Links for Learning 

• FOREST GARDEN

  • El Pilar Forest Garden Network
  • Ethnobotany and Floristics of Belize
  • Ted Talks: How to restore a rainforest
  • The Mighty Breadnut Tree
  • Breadnut tree a.k.a. Ramon
  • Society of Ethnobiology
  • Rainforest Plant Pictures
  • “Dominant Plants Of The Maya Forest And Gardens Of El Pilar: Implications For Paleoenvironmental Reconstructions”-Ford
  • "Exploring the Legacy of the Maya Forest" -Ford & Emery
  • “Origins of the Maya Forest Garden: Maya Resource Management”-Ford & Nigh

• AGRICULTURE

  •  “Why Study Traditional Agriculture?”
  • “Working with Local Knowledge: Environment and Anthropology”
  • “The prehistoric agricultural landscape of the central Maya lowlands: An examination of local variability in a regional context”-Fedick & Ford -JSTOR

• ON MESOAMERICA AND MAYA

  • Maya Exploration - Maps
  • UCSB Archaeologist Disputes Common Belief About Collapse of Maya Civilization 
  • Ancient Mesoamerica
  • Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies, Inc.
  • Maya Hieroglyphic Writing
  • NOVA - ScienceNOW
  • "The Source of Volcanic Ash in Late Classic Maya Pottery at El Pilar, Belize" -Catlin, Ford, & Spera
  • "Volcanic Ash in Ancient Maya Ceramics of the Limestone Lowlands" -Ford & Rose

• GIS and LiDAR

  •  Electric Atlas of Ancient Maya Sites
  • “The El Dorado Machine: a new scanner’s rainforest discoveries” -Douglas Preston
  • ArcGIS Resources On LiDAR
  • LiDAR and GPS 'game-changing' for Maya Archaeology -David Mainwaring
  • "Modeling Settlement Patterns of the Late Classic Maya Civilization with Bayesian Methods and Geographic Information Systems" -Ford, Clarke, & Raines

• EL PILAR CREDITS

  • Huffington Post

• GOOD READS

  • 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus -Charles C. Mann
  • Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900 -Alfred W. Crosby
  • Woodlands -Prof. Oliver Rackham
  • The Fall of the Ancient Maya: Solving the Mystery of the Maya Collapse -David L. Webster
  • Corn and Capitalism: How a Botanical Bastard Grew to Global Dominance -Arturo Warman