Impact of Human Waste Management on the estimation of Ancient Maya Population

• Published in: Estudios de cultura maya Vol. 51; pp. 111 - 128
• Main Author: Wong, Alfred
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: UNAM, Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas 2018
• Subjects: aguas residuales; Anthropology; Archaeology; eaux usées; manejo de desechos; Maya; población; population; sewage; Tikal; traitement de déchets; waste management; Tikal; Maya; eaux usées; aguas residuales; manejo de desechos; traitement de déchets; waste management; sewage; población; population

The population of ancient Maya has been estimated traditionally by multiplying the number of discovered household mounds and the assumed number of persons per household in a given transect of an archaeological site. This approach is foundationally weak as both key parameters are subject to wide vari...