Quantification of drought during the collapse of the classic Maya civilization

NP Evans, TK Bauska, F Gázquez-Sánchez, M Brenner… - Science, 2018 - science.org
The demise of Lowland Classic Maya civilization during the Terminal Classic Period (~ 800
to 1000 CE) is a well-cited example of how past climate may have affected ancient societies …

[HTML][HTML] An 1800-year oxygen-isotope record of short-and long-term hydroclimate variability in the northern neotropics from a Jamaican marl lake

J Holmes, M Burn, LM Cisneros-Dozal, M Jones… - Quaternary Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
Hydroclimate variability on multi-decadal timescales has been a prominent feature of the
circum-Caribbean region over the common era, with marked dry intervals noted in particular …

High resolution paleoclimate and paleoenvironmental reconstruction in the Northern Mesoamerican Frontier for Prehistory to Historical times

KH Wogau, HW Arz, HN Böhnel, NR Nowaczyk… - Quaternary Science …, 2019 - Elsevier
The relationship between climatic-environmental changes and its cultural implications in the
Northern Mesoamerican Frontier is poorly understood, because of the lack of high-resolution …

Decline in seasonal predictability potentially destabilized Classic Maya societies

T Braun, SFM Breitenbach, V Skiba… - … earth & environment, 2023 - nature.com
Classic Maya populations living in peri-urban states were highly dependent on seasonally
distributed rainfall for reliable surplus crop yields. Despite intense study of the potential …

Precipitation in Northeast Mexico primarily controlled by the relative warming of Atlantic SSTs

KT Wright, KR Johnson, T Bhattacharya… - Geophysical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Reconstructing hydroclimate over the Common Era is essential for understanding the
dominant mechanisms of precipitation change and improving climate model projections …

Margin for error: Anthropogenic geomorphology of Bajo edges in the Maya lowlands

NP Dunning, AA Hernández, T Beach, C Carr, R Griffin… - Geomorphology, 2019 - Elsevier
Many early Maya cities developed along the edges of large structural or karst depressions
(bajos). This topographic position aided growing populations to more effectively capture and …

Initiation of a stable convective hydroclimatic regime in Central America circa 9000 years BP

A Winter, D Zanchettin, M Lachniet, R Vieten… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Many Holocene hydroclimate records show rainfall changes that vary with local orbital
insolation. However, some tropical regions display rainfall evolution that differs from gradual …

Atlantic‐Pacific gradients drive last millennium hydroclimate variability in Mesoamerica

T Bhattacharya, S Coats - Geophysical Research Letters, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The paleoclimatic record from Mexico and Central America, or Mesoamerica, documents
dramatic swings in hydroclimate over the past few millennia. However, the dynamics …

A 2000 year Saharan dust event proxy record from an ice core in the European Alps

HM Clifford, NE Spaulding, AV Kurbatov… - Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Dust events originating from the Saharan desert have far‐reaching environmental impacts,
but the causal mechanism of magnitude and occurrence of Saharan dust events (SDEs) …

Late holocene environmental change in Celestun lagoon, yucatan, Mexico

K Hardage, J Street, JA Herrera-Silveira… - Journal of …, 2022 - Springer
Epikarst estuary response to hydroclimate change remains poorly understood, despite the
well-studied link between climate and karst groundwater aquifers. The influence of sea-level …