Skeletons unearthed from the ruins of the ancient city of Copán in Honduras have yielded clues to the collapse of the Mayan civilisation. Copán, now a Unesco World Heritage site, thrived during the ...

Skeletons buried near the ancient Maya city of Copán have revealed new clues about the collapse, but not total decimation, of the Maya civilization. A study of the genomes of seven people from the ...

Inside the Classic Maya collapse: caves, cities and a fragile rain regime The Classic Maya built a network of cities that flourished for more than 3,000 years, with achievements in astronomy, ...

An Egyptian-American team unearthed a large royal tomb for an unknown king belonging to the mysterious Abydos Dynasty, a ...

The collapse of the ancient Mayan civilization may have been linked to relatively modest dry spells, researchers now say. The ancient Mayan empire once stretched across an area about the size of Texas ...

Tourists explore the ‘Dome of the Cathedral’, the largest chamber in Grutas Tzabnah (Yucatán, Mexico), and the origin of Tzab06-1. The artificial well ‘La Noria’ now illuminates the cave. A drought ...

Collapse, resilience, and transformation in complex societies : modeling trends and understanding diversity / Ronald K. Faulseit -- Why collapse is so difficult to understand / Joseph A. Tainter -- ...

Archaeologists excavating the ruined Guatemalan city of Cancuen have found the remains of what they believe is one of the pivotal events in the collapse of the Maya civilization — the desperate ...

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 71-02, Section: A, page: 0604. Adviser: David A. Freidel. Summary The archaeology of surface deposits and their varied meanings has been the ...