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SUBMITTER: Kennett DJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3623374 | biostudies-literature | 2013
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kennett Douglas J DJ Hajdas Irka I Culleton Brendan J BJ Belmecheri Soumaya S Martin Simon S Neff Hector H Awe Jaime J Graham Heather V HV Freeman Katherine H KH Newsom Lee L Lentz David L DL Anselmetti Flavio S FS Robinson Mark M Marwan Norbert N Southon John J Hodell David A DA Haug Gerald H GH
Scientific reports 20130101
The reasons for the development and collapse of Maya civilization remain controversial and historical events carved on stone monuments throughout this region provide a remarkable source of data about the rise and fall of these complex polities. Use of these records depends on correlating the Maya and European calendars so that they can be compared with climate and environmental datasets. Correlation constants can vary up to 1000 years and remain controversial. We report a series of high-resoluti ...[more]