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Social structural consequences of population growth

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 July 2008

R. E. W. Adams
R. E. W. Adams
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University of Texas, San Antonio, Texas, USA
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Summary

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.

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Research Article
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Journal of Biosocial Science , Volume 13 , Issue 1 , January 1981 , pp. 107 - 122
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1981

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