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- Title
Social structural consequences of population growth.
- Authors
Adams, R. E. W.; Adams, R E
- Abstract
Estimates from archaeological data of the numbers in the elite classes, non-elite occupational specialists, density of population, city size, and size of political units in the ancient Maya civilization suggest that there was a quantum shift in rate of development in the Early Classic period, associated with intensification of agriculture, and that the social structure approximated to a generalized feudal pattern.
- Subjects
SOCIAL structure; POPULATION density; MAYA mythology; URBAN life; URBANIZATION; RURAL population; CITY dwellers
- Publication
Journal of Biosocial Science, 1981, Vol 13, Issue 1, p107
- ISSN
0021-9320
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1017/S0021932000013249