/newsroom/taxonomy/term/16215/all en /newsroom/channels/news/faecal-records-show-maya-population-affected-climate-change-331661 <p>A ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ-led study has shown that the size of the Maya population in the lowland city of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itzan">Itzan</a> (in present-day Guatemala) varied over time in response to climate change. The findings, published recently in <i><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277379121001116">Quaternary Science Reviews</a></i><i>,</i> show that both droughts and very wet periods led to important population declines.</p> Fri, 25 Jun 2021 17:10:13 +0000 katherine.gombay@mcgill.ca 269903 at /newsroom