Yet the opposite is true: radiocarbon dating of middens revealed a former pinyon-juniper woodland that is now absent from the canyon. Another chapter contends that the ancient people of the American southwest, the Anasazi, did not deforest Chaco Canyon in New Mexico, that “there was never a forest in the canyon” and that analysis of plant remains in ancient pack-rat middens there “reveal a climate and ecology almost exactly like that which exists today”. Collapse How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond Penguin, Revised, 2011 Purchase on In Collapse, Jared Diamond explores how climate change, the population explosion and political discord create the conditions for the collapse of civilization. Jared Diamond Reading is from a chapter in his 2005 book: Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed and from an article in Discover Magazine.

For instance, one chapter claims that the Greenland Norse people emigrated rather than dying out, despite no evidence for that claim and despite graphic archaeological evidence of starvation - bones and debris in the topmost archaeological layer from the final winter of the Greenland Western Settlement's existence. Jared Diamond Environmental Collapse of Easter Island.

However, in forcing all of history into their framework, they resort to errors and implausible extremes. The editors state that each contributing author is “deeply concerned about the inaccuracies of popular portrayals and feels that students and laypersons alike deserve to read a better story”.

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