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Water Management Strategies In An Engineered Neotropical Landscape

Nagy, Andras B.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1343051764

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2012, MA, University of Cincinnati, Arts and Sciences: Anthropology.
Investigations of prehistoric lowland Maya water management practices have largely focused on large-scale water storage facilities such as reservoirs, artificial drainage systems that were used to hold, maintain, and deliver water year-around. The scarcity of surface water in the highly seasonal rainfall regime within the karst Maya Lowlands meant that these structures frequently provided the principal source of water in much of the region during the dry season. Utilizing a dataset of forty-seven cores from two reservoirs, Corriental and Perdido, at Tikal, Guatemala, my thesis investigates the development history of these reservoirs with a focus on Corriental as a series of ecological linkages between people and their environment, which gradually led to specialized and disturbed landscapes in the Lowlands. Utilizing volume magnetic susceptibility, particle size distribution, soil horizon identifications, and loss on ignition data, the argument is made that Corriental and Perdido occupy a dramatically modified and artificial landscape that reflects critical accretionary trajectories of development.
Vernon Scarborough, PhD (Committee Chair)
Kenneth Tankersley, PhD (Committee Member)
100 p.
Archaeology
Maya; Water Management; Tikal; Corriental; Reservoir; ;

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  • Nagy, A. B. (2012). Water Management Strategies In An Engineered Neotropical Landscape [Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1343051764

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Nagy, Andras. Water Management Strategies In An Engineered Neotropical Landscape. 2012. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1343051764.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Nagy, Andras. "Water Management Strategies In An Engineered Neotropical Landscape." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1343051764

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