The Lowland Maya Area: Three Millennia at the Human–Wildland Interface

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The Lowland Maya Area: Three Millennia at the Human–Wildland Interface. Arturo Gómez-Pompa, Michael F. Allen, Scott L. Feddick, and Juan J. Jiménez-Osornio, eds. 2003. Food Products Press (an imprint of Haworth Press), Binghamton, NY. 659 pp. $79.95 (ISBN 1560229173 paper). One ofthe most fascinating mysteries in the history of humankind is the long-term persistence of some societies. The Maya civilization is one of them. Over the past 3000 years, Maya peoples have inhabited some of the most biologically rich regions in the world (the Yucatán Peninsula, portions of the Mexican states of Tabasco and Chiapas, Guatemala, Belize, and Honduras). This would suggest that Maya farmers have successfully managed natural resources of tropical ecosystems, and especially bio-diversity, to preserve both nature and culture over the long term. Although archaeological evidence indicates that the Maya populations collapsed several times (during the Terminal Classic collapse and at the European conquest), they never disappeared as a culture. For this reason, the Maya peoples and the regions in which they live have attracted the attention of countless scholars from many different disciplines over the years.

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