Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP180101986

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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP180101986

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Funded Activity Summary

Resolving the Maya climate-collapse hypothesis. This project aims to test the climate-collapse theory by developing detailed records of climate and social change from Maya cities that did not collapse, and in doing so identify why some cities were more resilient to the impact of climatic variability than others. Catastrophic climate variability is often invoked to explain the historic collapse of large low-density urban centres in the global tropics. The collapse of the Maya civilisation of Central America after the 8th century AD is the archetypal social collapse yet, despite robust evidence for drought across Central America, archaeological evidence suggests a heterogenous social response. This project will reveal what social, material, or environmental properties facilitated resiliency in historic urban centres confronting climatic variability.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2018

End Date: 31-12-2023

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $208,846.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Archaeology of Asia, Africa and the Americas | Palaeoclimatology | Archaeology |

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Climate Change Adaptation Measures | Social Impacts of Climate Change and Variability | Expanding Knowledge in History and Archaeology

Other Keywords

Archaeology | Archaeology of Asia, Africa and the Americas | Climate Change Adaptation Measures | Expanding Knowledge in History and Archaeology | Palaeoclimatology | Social Impacts of Climate Change and Variability

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