Entropy, Individualism and the Collapse of Empires. Hartman, S. J. A. In European Association of Archaeologists, Istanbul, September, 2014. 00000![Entropy, Individualism and the Collapse of Empires [link]](https://bibbase.org/img/filetypes/link.svg "link")
Paper abstract bibtex Thucydides and Polybius in their Histories described the repetition of human behavior and the cycles of civilization. However, time was linearized around the 4th century such that, by the 1980s, Tainter dismissed as “mystical” life-cycle models for large cultural entities. He advanced a theory rooted in the Western economic primacy of infinite growth. Unfortunately growth is not infinite. This paper focuses on the principal causal factor of collapse: population expansion and resultant resource depletion. Multiple disciplines have drilled research wells for sixty years; now is the time for synthesis and Archaeology is the single best field for knowledge consolidation. Humans are not special and complex human systems manifest characteristic elements. The function of telomeres demystifies mortality (A. Olovnikov 1973). The geometric principle of linear straightness explains human temporal myopia. Self-organizing criticality, pioneered by physicist Per Bak (1987), illustrates why civilizations emerge as managerial responses to population pressure. The work of chemist Ilya Prigogine (1957) suggests that individuality precedes collapse. The laws of thermodynamics make comprehensible Tainter’s use of the economic term “decreased marginal returns”. Correlating these with allied factors results in a collapse model which appears elastic, scalable and predictive, and which coincidentally revitalizes Mommsen’s “cycle of historical evolution” (1894).
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abstract = {Thucydides and Polybius in their Histories described the repetition of human behavior and the cycles of civilization. However, time was linearized around the 4th century such that, by the 1980s, Tainter dismissed as “mystical” life-cycle models for large cultural entities. He advanced a theory rooted in the Western economic primacy of infinite growth. Unfortunately growth is not infinite. This paper focuses on the principal causal factor of collapse: population expansion and resultant resource depletion. Multiple disciplines have drilled research wells for sixty years; now is the time for synthesis and Archaeology is the single best field for knowledge consolidation. Humans are not special and complex human systems manifest characteristic elements. The function of telomeres demystifies mortality (A. Olovnikov 1973). The geometric principle of linear straightness explains human temporal myopia. Self-organizing criticality, pioneered by physicist Per Bak (1987), illustrates why civilizations emerge as managerial responses to population pressure. The work of chemist Ilya Prigogine (1957) suggests that individuality precedes collapse. The laws of thermodynamics make comprehensible Tainter’s use of the economic term “decreased marginal returns”. Correlating these with allied factors results in a collapse model which appears elastic, scalable and predictive, and which coincidentally revitalizes Mommsen’s “cycle of historical evolution” (1894).},
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