The role of climate change in the development and demise of Classic Maya civilization (300
to 1000 CE) remains controversial because of the absence of well-dated climate and …

This volume is a major revision and expansion of Taylor's seminal book Radiocarbon
Dating: An Archaeological Perspective. It covers the major advances and accomplishments …

The earliest complex societies and a distinctive set of pan-regional social, political, and
economic institutions appeared in the southern Maya lowlands during the Preclassic period …

Null hypothesis significance testing (NHST) is the most common statistical framework used
by scientists, including archaeologists. Owing to increasing dissatisfaction, however …

Abstract Rapa Nui (Easter Island, Chile) presents a quintessential case where the tempo of
investment in monumentality is central to debates regarding societal collapse, with the …

Increasing evidence supports the role of climate change in the disintegration of regional
polities in the Maya lowlands at the end of the Classic Period (750–1000 CE). However, the …

In the past decade, Light Detection and Ranging (lidar) has fundamentally changed our
ability to remotely detect archaeological features and deepen our understanding of past …

Chichén Itzá dominated the political landscape of the northern Yucatán during the Terminal
Classic Period (AD 800–1000). Chronological details of the rise and fall of this important …

More than eleven hundred years of settlement history at Uxbenká, a Classic Period Maya
polity (ca. 300 BC to AD 900) located in southern Belize (Figure 1), conform to a patterned …

Access to social capital and valued resources modulates household decision-making as
people seek to occupy the best-quality patches of land available. Prior occupancy …