Work

Documenting plant domestication: The consilience of biological and archaeological approaches

Year: 2001

Type: article

Abstract: Humans become increasingly fragile as they age. We show that something similar may happen to states, although for states, the risk of termination levels off as they grow older, allowing some to persist for millennia. Proximate causes of their ...How states and great powers rise and fall is an intriguing enigma of human history. Are there any patterns? Do polities become more vulnerable over time as they age? We analyze longevity in hundreds of premodern states using survival analysis to help ...

Source: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

DOI: 10.1073/pnas.98.4.1324

Author: Bruce D. Smith

Institutions: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History

Language: English

Topic: Archaeology and ancient environmental studies

Subfield: Archeology

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W2079544046

FWCI: 15.35

Cites: 16

Cited by: 240

Related to: 10