[PDF.14bp] The Maya Forest Garden: Eight Millennia of Sustainable Cultivation of the Tropical Woodlands (New Frontiers in Historical Ecology)

The Maya Forest Garden: Eight Millennia of Sustainable Cultivation of the Tropical Woodlands (New Frontiers in Historical Ecology)

[PDF.ab64] The Maya Forest Garden: Eight Millennia of Sustainable Cultivation of the Tropical Woodlands (New Frontiers in Historical Ecology)

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 | #838748 in Books |  2015-07-02 |  2015-06-30 | Original language:English |  9.00 x.80 x6.00l,.0 | File type: PDF | 260 pages

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||6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.| Important lessons to learn from Maya agroforestry|By Lawrence Saltzman|This is a really important and well-researched book for everyone in the sustainability world, revealing that the Maya's indigenous practices of agroforestry/forest gardens and Milpa cycle sustained large populations for centuries. Permaculturists have been advocating "food forests" for decades and this book| ||"Ford and Nigh bring decades of field research to this book and draw on ethnography, agroecology, ethno- and paleobotany, archaeology, historical climate data, and ethnohistory.  Even today, Maya forest gardeners cultivate sustainably but are thr

The conventional wisdom says that the devolution of Classic Maya civilization occurred because its population grew too large and dense to be supported by primitive neotropical farming methods, resulting in debilitating famines and internecine struggles. Using research on contemporary Maya farming techniques and important new archaeological research, Ford and Nigh refute this Malthusian explanation of events in ancient Central America and posit a radical alternative theor...

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