The Maya Living Legacy Series and Archeology Brownbag Series at UW-Madison cordially invites you to the lecture by Dr. Anabel Ford’s talk “Archaeology Under the Canopy: El Pilar and the Maya Forest Gardens” on Sept 13th at 12 pm CDT.
The Maya forest is among the most diverse in the world, yet the traditional Maya milpa has been denigrated as primitive, wasteful, and inadequate to give rise to the Maya civilization accused of deforesting their landscape for agriculture and architecture. Yet the forest today holds tremendous economic value. This presentation will ask you to imagine an alternative, one that can account for the rise of the Maya and their persistence today based on the dynamic milpa-forest garden cycle.
Archaeological focused on ancient Maya settlement and environmental relationships, Anabel Ford, Director of the MesoAmerican Research Center and President of the Nonprofit Exploring Solutions Past, has challenged perceptions of the Maya from enlightened Master forest gardeners who have share their wealth of knowledge.
