image: View of Lake Chichancanab, the site of the study. Chichancanab means "Little Sea" in Yucatec Maya, reflecting its relatively salty water composed dominantly of calcium and sulfate. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Aug. 3, 2018, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by Nicholas Evans at University of Cambridge in Cambridge, UK, and colleagues was titled, "Quantification of drought during the collapse of the classic Maya civilization." view more
Credit: Mark Brenner (co-author)