New excavations and high tech scans on one of the world’s most remote islands are forcing archaeologists to redraw the story ...

Western civilization arose in Greece in the 8th century BC, when some 1,500 city-states emerged from a murky, illiterate 400-year-old Dark Age. That chaos followed the utter collapse of the palatial ...

Papers presented at a symposium held during the Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in Milwaukee, April 2003. From collapse to regeneration / Glenn M. Schwartz -- The demise and ...

Drawing on 10,000 years of data, Peter Turchin explains how competition was central in the evolution of states and civilizations The Great Holocene Transformation (Beresta Books, September 2025) ...

Instead of raising these self-destructive monster states and societies, they have almost succeeded in dragging down the ...

In my view, major cracks are developing in the economy because we are heading toward a collapse scenario of the type that Dr. Joseph Tainter talks about in his book, “The Collapse of Complex Societies ...

Why societies fall apart isn’t politics or morals, an author argues—it’s cognitive failure, a pattern he says can be scientifically tested. Evil doesn’t take over societies by force or intelligence.

Review of Walter Haugen's books "The Laws of Physics Are On My Side" (Jan. 2013) and "Hints For Managing Collapse" (April 2014). Available at Amazon (see links above). "It's the end of the world as we ...