Climate change is linked to an extended period of civil unrest, and the eventual collapse and abandonment of the ancient Maya city of Mayapan, a new study has found.
The research, published on Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications, assessed archeological, historical, and paleoclimate datasets to understand the link between climate change, civil conflict, and political collapse at Mayapan – the largest Postclassic Maya capital of the Yucatan Peninsula in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries CE.
