Palaeolimnological evidence of late-Holocene settlement and abandonment in the Mirador Basin, Peten, Guatemala

Holocene

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 813-820

  Wahl, David ^a   Byrne, Roger ^b   Schreiner, Thomas ^b   Hansen, Richard ^c  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c IDAHO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate; Early agriculture; Forest clearance; Guatemala; Human impacts; Late Holocene; LOI; Maize; Maya; Pollen

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; FOREST CLEARANCE; HOLOCENE; HUMAN ACTIVITY; LOWLAND ENVIRONMENT; MAIZE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOLIMNOLOGY; PALYNOLOGY; POPULATION DECLINE; SETTLEMENT HISTORY;

CENTRAL AMERICA; GUATEMALA [CENTRAL AMERICA]; MIRADOR BASIN; PETEN; WESTERN HEMISPHERE;

ZEA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 35648979989     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959683607080522     Document Type: Article

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