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Tables 3.1. Key drought articles 53 5.1. Cycles of precipitation, Maya developmental history, and adaptive cycles 104 7.1. Weather-related famines in Colonial Yucatan 132 11.1. Origin, age, type, and number of bones analyzed in this study 233 11.2. Expected deer bone bioapatite δ18 op in relation to average climatic conditions that have occurred at Flores during relatively dry (1994 and 1998) and wet years (1997 and 2006) 240 11.3. Summary of the reproducibilities obtained during the different isotopic measurements 244 11.4. Summary of all the δ18 op and δ18 oc values measured on samples of archaeological deer bones from Motul de San Jose and Piedras Negras 246 14.1. List of regions, sites, and Number of Identified Specimens (NISP) values presented by time period 307 14.2. Generalized chronology used in comparative analyses of site data 309 14.3. Descriptives and statistical tests for variation across chronological periods 314 TABLES xviii 14.4. Descriptives for variation across chronological periods in each drainage 316 15.1. Some Haitian population figures and densities for the Haitian landscape 353 ...

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