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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Palenque"”.
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The Palenque mapping project: settlement and urbanism at an ancient Maya city
The Palenque Mapping Project (1998-2000) intensively surveyed the ancient Maya ruins of Palenque, in Chiapas, Mexico. The project covered 2.2 square kilometers of the city’s jungle shrouded plateau, documenting 1481 structures and over 16 linear kilometers of terracing. After a brief summary of …
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Lowland Maya lime plaster technology: a diachronic approach
… from three different lowland Maya sites: Palenque, Calakmul and Lamanai. The thesis examines how these building materials changed through time, and includes samples from ca. 400 BC to the 16 th century AD. In addition to the analysis of archaeological samples, the research also reviews …
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Navigating in a Rainforest: Movement Patterns in a Neotropical Primate. The Black Howler Monkey
… ranging and behavioural data from five groups at Palenque National Park, Mexico, where I marked all individual feeding trees (N = 931 trees) from the top ten preferred tree species. My findings first showed that black howlers navigated through routes more frequently than simulated random-walker …
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A 'pueblo' that walks together: trust and bonding among Central American transit migrants in Mexico
… the southern border of Mexico in Tenosique and Palenque; in the northern border in Saltillo and Nogales, and in Tucson in the United States. The dissertation finds that most migrants do not receive emotional help or resources from their kinship ties while in Mexico. It is possible to form social …
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Black howler monkey (Alouatta pigra) nutrition: Integrating the study of behavior, feeding ecology, and the gut microbial community.
… wild, black howler monkeys (Alouatta pigra) in Palenque National Park, Chiapas. The first chapter explores patterns in black howler monkey nutritional intake across time to determine whether howlers employ a foraging strategy that regulates energy and/or nutrient intake and whether this strategy …
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Los Hijos Del Rey Benkos: Afro-Colombian Appropriation of A Historic Palenquero Identity and Its Legacy For Community Mobilization
… to defend their human rights on the basis of a palenquero identity. This afro-descendant ethnic identity is based on a collective historical memory of maroon communities, which developed during the colonial period in New Granada. This identity has historic origins and consists of three inherent …