The Great Maya Droughts: Water, Life and Death (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 24 hours | |Short Description for The Great Maya Droughts This innovative study argues that the collapse of Classic Maya civilization was driven by catastrophic drought. Between A.D. 800 and 1000, unrelenting drought killed millions of Maya people with famine and thirst and initiated a cascade of internal collapses that destroyed their civilization. Linking global, regional, and local climate change, the author explores how atmospheric processes, volcani...
Full description- Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
- Published: 15 April 2001
- Format: Paperback 464 pages
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- Categories: Indigenous Peoples | History Of The Americas | Ancient History: To C 500 CE | Early History: C 500 To C 1450/1500 | Archaeology
- ISBN 13: 9780826327741 ISBN 10: 0826327745
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Full description for The Great Maya Droughts
This innovative study argues that the collapse of Classic Maya civilization was driven by catastrophic drought. Between A.D. 800 and 1000, unrelenting drought killed millions of Maya people with famine and thirst and initiated a cascade of internal collapses that destroyed their civilization. Linking global, regional, and local climate change, the author explores how atmospheric processes, volcanism, ocean currents, and other natural forces combined to create the dry climate that pried apart the highly complex civilization in the tropical Maya Lowlands in the ninth and tenth centuries.Drawing on knowledge of other prehistoric and historic droughts, "The Great Maya Droughts" is a useful study of the relationship of humans to their natural and physical environment. The author tries to understand why the Classic Maya failed to adjust their behavior and culture to the climatic conditions and why civilizations in general sometimes collapse in the face of radical environmental change.
