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“A leading hypothesis for this precipitous collapse proposes that massive floods destroyed the society’s agricultural system, causing the society to fragment and feud over abruptly scant resources. But archaeologist David Beresford-Jones of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research at the University of Cambridge and his colleagues found that — although such flooding did occur — the Nazca brought on their own demise by logging trees to make way for farmland.”
via Native American culture sowed seeds of its own collapse : Nature News.
