The aim of the project is to gain a more complete understanding of the dynamic socio-ecological relations and processes that have shaped landscape and people on the Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico. In particular, we will investigate the relationships between natural resources, economic system, socio-political structures, and cosmology. Collectively, the members of the research group have a broad research experience of Lowland Maya archaeology, religion, and ethno-history, and the present project marks an attempt to provide an interdisciplinary perspective on landscape. Research within the project focuses on three separate, but interrelated case-studies in order to investigate how ecology, power, and religion have interacted to foster different landscape perceptions within populations through time and across space. The first case study focuses on the Late Classic and Early Post classic periods (c. AD 600-1100) and is based on previous archaeological investigations carried out by one of the project members at the Maya urban center Xuch. The second case study uses ethno historical sources dated to c. AD 1400-1600 to reconstruct cosmology, sacred landscapes, and socio-political organization at that time. The last case study aims to document current views of landscape, power, and religion at Chichén Itzá, an important urban center during the 11th to 13th century AD that presently is a place for pilgrimage both among a local traditionalist movement as well as for Western spiritual seekers.