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SUBMITTER: Pompeani DP
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8257696 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Pompeani David P DP Bird Broxton W BW Wilson Jeremy J JJ Gilhooly William P WP Hillman Aubrey L AL Finkenbinder Matthew S MS Abbott Mark B MB
Scientific reports 20210705 1
Drought has long been suspected as playing an important role in the abandonment of pre-Columbian Native American settlements across the midcontinental United States between 1350 and 1450 CE. However, high-resolution paleoclimatic reconstructions reflecting local effective moisture (the ratio of precipitation to evaporation) that are located in proximity to Mississippi period (1050-1450 CE) population centers are lacking. Here, we present a 1600-year-long decadally resolved oxygen isotope (δ<sup> ...[more]