Conditions for the Evolution of Complex Societies: The Development of the Central Lowland Maya |
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addition agricultural American analysis Archaeology association average baseline central lowland ceramic Chultun Classic Maya collection communities complex composition continued critical diam differences differentiation distance distribution Early economic edited Elevated entire environment Environmental Zone escobal evidence evolution Excavations Figure Ford Forms habitable hierarchy important included increase interpreted involved labor investments lakes land Late Classic Period located Lowland Maya major mapped material Maya Settlement meters minor centers moderate relief montaña montaña-escobal Number obsidian occupation organization Petén Plaza political population growth Preclassic Period presented Press production Project Puleston region relationship representative residential units Rice sample selected settlement composition settlement densities Settlement Patterns sharp relief shift Social society strategies structure density structures subsistence Survey Grid Table terrain Tikal Tikal-Uaxactún Tikal-Yaxhá area topographic transect transitional Uaxactún University uplands vegetation Yaxhá