Just where do archaeologists come up with these fairy tales?
This attributing motives is sheer speculation, not science.
Maybe there was more big game killed because they kill people and nobody wanted man eating carnivores in their backyards.
They have to write soething in that space that says "reason for huge government grant of taxpayers money".
Trust the idiots to come up with 'over hunting" as a reason. Personally, I would say that the mayans went through a period of political change in which animal rights groups. Vegans forced laws on the people banning red meat. That's probably why they died off, or in combination with the mayans all turning gay, destroying the family structure, and just dying out because of the lack of breeding.
Would it have been okay for woman to have eaten a carrot?