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History => Ancient and Medieval History => Topic started by: Jon Freitag on Aug 26, 2022, 02:27 AM

Title: Drought-Induced Civil Conflict Among the Ancient Maya
Post by: Jon Freitag on Aug 26, 2022, 02:27 AM
Using archaeological and historical observations and with Mayapan as a test case, the authors argue that prolonged drought increased factional tensions, but regional Mayan society recovered until European contact in the early sixteenth century CE.

link to paper in Nature Communications:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-31522-x (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-31522-x)

Title: Re: Drought-Induced Civil Conflict Among the Ancient Maya
Post by: Imperial Dave on Aug 26, 2022, 06:35 AM
thanks Jon, similar parallels to the events of 536AD (ish) and the proposed effect on British events (amongst others obviously)