Mayan Farming, Modern Farming: Land Use in Central America

What did Central America look like at the height of the Mayan civilization? Probably different than you think.

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NASA Earth Observatory images created by Jesse Allen, using model data provided courtesy of Jed Kaplan of the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland (800-950 and 1500-1650) and Kees Klein Goldewijk, Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (HYDE data, 2000). Caption by Holli Riebeek.

Published February 2, 2012
Data acquired 925 - 2000

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