Localized climate change contributed to ancient southwest depopulation
Pullman WA (SPX) Dec 05, 2014 - Washington State University researchers have detailed the role of localized climate change in one of the great mysteries of North American archaeology: the depopulation of southwest Colorado by ancestral Pueblo people in the late 1200s. In the process, they address one of the mysteries of modern-day climate change: How will humans react? Writing in Nature Communications, WSU archaeologist ... more

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