title: Population geography of calamity: the sixteenth and seventeenth century Yucatan.
abstract: "This historical demography for Yucatan [Mexico] at the time of Spanish contact presents a number of problems. There were multiple Maya-Spaniard contacts before the Spaniards established a continuous presence after the protracted conquest of the Yucatan. The area of Yucatan that was controlled by the Spanish at any one time is not precisely known, and Yucatan offered ¿refuge' areas where the indigenous population could avoid Spanish control and counts. These issues are addressed here by considering different regions of the Yucatan and using a numerical computer simulation to generate new estimates of population that result from migration, warfare, agricultural calamity, and epidemics."
mesh_terms: D000569:Americas; D003710:Demography; D003906:Developing Countries; D004190:Disasters; D004194:Disease; D004196:Disease Outbreaks; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D004777:Environment; D005006:Ethnicity; D005843:Geography; D007843:Latin America; D008800:Mexico; D009656:North America; D011057:Politics; D011153:Population; D011154:Population Characteristics; D011157:Population Dynamics; D011158:Population Growth; D012106:Research; D012942:Social Sciences; D013223:Statistics as Topic; D014857:Warfare
keywords: Americas; Data Analysis; Demographic Factors; Demography; Developing Countries; Diseases; Environment; Epidemics; Estimation Technics; Geography; Historical Demography; Human Geography; Indigenous Population; Latin America; Mexico; Migration; Natural Disaster; North America; Political Factors; Population; Population Characteristics; Population Dynamics; Population Growth Estimation; Research Methodology; Social Sciences; War