Resumen

VARELA SCHERRER, Carlos Miguel  y  TRABANINO, Felipe. Traditional Chol and Tseltal Hunting Practices in the Bushland of Palenque: Implications for Mayan Zooarcheology. Rev. pueblos front. digit. [online]. 2016, vol.11, n.22, pp.165-191. ISSN 1870-4115.  https://doi.org/10.22201/cimsur.18704115e.2016.22.274.

Mayan contemporaries use a variety of agrosilvicultural techniques that form the foundation of their rainforest management system. Rainforest management has become extremely important for the supply of both domestic and wildlife resources that provide animal protein for their diet. The cultivation of biodiverse fields of crops (milpa) using the slash-and-burn technique has encouraged the use of the bushland (secondary vegetation) for hunting. Based on an ethnographic study, forest resource management is analyzed as a subsistence strategy among the indigenous Mayans in Palenque in order to understand similar practices in the past.

Palabras llave : hunting; agrosilvicultural techniques; rainforest; forest; milpa; bushland.

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