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Extreme Weather Preceded Collapse of Maya Civilization
November 8, 2012
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Decades of extreme weather crippled, and ultimately decimated, first the political culture and later the human population of the ancient Maya, according to a new study by an interdisciplinary team of researchers that includes two University of California, Davis, scientists.
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