Resource consumption aside, how comfortable were Classic and Postclassic palaces?
According to Dr. Sylvannus Griswold Morley who often stayed in Classic Maya palaces during his renowned surveys of the Peten rainforest, the rooms were extremely hot and muggy in the Summer and cold and clammy in the Winter. In contrast, the Postclassic palaces, which resemble everyday Maya houses built large, were probably cooler and dryer in the Summer and warmer and dryer in the Winter.
