestry
- 일반주제명
- Conservation biology
- 키워드
- Zooarchaeology
- 키워드
- Ancestral Maya
- 키워드
- Forest health
- 키워드
- Biodiversity
- 기타저자
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Anthropology
- 기본자료저록
- Dissertations Abstracts International. 87-05B.
- 전자적 위치 및 접속
- 로그인 후 원문을 볼 수 있습니다.
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■5021 ▼aThesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2024.
■520 ▼aThe Classic Period Maya thrived in Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, southern Mexico and El Salvador for nearly eight centuries, constructing massive cites of limestone under a worldview that merged natural and human-constructed together. Zooarchaeology in the region has contributed to this understanding of the Maya's non-anthropocentric ontology with an array of studies into how the Maya used animals in their diet, ritual, and daily life, and viewed them as part of the natural landscape. Studying faunal remains in the southern Maya lowlands has contributed to the reconstruction of the environments that the Maya lived in over the course of their deep ancestral past. Using zooarchaeological data previously unanalyzed from the Valley of Peace Archaeology project in central Belize, along with principles and theories from conservation biology like surrogate and umbrella species, I have attempted to analyze past biodiversity and forest health through the Preclassic to Postclassic (500 BCE-1500 CE) at three sites: Saturday Creek, Yalbac, and Cara Blanca. Preliminary trends in the faunal record suggest that at Saturday Creek, the Maya did not degrade their environment to necessitate the abandonment of the site, but at Yalbac and Cara Blanca, the Maya abandoned the sites prior to the Postclassic, possibly due to environmental changes. The sample size taken for this project is considerably smaller than other regional assessments through the lowlands, so these environmental trends are preliminary at best. However, analysis of the zooarchaeological record from these sites also indicates some level of differential access to animals and gives further insight into ritual activity occurring at all three sites during the Late and Terminal Classic (600-900 CE).
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■653 ▼aClassic Period Maya
■653 ▼aAncestral Maya
■653 ▼aSurrogate species
■653 ▼aForest health
■653 ▼aBiodiversity
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■85640▼uhttp://www.riss.kr/pdu/ddodLink.do?id=T17361058▼nKERIS▼z이 자료의 원문은 한국교육학술정보원에서 제공합니다.
