An anthracological approach to understanding Late Classic period cultural collapse in Mesoamerica’s northwestern frontier Michelle Elliott To cite this version: Michelle Elliott. An anthracological approach to understanding Late Classic period cultural col- lapse in Mesoamerica’s northwestern frontier. Ernestina Badal; Yoldanda Carrión; Miguel Macias; Maria Ntinou. Wood and Charcoal: Evidence for Human and Natural History, 13, Departament de Prehistòria i d’Arqueologia, Universitat de Valencia, pp.217-225, 2012, Saguntum Extra, 978-84-370- 9062-7. halshs-01868028 HAL Id: halshs-01868028 https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-01868028 Submitted on 4 Oct 2018 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. The documents may come from émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou privés. Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution - NonCommercial - NoDerivatives| 4.0 International License MICHELLE ELLIOTT an anthraCologiCal aPProaCh to undErstanding latE ClassiC PEriod Cultural CollaPsE in MEsoaMEriCa’s northWEstErn frontiEr UMR 8096 “Archéologies des Amériques”, CNRS. Maison René Ginouvès. 21, allée de l’Université. F-92023 Nanterre Cedex, France.
[email protected] Summary: For over 50 years, researchers have suggested that increased regional rainfall over the highland deserts of Mesoamerica’s nor- thwestern frontier zone during the Classic period (AD 200-900) allowed for the colonization of the zone by farming groups who originated from Central and/or West Mexico.