Political Collapse: Lessons From Fallen Empires – Analysis
Our investigation of the disastrous society-wide collapses of four premodern polities, China’s Ming Dynasty, the South Asian Mughal Empire, the
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Author: Gary M. Feinman
Gary M. Feinman is the MacArthur curator of Mesoamerican, Central American, and East Asian anthropology, at the Negaunee Integrative Research Center.
Articles by Gary M. Feinman :
The Biggest Treasure I Found After Five Decades In Archaeology – OpEd
Flush with my newly minted university degree, I sat down for breakfast with my entrepreneurial grandfather who met me with
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Advances In Archaeology Allow Us To Understand Political Evolution And Social Change In Deep Time – OpEd
Western society is largely in the grips of an entrenched mythology that premodern non-Western states and empires were organized despotically,
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We Can Interpret How Cooperative Or Autocratic Mesoamerican Societies Were From Their Systems Of Communication – OpEd
The modes of communication that a society uses can tell us a lot about its political structure. A research study we
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Learning From History, If We Dare – OpEd
The New Gilded Age, wars along the Russian border, a global pandemic, battles for women’s rights, even the Titanic: history does
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Archaeology Is Flipping The Script On What We Know About Ancient Mesoamerica – Analysis
Recent archaeology emerging from ancient Mesoamerica is flipping the script of public understanding about the people and institutions that inhabited
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What Google Street View Can Say About The Quality Of Life In Your Neighborhood – OpEd
In a remarkable new study, the broad-brush patterns between how we use and mark public space and our collective well-being
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An Ancient Recipe For Social Success – OpEd
New evidence and understandings about the structure of successful early societies across Asia, Africa, and the Western Hemisphere are sweeping
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