Tag: The Maya Forest Garden: Eight Millennia of Sustainable Cultivation of the Tropical Woodlands

A new book co-authored by a UCSB researcher details how the Maya have farmed sustainably and survived for millennia

By Jim Logan / UCSB History has not been kind to the Maya, an indigenous people of Mesoamerica. They’re usually portrayed as the hapless victims of European colonialism who collapsed and disappeared as a result of overpopulation and environmental degradation. A…