Archaeology · American Archaeology
A topic within American Archaeology, itself one of 8 topics in that field and part of Archaeology.
2 works
John Lloyd Stephens
Documents dozens of ruined Maya cities as the work of the indigenous ancestors of living Central Americans, against a contemporary readership that assumed only Old World migrants could have built them.
480 pageslink checked 17 Sept 2026B. L. Turner II & Jeremy A. Sabloff
Synthesises palaeoclimate and settlement evidence to argue the Classic Maya collapse resulted from drought interacting with an already overextended land-and-water system, not drought or warfare alone, and draws out what that coupled failure implies for present-day resource management.