![]() ![]() Many of us have wondered for years about these cultures. Unlike the ancient civilizations of Greece or Rome, most of Diamonds lost cultures were small and isolated, but their names are familiar to most of us: the Anasazi who lived in Chaco Canyon in what is now New Mexico the residents of Easter Island in the Pacific, who left giant, broken, humanlike statues and the Vikings, who settled Greenland when the climate was warmer but died out when it grew colder. The interior book is an effort to marshal the facts surrounding the disappearances of past civilizations known for the most part by the tantalizing relics they left behind. Scott AtlasĪ fascinating book lies within the nearly six hundred pages of Jared Diamonds Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed. ![]() Single Issues of The Independent Review.Podcast: Independent Outlook / Conversations.International Economics and Development. ![]()
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