Estimation of Early Classic Maya Population: Methodological Challenges and Modeling at Naachtun, Guatemala

IF 1.1 3区 地球科学 Q2 ANTHROPOLOGY
Julien Hiquet
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Most population estimates for Maya sites are for the Late Classic period, a time of peak population in the Central Maya Lowlands. At Naachtun, Guatemala, a major city during the Early Classic that continued into the Late Classic period, researchers recently carried out an ambitious program of test pitting in residential areas; its aim was to model the growth of residential units during the entire Classic period and so better contextualize the rise of Classic Maya dynasties and the scale of their economic and political power. This article presents an improvement to the existing method for estimating population for periods preceding the population apex (in this case, the Early Classic period): it not only estimates the occupancy rate of residential units occupied pre-apex but also assesses their size, using a typology I developed based on their morphology and pattern of transformation.
早期古典玛雅人口的估计:方法的挑战和建模在纳克屯,危地马拉
玛雅遗址的大多数人口估计都是在古典晚期,这是玛雅中部低地人口高峰的时期。在危地马拉的Naachtun,一个早期经典时期一直延续到晚期经典时期的主要城市,研究人员最近在居民区进行了一项雄心勃勃的试坑计划;其目的是模拟整个古典时期住宅单元的增长,从而更好地了解古典玛雅王朝的崛起及其经济和政治权力的规模。这篇文章对现有的人口高峰之前时期(在这种情况下,早期经典时期)的人口估计方法进行了改进:它不仅估计了高峰之前居住的住宅单元的入住率,而且使用了我根据其形态和转变模式开发的类型学来评估其规模。
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