NONDÉDÉO , Philippe

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"Managing resources in inter-tropical environment has always been a critical issue for the rise and prosperity of complex societies. The socio-ecological system of Naachtun, a large Classic Period Maya city (AD 250-950), lies at the heart of this issue. It will be studied here in the perspective of understanding water and soil variability,...

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The Naachtun archaeological project started in 2010 with the aim of understanding the sociopolitical and economic history of one of the few Maya Classic capitals located in Northern Peten. Since 2013 a paleo-environmental team carried out a program of investigation to study the landuse and the management of local resources during the last three...

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During the Maya early Anthropocene (2000 BCE e 1000 CE) in Mesoamerica, socio-environmental in-teractions contributed to the rise and decline of the ancient Maya civilisation. At the scale of the exploitation territories of the Maya cities, the temporal variations of hydrological and sedimentary dynamics in response to anthropogenic and climate...

The lost phytoliths of Naachtun (Petén, Guatemala): Development of a modern reference for the characterization of plant environments in the Maya Tropical Lowlands

Phytoliths, unlike pollen and charcoal, are frequently conserved in sediments in the Maya lowlands but are rarely used as paleoenvironmental proxies. To better interpret and reconstruct paleoecological signatures and changes, it is necessary to provide current analogues of fossil assemblages. To do so, we selected six modern ecosystems and...

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In the centre of the Mayan Lowlands, several scientific and technical obstacles hinder the understanding of long-term socio-environmental dynamics, at the scale of the territories of the cities. The study of the socio-ecosystem of Naachtun, a Maya city of the Classic period, is not exempt from these constraints. How did natural resources...

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In the Maya Lowlands, recent work based on the study ofsedimentary archives and LiDAR DEM has contributed to remove scientific and technical barriers, and renew the study of socio-environmental dynamics at the territorial scale. This study of the nature and dynamics of the socio-ecosystem of the subsistence territory of the city of Naachtun is...

"In 2014 ended the Naachtun Proyect's first phase of investigations. During five years, it focused mainly on the characterization of the site social, political, and economic organization during the period of apogee of this regional major Center, that is the Late and Terminal Classic periods, during which Naachtun's population reached its peak....

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