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If anyone is interested in a good analysis of this plus the Maya and Easter Islanders (among some others), there's a book by Jared Diamond called "Collapse: How
by fiiv 10y ago
If anyone is interested in a good analysis of this plus the Maya and Easter Islanders (among some others), there's a book by Jared Diamond called "Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collapse:_How_Societies_Choose_to_Fail_or_Succeed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collapse:_How_Societies_Choose...
- sevensor 10y agoThe article calls out Collapse as having been influenced by outdated ideas about why the Greenland settlement failed. For instance, rather than depleting the soil, it turns out that they worked to enrich it.
- aomurphy 10y agoAlso, the work on Easter Island is widely disputed. Easter Islanders probably did not purposely cut down all of their big trees, but the trees were devastated by the release of rats which ate their seeds. See "The Statues That Walked" by Prof.s Terry Hunt and Carl Lipo from the University of Hawai'i for a more up to date work.