What Can We Learn From the Maya?

The maya in central guatemala lived in a rain forest. They figured out how to grow enough food to surv ive in an area where the soil is very thin and not terribly productive. The people at that time were about, ah, between five nine and six feet tall - which tells you they were really getting a lot of nutrition. And then after the collapseAh, they lost their height, and they didn't have the the nutrition they had during tha pre classic era.