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Combining Social Sciences, Geoscience and Archaeology to Understand Societal Collapse
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Despite its apparently obvious conclusion that adverse environmental conditions must produce economic and institutional crises, the 'collapse archaeology' literature has been criticized for its lack of a formal theory, a credible measurement strategy and a proper understanding of the roles of environmental shocks. To tackle this issue, we propose to combine a time inconsistency theory of state formation and evolution¿i.e., state-building, institutional proxies based on this model and highly granular simulated climate data. To clarify our proposal, we apply it to the study of state-building in Bronze Age Mesopotamia, and we show that moderate droughts shaped these economies directly via deteriorated production conditions as well as indirectly via institutional resilience.
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BENATI, Giacomo, GUERRIERO, Carmine. Combining Social Sciences, Geoscience and Archaeology to Understand Societal Collapse. _Quaternary Science Reviews_. 2023. Vol. 314, núm. 108217. [consulta: 20 de gener de 2026]. ISSN: 0277-3791. [Disponible a: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/201730]