[decimon]

Urban renewal ping.

[denydenydeny]

If the Mayans had had the internal combustion engine, the carbon dioxide emissions would have fueled tree growth.

[C19fan]

I have been to Tikal in Guatemala. One of the great thrills of my life.

[ModelBreaker]

That is an amazing conclusion drawn from almost no data.

The temple was built by, I believe, a government. So the shift to inferior trees for construction is just as likely to have been caused by the fact that the grand high poobah’s brother-in-law had a large surplus inventory of inferior trees.

[eclecticEel]

More archeology subverted to support envirowacko propaganda.

[SunkenCiv]

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[caveat emptor]

It isn't clear from the limited info in the article that the later wood was inferior except in the ceremonial sense - softer and easier to carve. It sounds like Lentz, paleoecologist, may have been drinking from the same cup as Jared Diamond ("Collapse", "Guns, Germs and Steel"), and looks like he may have taken a silly walk or two.

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[Leisler]

There is no way, ‘that they ran out of resources’.

There is still today, fine woods and timbers.

What happened was high taxes, corruption, and no or little reward for hard work( ie, timber harvesters, teamsters, carpenters, etc )

I’m of the opnion from the Soviet Union back to these Mayans, everyone in between and countless other ‘civilizations’ is the the unknown men of these cultures pull a Galt/Atlas Shrugged and walk away.

[mysterio]

Maybe the free trader Mayans convinced everyone that cheap stuff was more important than anything else.

[wildbill]

Anyone who has ever traveled through the Maya country, especially on the Yucatan, can testify that the trees of the jungle look terribly scraggly.