The Indus Valley civilization, located in present-day Pakistan and India, went through four periods of intense drought, which ...
Between 750 and 900 CE, the population of the Maya lowlands in Central America experienced a major demographic and political ...
A new study uses genome analysis to show the decline, not erasure, of the ancient Maya civilization. Researchers compared the genomes of seven skeletons to previously sequenced sets from across ...
Learn what caused a major population crash in the Maya civilization, driving several cities to fall into ruin.
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 ...
Successive major droughts, each lasting longer than 85 years, were likely a key factor in the eventual fall of the Indus ...
The collapse of civilizations : 1177 BC -- Of arms and the man : the fifteenth century BC -- An (Aegean) affair to remember : the fourteenth century BC -- Fighting for gods and country : the ...
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2024. Pp. xxxii, 314. Illus., maps, personae, notes, biblio., index. $32.00 / £28.00. ISBN:0691192138 How Civilizations ...