- Title Pages
- Figures
- Tables
- Foreword
- Abbreviations
-
1 Nuts, Bolts, and Bridges -
2 Modeling Maya Markets -
3 A New Direction in the Study of Ancient Maya Economics -
4 Similar Markets, Different Economies -
5 Rural Economies of Agrarian Houselots before and after the Rise of Urban Mayapán -
6 Stone for My House -
7 Chert Resource Availability, Production, and Economic Logic -
8 The Ancient Maya Economic Landscape of Caracol, Belize -
9 Commerce, Redistribution, Autarky, and Barter -
10 Large-Scale Production of Basic Commodities at Salinas de los Nueve Cerros, Guatemala -
11 Gardens of the Maya -
12 Yucatec Land and Labor before and after Spanish Incursions -
13 Maya Cornucopia -
14 Service Relationships within the Broader Economy of Cerén, a Young Maya Village -
15 A Discrepancy between Elite Office and Economic Status in the El Palmar Dynasty -
16 Bundling the Sticks -
17 Maya Economic Organization and Power -
18 Economic Interactions and the Rise of Sociopolitical Complexity in the Maya Lowlands -
19 Classic Maya Interaction Networks and the Production and Consumption of Cotton Fiber and Textiles -
20 The Political Geography of Long-Distance Exchange in the Elevated Interior Region of the Yucatán Peninsula -
21 An Intracoastal Waterway and Trading Port System in Prehispanic Northwest Yucatán, Mexico -
22 The Difference a Marketplace Makes -
23 Decentralizing the Economies of the Maya West -
24 A Stone Duty? -
25 Terminal Classic Interactions between the Western Petén Lakes Chain and the Western Lowlands -
26 Maya Economics -
27 Conclusion - Appendix
- Bibliography
- Contributors
- Index
- Maya Studies
Maya Cornucopia
Maya Cornucopia
Indigenous Food Plants of the Maya Lowlands
- Chapter:
- (p.224) 13 Maya Cornucopia
- Source:
- The Real Business of Ancient Maya Economies
- Author(s):
Scott L. Fedick
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
Under an agricultural economy, the ancient Maya depended on plants for food. While most discussions of Maya subsistence focus on maize production, this study has undertaken an extensive review of the ethnographic and botanical literature and found nearly 500 Indigenous food plants, domesticated, cultivated, and wild, reported as used by the Maya. The implications of this edible cornucopia of plants is discussed in terms of historic and current models of ancient Maya subsistence, implications for sustainability under environmental and demographic pressures, the range of plants likely to have been incorporated into marketing or exchange systems, and implications for identification of these plants in the archaeological record.
Keywords: Ancient Maya, Agricultural economy, Maize production, Subsistence
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- Title Pages
- Figures
- Tables
- Foreword
- Abbreviations
-
1 Nuts, Bolts, and Bridges -
2 Modeling Maya Markets -
3 A New Direction in the Study of Ancient Maya Economics -
4 Similar Markets, Different Economies -
5 Rural Economies of Agrarian Houselots before and after the Rise of Urban Mayapán -
6 Stone for My House -
7 Chert Resource Availability, Production, and Economic Logic -
8 The Ancient Maya Economic Landscape of Caracol, Belize -
9 Commerce, Redistribution, Autarky, and Barter -
10 Large-Scale Production of Basic Commodities at Salinas de los Nueve Cerros, Guatemala -
11 Gardens of the Maya -
12 Yucatec Land and Labor before and after Spanish Incursions -
13 Maya Cornucopia -
14 Service Relationships within the Broader Economy of Cerén, a Young Maya Village -
15 A Discrepancy between Elite Office and Economic Status in the El Palmar Dynasty -
16 Bundling the Sticks -
17 Maya Economic Organization and Power -
18 Economic Interactions and the Rise of Sociopolitical Complexity in the Maya Lowlands -
19 Classic Maya Interaction Networks and the Production and Consumption of Cotton Fiber and Textiles -
20 The Political Geography of Long-Distance Exchange in the Elevated Interior Region of the Yucatán Peninsula -
21 An Intracoastal Waterway and Trading Port System in Prehispanic Northwest Yucatán, Mexico -
22 The Difference a Marketplace Makes -
23 Decentralizing the Economies of the Maya West -
24 A Stone Duty? -
25 Terminal Classic Interactions between the Western Petén Lakes Chain and the Western Lowlands -
26 Maya Economics -
27 Conclusion - Appendix
- Bibliography
- Contributors
- Index
- Maya Studies
