Moche: Forskelle mellem versioner

Der er flere forskellige teorier på hvad som var årsag til den Moche-civilisationens endeligt. Nogle lærde har fremhævet miljøændringer. [[Iskerne]]forskning fra [[gletsjer]]e i [[Andesbjergene]] afslører klimatiske begivenheder mellem 536 og 594 AD, muligvis en super [[El Niño]], som resulterede i 30 års intens regn og oversvømmelse fulgt af 30 års tørke, som en del af eftervirkningerne af [[Klimachok i 535-536|klimachoket i 535-536]].<ref>[[David Keys (author)|Keys, David]], ''Catastrophe: A Quest for the Origins of the Modern World'', Ballantine Books, New York, 1999</ref><ref>[http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/tvradio/programmes/horizon/peru_prog_summary.shtml BBC News: The Lost Civilisation of Peru. The rise and fall of the 'Greeks of the Andes'. Programme transcript]Citat: "...If the weather on the coast was the opposite, then it suggested a 30-year El Nino - what climatologists call a mega El Nino – starting at around 560 AD, which was followed by a mega drought lasting another 30 years..Steve Bourget found evidence of enormous rain damage at a Moche site called Huancaco which he could date...They found huge sand dunes which appeared to have drifted in and engulfed a number of Moche settlements around 600 to 650 AD. The story all fitted together..."</ref>