This review calls for the definition of a landscape approach in archaeology. After tracing the
development of the landscape idea over its history in the social sciences and examining the …

Recent decades have seen the rapid expansion of scholarship that identifies societal
responses to past climatic fluctuations. This fast-changing scholarship, which was recently …

INTRODUCTION Lowland Maya civilization flourished from 1000 BCE to 1500 CE in and
around the Yucatan Peninsula. Known for its sophistication in writing, art, architecture …

The measure of the “Mayacene,” a microcosm of the Early Anthropocene that occurred from
c. 3000 to 1000 BP, comes from multiple Late Quaternary paleoenvironmental records. We …

Cultural landscapes are usually understood within physical geography as those transformed
by human action. As human influence on the earth increases, advances in palaeocological …

Ancient civic centers materialize ideas of proper spatial organization, among the Maya as in
other societies. We argue that the position and arrangement of ancient Maya buildings and …

The conjunctive use of paleoecological and archaeological data to document past human‐
environment relationships has become a theoretical imperative in the study of ancient …

Khawa Karpo, in the eastern Himalayas, is a mountain considered sacred throughout Tibet,
and is internationally recognized as a global biodiversity hotspot. Numerous areas within …

Over the past two decades, household studies have coalesced into a recognized subfield
within archaeology. Despite this relatively short history, household archaeologists are now …

This series explores complex links between people and the landscapes that both mold
individuals and societies and are fashioned by them. Drawing on scientific and humanistic …