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?