More than a millennium ago, a Maya community collapsed in the face of a devastating drought. One writer joined an intrepid ...

Rather modest rainfall reductions between times when the Classic Maya Civilization flourished and its collapse - between AD 800-950, seems to have caused the collapse. These reductions amount to ...

The collapse—a decline that spread from city ... a monolith from the Classic Maya period depicts the humiliation of captives after a battle fought between the city of Piedras Negras (in modern ...

"It is really important to get the message out there that though classic Maya cities and states did collapse, and culture did transform, the Maya in no way disappeared," said Middleton, adding ...

From this perspective, the post-classic Maya period is an example of resilience and transformation, not collapse. This dispute nicely illustrates our claim that loss of social complexity is not ...

The collapse of the Maya civilization is often attributed to ... In the period known as the Terminal Classic (roughly AD 750 to 1050), the Maya civilization underwent a profound crisis that ...

Rising to power in the wake of the Classic Maya collapse, Chichén Itzá was among the largest and most influential cities of the ancient Maya, but much about its political connections and ritual ...

FOR DECADES, scholars have argued about what caused the so-called Maya collapse. Several million Maya lived in southeastern Mexico and northern Central America in the early 800s. A hundred years later ...

It rose to power in the aftermath of the Classic Maya collapse and was a populous and powerful political center in the centuries preceding the arrival of the Spanish. Chichén Itzá’s influence extended ...

The paper, by Martin Medina-Elizalde at the University of Southampton in Southampton, UK, and colleagues was titled, "Collapse of Classic Maya Civilization Related to Modest Reduction in ...

From this perspective, the post-classic Maya period is an example of resilience and transformation, not collapse. Read more: A ‘river of experience’: How many ways of knowing feed a course on ...