Climate and the Collapse of Maya Civilization

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• Publication year

  2003

• Venue

  Science

• Publication date

  2003-03-14

• Fields of study

  Physics, History, Geography, Geology, Environmental Science, Medicine

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1511/2005.54.968PMID 12637744
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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