Kenneth Seligson

Assistant Professor of Anthropology, California State University, Dominguez Hills

Maya stucco frieze

Misreading the Story of Climate Change and the Maya

While Earth has not been this warm in human history, we can learn about coping with climate change by looking to the Classic Maya civilization that thrived between A.D. 250-950 in Eastern Mesoamerica, the region that is now Guatemala, Belize, Eastern Mexico, and parts of El Salvador and Honduras.

May 21, 2019