[UPDATE: Read Lizard of Oz's comment about Colin Turnbull's disputed book, The Mountain People] Doug Belshaw recently read the book  The Collapse of Complex Societies by Joseph A. Tainter, and shared an interesting excerpt. He writes on his website Open Tinkering: In the first chapter of the book, Tainter gives numerous examples of societal collapse, which [&]

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