Understanding Collapse explores the collapse of ancient civilisations, such as the Roman
Empire, the Maya, and Easter Island. In this lively survey, Guy D. Middleton critically …

Nurturing Our Humanity offers a new perspective on our personal and social options in
today's world, showing how we can build societies that support our great human capacities …

The Pylos Combat Agate, in our view a Cretan work of Late Minoan I, may be the finest
example of glyptic art yet discovered in a Minoan or Mycenaean context. It was found in …

Beyond Thalassocracies: Understanding Processes of Minoanisation and Mycenaeanisation in
the Aegean Page 2 Beyond Thalassocracies Understanding Processes of Minoanisation and …

Abstract During the later Bronze Age in Europe (c. 1500–800 BC), the archaeological
visibility of the production and consumption of bronze increases substantially. Yet there …

Our times are times of crisis. Some would claim that an interest in crisis and a rise in disaster
studies started with the 9/11 WTC attack in 2001, the first in a long series of exceptional …

Environmental determinism is often used to explain past social collapses and to predict the
future of modern human societies. We assess the availability of natural resources and the …

In this paper, we argue that the sociopolitical trajectory of Bronze Age of Crete was
characterized by the progressive but intentional manipulation of an enduring collective …

Warfare is increasingly considered to have been a major field of social activity in prehistoric
societies, in terms of the infrastructures supporting its conduct, the effects of its occurrence …

The presence or absence of use-wear marks on copper (Cu)-alloy weaponry has been used
since the late 1990s to investigate the balance between functional (combat) and symbolic …