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The Fall of Rome: And the End of Civilization by Bryan Ward-Perkins
5.0
"Pottery is an archaeologist's dream"
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The book is not just about pottery. There's also stuff about coins, 2000 year old graffiti, roof tiles, barbarian invasions and civil wars, military treaties, tax policies, slavery, ice cap studies, plagues, ...
And it includes some very important insights that may also deserve consideration today, e.g. related to topics such as the risks associated with increasing societal complexity and migration patterns and their consequences.
I read the book some years ago and I decided I wanted to reread it because it's just a brilliant book. It's still brilliant.
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The book is not just about pottery. There's also stuff about coins, 2000 year old graffiti, roof tiles, barbarian invasions and civil wars, military treaties, tax policies, slavery, ice cap studies, plagues, ...
And it includes some very important insights that may also deserve consideration today, e.g. related to topics such as the risks associated with increasing societal complexity and migration patterns and their consequences.
I read the book some years ago and I decided I wanted to reread it because it's just a brilliant book. It's still brilliant.