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SUBMITTER: Onac BP
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7674407 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Onac Bogdan P BP Baumann Steven M SM Parmenter Dylan S DS Weaver Eric E Sava Tiberiu B TB
Scientific reports 20201118 1
Water availability for Native Americans in the southwestern United States during periods of prolonged droughts is poorly understood as regional hydroclimate records are scant or contradicting. Here, we show that radiocarbon-dated charcoal recovered from an ice deposit accumulated in Cave 29, western New Mexico, provide unambiguous evidence for five drought events that impacted the Ancestral Puebloan society between ~ AD 150 and 950. The presence of abundant charred material in this cave indicate ...[more]