ADAPTACIÓN TECNOLÓGICA A LOS CAMBIOS CLIMÁTICOS EN LA REGIÓN DEL RÍO CANDELARIA, CAMPECHE, MÉXICO

Abstract

Technological Adaptation to Climate Change in the Area of the Candelaria River, Campeche, Mexico In the Maya area, climate change occurred throughout history, forcing the population to adapt or to migrate to other regions. Those populations that did not migrate had to modify the environment to adapt. Archaeological remains of these populations provide evidence of the climatic challenges which they suffered through and from the analysis of these remains, we can see how technology helped those people to adapt to climate change. The inhabitants of El Tigre in Campeche, Mexico, occupied from the 250 B.C. to the present time, lived through climate changes such as great floods, but also great droughts, which forced them to implement systems of intensive agriculture, to construct canals,sacbés (raised roads), dykes to contain water and other hydraulic works to ensure food production. Archaeological, historical and ecological sources are presented in order to understand the populations of pre-Hispanic Mexico and their adaptation to changing environments, as was the case for the inhabitants of the province of Acalan who learned to live on the edge of a great river, the Candelaria.