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246 | David Stuart on Time and Science in Maya Civilization
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
The Maya Collapse
Around 900, we have a widespread phenomenon where many of the cities were abandoned. We call this the Maya collapse and it's no doubt a very simplistic kind of one-off description for a very complex phenomenon. My own take on it is that there was a really good evidence of rapid population growth. That must have put a strain on the existing resources on the existing infrastructure they had. But I think it may have been something that, you know, was part of a mix of different factors.
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