TECOH, YUCATÁN, MEXICO: Stalagmites from Grutas Tzabnah reveal a series of multi-year wet-season droughts between A.D. 871–1021—including one lasting 13 years—that likely strained Classic Maya cities and food systems during the Terminal Classic.
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News - Mexican Cave Stalagmites Suggest Droughts Helped Fuel Maya Collapse - Archaeology Magazine
GRUTAS TZABNAH, MEXICO—Archaeologists have long debated why Maya communities in the Southern Lowlands suffered a […]
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August 24, 2025 at 4:00 PM
TECOH, YUCATÁN, MEXICO: Stalagmites from Grutas Tzabnah reveal a series of multi-year wet-season droughts between A.D. 871–1021—including one lasting 13 years—that likely strained Classic Maya cities and food systems during the Terminal Classic.
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‘Dome of the Cathedral’, the largest chamber in the Grutas Tzabnah cave system (Yucatán, Mexico). Credit: Mark Brenner
August 18, 2025 at 2:54 PM
‘Dome of the Cathedral’, the largest chamber in the Grutas Tzabnah cave system (Yucatán, Mexico). Credit: Mark Brenner
Dr Daniel H. James installs a drip rate monitor in Grutas Tzabnah (Yucatán, Mexico). Credit: Sebastian Breitenbach
August 18, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Dr Daniel H. James installs a drip rate monitor in Grutas Tzabnah (Yucatán, Mexico). Credit: Sebastian Breitenbach
Cave Stalagmites Expose Thirteen Year Drought That Left the Maya Shook todayheadline
In a dark chamber beneath Yucatán, a stalagmite recorded the rise and strain of a civilization. By sampling oxygen isotopes layer by layer in Grutas Tzabnah, a team led by the University of Cambridge reconstructed…
In a dark chamber beneath Yucatán, a stalagmite recorded the rise and strain of a civilization. By sampling oxygen isotopes layer by layer in Grutas Tzabnah, a team led by the University of Cambridge reconstructed…
Cave Stalagmites Expose Thirteen Year Drought That Left the Maya Shook todayheadline
In a dark chamber beneath Yucatán, a stalagmite recorded the rise and strain of a civilization. By sampling oxygen isotopes layer by layer in Grutas Tzabnah, a team led by the University of Cambridge reconstructed rainfall for individual wet and dry seasons between 871 and 1021 CE, the Terminal Classic of Maya history. Reported in Science Advances, the record reveals eight multi year wet season droughts, including an extraordinary stretch of thirteen consecutive years.
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August 17, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Cave Stalagmites Expose Thirteen Year Drought That Left the Maya Shook todayheadline
In a dark chamber beneath Yucatán, a stalagmite recorded the rise and strain of a civilization. By sampling oxygen isotopes layer by layer in Grutas Tzabnah, a team led by the University of Cambridge reconstructed…
In a dark chamber beneath Yucatán, a stalagmite recorded the rise and strain of a civilization. By sampling oxygen isotopes layer by layer in Grutas Tzabnah, a team led by the University of Cambridge reconstructed…
Cave Stalagmites Expose Thirteen Year Drought That Left the Maya Shook
In a dark chamber beneath Yucatán, a stalagmite recorded the rise and strain of a civilization. By sampling oxygen isotopes layer by layer in Grutas Tzabnah, a team led by the University of Cambridge reconstructed rainfall for…
In a dark chamber beneath Yucatán, a stalagmite recorded the rise and strain of a civilization. By sampling oxygen isotopes layer by layer in Grutas Tzabnah, a team led by the University of Cambridge reconstructed rainfall for…
Cave Stalagmites Expose Thirteen Year Drought That Left the Maya Shook
In a dark chamber beneath Yucatán, a stalagmite recorded the rise and strain of a civilization. By sampling oxygen isotopes layer by layer in Grutas Tzabnah, a team led by the University of Cambridge reconstructed rainfall for individual wet and dry seasons between 871 and 1021 CE, the Terminal Classic of Maya history. Reported in Science Advances, the record reveals eight multi year wet season droughts, including an extraordinary stretch of thirteen consecutive years.
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August 17, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Cave Stalagmites Expose Thirteen Year Drought That Left the Maya Shook
In a dark chamber beneath Yucatán, a stalagmite recorded the rise and strain of a civilization. By sampling oxygen isotopes layer by layer in Grutas Tzabnah, a team led by the University of Cambridge reconstructed rainfall for…
In a dark chamber beneath Yucatán, a stalagmite recorded the rise and strain of a civilization. By sampling oxygen isotopes layer by layer in Grutas Tzabnah, a team led by the University of Cambridge reconstructed rainfall for…
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Classic Maya response to multiyear seasonal droughts in Northwest Yucatán, Mexico
Stalagmite record reveals 1- to 13-year droughts in NW Yucatán from 871 to 1021 CE, a time of profound Maya cultural change.
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August 15, 2025 at 5:46 AM
Interested in #Maya history, #climate change, #stalagmites and #drought, and the #SYP autosampler? Read the latest in our detailed work on a sample from #Tzabnah cave! 😎 kudos to all our collaborators in #Mexico!
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