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Climate and the Collapse of Maya Civilization

Published:2003-03-14 Issue:5613 Volume:299 Page:1731-1735
ISSN:0036-8075
Container-title:Science
language:en
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Author:

Haug Gerald H.¹,Günther Detlef²,Peterson Larry C.³,Sigman Daniel M.⁴,Hughen Konrad A.⁵,Aeschlimann Beat²

Affiliation:

1. Department of Earth Sciences,

2. Department of Chemistry, ETH, CH-8092 Zürich, Switzerland.

3. Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami, Miami, FL 33149, USA.

4. Department of Geosciences, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA.

5. Department of Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA.

Abstract

In the anoxic Cariaco Basin of the southern Caribbean, the bulk titanium content of undisturbed sediment reflects variations in riverine input and the hydrological cycle over northern tropical South America. A seasonally resolved record of titanium shows that the collapse of Maya civilization in the Terminal Classic Period occurred during an extended regional dry period, punctuated by more intense multiyear droughts centered at approximately 810, 860, and 910 A.D. These new data suggest that a century-scale decline in rainfall put a general strain on resources in the region, which was then exacerbated by abrupt drought events, contributing to the social stresses that led to the Maya demise.

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Subject

Multidisciplinary

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