Recently I read the book 'The Year Civilization Collapsed' by Eric Cline. While being a fascinating read (I can really recommend this), I couldn't shake the fee

Recently I read the book 'The Year Civilization Collapsed' by Eric Cline. While being a fascinating read (I can really recommend this), I couldn't shake the feeling that there is a lot of reaching when it comes to really ancient history, especially the bronze age. The book deals with the mystery of the apparent collapse of basically all major mediterranean civilizations around the year 1180 b.c. It's really a mystery, not easily explained by natural catastrophes or conquests. While the period described in the book seems to be one of the more 'documented' periods in history (there are a lot of archeological findings of ccommunications and such), it's still not really transparent. And then, around 1180 b.c., a dark age started. Light's out. That seems to be really depressing for archeologists. Just beeing an amateur, that's starts becoming more obvious especially at the end of the book, when the author mentions complexity theory, which, so he hopes, will shed some light on the reasons for this 'global' collapse. To me, being a software developer, it seems to hint to some kind of deep misunderstanding of what complexity theory actually is about. And that's kind of disheartening, because, simply said, somehow the a whole branch of science which seems to have no clue how to continue.