Localized climate change contributed to ancient southwest depopulation

Thursday, December 4, 2014 - 13:00 in Paleontology & Archaeology

The role of localized climate change in one of the great mysteries of North American archaeology -- the depopulation of southwest Colorado by ancestral Pueblo people in the late 1200s -- has been detailed by researchers. In the process of their study, investigators address one of the mysteries of modern-day climate change: How will humans react?

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