Dr Adrian Chase
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 6 Aug
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As soon as you step off the downtown or any other district, you're in somebody's terraced field.
Now in terms of the terraces, there's sort of two different general types.
There are these like architectural terraces where you want to increase the amount of flat space to build on, and then there are agricultural terraces where you want to farm.
And what you can imagine is you have your field, you've built up this terrace, the water's designed so it's flowing back and forth as it goes down the hills, and it's helping irrigate
trees so you have medicinal trees different tree crops probably around the edges and then you have the three sisters the mix of corn beans and squash but you also have chili peppers or cacao and you can imagine that unlike a modern field you don't need to monocrop so they're putting all of the different crops they need together and intermixing them and that creates the system because you can manage the soil so they might have a night swing night swelling is when you take all of your human and food wastes and you mix them together and you put them back into the fields
It's part of the reason the forest is so healthy here today.
You have a sand ear patch there that's better for peppers.
They go in that corner.
You know that the cacao likes to be under shade, so you put it under this plant here.
And then you have your little garden, and so you get this garden city aspect from these agricultural terraces.
So this is a perfect question.
You actually saw the closest river that you drove over in that brand new bridge.
And as you were passing it, I think it's about 14 kilometers direct distance from where we are now.
And that is the closest perennial sort of moving body of water.
What the Maya did instead is all of these public plazas, all of the household plazas, they're dedicated to drain water often into a reservoir.
So in the downtown, you have a large and a monumental reservoir.
In some of the other districts, you have large reservoirs.
But by the end of the city's lifespan, there are enough household reservoirs for every two to five households to be sharing the same water source.
And so those are providing water for the dry season.
They are probably doing some really clever mixes of having pure water, some things covered with duckweed, and a couple that are dedicated to aquaculture.
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