Mayan Collapse Civilization Coincided With Modest Drought (2 of 6) (IMAGE)

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Mayan Collapse Civilization Coincided With Modest Drought (2 of 6)

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Yucatán Peninsula Lake recording the isotopic composition of rainfall. This image relates to a paper that appeared in the Feb. 24, 2012, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by Martin Medina-Elizalde at the University of Southampton in Southampton, UK, and colleagues was titled, "Collapse of Classic Maya Civilization Related to Modest Reduction in Precipitation."

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