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The Impact of Late Classic–Early Postclassic Anthropogenic Landscape Change in the Lower Río Verde Valley, Oaxaca (2023)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Gabrielle Perry. Raymond Mueller. Arthur Joyce. Akira Ichikawa.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Previous geomorphological data from the upper drainage basin of the Río Verde suggest that demographic and land-use changes, perhaps coupled with climate change, during the Classic period collapse (ca. 800 CE) increased erosion and sediment entering the drainage system. Recent geomorphological research in the lower reaches of the Río Verde in the Pacific...