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Climate Variation and the Rise and Fall of an Andean Civilization

Michael W. Binford, Alan L. Kolata, Mark Brenner et al., 1997. Quaternary Research.

Lake-level and ice-core evidence for a drought after about AD 1100 that the authors link to the abandonment of the raised fields and the fall of Tiwanaku.

MYS0D69YBEA5SKY · mystery · click to copyMPuma Punku and TiwanakuArticledoi: 10.1006/qres.1997.1882Checked against the original0

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The drought reading of the collapse.

Cited by on this site 4 records

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Binford, M. W., Kolata, A. L., Brenner, M., Janusek, J. W., Seddon, M. T., Abbott, M., & Curtis, J. H. (1997). Climate Variation and the Rise and Fall of an Andean Civilization. Quaternary Research. https://doi.org/10.1006/qres.1997.1882
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