Posted on 07/01/2021 12:56:54 PM PDT by algore
Human fecal matter uncovered from a lake in Guatemala reveals the Maya population living in the ancient city of Itzan declined during four different periods over the course of 3,300 years - and climate change was to blame.
A team of scientists led by McGill University found the fecal matter in sediments in Laguna Itzan, which confirmed droughts plagued the area from 90 to 280 AD, 730 to 900 AD and 1350 to 950 BC, all of which saw the Maya population drop.
The team also determined there was a very wet period from 400 to 210 BC, 'something which has received little attention until now,' which also impacted the size of the group.
The 'record implies a human presence on the Itzan escarpment about 650 years before the archaeological record confirms it,' reads the study published in Quaternary Science Reviews.
Researchers determined the Maya continued to occupy the area, although in smaller numbers, after the so-called 'collapse' between 800-1000 AD, when it had previously been believed that drought or warfare caused the entire population to desert the area.
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Fecal records.
They talking about disco?
If only they shut down their coal burning power plants.
PING
I tried to tell them to stop driving those dreadful SUVs!
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In Truth, they selected an old man that had lost his mind as their leader.
All very predictable
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How’d ya like to bring that up on a first date?
“What do you do?”
“Oh, I’m a poopoligist.”
No, that’s impossible
The climate was perfectly stable everywhere throughout all time, until the 20th century. Then American BBQs and SUV’s ruined everything.
Must have been all those SUV’s and Republicans.
My sister had a very beautiful friend who worked as a technician at a medical lab doing just this. I never had an amorous thought about her again after I learned that.
“Fecal records...”
Does this scientific discipline have an organization? What is it called, and what, pray tell, is its publication named?
A lot if people don’t know that the Mayans started Buick and produced millions of cars during their reign.
“I never had an amorous thought about her again after I learned that.”
I dunno, she probably wasn’t shy or squeamish. Could have been interesting.
Looks like our demise will be due to the deadly vogue cover girls.
Probably the Pontiac Azteks that did in the Mayans. There are few SUVs that are more dreadful.
Sounds like climate fluctuations, to me. Also sounds like it always happened, and always will.
Tsk tsk. They should have bought more Priuses.
“The team also determined there was a very wet period from 400 to 210 BC”
That must be when the Mayans started eating refried beans.
Rap
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