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Chemical Reactions
This group of dating methods is based on time-dependent chemical reactions. Provided the rate of the chemical reaction is known then the duration of...
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A regional approach to cultural preservation: A central american example
The transition to democratic governments in Central America over the past decade, and the subsequent emergence of institutional mechanisms for...
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Looting, collecting, and the destruction of archaeological resources
Archaeological sites, the material remnants of our human past, are finite and nonrenewable cultural resources that are under constant threat from...
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Literature on archaeological remains of cultivated plants (1994/95)
Publications on archaeological remains of cultivated plants have been collected, mainly from 1994, with some earlier and some later ones. A list is...
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Late Holocene climate change and human disturbance on Andros Island, Bahamas
A 2 m sediment core from Church's Blue Hole on Andros Island, Bahamas provides the first paleoecological record from the Bahama Archipelago. The...
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The destruction of the past: Nonrenewable cultural resources
“Destruction of cultural resources has increased dramatically in the last quarter of the 20th century as a result of two forces: first, development...
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Resource use in the tropical karstlands of central Belize
Rural tropical ecosystems are subject to many traditional land uses that employ the indigenous karst resources: rock, water, soil, vegetation, and...
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Influences of various forcing variables on global energy balance during the period of intensive instrumental observation (1958–1987) and their implications for paleoclimate
Consistent, accurate, and numerous measures of global scale atmospheric variables have been collected since about 1958. A time series of 30 years...
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Climate and prehistory on the Yucatan peninsula
Long held notions that climate has been stable over the Yucatan peninsula and that today's climate is an accurate reflection of past climates here...
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Engineering problems in ancient maya architecture: Past, present, and future
The ancient Maya faced a number of architectural engineering problems that they were unable to solve, except in the short term. Modern expectations...
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Detailed Map** of Tide-Gauge Records in Specific Regions
The broadest view of changes in relative sea levels or land levels is given by histograms based on all tide-gauge records of 10 or more years’...
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Recent sedimentary histories of shallow lakes in the guatemalan savannas
Shallow basins in the savannas of Peten, Guatemala filled with water after 305±55 BP (calibrated age+1430–1660 AD). Aguadas Chimaj and Chilonche...
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A sedimentary record of human disturbance from Lake Miragoane, Haiti
Lake Miragoane, Haiti is one of the largest, natural freshwater lakes in the Caribbean (A=7.06 km 2 , z max =41.0 m, conductivity = 350 μS cm −1 ). Lake...
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Climate and prehistory on the Yucatan peninsula
Long held notions that climate has been stable over the Yucatan peninsula and that today's climate is an accurate reflection of past climates here...
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Exploration
Ancient human remains and artifacts occur in Africa and Asia where evolution of man has been traced through many stages from early hominoids about 4...
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Tephrochronology and its Application to Problems in New-World Archaeology
Quaternary tephra layers abound in the Americas, especially in the western and central part. Few of them have been examined in detail. At present,...
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Approximate Dating Of Tephra
Tephra studies would benefit greatly from the development of simple, inexpensive, approximate-dating methods that would allow us to estimate the age...
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Gondwanaland in Ancient Indian Literature
Man is the most widely distributed species of mammal on this geologically ever-changing planet Earth. It is the only watery planet, so far as we...