Maya and Aztec

Ancient Mesoamerican civilizations

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Late use of inferior wood hints at one explanation of the “maya collapse”

Category: News reports

Tikal, Guatemala, New Scientist, june 02, 2009. A recent study published in the Journal of Archaeological Science shows that during the last decades before the so-called abandonement of Tikal the builders switched to inferior wood in their construction.