{"id":67444,"date":"2024-04-20T19:29:09","date_gmt":"2024-04-21T00:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=67444"},"modified":"2024-04-20T19:29:09","modified_gmt":"2024-04-21T00:29:09","slug":"scientists-finally-solved-chilling-mystery-of-why-the-mayans-vanished-after-thousands-of-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=67444","title":{"rendered":"Scientists finally solved chilling mystery of why the Mayans vanished after thousands of years"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Scientists finally solved chilling mystery of why the Mayans vanished after thousands of years<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Self-made environmental issues took a turn for the worse.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n

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Mayans have always been a topic of interest renowned for their hieroglyphic writing, agricultural achievements, as well as their ancient calendar that famously predicted an apocalypse back in 2012.<\/p>\n

Around A.D. 250, the Maya entered an era in which they peaked in population size and built thriving cities with temples and palaces.<\/p>\n

However, by the end of the period, around A.D. 900, almost all of the major cities civilised by Maya had been abandoned.<\/p>\n

So, where did they go?<\/p>\n

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Tuul & Bruno Morandi \/ Getty<\/cite><\/div>\n

Well before, we get ahead of ourselves, the Mayans didn’t completely vanish as they are still here to this day.<\/p>\n

As Lisa Lucero, professor of anthropology and medieval studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, explained: ‘It was the Maya political system that collapsed, not [their] society.<\/p>\n

‘The over 7 million Maya living today in Central America and beyond attest to this fact.’<\/p>\n

Previously, it was proposed by\u00a0NASA<\/a>\u00a0that the fall of the Maya city-states occurred as a result of prolonged periods of drought.<\/p>\n

‘Less rainfall likely impacted canoe trade since water levels noticeably drop each dry season \u2014 so less rain meant less canoe travel,’ Lucero added.<\/p>\n

However, some Mayans survived this disaster.<\/p>\n

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Anton Petrus \/ Getty<\/cite><\/div>\n

In\u00a0science<\/a>\u00a0author and historian Jared Diamond’s book Collapse, he mentioned that the drought was just the tip of the iceberg.<\/p>\n

The actual cause of the Mayan vanishing was a result of their own environmental mess up – perhaps an all-too-familiar issue given today’s current climate?<\/p>\n

The Mayans cut down hundreds to thousands of trees to build their monuments – 1 metre of material required 20 burned trees.<\/p>\n

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Scientists finally solved chilling mystery of why the Mayans vanished after thousands of years Self-made environmental issues took a turn for the worse. Mayans have always been a topic of interest renowned for their hieroglyphic writing, agricultural achievements, as well as their ancient calendar that famously predicted an apocalypse back in 2012. Around A.D. 250, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[150,511,34299,34298,34300],"class_list":["post-67444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-survival-2","tag-collapse","tag-maya","tag-mayan-society","tag-rebekah-jordan","tag-unilad-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67444"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67445,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67444\/revisions\/67445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}