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Akers, Pete D. (Akers, Pete D..) | Brook, George A. (Brook, George A..) | Railsback, L. Bruce (Railsback, L. Bruce.) | Cherkinksy, Alex (Cherkinksy, Alex.) | Liang, Fuyuan (Liang, Fuyuan.) | Ebert, Claire E. (Ebert, Claire E..) | Hoggarth, Julie A. (Hoggarth, Julie A..) | Awe, Jaime J. (Awe, Jaime J..) | Cheng, Hai (Cheng, Hai.) | Edwards, R. Lawrence (Edwards, R. Lawrence.)

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Social and environmental changes had great spatiotemporal variability in the Maya Lowlands during the Classic and Postclassic Periods, and stalagmites promise high-resolution paleoclimate data that can refine our understanding of this complex time. Unfortunately, stalagmites in this region are often difficult to date by U-Th methods because of low initial uranium concentrations. Other dating techniques can be used on such stalagmites, and we present here an age-depth model for BZBT1, a low-uranium stalagmite sampled from Box Tunich cave in the Belize River Valley. This age-depth model dates the growth of BZBT1 to between 400 and 1610 yr BP (340-1550 CE) by combining evidence from U-Th results, radiocarbon dating of both stalagmite CaCO3 and trapped organic material, and Pb-210 dating. The resulting stable isotope record from BZBT1 reveals paleoclimate changes that affected local Maya populations during the Classic and early Postclassic Periods. This record is further refined by isotopically tuning the BZBT1 data with two other regional stalagmite records. Our work offers additional paleoclimate insight into the relationship between the Maya and their environment from a stalagmite that would typically be disregarded for research purposes. Continued research into alternative dating techniques for speleothems can enable additional scientific discovery while promoting speleothem conservation.

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Maya paleoclimate radiocarbon stable isotopes stalagmite

Author Community:

  • [ 1 ] [Akers, Pete D.] Univ Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, IRD, Inst Geosci Environm, F-38000 Grenoble, France
  • [ 2 ] [Brook, George A.] Univ Georgia, Dept Geog, Athens, GA 30602 USA
  • [ 3 ] [Railsback, L. Bruce] Univ Georgia, Dept Geol, Athens, GA 30602 USA
  • [ 4 ] [Cherkinksy, Alex] Univ Georgia, Ctr Appl Isotope Studies, Athens, GA 30602 USA
  • [ 5 ] [Liang, Fuyuan] Western Illinois Univ, Dept Geog, Macomb, IL 61455 USA
  • [ 6 ] [Ebert, Claire E.; Awe, Jaime J.] No Arizona Univ, Dept Anthropol, Flagstaff, AZ 86011 USA
  • [ 7 ] [Hoggarth, Julie A.] Baylor Univ, Dept Anthropol, Waco, TX 76798 USA
  • [ 8 ] [Hoggarth, Julie A.] Baylor Univ, Inst Archaeol, Waco, TX 76798 USA
  • [ 9 ] [Cheng, Hai] Xi An Jiao Tong Univ, Coll Global Environm Change, Xian, Shaanxi, Peoples R China
  • [ 10 ] [Cheng, Hai; Edwards, R. Lawrence] Univ Minnesota, Dept Geol & Geophys, Minneapolis, MN USA
  • [ 11 ] [Akers, Pete D.]Univ Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, IRD, Inst Geosci Environm, F-38000 Grenoble, France
  • [ 12 ] [Brook, George A.]Univ Georgia, Dept Geog, Athens, GA 30602 USA
  • [ 13 ] [Railsback, L. Bruce]Univ Georgia, Dept Geol, Athens, GA 30602 USA
  • [ 14 ] [Cherkinksy, Alex]Univ Georgia, Ctr Appl Isotope Studies, Athens, GA 30602 USA
  • [ 15 ] [Liang, Fuyuan]Western Illinois Univ, Dept Geog, Macomb, IL 61455 USA
  • [ 16 ] [Ebert, Claire E.]No Arizona Univ, Dept Anthropol, Flagstaff, AZ 86011 USA
  • [ 17 ] [Awe, Jaime J.]No Arizona Univ, Dept Anthropol, Flagstaff, AZ 86011 USA
  • [ 18 ] [Hoggarth, Julie A.]Baylor Univ, Dept Anthropol, Waco, TX 76798 USA
  • [ 19 ] [Hoggarth, Julie A.]Baylor Univ, Inst Archaeol, Waco, TX 76798 USA
  • [ 20 ] [Cheng, Hai]Xi An Jiao Tong Univ, Coll Global Environm Change, Xian, Shaanxi, Peoples R China
  • [ 21 ] [Cheng, Hai]Univ Minnesota, Dept Geol & Geophys, Minneapolis, MN USA
  • [ 22 ] [Edwards, R. Lawrence]Univ Minnesota, Dept Geol & Geophys, Minneapolis, MN USA

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HOLOCENE

ISSN: 0959-6836

Year: 2019

Issue: 7

Volume: 29

Page: 1234-1248

2 . 3 5 3

JCR@2019

2 . 7 6 9

JCR@2020

ESI Discipline: GEOSCIENCES;

ESI HC Threshold:73

JCR Journal Grade:2

CAS Journal Grade:3

Cited Count:

WoS CC Cited Count: 4

SCOPUS Cited Count: 10

ESI Highly Cited Papers on the List: 0 Unfold All

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30 Days PV: 9

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