Research Guides: Why do civilizations collapse? (HIST 7): Select Resources by Civilization

Climate & Collapse

The Great Warming by Brian Fagan
Call Number: QC981.8.G56 F34 2008
Publication Date: 2008
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Nothing Lasts Forever: Environmental Discourses on the Collapse of Past Societies.
Journal of Archaeological Research, Middleton (2012)
What Drives Societal Collapse?
Science, Weiss & Bradley (2001)

Understanding Collapse by Guy D. Middleton
Call Number: CB311 .M43 2017
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Easter Island/Rapa Nui

The Statues That Walked by Terry Hunt; Carl Lipo
Call Number: F3169 .H86 2011
Publication Date: 2011
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Twilight at Easter
Chapter from Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed. Diamond (2011)

Questioning Collapse by Patricia A. McAnany (Editor); Norman Yoffee (Editor)
Call Number: CC72.4 .Q44 2010
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Understanding Collapse by Guy D. Middleton
Call Number: CB311 .M43 2017
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Han Dynasty

Long-term Inflation in the Eastern Han Dynasty: An Analysis Based on Archeological Evidence.
Tsing Hua Journal of Chinese Studies. Chen (2011)
Anthropocene archaeology of the Yellow River, China, 5000–2000 BP.
Holocene. Kidder & Zhuang (2015)

The Early Chinese Empires by Mark Edward Lewis; Timothy Brook (General Editor)
Call Number: DS735 .L42 2007
ISBN: 9780674024779
Publication Date: 2007
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Classic Maya Collapse

Ancient Maya by Arthur Demarest;
Call Number: F1435 .D45 2004
Publication Date: 2004
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What Maya Collapse? Terminal Classic Variation in the Maya Lowlands.
Journal of Archaeological Research (2007)
Millenary Maya Societies: Past Crises and Resilience.
Papers from the International Colloquium, edited by Arnauld & Breton (2013)

After Collapse by Glenn M. Schwartz (Editor); John J. Nichols (Editor)
Call Number: CB311 .A35 2010
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Understanding Collapse by Guy D. Middleton
Call Number: CB311 .M43 2017
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Classic Maya Collapse - Cities Abandoned!
The Great Courses, Edwin Barnhart (2015)

Taíno

Reconsidering Taíno Social Dynamics after Spanish Conquest: Gender and Class in Culture Contact Studies
American Antiquity. Deagan (2004)
Material Encounters and Indigenous Transformations in the Early Colonial Americas: Archaeological Case Studies
Hofman & Keehnen (2019)
Sickness, Starvation, and Death in Early Hispaniola
The Journal of Interdisciplinary History. Cook (2002)
The Depopulation of Hispanic America after the Conquest
Population and Development Review. Livi-Bacci (2002)
What Became of the Taíno?
Smithsonian. Poole (2011)

Angkor and Khmer

Angkor's Rise and Fall
Chapter from Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed. Diamond (2011)
The End of Angkor
Science, 2006
The demise of Angkor: Systemic vulnerability of urban infrastructure to climatic variations
Science Advances, 2018

After Collapse by Glenn M. Schwartz (Editor); John J. Nichols (Editor)
Call Number: CB311 .A35 2010
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Understanding Collapse by Guy D. Middleton
Call Number: CB311 .M43 2017
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Egypt: The Old Kingdom Falls

Pharaohs in Crisis
Chapter from Floods, Famines, and Emperors : El Niño and the Fate of Civilizations. Fagan (2009)

Understanding Collapse by Guy D. Middleton
Call Number: CB311 .M43 2017
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Hittites and the Eastern Mediterranean

A History of the Ancient near East Ca. 3000-323 BC by Marc Van De Mieroop
Call Number: DS62.2 .V34 2007
Publication Date: 2006
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The Hittites by J. G. Macqueen
Call Number: DS66 .M33 1996
ISBN: 9780500278871
Publication Date: 1996
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Crisis in Context: The End of the Late Bronze Age in the Eastern Mediterranean.
American Journal of Archaeology, Knapp & Manning (2016)

Minoan Crete

Review of Aegean Prehistory VII: Neopalatial, Final Palatial, and Postpalatial Crete
American Journal of Archaeology, Rehak & Younger (1998)
The Theran eruption and Minoan palatial collapse: new interpretations gained from modelling the maritime network
Antiquity. Knappett, Rivers & Evans (2011)

1177 B. C.: the year civilization collapsed by Eric H. Cline
Call Number: GN778.25 .C55 2014
Publication Date: 2014
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Understanding Collapse by Guy D. Middleton
Call Number: CB311 .M43 2017
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Mystery Cultures of Early Greece
The Great Courses, Gregory Aldrete (2011)

Western Roman Empire

The Fall of Rome by Bryan Ward-Perkins
Publication Date: 2006
The Ruin of the Roman Empire by James J. O'Donnell
Call Number: DG311 .O49 2009
Publication Date: 2009
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From Roman Provinces to Medieval Kingdoms by Thomas F. X. Noble (Editor)
Publication Date: 2006
Understanding Collapse by Guy D. Middleton
Call Number: CB311 .M43 2017
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When and Why Did the Roman Empire Fall?
The Great Courses, Gregory Aldrete (2019)

Assyrian Empire

Role of climate in the rise and fall of the Neo-Assyrian Empire
Science Advances. Sinha et al. (2019)

A History of the Ancient near East Ca. 3000-323 BC by Marc Van De Mieroop
Call Number: DS62.2 .V34 2007
Publication Date: 2006
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History of the Ancient World by Susan Wise Bauer
Call Number: D57 .B38 2007
Publication Date: 2007
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Greenland Norse

Norse Greenland’s End
Chapter from Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed. Diamond (2011)
Norse Greenland Settlement: Reflections on Climate Change, Trade, and the Contrasting Fates of Human Settlements in the North Atlantic Islands.
Artic Anthropology. Dugmore et al. (2007)
Cultural adaptation, compounding vulnerabilities and conjunctures in Norse Greenland
PNAS. Dugmore et al. (2012)
Two millennia of North Atlantic seasonality and implications for Norse colonies
PNAS. Patterson et al. (2010)

Questioning Collapse by Patricia A. McAnany (Editor); Norman Yoffee (Editor)
Call Number: CC72.4 .Q44 2010
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Indus Valley

Indus collapse: the end or the beginning of an Asian culture?
Science, Lawler (2008)
Infection, Disease, and Biosocial Processes at the End of the Indus Civilization.
PLoS ONE, Robbins et al. (2013)
The Indus/'Harappan'/Sarasvati Civilization
Chapter from Early Civilizations of the Old World. Maisels (1999)

Understanding Collapse by Guy D. Middleton
Call Number: CB311 .M43 2017
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Indus Valley Civilization
The Great Courses, Michael Fisher (2016)

Mycenaean Greece

1177 B. C.: the year civilization collapsed by Eric H. Cline
Call Number: GN778.25 .C55 2014
Publication Date: 2014
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Crisis in Context: The End of the Late Bronze Age in the Eastern Mediterranean.
American Journal of Archaeology, Knapp & Manning (2016)

Understanding Collapse by Guy D. Middleton
Call Number: CB311 .M43 2017
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Mystery Cultures of Early Greece
The Great Courses, Gregory Aldrete (2011)

Teotihuacan

Teotihuacan.
Journal of Archaeological Research, Nichols (2016)
Commoner Power: A Case Study from the Classic Period Collapse on the Oaxaca Coast.
Journal of Archaeological Method & Theory, Joyce et al. (2001)

Akkadian Empire

The Fall of Akkad and Gudea of Lagash
The Great Courses, Amanda H. Podany (2018)
Collapse and continuity: A multi-proxy reconstruction of settlement organization and population trajectories in the Northern Fertile Crescent during the 4.2kya Rapid Climate Change event.
PLoS ONE; Lawrence, Palmisano, & de Gruchy (2021)

Warfare in the Ancient near East to 1600 BC by William J. Hamblin
ISBN: 9780415255882
Publication Date: 2006

The Genesis and Collapse of Third Millennium North Mesopotamian Civilization
Science; Weiss, Courty, Wetterstrom, Guichard, Senior, Meadow, & Curnow. (1993)