Resolving the Maya climate-collapse hypothesis

解决玛雅气候崩溃假说

• 批准号: DP180101986
• 负责人: Prof Dan Penny
• 金额: $ 14.55万
• 依托单位: The University of Sydney
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Discovery Projects
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2018-01-01 至 2023-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/DP180101986
• 关键词: Resolving; 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.

该项目旨在通过对没有崩溃的玛雅城市的气候和社会变化进行详细记录来测试气候崩溃理论，并确定为什么有些城市比其他城市更能适应气候变化的影响。灾难性的气候变率经常被用来解释全球热带地区大型低密度城市中心的历史性崩溃。公元8世纪后中美洲玛雅文明的崩溃是典型的社会崩溃，尽管有强有力的证据表明中美洲干旱，但考古证据表明社会反应是异质的。该项目将揭示在面临气候变化的历史城市中心，什么样的社会、物质或环境属性促进了恢复力。