A reassessment of the impact of drought cycles on the Classic Maya

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 105, Issue , 2014, Pages 151-161

  Carleton, W Christopher ^a   Campbell, David ^a   Collard, Mark ^a,b  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Classic Maya collapse; Drought; Human environment interaction; Interpolation; Radiocarbon calibration error; Time series analysis

Indexed keywords

DROUGHT; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; INTERPOLATION; LAKES;

CLASSIC MAYA COLLAPSE; DEPTH MODELS; DROUGHT CYCLES; HUMAN-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; POINT ESTIMATE; RADIOCARBON CALIBRATION; RADIOCARBON DATES;

TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; CALIBRATION; DATA SET; DROUGHT STRESS; INTERPOLATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; RADIOCARBON DATING; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

LAKE CHICHANCANAB; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; QUINTANA ROO; YUCATAN PENINSULA;

EID: 84908225269     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2014.09.032     Document Type: Article

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