(charge: Gerardo Aguirre-Díaz)
Maya culture had been blossoming to its golden era in which a volcano erupted at the southern border of the Maya area, at what is now El Salvador. Tens of yards of debris and ash buried the thickly populated, rich farming valleys across the Ilopango caldera. Aerosols smashed into the stratosphere from the eruption settled as far away as Greenland and Antarctica. While the broader Maya culture was largely untouched, it required a century and a half life to restart at the shadow of Ilopango.
At a recent analysis, Oxford University archaeologist Victoria Smith and her colleagues found tree rings by a stump captured in a pyroclastic flow, together with information from polar ice cores acquired over 7,000kilometers (4,300 kilometers ) away. These obsolete the eruption into 431 CE, the first portion of the Maya Classic Period. The date can assist future archaeologists and scientists better understand the consequences of this eruption on Central America and the rest of the planet.
Buried by Tierra Blanca Joven
Volcanoes make hazardous neighbors, but they have means of attracting people near regardless of the dangers. Fertile volcanic lands in the area of El Salvador encouraged dense inhabitants in Maya lands and metropolitan centers such as Chalchuapa. From the start of the Maya Classic Period, about 250 BCEthe rulers in Chalchuapa had constructed a basketball court in the website. Artifacts discovered among the ruins show commerce relations as far off as central Mexico.
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