Nothing Lasts Forever: Environmental Discourses on the Collapse of Past Societies

2012/01/10 by Guy D. Middleton · 1 citation
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Psychology · Social Sciences · #Archaeology #Archaeology and ancient environmental studies #Biology #Confusion #Ecology #Environmental crisis #Environmental ethics #Epistemology #Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies #History #Linguistics #Natural (archaeology) #Nothing #Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies #Philosophy #Psychoanalysis #Psychology #Sociology #Sustainability #Terminology

paper · doi:10.1007/s10814-011-9054-1

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