But for the Maya, the forests were really essential to their resource base,” Lentz says. The researchers found that in the early days at Yaxnohcah, people used slash and burn agriculture. It’s a ...

“You couldn’t feed as many people as the ancient Maya did with the kind of slash-and-burn agriculture people in this part of the world use today,” says Tulane’s Canuto, who models ...

The slash-and-burn agriculture practiced by many Indigenous ... researchers and community members to study two Q’eqchi’ Maya villages in southern Belize. The approximately 18,000-acre study ...

Jade Skirt: Us Maya have really healthy diets ... Also known as ‘swidden’ or ‘slash and burn’ this is when jungle areas are chopped down and burnt. The ash is good for the soil, so ...

The slash-and-burn agriculture practiced by many Indigenous societies across ... teamed up with local researchers and community members to study two Q’eqchi’ Maya villages in southern Belize. The ...

these statements confuse other forms of slash-and-burn agriculture with the distinct "milpa" systems employed by Indigenous people in Belize. Throughout Belize, Indigenous Maya farmers commonly ...

But the smoke billowing around Tha Yu village is from "slash and burn" agriculture -- a method also called shifting cultivation, in which patches of wild vegetation are burnt for similar purposes ...