The Antelope House Basketry Industry |
1986 |
1567 |
Basketry, as discussed here, includes several
distinct kinds of items, including rigid and semirigid containers, or baskets proper, matting
and bags. |
Bajo Sediments and The Hydraulic System Of Calakmul, Campeche, Mexico |
2002 |
3267 |
Maya Lowlands climate researchers have set aside earlier beliefs that Maya civilization flourished in an unchanging environment.
Analyses of river discharge, weather patterns, lake-bottom sediments, and settlement patterns reveal a highly variable c... |
Basketry and Basketmakers at Antelope House |
1975 |
2575 |
Preliminary analysis of the large and somewhat atypical Pueblo III basketry assemblage from Antelope House suggests the possibility of isolating individual basketmakers and groups of basketmakers within the Antelope House population. Observations are... |
Climate Change and Classic Maya Water Management |
2011 |
1522 |
The critical importance of water is undeniable. It is particularly vital in semitropical regions with noticeable wet and dry seasons, such as the southern Maya lowlands. Not enough rain results in decreasing water supply and quality, failed crops, an... |
Climate-Change Studies in the Maya Area: A diachronic analysis |
2002 |
1809 |
The series of papers on climate change published in this issue are the result of the symposium “Environmental Change in
Mesoamerica: Physical Forces and Cultural Paradigms in the Preclassic to Postclassic,” held at the 63rd Annual Meeting of the
So... |
Climatic change, culture, and civilization in North America |
1981 |
3866 |
Analysis of modern climatic data suggests a pattern of response to global cooling for precipitation in Mesoamerica and North America. Also research in palaeoclimatology has defined a series of globally warm and cold periods for the Holocene. This pap... |
The coming perfect storm: Diminishing sustainability of coastal human–natural systems in the Anthropocene |
2023 |
168 |
We review impacts of climate change, energy scarcity, and economic frameworks on sustainabilityof natural and human systems in coastal zones, areas of high biodiversity, productivity, populationdensity, and economic activity. More than 50% of the glo... |
Copperhead Hollow (38CT58): Middle Holocene Upland Conditions on the Piedmont-Coastal Plain Margin. |
1992 |
1630 |
Excavation during July and August 1992 at 38G758 east of Jefferson, South Carolina, revealed an active Middle Holocene sand dune with buried Morrow Mountain and Guilford components on the lee side. 77e site is located on the upland margin overlooking... |
A distribution analysis of the central Maya lowlands ecoinformation network: its rises, falls, and changes |
2017 |
1208 |
We report a study of central Maya lowland dynastic information networks, i.e., six cities’ external elite ceramic influences, and how they reflect the decision-making practices of Maya elites over 3000 years. Forest cover, i.e., Moraceae family polle... |
Emergence of Complex Societies After Sea Level Stabilized |
2007 |
2488 |
Sea level rose rapidly from the Last
Glacial Maximum (LGM, ~18,000 years
ago) until it stabilized about 7000 years
ago. A millennium later, the rudiments
of early civilizations appeared. However,
the factors that might have spurred the
first ci... |
Excavations at Meadowcroft Rockshelter, 1973-1974: A Progress Report |
1975 |
8489 |
Meadowcroft Rockshelter is a deeply stratified, multi-component site in Washington County, Pennsylvania, The 11 well defined stratigraphic units isolated at the site span some 15,000 years of intermittent occupation by groups representing all of the ... |
A Framework for the Middle-Late Holocene Transition: Astronomical and Geophysical Conditions |
1997 |
1723 |
The Middle-Late Holocene transition around 2,500 B.C. is one of the defining episodes of regional landscape changes in the Southeastern United States area and throughout the world. Coeval cultural and climatic changes are recognized locally and world... |
From Calakmul to the Sea: The Historical Ecology of a Classic Maya City That Controlled the Candelaria/Champoton Watersheds |
2019 |
1021 |
The Candelaria River watershed of Campeche, Mexico, and Peten, Guatemala, has shaped millennia of Maya, perhaps from their beginnings and generations of archaeologists. This chapter reviews efforts to understand Candelaria historical ecology over the... |
Geo-cultural Time: Advancing Human Societal Complexity Within Worldwide Constraint Bottlenecks—A Chronological/Helical Approach to Understanding Human–Planetary Interactions |
2019 |
1201 |
The integration of feedbacks between Holocene planetary history and human development benefits from a change in perspective that focusses on socio-historical periods of stability separated by global-scale events, which we call foundational transition... |
Global Temperature Stability by Rule Induction: An Interdisciplinary Bridge |
1994 |
2732 |
Rules incorporating influences on global temperature, an estimate of radiation balance, were induced from astronomical, geophysical, and anthropogenic variables. During periods of intermediate global temperatures (generally like the present century),... |
The Hitzfelder Bone Collection |
1978 |
2615 |
The purpose of this study is to assess and re-examine the Hitzfelder Cave skeletal collection. In addition, a brief summary of the previous excavations of the cave is included. It is hoped that the osteological study presented will be of assistance i... |
Horses Grazing: Point Function and Shape |
2003 |
3786 |
The Horses Grazing site was located in the Sandhills near wetlands of the lower Little Crane Creek in eastern Moore County, North Carolina. It contained a full Holocene cultural sequence from Late Paleoindian-Early Archaic to Late Woodland. Of specia... |
Impact: The Effect of Climatic Change on Prehistoric and Modern Cultures in Texas (First Progress Report) |
1979 |
1381 |
The pages of this report contain an assortment of materials which reflect the
status of climatic change studies at The University of Texas at San Antonio.
The effort is interdisciplinary, drawing on'the talents of persons trained in
geography, pre... |
The Influence of Enhanced Post-Glacial Coastal Margin Productivity on the Emergence of Complex Societies |
2012 |
5486 |
We analyze the dynamics of post-glacial coastal margin (CM) productivity and explore how it affected the emergence of six complex CM societies. Following deglaciation, global relative sea level stabilized after ~7000 BP and CM productivity significan... |
Influences of Various Forcing Variables on Global Energy Balance During the Period of Intensive Instrumental Observation (1953-1987) and Their Implications for Paleoclimate |
1991 |
2670 |
Consistent, accurate, and numerous measures of global scale atmospheric variables have been collected since about 1958. A time series of 30 years duration was assembled to investigate contributing factors to the global energy balance. The El Nino-Sou... |
Introduction: A Perspective from the Humanities—Science Boundary. |
1994 |
1893 |
The articles in this special issue range across such influences on climate as solar emissions, orbital precession, atmosphere, oceans, and precipitation, and generally approach, each in some context, human implications of these phenomena. The common ... |
Laguna de Terminos/Rio Candelaria Delta Core: Conditions of Sustainable Urban Occupation in the Interior of the Yucatan Peninsula |
2012 |
1993 |
Pursuit of a link between the collapse of Maya civilization and climate is a subject that has been revisited periodically for nearly a century. In the 1980s, we began to develop a climatic, paleoclimatic, and ethnographic model of horticultural prod... |
La Trampa Atractor: Las sinergias de simulación y análisis de componentes principales en el estudio de redes sociales de complejos sistemas adaptativos de las Tierras Bajas Mayas |
2019 |
260 |
IHOPE-Maya se inició en 2009 en el Centro de Investigación Avanzada en Santa Fe y formó una red de investigación laxa volviendo a convocar de manera irregular para talleres y reuniones. Tras la reunión de Santa Fe, se procedió a recoger un conjunto u... |
Paleoclimatological Patterning In Southern Mesoamerica |
1983 |
2661 |
Paleoclimatological and archaeological data indicate a strong correlation between atmospheric and ground moisture and the political and socioeconomic prehistory and history of the Lowland Maya. |
The Political Geography of Long-Distance Exchange in the Elevated Interior Region of the Yucatán Peninsula |
2020 |
79 |
The boundaries of ancient polities were not always marked by fortifications, natural geographic features, or unoccupied buffer zones. Fortunately, in the case of the Classic Maya, economic and political systems often were coterminous because commerce... |
Prehistoric and historic settlement patterns in western Cyprus (with a discussion of Cypriot Neolithic stone tool technology) |
1975 |
5180 |
Intensive site survey in the Paphos District of western Cyprus indicates considerable variation in preferred settlement locus from the early Neolithic period to modern times. Settlement data for each major chronological period are summarized and rela... |
Review of Gaia’s Body: Toward a Physiology of Earth, by Tyler Volk. |
1998 |
1074 |
In his 1989 treatise on geophysiology, Lovelock
built on the holistic Gaian theory of global biological
self-regulation to propose a physiological
rather than physical perspective of the earth system.
Of special importance in this time of burgeon... |
The Sollberger Distribution: Analysis and Application of a Tool Reduction Sequence |
1976 |
1489 |
On September 4, 1976, J. B. Sollberger gave a demonstration in the art of biface manufacture to the members of the STAA. Recognizing this as a veritable gold mine of lithic information, we Collected the knapping debris from this exhibition for subse... |
Steep Shore, Deadly Environment: A Case for a Cultural Anvil Along the Unembayed Atlantic Coast. |
2002 |
2990 |
In his physiography of Eastern United States, Fenneman divided the Atlantic coast into embayed and sea island (largely unembayed) segments at the Neuse River. The southern North Carolina coast is unembayed because of geologic uplift. To the north (i.... |
The Stones of Calakmul: Lithics and Other Technologies Among the Maya at Calakmul, Campeche, During the Late and Terminal Classic and Their Cultural Implications |
2020 |
1055 |
This chapter discusses the stone artifact assemblage excavated from Calakmul, Campeche, Mexico between 1984 and 1994 under the direction of William J. Folan, Centro de Investigaciones Históricas y Sociales of the Universidad Autonoma de Campeche. Aft... |