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INTRODUCTION

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2002

William R. Fowler
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, Vanderbilt University
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In this issue's Special Section we present the first of a two-part series on studies of ancient climate change in the Maya area. Since the time of Ellsworth Huntington (1917, 1924) and Karl Sapper (1931), Mesoamericanists and Mayanists in particular have been aware of the possibility that climate change played a role in the fortunes of ancient Maya civilization.

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SPECIAL SECTION: SPECIAL SECTION: HISTORICAL CLIMATOLOGY IN THE MAYA AREA
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© 2002 Cambridge University Press