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Changing Living Patterns of the Yucatan Maya

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

George W. Brainerd
George W. Brainerd*
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University of California, Los Angeles, Calif.
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The purpose of this paper is to review the archaeological data on the settlement patterns of the Yucatan Maya with a view to reconstructing the history of their changing way of life.

There is little evidence that the population density of the lowland Maya during their cultural heyday was substantially greater than that of the modern State of Yucatan, about 30 persons per square mile.

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Research Article
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American Antiquity , Volume 22 , Issue 2Part1 , October 1956 , pp. 162 - 164
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1956

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