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DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2017.08.020
Scopus记录号: 2-s2.0-85028382567
论文题名:
Regional response to drought during the formation and decline of Preclassic Maya societies
作者: Ebert C.E.; Peniche May N.; Culleton B.J.; Awe J.J.; Kennett D.J.
刊名: Quaternary Science Reviews
ISSN: 2773791
出版年: 2017
卷: 173
起始页码: 211
结束页码: 235
语种: 英语
英文关键词: Bayesian chronological modeling ; Central America ; Paleoclimatology ; Preclassic Maya ; Radiocarbon dating ; Social complexity
Scopus关键词: Drought ; Geochronology ; Societies and institutions ; Bayesian ; Central America ; Paleoclimatology ; Preclassic Maya ; Radiocarbon dating ; Social complexity ; Climate change
英文摘要: 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 (ca. 1200/1100 cal BCE–cal 300 CE). The timing of these cultural changes was variably influenced by local developments, interaction with other regions of Mesoamerica, and climate change. We present a high-resolution radiocarbon chronology for the growth of the early polity of Cahal Pech, Belize, one of the first permanent settlements in the southern Maya lowlands. We compare our results to a database containing over 1190 radiocarbon dates from cultural contexts reported from five major regions of the southern lowlands to interpret the expansion and decline of emerging complex social groups during the Preclassic. Comparisons to paleoclimate proxy datasets suggest that fluctuating climate regimes may have promoted alternating integration and fragmentation of early hierarchically organized societies. Stable climatic conditions during the Middle Preclassic (1000/900-300 cal BCE) fostered the centralization of populations and the formation of large regional polities across the southern lowlands. An extended drought at the end of the Late Preclassic (cal 150–300 CE) likely contributed to the decline of some major polities in the central Petén, but smaller sites located in productive environments were more resilient and persisted in to the Classic period. This research provides a framework for understanding the complex social and environmental factors that influenced localized adaptations to climate change and the episodic growth and decline of early complex societies in prehistory. © 2017 Elsevier Ltd
资助项目: Research at Cahal Pech was conducted under the auspices of the Belize Valley Archaeological Reconnaissance (BVAR) Project directed by Jaime Awe. We thank Dr. Julie Hoggarth (Co-Director, BVAR Project), Jorge Can, and the BVAR staff and students for their assistance in the field, and the Belize Institute of Archaeology for their support and permitting of our fieldwork. Financial support for was provided by the National Science Foundation under a Graduate Research Fellowship (Grant No. DGE1255832, CEE) and Dissertation Improvement Grant (BCS-1460369, CEE and DJK), and the Penn State Department of Anthropology Hill Fellowship for graduate student research (CEE). Additional funding for the BVAR Project was provided by the Tilden Family Foundation, San Francisco, California and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Funding for laboratory work conducted at Penn State was provided by the NSF Archaeometry program (BCS-1460369, DJK and BJC). We also thank two anonymous reviewers who provided valuable comments that helped us improve this paper.
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标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/59105
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作者单位: Department of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States; Facultad de Arquitectura, Universidad Autonoma de Yucatán, Merida, Yucatán, Mexico; Department of Anthropology, The Pennsylvania State University, University ParkPA, United States; Department of Anthropology, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, United States

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Ebert C.E.,Peniche May N.,Culleton B.J.,et al. Regional response to drought during the formation and decline of Preclassic Maya societies[J]. Quaternary Science Reviews,2017-01-01,173
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