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Establishing ancient population numbers and determining how they were distributed across a landscape over time constitute two of the most pressing problems in archaeology. Accurate population data is crucial for modeling, interpreting, and understanding the past. Now, advances in both archaeology and technology have changed the way that such approximations can be achieved.
Including research from both highland central Mexico and the tropical lowlands of the Maya and Olmec areas, this book reexamines the demography in ancient Mesoamerica. Contributors present methods for determining population estimates, field methods for settlement pattern studies to obtain demographic data, and new technologies such as LiDAR (light detecting and ranging) that have expanded views of the ground in forested areas. Contributions to this book provide a view of ancient landscape use and modification that was not possible in the twentieth century. This important new work provides new understandings of Mesoamerican urbanism, development, and changes over time. Contributors
Traci Ardren
Luke Auld-Thomas
M. Charlotte Arnauld
Barbara Arroyo
Marcello Canuto
Adrian S. Z. Chase
Arlen F. Chase
Diane Z. Chase
Elyse D. Z. Chase
Javier Estrada
Gary M. Feinman
L. J. Gorenflo
Julien Hiquet
Scott R. Hutson
Gerardo Jimenez Delgado
Eva Lemonnier
Rodrigo Liendo
JosÉ Lobo
Javier Lopez Mejia
Michael L. Loughlin
Deborah Nichols
Christopher A. Pool
Ian G. Robertson
Jeremy A. Sabloff
Travis W. Stanton
Contents
Dedication
Foreword
List of Figures
List of Tables
I. The Present
1. Arlen F. Chase, Diane Z. Chase, and Adrian S.Z. Chase - Archaeological Population Studies
in Mesoamerica
II. Urban Considerations
2. Barbara Arroyo and Javier Estrada - The Population of Kaminaljuyu, Guatemala during the Preclassic Period: New Perspectives and Considerations
3. Adrian S.Z. Chase, Elyse D.Z. Chase, Diane Z. Chase, and Arlen F. Chase - Population History for Caracol, Belize: Numbers, Complexity, and Urbanism
4. Travis W. Stanton, Scott R. Hutson, and Traci Ardren - People, Pixels, and Points per Square Meter: Using Lidar to Estimate Populations at Coba, Quintana Roo
III. Maya Regional Considerations
5. Scott R. Hutson - Population Estimates and Population Movement in Northwest Yucatan, Mexico
6. M. Charlotte Arnauld, Eva Lemonnier, and Julien Hiquet - Classic Maya Population History as Seen from Rio Bec, Campeche, Mexico
7. Rodrigo Liendo Stuardo, Javier López Mejía, and Gerardo Jiménez Delgado - Ancient Population History in the Palenque Region: The Problem of the Selection of Population Proxies
8. Marcello A. Canuto and Luke Auld-Thomas - Greater than the Sum of Its Surveyed Parts: Reconstructing the Population of Late Classic Peten with Updated Methods and New Data
IV. Central Mexican Regional Considerations
9. Larry J. Gorenflo, Ian G. Robertson, and Deborah Nichols - The Basin of Mexico: Revisiting Prehispanic Population
10. Gary M. Feinman - Prehispanic Population Estimates for the Valley of Oaxaca
11. Christopher A. Pool and Michael L. Loughlin - Reconstructing Population Histories in the Gulf Lowlands: Review and Prospect
V. The Future
12. Jeremy A. Sabloff - Some Comments on Major issues in the Study of Ancient Mesoamerican Population Estimates
13. Adrian S.Z. Chase and José Lobo - The Future of Mesoamerican Settlement Archaeology and Urban Science
