image: Mask of the Maya rain God 'Chaac' on a building at Labná in the Puuc region of the northern Yucatán Peninsula. The prevalence of Chaac masks in the architecture throughout the Maya region is a testament to the importance of rainfall to the Maya. 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)