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That Old Devil Called Collapse
‘Mild drought killed Maya civilization’, ‘Climate killed Harappan civilization’, ‘Did climate change kill the Mayans?’ If you watch for news about collapse, these are some of the headlines you might have seen published in (News24 ; The Times of India ; Kluger ). The collapse of past societies is a newsworthy subject – dramatic, exciting, tragic, spectacular, with a human angle, and with a special resonance for us in these days of climatic uncertainty and widespread human-caused environmental damage. Yet they are typical of the misrepresentation of collapse as a phenomenon studied and written about by archaeologists – those who study the past societies in question – and they feed a climate of misunderstanding about what collapse is and how historical change happens (Middleton ).
Take the Maya collapse. A recent review article by Mayanist Jim Aimers begins by quoting an earlier specialist E. Wyllys Andrews, who in stated: ‘Much has been published in re
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Long before the ancient Maya built temples, their predecessors were already altering the landscape of huvud America's Yucatan peninsula.
Using drones and Google Earth imagery, archaeologists have discovered a 4,year-old network of earthen canals in what's now Belize. The findings were published Friday in Science Advances.
"The aerial imagery was crucial to identify this really distinctive pattern of zigzag linear canals" running for several miles through wetlands, said study co-author Eleanor Harrison-Buck of the University of New Hampshire.
The team then conducted digs in Belize's Crooked Tree Wildlife skyddad plats. The ancient fish canals, paired with holding ponds, were used to channel and catch freshwater species such as catfish.
"Barbed spearpoints" found nearby may have been tied to sticks and used to spear fish, said study co-author Marieka Brouwer Burg of the University of Vermont.
The canal networks were built as early as 4, years ago bygd semi-nomadic people in the
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This quarter&#;s American Anthropologist reprints two distinguished lectures from AAA conferences past, including Jeremy Sabloff&#;s excellent &#;Where have you gone, Margret Mead? Anthropology and Public Intellectuals.&#; Even though I was in attendance at the conference in New Orleans I somehow missed this talk. You can be sure that my absence had nothing to do with amerikansk whiskey Street, seafood, bread pudding, or cruising city neighborhoods with lost cab drivers looking for avant garde art installations. Nothing at all.
Which is a shame, because I&#;m heartened by the AAA&#;s earnest interest in exploring the public role of our discipline although I am skeptical as to whether this will amount to more than a trend to be tossed aside when something else bright and shiny catches the discipline&#;s attention. Maybe I&#;m reminded of similar calls for anthropology to be interdisciplinary only for that to amount to so much lip service. You can&#;t make a career publishing in journals of his