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Scientists: Earthquakes, El Niños fatal to earliest civilization in Americas

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — First came the earthquakes, then the torrential rains. But the relentless march of sand across once fertile fields and bays, a process set in motion by the quakes and flooding, is probably what did in America’s earliest civilization.

Filed under Natural History, Research, Sciences on Monday, January 19, 2009.