Soils, Climate & Society : Archaeological investigations in ancient America

List of Figures . . vii
List of Tables . . ix
Acknowledgments . . xi
Introduction: A User's Guide to Soils, Climate, and Society . . xiii

1. Population Estimates for Anthropogenically Enriched Soils (Amazonian Dark Earths) . . 1
2. Soilscape Legacies: Historical and Emerging Consequences of Socioecological Interactions in Honduras . . 21
3. Drought, Subsistence Stress, and Population Dynamics: Assessing Mississippian Abandonment of the Vacant Quarter . .  61
4. Mimbres Mogollon Farming: Estimating Prehistoric Agricultural Production during the Classic Mimbres Period . . 85
5. So Who's Counting? Modeling Pre-Columbian Agricultural Potential in the Maya World . .  109
6. Tilling the Fields and Building the Temples: Assessing che Relationship among Land, Labor, and Classic Maya Elite Power in the Copan Valley, Honduras . . 131
7. An EPIC Challenge: Estimating Site Population in South Coastal Peru . . 157
8. Feeding the Masses: New Perspectives on Maya Agriculture from Ceren, El Salvador . . 175
9. How Can We Know ? The Epistemological Foundation of Ecological Modeling in Archaeology . . 205

List of Contributors . . 225
Index . . 227