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The Bulletin: November 19-25, 2025

The Bulletin: November 19-25, 2025 This past week’s articles of interest… CLICK HERE If you’re new to my writing, check out this overview. Living well within limits – by Catherine Knight How to Reverse the Massive Worldwide Loss of Soil Moisture, and Why … What Is a City? Archaeological and Historical Perspectives As Energy Costs […]

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Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CXCIII—Societal Collapse, Abrupt Climate Events, and the Role of Resilience 

Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CXCIII—Societal Collapse, Abrupt Climate Events, and the Role of Resilience  Tulum, Mexico. (1986) Photo by author. This Contemplation comments upon and summarises two short archaeology articles on societal collapse.  The first raises the increasing evidence of abrupt climate events being a precipitating factor in societal collapse over the past dozen millennia.  […]

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Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CLXXIX–Archaeology of Overshoot and Collapse

Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CLXXIX–Archaeology of Overshoot and Collapse It’s been a few months since I last posted a Contemplation. There are a variety of reasons for this.  I’ve been ‘distracted’ by the preparations in my gardens for the upcoming growing season. The unseasonably warm weather here north of Toronto allowed me to get outside […]

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Surveying archaeologists across the globe reveals deeper and more widespread roots of the human age, the Anthropocene

Surveying archaeologists across the globe reveals deeper and more widespread roots of the human age, the Anthropocene Examples of how human societies are changing the planet abound – from building roads and houses, clearing forests for agriculture and digging train tunnels, to shrinking the ozone layer, driving species extinct, changing the climate and acidifying the oceans. […]

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Old, cold and bold: Ice Age people dwelled high in Peru’s Andes | Reuters

Old, cold and bold: Ice Age people dwelled high in Peru’s Andes | Reuters. (Reuters) – In a bleak, treeless landscape high in the southern Peruvian Andes, bands of intrepid Ice Age people hunkered down in rudimentary dwellings and withstood frigid weather, thin air and other hardships. Scientists on Thursday described the world’s highest known […]

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Olduvai IV: Courage
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Olduvai II: Exodus
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