ANTH 1140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Aguateca, Tikal, Arthur Demarest
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No more monuments with long texts on them. Massive population decline (95%) in the sml: nml: increase in population, highlands: increase in population. Environmental degradation model: investigated most at copan (rebecca storey, yax pasaaj built monuments that look beautiful on outside, but have structural problems (i. e. hastily erected, not as much time put in to them) Put offerings (live jaguars) onto altars for each of the previous. But, is allowing members of the aristocracy privileges of the elite. Fictive kinship trying to prove to the plebs that he"s a divine ruler (also trying to diffuse the blame: population of copan = 25-30,000 people in the value (when yax. More mudslides: people have anemia due to chronic malnutrition. And for plaster to coat his awful buildings (so they looked better: research. Asks people living in copan about current yield of farming. D. webster observed evidence of mud slides in maya dwellings.
