ABSTRACT
Landscape archaeology has grow out of the tradition of field archaeology in Great Britain though many of its practitioners have been geographers. The place of Dennis E. Puleston, Alfred H. Siemens, and their associates in the Rio Hondo Project is part of the recent history of opening up Mayanology to the methods and perspectives of landscape archaeology. In tandem with his interest in settlement survey beyond the ceremonial centers, Puleston began to consider the possibility that the Maya relied heavily on the seed or "nut" of the ramon tree as a food source. The combination of internal theoretical inconsistencies within the context of offering imaginative and innovative ideas about Maya culture, ecology, and history was a distinctive element of Puleston's thinking. The ancient Maya imputed powers and epistemological significance to the concept of repetition and cyclical reoccurrence that suggest parallels to the importance of modern science places on "replicability".
