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Calculating Population and Agricultural Intensity Levels from Field Remains: A Comment on Coe's Review of “Maya Subsistence”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

William M. Denevan  and
B. L. Turner II
William M. Denevan
Affiliation:
Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706
B. L. Turner II
Affiliation:
Graduate School of Geography, Clark University, Worcester, MA 01610
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Abstract

The calculation of populations supported by relic raised fields in Mexico and the role of intensive agriculture by the Classic lowland Maya are clarified.

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American Antiquity , Volume 50 , Issue 1 , January 1985 , pp. 166 - 169
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1985

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