Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Contributors -- 1: Introduction -- 2: The Dynamics of Ancient Maya Developmental History -- 3: Assessing the Great Maya Droughts -- 4: Agricultural Landscapes, Deforestation, and Drought Severity -- 5: Climate Change in the Ancient Maya Forest -- 6: The End of the Beginning -- 7: A Tale of Three Cities -- 8: Collapse without Drought -- 9: The Classic Maya Collapse, Water, and Economic Change in Mesoamerica -- 10: Water in the West -- 11: Oxygen Isotopes from Maya Archaeological Deer Remains -- 12: The Prehistoric Maya of Northern Belize -- 13: An Archaeological Consideration of Long-Term Socioecological Dynamics on the Vaca Plateau, Belize -- 14: Tracking Climate Changein the Ancient Maya World through Zooarchaeological Habitat Analyses -- 15: Maya Drought and Niche Inheritance -- References -- Index.