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Population Growth and Social Complexity: An Examination of Settlement and Environment in the Central Maya Lowlands. Anabel Ford. Anthropological Research Papers No. 35. Arizona State University, Tempe, 1986. xiii + 201 pp., appendices, biblio., index. $12.50 (paper).

untested analogies are significant obstacles, however. Clarity of ordinary language and testing of fundamental analogies are essential, since a verified base of knowledge rests on both the logic and content of warranting arguments. And there is much work to be done, some on problems as trivial and soluble as Mendel's peas, before this base will be well founded. In short, this is a clearly written, well reasoned study of some of the most significant problems facing current archaeologists. Its first two aims, of examining current archaeological practice and describing the principal obstacles, are well accomplished. The third, and more difficult, aim of creating a new framework with which to overcome these obstacles, includes a call for more formalized logic relating archaeological propositions and a more rigorous examination of relation between the archaeological record and the living world about which we wish to draw conclusions. Both of these propositions are controversial in their presentation and crucial to future progress. The book deserves serious study by all those who hope to contribute to that progress.