A study found evidence of a mild drought involving a 25-40 percent decrease in rainfall in the Maya region between A.D. 800 and 950, probably associated with reduced summer storm activity.
Notes on verification
Claim matches the 2012 Medina-Elizalde and Rohling Science study, corroborated by multiple independent press sources and the peer-reviewed publication itself. [cascade flags: aggregator_dropped_primary_exists | tier=silver indep_score=1.0 clusters=3 claim_tier=notable | framework convergence=single on Medina-Elizalde and Rohling (2012) modeling study combining lake and stalagmite paleoclimate records from the Yucatán Peninsula (upstreams: Medina-Elizalde & Rohling 2012, Science 335, 956-959) — publishers independent, evidence may not be | kind=attributed eligibility=high]
Sources
- Drought May Have Spelled End for Maya | HISTORY (seed:history_and_archaeology)
- https://www.cbsnews.com/news/collapse-of-mayan-civilization-traced-to-dry-spells/ (corroboration)
- https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1216629 (corroboration)
- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22363005/ (corroboration)