Hoff
Charlie Hoff
Professor Duncan
Archaeology and The Rise of Human Culture
16 April 2018
Assignment 5 – Collapse of the Maya city of Tikal
Recently we have started working on a way to truly uncover what really caused the
collapse of the massive Maya city of Tikal, located in northern Guatemala. We understand this is
a UNESCO World Heritage site and would like to ask for permission to perform archaeological
investigations there. Our main hypothesis we’ll be centered around relates to whether a disease
epidemic could have caused the collapse of the city of Tikal. While a violent foreign invasion or
