The Collapse of the Classic Maya, like the collapse of Rapa Nui’s society, has almost become a byword for environmental degradation. The theory, rapidly summarized,…
Tag: archaeology
Recent research published by Gutaker et al. in Nature Plants reconstructs the history of rice dispersal in Asia using whole-genome sequences of more than 1,400…
In popular discourse, tropical forests are synonymous with ‘nature’ and ‘wilderness’, battlegrounds between apparently pristine floral, faunal, and human communities, and the unrelenting industrial and…