Climate change and the end of the classic period in Yucatan: Resolving a paradox

Ancient Mesoamerica

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 327-340

  Dahlin, Bruce H ^a  

^a HOWARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOECOLOGY; SETTLEMENT HISTORY;

MEXICO;

EID: 0036771498     PISSN: 09565361     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0956536102132135     Document Type: Article

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