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Excavated causeway built in the Birds of Paradise wetlands
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Ancient Maya Made Widespread Changes to Wetland Landscape

by Joshua Rapp Learn 5 May 202110 November 2022

A system of canals 2 millennia old sustained a local population after the collapse of its neighbors, and it continues to affect local ecology today.

Aerial image of the Great Blue Hole in the Caribbean Sea off the coast of Belize
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Severe Cyclones May Have Played a Role in the Maya Collapse

by L. Supriya 1 September 20203 November 2022

Sediment cores from the Great Blue Hole reveal that a series of extreme storms hit the region after 900. The storms may have irreparably damaged an already stressed Maya population.

Digital elevation map of canals at ancient Maya site Belize
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Ancient Maya Farms Revealed by Laser Scanning

by Jenessa Duncombe 7 October 20193 November 2021

One agricultural network was 5 times larger than earlier estimates, and the fields may be an early source of human-caused greenhouse gas emissions.

Satellite image of a city between a volcano and a lake
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Eruption in El Salvador Was One of the Holocene’s Largest

by Katherine Kornei 5 June 201914 September 2022

Roughly 1,500 years ago, the Tierra Blanca Joven eruption blanketed Central America in ash and likely displaced Maya settlements, new research shows.

Topographic lidar map of ancient Maya city of Tikal
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Lidar Uncovers Thousands of New Maya Structures

by Jenessa Duncombe 27 September 20189 May 2022

Jungle-piercing lidar surveys over ancient Maya sites give scientists the most extensive maps of lowland Maya civilization to date.

El Castillo, a pyramid in the ancient Maya city of Chichén Itzá.
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Severe Drought May Have Helped Hasten Ancient Maya’s Collapse

by Jenessa Duncombe 2 August 201821 March 2022

Chemical signatures from sediments in lake cores reveal that the centuries-long drought during the fall of Classic Maya civilization was worse than researchers had imagined.

Ruins of the Temple of the Jaguar under the stars.
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Ancient Maya May Have Foreseen Meteor Showers

by Kimberly M. S. Cartier 8 September 201721 October 2021

Modern astronomical techniques have uncovered clues to a possible facet of Mayan astronomy from nearly 2 millennia ago not found in surviving records.

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A Dearth of Hurricanes Cannot Explain Maya Collapse

by C. Schultz 2 December 201429 September 2022

Mud layers in a stalagmite from a cave on the Yucatán Peninsula show hurricane activity was steady or elevated throughout the Maya collapse.

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