• DOI:10.1038/375391A0
Corpus ID: 4270939

Possible role of climate in the collapse of Classic Maya civilization

@article{Hodell1995PossibleRO,
  title={Possible role of climate in the collapse of Classic Maya civilization},
  author={D. Hodell and J. Curtis and M. Brenner},
  journal={Nature},
  year={1995},
  volume={375},
  pages={391-394}
}

• D. Hodell, J. Curtis, M. Brenner
• Published 1995
• Geography
• Nature

THE Maya civilization developed around 3,000 years ago in Mesoamerica, and after flourishing during the so-called Classic period, it collapsed around 750–900 AD1. It has been specula ted2–6 that climate change may have played a part in this collapse. But efforts to reconstruct the last three millennia of Mesoamerican climate using palynological methods have met with equivocal success, because human-mediated deforestation has altered regional vegetation in ways that mimic climate shifts, making… Expand

View on Nature

Save to Library

Create Alert

Cite

Launch Research Feed