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Dr Dan H. James

@danofhousejames.bsky.social
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Palaeoclimate/environment researcher at UCL Archaeology, formerly PhD at University of Cambridge Earth Sciences. Otherwise found thinking about DnD/CS2/BlackMetal/Malazan

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Dr Dan H. James @danofhousejames.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Excited to share the second paper from my PhD work at @cambridge-earthsci.bsky.social on the climate history of the Maya Terminal Classic! In this project, we reconstruct the quantitative rainfall decrease the Maya experienced using a novel stalagmite proxy. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Pronounced drought and wet periods during the Maya Terminal Classic period reconstructed using stalagmite calcium isotopes
The sociopolitical decline of Classic Maya Civilisation and associated depopulation of the Maya Lowlands in the Terminal Classic period (c. 800–1000 C…
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Clara Boulanger @clarabou.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Very pleased about this paper that came out today 🐟🦈https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305440325002353
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ZooMS as a tool for understanding prehistoric pelagic fishing: Insights from archaeological shark and scombrid remains on Fais Island, Micronesia, over the last two millennia
The capture of fast-moving marine predators, such as sharks and scombrids, played a crucial role in human subsistence and cultural evolution, with adv…
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Dr Dan H. James @danofhousejames.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Sharing our new paper on the climate during the last years of the Classic Maya civilisation - for the first time we can tell the exact length of the severe droughts the Maya faced. cam.ac.uk/stories/mexi... science.org/doi/10.1126/... @earthscicam.bsky.social
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Stalagmites in Mexican caves reveal duration and severity of drought during the Maya collapse
A drought lasting 13 years and several others that each lasted over three years may have contributed to the collapse of the Classic Maya civilisation, chemical fingerprints from a stalagmite in a Mexi...
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Prof. Rhiannon Stevens @nannonstevens.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Now with correct link: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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Major excursions in sulfur isotopes linked to permafrost change in Eurasia during the last 50,000 years - Nature Geoscience
Sulfur isotope excursions in skeletal collagen samples from Eurasia suggest rapidly changing biogeochemical processes across the region from about 30,000 to 15,000 years ago, potentially related to ch...
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