So, why did the Maya civilization collapse, and can you even call it a "collapse"? For starters, the Maya are still here today. "It was the Maya political system that collapsed, not [their] society," Lisa Lucero, professor of anthropology and medieval studies at the University of Illinois...
It’s long been one of ancient history’s most intriguing mysteries: Why did the Maya, a remarkably sophisticated civilization made up of more than 19 million people, suddenly collapse sometime during the 8th or 9th centuries? Although the Mayan people never...
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Dr. Beresford-Jones of the University of Cambridge, who studies paleoecology in Peru, believes that the environmental response to the deforestation of huarango played as important a role in the collapse of the ancient Nazca as did the eventual El Nino flood (Bourton, 2009). Do our societies ...
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Around 1900 B.C., however, the Indus, also known as the Indus Valley or Harappa civilization, went into freefall. The population abandoned the cities and purportedly migrated to the southeast. Originally, scholars believed that an Aryan invasion from the north brought about the Indus collapse, ...
It dominated the skyline on the flat section of the hike. Why did the cliffs look so different on either side of Jade Lake? What was the weird orange rock blob by Jade Lake? First I’ll present a map, a cast of characters, and a timeline. Then I’ll drag you into the research ...
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(Ball et al.2014). More recently, a 16-year population-based study from California found interpregnancy intervals of less than 6 months did not increase the risk of severe maternal morbidity compared to intervals of 18–23 months. Instead, this research concluded that longer intervals (24 ...
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