NATS 3200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: 18 Months, Transpiration, Frederick Catherwood
16 Nov 2016
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In both civilizations (easter + mayan) they reached their peak shortly before a collapse: resources were depleted, population was at a max. Mayan society developed in a region which includes parts of the yucatan. Mexico) and areas of present day countries in central america such as guatemala, belize and honduras: there are more resources in the large area than there were on the little. Easter island (one of the most remote places on earth: this location was not a tropical paradise because there are lengthy droughts which were exasperated by the local human population, water was frequently in short supply. Two explorers (american writer john lloyd stephens and english artist frederick. Catherwood) discovered and described the ruined and abandoned maya cities in the late 1830s and the early 1840s: the mayan civilization was buried by a jungle and it was only rediscovered by stephens and catherwood.
