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Author Explores Collapse of Old Civilizations

Posted by: Brenda Meyer
Thanks to: Brenda Meyer
12 July 2005 - 6:00am

The author of "Guns, Germs and Steel" turns his attentions to ancient civilizations -- and what modern society can learn from their collapse.

"Now in "Collapse: How Societies Choose To Fail Or Succeed," Diamond probes the other side of the equation: What caused some of the great civilizations of the past to collapse into ruin, and what can we learn from their fates? From the Polynesian cultures on Easter Island to the flourishing American civilizations of the Anasazi and the Maya, and finally to the doomed Viking colony on Greenland, "Collapse" traces the fundamental patterns of catastrophe."

Full Story: Easter Island, C'est Moi
Source: AlterNet, July 11, 2005
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