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SUBMITTER: Polyak VJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC9130131 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Polyak Victor J VJ Asmerom Yemane Y Lachniet Matthew S MS
Scientific reports 20220524 1
While climatic triggers for collapse and population migrations of ancestral Pueblo communities have been proposed, little is known about the overall climatic backdrop for the entire pre-Hispanic Pueblo period (ca. 1300 to 460 B2K). Here, we report data from stalagmite HC-1, from Hidden Cave, Guadalupe Mountains, New Mexico, covering the past 3400 years, showing an interval of increased frequency of droughts from 1260 to 370 yr B2K that is coeval with the entire pre-Hispanic Pueblo period. Our re ...[more]