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In Annales methodology, the long duration encompasses forces that act at the longest wavelength of time. This includes the historical trajectory of civilizations and the gradual, cumulative processes of culture change. The long duration is characterized by slowly changing forces including stable technologies, ideologies, and worldviews. The previous chapter explored the long-term geological, environmental, and climatological patterns that provided the stage on which Maya culture has waxed and waned over the last four millennia. Chronologically, I focus on the most part to the cultural history of the Maya in this region during the Classic and Postclassic periods, ca. A.D. 250 to the Spanish Conquest; my regional focus will be limited to the northern part of the Yucatán peninsula.
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Sweitz, S.R. (2012). The Long Duration: The Cultural History of Yucatán. In: On the Periphery of the Periphery. Contributions To Global Historical Archaeology, vol 3. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-1496-4_8
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