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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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Quaternary Science Reviews, 2023, vol. 314, p. 108217

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Articles publicats en revistes (Història Econòmica, Institucions, Política i Economia Mundial)

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Combining Social Sciences, Geoscience and Archaeology to Understand Societal Collapse