It is difficult to imagine the ancient cities of Central America without associating them with dense tropical forest. But the cultures that built towering stone temples also had to feed 19 million people. As these maps show, most of the land in ancient Central America was cleared, with very little old-growth forest intact.
Une animation de l'Institut national d'études démographiques, conçue en partenariat avec le Groupe Hypercarte (Laboratoire Géographie-Cités du CNRS et des Universités Paris 1 et Paris 7 et Laboratoire d'informatique de Grenoble - Université Joseph Fourier)