Dietary carbonate analysis of bone and enamel for two sites in Belize.

The collapse of classic Maya civilization at the end of the eighth century A.D. is still an enigma, but the story behind it is likely more than a clash of warring city-states. New research indicates that ecological degradation and nutritional deficiency may be as important to our understanding of Maya cultural processes as deciphering the rise and fall of kings.Reconstructing Ancient Maya Diet integrates recent data from bone-chemistry …