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Decline of Early Mesoamericans Due Climate Change
2015-01-28 00:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: The drastic decline of a group of early Mesoamericans from the region around Canton was due, at least in part, to climate change, according to a new study. Cantona was one of the largest cities in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, located near present-day Mexico City, with a population of 90,000 inhabitants. And by 1150 AD, this population was completely wiped out, and researchers are just beginning to understand why. Described in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers...
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