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January 29, 2015

Long series of droughts doomed Mexican city 1,000 years ago
Berkeley CA (SPX) Jan 29, 2015
Archaeologists continue to debate the reasons for the collapse of many Central American cities and states, from Teotihuacan in Mexico to the Yucatan Maya, and climate change is considered one of the major causes. A University of California, Berkeley, study sheds new light on this question, providing evidence that a prolonged period of below-average rainfall was partly responsible for the abandonment of one such city, Cantona, between A.D. 900 and A.D. 1050. At its peak, Cantona, located in a ... read more

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