Search Results - "Valdez, Fred Jr"

Ancient Maya wetland fields revealed under tropical forest canopy from laser scanning and multiproxy evidence by Beach, Timothy, Luzzadder-Beach, Sheryl, Krause, Samantha, Guderjan, Tom, Valdez, Fred, Fernandez-Diaz, Juan Carlos, Eshleman, Sara, Doyle, Colin

“…We report on a large area of ancient Maya wetland field systems in Belize, Central America, based on airborne lidar survey coupled with multiple proxies and…”
Get full text

A revisited history of cacao domestication in pre-Columbian times revealed by archaeogenomic approaches by Lanaud, Claire, Vignes, Hélène, Utge, José, Valette, Gilles, Rhoné, Bénédicte, Garcia Caputi, Mariella, Angarita Nieto, Natalia Sofía, Fouet, Olivier, Gaikwad, Nilesh, Zarrillo, Sonia, Powis, Terry G., Cyphers, Ann, Valdez, Francisco, Olivera Nunez, S. Quirino, Speller, Camilla, Blake, Michael, Valdez, Fred Jr, Raymond, Scott, Rowe, Sarah M., Duke, Guy S., Romano, Francisco Ernesto, Loor Solórzano, Rey Gaston, Argout, Xavier

“…Humans have a long history of transporting and trading plants, contributing to the evolution of domesticated plants. Theobroma cacao originated in the…”
Get full text

Temple mountains, sacred lakes, and fertile fields: ancient Maya landscapes in northwestern Belize by Dunning, Nicholas, Scarborough, Vernon, Valdez, Fred, Luzzadder-Beach, Sheryl, Beach, Timothy, Jones, John G.

“…Forty-three years later these words still ring true, but are too seldom followed (Fedick 1996). For several years, we have been engaged in a multidisciplinary…”
Get full text

POTBELLY SCULPTURE: An Inventory and Analysis by Thompson, Lauri McInnis, Valdez, Fred

“…Prehistoric potbelly (boulder) sculpture has been of great interest for many decades. Most such sculptures occur in the highlands and piedmont of the Pacific…”
Get full text

Tropical wetland persistence through the Anthropocene: Multiproxy reconstruction of environmental change in a Maya agroecosystem by Krause, Samantha, Beach, Timothy P., Luzzadder-Beach, Sheryl, Cook, Duncan, Bozarth, Steven R., Valdez, Fred, Guderjan, Thomas H.

“…Wetlands epitomize all forms of the proposed Anthropocene era because they record both past and recent human environmental interaction and because of their…”
Get full text

An Alternative Order: The Dualistic Economies of the Ancient Maya by Scarborough, Vernon L., Valdez, Fred

“…Harkening back to the debates associated with “dualistic economies” in addressing emerging nation states, we examine aspects of the ancient economy of the…”
Get full text

Archaeology Cacao usage by the earliest Maya civilization by Hurst, W. Jeffrey, Tarka, Stanley M, Powis, Terry G, Valdez, Fred, Hester, Thomas R

“…The Maya archaeological site at Colha in northern Belize, Central America, has yielded several spouted ceramic vessels that contain residues from the…”
Get full text

AN EARLY ROYAL MAYA TOMB FROM CHAN CHICH, BELIZE by Houk, Brett A., Robichaux, Hubert R., Valdez, Fred

“…In 1997, the Chan Chich Archaeological Project excavated a Terminal Preclassic/Early Classic period Maya tomb at Chan Chich, Belize. Tomb 2 represents the…”
Get full text

Preceramic Occupations in Belize: Updating the Paleoindian and Archaic Record by Lohse, Jon C., Awe, Jaime, Griffith, Cameron, Rosenswig, Robert M., Valdez, Fred

“…Evidence from preceramic Paleoindian and Archaic time periods in Belize has been recorded over the past quarter of a century by a number of projects. This…”
Get full text

Droughts as random events in the Maya lowlands by Me-Bar, Yoav, Valdez, Fred

“…Because the values of most of the parameters controlling the occurrence and severity of a drought in a given location are unknown, and no periodicity has been…”
Get full text

2 Tropical Landscapes and the Ancient Maya: Diversity in Time and Space by Chase, Arlen F., Lucero, Lisa J., Scarborough, Vernon L., Chase, Diane Z., Cobos, Rafael, Dunning, Nicholas P., Fedick, Scott L., Fialko, Vilma, Gunn, Joel D., Hegmon, Michelle, Iannone, Gyles, Lentz, David L., Liendo, Rodrigo, Prufer, Keith, Sabloff, Jeremy A., Tainter, Joseph A., Valdez Jr, Fred, van der Leeuw, Sander E.

“…ABSTRACT Archaeologists have begun to understand that many of the challenges facing our technologically sophisticated, resource dependent, urban systems were…”
Get full text

Spouted Vessels and Cacao Use among the Preclassic Maya by Powis, Terry G., Valdez, Fred, Hester, Thomas R., Hurst, W. Jeffrey, Tarka, Stanley M.

“…Spouted vessels are diagnostic forms of Middle Preclassic (1000–400 B. C.) and Late Preclassic (400 B. C.-A. D. 250) Maya ceramic assemblages. Mayanists have…”
Get full text

Cacao usage by the earliest Maya civilization by Hurst, W Jeffrey, Tarka, Jr, Stanley M, Powis, Terry G, Valdez, Jr, Fred, Hester, Thomas R

“…The Maya archaeological site at Colha in northern Belize, Central America, has yielded several spouted ceramic vessels that contain residues from the…”
Get full text

Additional Considerations for Prehispanic Saltmaking in Belize--Comment/Reply by Valdez, Fred Jr, Mock, Shirley B

“…Valdez, Mock and Marcus discuss recent conclusions about saltmaking activities during the Terminal Classic period on the Belizean coast by MacKinnon and…”
Get full text

Additional comments for prehistoric saltmaking in Belize. (response to J. Jefferson MacKinnon and Susan M. Kepecs, 54 American Antiquity, 522-533, 1989) by Valdez, Fred, Jr, Mock, Shirley B

“…A recently described set of ceramic artifacts have been functionally assigned to saltmaking by MacKinnon and Kepecs (1989), who concluded that saltmaking…”
Get full text

Ancient Maya commoners by Lohse, Jon C, Valdez, Jr., Fred, Hammond, Norman

Get full text

Ancient Maya Commoners by Graham, Elizabeth

Get full text

Heterarchy, Political Economy, and the Ancient Maya: The Three Rivers Region of the East-Central Yucatán Peninsula by Rugeley, Terry

Get full text

Heterarchy, political economy, and the ancient Maya: the Three Rivers Region of the east-central Yucatán peninsula by Scarborough, Vernon L, Valdez, Jr., Fred, Dunning, Nicholas, Graham, Elizabeth

Get full text

Ancient Maya Commoners by Harrison, Peter D.

“…Ancient Maya Commoners by Jon C. Lohse and Fred Valdez Jr is reviewed…”
Get full text