Communications Earth & Environment (Mar 2023)

Decline in seasonal predictability potentially destabilized Classic Maya societies

  • Tobias Braun,
  • Sebastian F. M. Breitenbach,
  • Vanessa Skiba,
  • Franziska A. Lechleitner,
  • Erin E. Ray,
  • Lisa M. Baldini,
  • Victor J. Polyak,
  • James U. L. Baldini,
  • Douglas J. Kennett,
  • Keith M. Prufer,
  • Norbert Marwan

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-023-00717-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 4, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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The disintegration of complex Classic Maya population centres may have been driven by a decline in seasonal rainfall predictability in addition to protracted drought, suggests a dated speleothem record from Yok Balum cave, Belize.