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Chapters: Birds of Belize, Birds of the Yucatán Peninsula Region, Fauna of Belize, Mammals of Belize, Reptiles of Belize, Bald Eagle, List of Birds of Belize, Yellow Warbler, King Vulture, Boa Constrictor, Geoffroy's Spider Monkey, Hooded Warbler, Gray Catbird, Northern Cardinal, List of Mammals of Belize, Rose-Breasted Grosbeak, Sharp-Shinned Hawk, Lesser Yellow-Headed Vulture, Wood Thrush, Yellow-Breasted Chat, House Wren, Black-Throated Green Warbler, Yellow-Headed Amazon, Aplomado Falcon, Orchard Oriole, Northern Waterthrush, Great Kiskadee, Morelet's Crocodile, Palm Warbler, Swainson's Warbler, Blue-Winged Warbler, Little Tinamou, Lark Bunting, Agkistrodon Bilineatus, Pine Warbler, Lincoln's Sparrow, Bronzed Cowbird, Northern Parula, Variable Seedeater, Thicket Tinamou, Jaguarundi, Emerald Toucanet, White-Tailed Hawk, Tropical Gnatcatcher, Lark Sparrow, Carolina Wren, Keel-Billed Toucan, Least Grebe, Barred Forest-Falcon, Slaty-Breasted Tinamou, Guatemalan Black Howler, Pauraque, Pinnated Bittern, White Hawk, Roadside Hawk, Greyish Saltator, Bat Falcon, Olivaceous Woodcreeper, Turquoise-Browed Motmot, Mealy Amazon, Ornate Hawk-Eagle, Stripe-Throated Hermit, Great Curassow, Snail Kite, Bright-Rumped Attila, Streaked Flycatcher, Blue-Gray Tanager, Yellow-Bellied Sapsucker, Tree Swallow, Jabiru, Montezuma Oropendola, Black Skimmer, Ocellated Turkey, White-Tipped Dove, American Pygmy Kingfisher, Northern Potoo, Yellow-Bellied Elaenia, White-Winged Dove, Green Kingfisher, Virginia's Warbler, Plain Chachalaca, Yellow-Green Vireo, White-Eyed Vireo, Green Violetear, Hooded Oriole, Barred Antshrike, Grace's Warbler, Vermilion Flycatcher, Black-Headed Saltator, Golden-Olive Woodpecker, Yellow-Tailed Oriole, Buff-Throated Saltator, Brown Jay, Rufous-Tailed Jacamar, White-Necked Jacobin, Green Jay, Rufous-Tailed Hummingbird, American Purple Gallinule, Melodious Blackbird, American Flamingo, Collared Aracari, Common Tody-Flycatcher, Green Honeycreeper, Lesser Nighthaw... ... Read more

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Chapters: British Honduras, 2005 Belize Unrest, Belizean Kriol People, United Black Association for Development, Guatemalan Claim to Belizean Territory, Battle of St. George's Caye, Elections in Belize, Pre-Columbian Belize, Baymen, List of Prime Ministers of Belize, Convention of London, Belizean People, Belizean American, Dausuva, United Nations Security Council Resolution 491, Belize Act 1981. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 104. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt:Flag British Honduras was a British colony that is now the independent nation of Belize. First colonised by Spaniards in the seventeenth century, the territory on the east coast of Central America, south of Mexico, became a British crown colony from 1862 until 1964, when it became self-governing. Belize became fully independent from the United Kingdom in 1981. Belize was the last continental possession of the United Kingdom in the Americas. For history prior to 1862 and following 1981, see History of Belize (1502-1862) and History of Belize#Independent Belize.The Treaty of Versailles (1783) between Britain and Spain, gave the British rights to cut logwood between the Hondo and Belize rivers. In 1862, the Settlement of Belize in the Bay of Honduras was declared a British colony called British Honduras, and the crown's representative was elevated to a lieutenant governor, subordinate to the governor of Jamaica. As the British consolidated their settlement and pushed deeper into the interior in search of mahogany in the late eighteenth century, they encountered resistance from the Maya. In the second half of the nineteenth century, however, a combination of events outside and inside the colony redefined the position of the Maya. During the Caste War in Yucatán, a devastating struggle that halved the population of the area...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=172710 ... Read more

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The award winning thesis focussed on Post-Emancipation systems of labour control using a comparative analysis of the United States, from 1865 to 'Redemption' in 1877, & the British Caribbean colonies of Belize & Jamaica, from Emancipation in 1838 until Crown Colony rule, 1871 for Belize, & 1866 for Jamaica. The purpose being to highlight the differences & similarities, & further an understanding of why certain historical phenomena occurred in 1 or 2 regions & not in another. The fundamental argument being that there was no simple step from slavery to freedom. That the local oligarchies in each region attempted to prevent, the former 'Negro' slaves from attaining full freedom, economically or politically, after Emancipation; tackling the extent to which they were prepared to go with coercive tactics to achieve their aims, using a variety of primary/secondary sources. Thus, the transition was not from slavery to freedom but from one system of labour controls to another, maintaining a de facto slavery. ... Read more

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Ancient Maya ceramic economy during the Late to Terminal Classic Period (800-900 A.D.) is the focus of this book. The author employed ceramic thin section petrology, raw materials sourcing, and contextual archaeological analyses and samples from a variety of excavated sites in the Belize River Valley region were included: Pacbitun, Cahal Pech, Baking Pot, El Pilar, Xunantunich, Blackman Eddy, Floral Park, and Ontario Village. Standardized petrofabric descriptions enabled the definition of distribution spheres for the ceramics and the study uses intersite comparison of distributional patterning to explore issues such as the scale, integration and disposition of the ceramic economy. A number of economic models were used heuristically to examine the possible meaning of the distributional patterning observed. ... Read more

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This treatise, based on data from the 1982 to 1986 excavations at Nohmul, aims to reconstruct some aspects of the cultural history and population structure, and to identify changes in that structure over time. ... Read more

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Traces the intertwined histories of upland settlements and low-lying bajos among the ancient Maya as they developed from the Late Preclassic period until the area's abandonment around AD 850. Kunen argues that differences in access to resources resulted in highly patterned settlement remains and that community members who acquired the best and most diverse resources maintained an elevated social status. Her integration of three lines of evidence-settlement system, agricultural system, and ancient environment-breaks new ground in landscape research and in the study of Maya non-elite domestic organization. ... Read more

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The publication of this book finally places the exquisitely carved but little known monuments of Caracol with those of Quirigua, Copan, and Tikal. New breakthroughs in the decipherment of Maya text have enabled the graceful hieroglyphic inscriptions to be translated.

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The Maya built one of the great ancient civilizations in the New World, between AD 250 and 900. Famed for over 150 years for its cities buried deep in the Central American jungle, the origins of Maya culture have, nevertheless, remained obscure until quite recently. Over the past two decades, the Preclassic origins of complex society in the Maya area have been established by a series of innovative research projects. Among the best known of these is the study of Cuello, the earliest-known ancient Maya settlement. Excavations at Cuello over several seasons from 1975 to 1987 have yielded an unmatched picture of a pioneer tropical forest community. In this volume the origins of Maya civilization 1500 years ago are documented with detailed evidence on the environment, economy, buildings, crafts, ritual practices, burials and artistic imagery. ... Read more

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This volume provides a detailed synthesis of the archaeological evidence, and examines it in terms of settlement, trade and subsistence patterns. It is based on the author's BA thesis at the University of South Florida. ... Read more

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