Julie L. Kunen. Ancient Maya life in the Far West Bajo: social and environmental change in the wetlands of Belize.

Julie L. Kunen. Ancient Maya life in the Far West Bajo: social and environmental change in the wetlands of Belize. JULIE L. KUNEN. Ancient Maya life in the Far West Bajo: social andenvironmental change in the wetlands of Belize (Anthropological Papersof the University of Arizona (body, education) University of Arizona - The University was founded in 1885 as a Land Grant institution with a three-fold mission of teaching, research and public service. No. 69). x+176 pages, 51 figures, 16tables. 2004. Tucson (AZ): University of Arizona Press; 0-8165-2235-9paperback $16.95. SUSAN TOBY EVANS. Ancient Mexico & Central America Central America,narrow, southernmost region (c.202,200 sq mi/523,698 sq km) of North America, linked to South America at Colombia. It separates the Caribbean from the Pacific. : archaeologyand culture history. 608 pages, 379 b&w figures, 80 colour figures.2004. London: Thames & Hudson; 0-500-28440-7 paperback 29.95 [poundssterling]. SIGVALD LINNE. Mexican highland cultures: archaeological researchesat Teotihuacan, Calpulalpan, and Chalchicomula in 1934-35. xxiii+229pages, figures, 1 table. 2003. Tuscaloosa (AL): University of AlabamaPress; 0-8173-5006-3 paperback. * Can local disaster be turned to advantage? Dr KUNEN aptlycontrasts her research with the usual focus on Maya monuments. Inconjunction with settlement, her evidence of agricultural draining andterracing is unlike previously identified patterns of eitheraristocratic planning or independent household subsistence. Where LateFormative farmers had filled the local marsh up by wasting adjacentsoils (see ANTIQUITY Vol. 73 pp. 654-5), it looks as though Classicconservation of the redeposited sediments supported 'agriculturallyspecialized communities' (p. 55) in which, to judge by burials(reported by J.M. & F.P. Saul) and interesting remains of housing,pioneers founded affluent dynasties. This clever work is summarised inSpanish. Ancient Mexico & Central America is a dense, detailed, thoroughand technically up to date textbook covering Mesoamerica, at itsbroadest, from origins up to and including the Spanish Conquest of theAztecs, plus a page or two on the history of archaeology The history of archaeology has been one of increasing professionalisation, and the use of an increasing range of techniques, to obtain as much data on the site being examined as possible. OriginsThe exact origins of archaeology as a discipline are uncertain. in Mexico.Cousin for Ancient North America (B. Fagan, from the same publisher), itcould well replace Muriel Porter Weaver's veteran tome.LINNE'S report, a milestone in its day (1942), has been reprintedwith an appreciation by G.L. Cowgill and a note on the history ofSwedish In the 9th century, Old Norse began to diverge into Old West Norse (Norway and Iceland) and Old East Norse (Sweden and Denmark). In the 12th century, the dialects of Denmark and Sweden began to diverge, becoming Old Danish and Old Swedish in the 13th century. archaeological research in the Americas.