Archeological site ; C 14 dating ; Climatic variability ; Core sampling ; Holocene ; Lacustrine sediment ; Mexico ; Oxygen 18 ; Palaeo-environment ; Palaeoclimatology ; Quintana Roo
This study reconstructs climate variability on the Yucatan Peninsula during the late Holocene (last 3310 C 14 yr) by measuring oxygen isotopes of ostracod and gastropod shells from sediments of Lake Punta Laguna, Quintana Roo. The paleoclimate