Seefeld, Nicolaus Paul: The Hydraulic System of Uxul : Origins, functions, and social setting. - Bonn, 2017. - Dissertation, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn.
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author = {{Nicolaus Paul Seefeld}},
title = {The Hydraulic System of Uxul : Origins, functions, and social setting},
school = {Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn},
year = 2017,
month = apr,

note = {Since the inception of Maya studies, the issue of water supply in the Maya polities of the Central Lowlands during the Classic Period has been a matter of controversial debate. Due to the annually recurring dry seasons (February to May), the availability of water during this period is and has always been problematic. In the light of these conditions, the fact that the pre-Hispanic Maya were able to establish, developed and maintain prosperous urban centers over long periods is hard to explain.
In order to close this essential research gap, the author carried out an extensive and intensive dissertation project, which was determined to understand the water management strategies of the Maya in pre-Hispanic times. In the first step, these investigations started out by determining the factors causing temporal water scarcity and regional variations in water-availability within the landscape of the Maya Lowlands. Building on this, the study focused on the assessment of the different types, technical layout, functionality and geographic distribution of hydraulic features that the pre-Hispanic Maya developed in order to allow a constant water supply for their settlements. These basic realizations were used for an encompassing investigation of the hydraulic system of Uxul (Campeche, Mexico).
Between 2009 and 2015, the author had the opportunity to participate in the Uxul Archaeological Project (University of Bonn). In the course of several field seasons, the author carried out extensive topographic surveys and archaeological investigations of hydraulic features. The acquired field data was used to analyze the function and the development of Uxul’s hydraulic system and its integration into the local landscape, the urban infrastructure and the different residential areas of the settlement. As many open research questions could be addressed and studied in Uxul, the hydraulic system of Uxul acted as a central point of reference for the evaluation of the sociopolitical relevance of water management in the Maya Lowlands.
In conclusion, the sociopolitical inferences drawn from the investigation of Uxul’s hydraulic system were compared with the results from the entire Maya Lowland. These analyses were used for a general assessment of the sociopolitical relevance of water management in Late Classic Maya society.},

url = {https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11811/7058}
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