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IHS Talk: “Climate and Soil: An Environmental History of the Maya” by Timothy Beach, University of Texas (Reclaiming the Pre-Modern Past)

The Late Holocene history of the ancient Maya world provides a microcosm of the Early Anthropocene.  Much of the region today is tropical forest or recently deforested, but from 3,000 to 400 years ago Maya cities, farms, roads, reservoirs, and fields altered most of this region.  Although a literate society, the written record provides little […]

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