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CLIMATE-CHANGE STUDIES IN THE MAYA AREA

A diachronic analysis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2002

Joel D. Gunn ,
Ray T. Matheny  and
William J. Folan
Joel D. Gunn
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, CB 3115, 301 Alumni Building, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3115, USA
Ray T. Matheny
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602, USA
William J. Folan
Affiliation:
Centro de Investigaciones Históricas y Sociales, Universidad Autonóma de Campeche, Calle 14 × 55 no 141, Campeche 24.000, Mexico
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Abstract

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The series of papers on climate change published in this issue are the result of the symposium “Environmental Change in Mesoamerica: Physical Forces and Cultural Paradigms in the Preclassic to Postclassic,” held at the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in March 2000 in Philadelphia. The authors bring their expertise in paleoclimatological studies to bear on the Maya Lowlands and Highlands from the beginning of the Holocene to the Postclassic and modern times. The studies reveal that climate has changed during the past 4,000 years to a considerable degree that correlates in a reasonable way with archaeological periodizations. Several climate-change models are presented as an effort to understand better past cultural and natural events.

Type
SPECIAL SECTION: SPECIAL SECTION: HISTORICAL CLIMATOLOGY IN THE MAYA AREA
Information
Ancient Mesoamerica , Volume 13 , Issue 1 , January 2002 , pp. 79 - 84
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© 2002 Cambridge University Press