Open AccessEuropean Contact with the Americas May Have Triggered Global Cooling
Author(s) -
Mary Morton
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
eos
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.316
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 2324-9250
pISSN - 0096-3941
DOI - 10.1029/2019eo120119
Subject(s) - genocide , reforestation , agriculture , geography , political science , archaeology , forestry , law
The loss of precontact agricultural communities to genocide and disease may have led to massive reforestation, a dip in carbon dioxide, and one of the coldest snaps of the Little Ice Age.