Pre-Columbian Population History in the Maya Lowlands

This is a collection of chapters by various authors on aspects of the demography of the Maya in Central America. It is the product of a session organized at the 50th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in Denver Colorado in 1985. The focus is on quantitative data and the methods that can be applied to their analysis. Most of the contributions attempt to estimate the size of the Mayan lowland population before the Spanish conquest. (ANNOTATION)