Anthropologists and archaeologists have long considered the climate of the Holocene to be stable, but new data indicates abrupt climate changes having drastic effects upon human society. Challenging conventional scientific wisdom, "Collapse" concludes that agriculture and the fall of civilizations like the Maya and the Indus Valley were not the result of human agency but a social, adaptive response to severe climate alterations.
- ISBN10 0415934877
- ISBN13 9780415934879
- Publish Date 1 June 2008
- Publish Status Cancelled
- Out of Print 25 May 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Imprint Routledge
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 256
- Language English