adaptive. Yaeger and Hodell (2008:187) look at the social and political transformations in relation to climatic and environmental changes. In addition, systems-centered archaeology explores the link between natural environments and human societies (Gibbon 2014). This is evident throughout Yaeger and Hodell’s (2008) work as they discuss the different regions of the Maya and how it transformed due to environmental changes. Additionally, Yaeger and Hodell’s (2008) work explored the scientific part of climate change, as systems-centered archaeology involves ‘doing science’ (Gibbon 2014).
Yaeger and Hodell’s (2008) work also emphasizes agency-centered archaeology. According to Gibbon (2014) agency-centered archaeology explores the lower left quadrant, …show more content…
This is the best explanation as it relates to why droughts occurred over Central America and Mexico. As mentioned by Gibbon (2014) this explanation provides a cause and effect statement, the cause being the movement of the North Atlantic High and the ITCZ and the effect being drought for Central America and Mexico (Gill et al., 2007:287). In addition, this explanation is a good explanation since it is testable, very relevant to the question being asked, it isn’t vague and it is reliable (Gibbon 2014). Although, there is an absence of alternative explanations, even though it is well established that drought did in fact affect the Maya region, there isn’t alternative explanations being offered (Gibbon 2014). Gill et al., (2007) does not provide explanations for why other alternatives may not be true, he simply refers to climate change being the ultimate reason for the Maya collapse. Addition, this explanation is repeated majority of the time throughout Gill’s et al., (2007) …show more content…
In addition, each period is associated with specific climatic regimes indicate by deep-sea SSS cores and each demographic disaster has been associated with a drought in some area in the Maya Lowlands (Gill et al., 2007:287).
This is not a good explanation as it is not clear, it is confusing to understand. In addition, this explanation indicates a connection between each demographic disaster and drought in the Maya Lowlands. The error is in explanation is that it is not free from excessive vagueness, by using the terms ‘demographic disaster’ (Gibbon 2014). There is no indication of what exactly ‘demographic disaster’ means, thereby leaving the definition of these terms for the reader to define. This explanation would have been more clear if there was a discussion regarding what a ‘demographic disaster’ means or may have looked like for the
Yaeger and Hodell’s (2008) work also emphasizes agency-centered archaeology. According to Gibbon (2014) agency-centered archaeology explores the lower left quadrant, …show more content…
This is the best explanation as it relates to why droughts occurred over Central America and Mexico. As mentioned by Gibbon (2014) this explanation provides a cause and effect statement, the cause being the movement of the North Atlantic High and the ITCZ and the effect being drought for Central America and Mexico (Gill et al., 2007:287). In addition, this explanation is a good explanation since it is testable, very relevant to the question being asked, it isn’t vague and it is reliable (Gibbon 2014). Although, there is an absence of alternative explanations, even though it is well established that drought did in fact affect the Maya region, there isn’t alternative explanations being offered (Gibbon 2014). Gill et al., (2007) does not provide explanations for why other alternatives may not be true, he simply refers to climate change being the ultimate reason for the Maya collapse. Addition, this explanation is repeated majority of the time throughout Gill’s et al., (2007) …show more content…
In addition, each period is associated with specific climatic regimes indicate by deep-sea SSS cores and each demographic disaster has been associated with a drought in some area in the Maya Lowlands (Gill et al., 2007:287).
This is not a good explanation as it is not clear, it is confusing to understand. In addition, this explanation indicates a connection between each demographic disaster and drought in the Maya Lowlands. The error is in explanation is that it is not free from excessive vagueness, by using the terms ‘demographic disaster’ (Gibbon 2014). There is no indication of what exactly ‘demographic disaster’ means, thereby leaving the definition of these terms for the reader to define. This explanation would have been more clear if there was a discussion regarding what a ‘demographic disaster’ means or may have looked like for the