The Conversation

Mon May 20

Misreading the story of climate change and the Maya

Written by Kenneth Seligson, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, California State University, Dominguez Hills

Stucco frieze from Placeres, Campeche, Mexico, Early Classic period, c. 250-600 AD.Wolfgang Sauber/Wikimedia, CC BY-SA

Carbon dioxide concentrations in Earth’s atmosphere have reached 415 parts per million – a level that last occurred more than three million years ago, long before the evolution of humans. This news adds to growing...

Misreading the story of climate change and the Maya

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