THOUGHT EXPERIMENTS IN CIVILIZATION: In Search of Lost Civilizations
In the second thought experiment of this series, I speculate on the problems that would be involved in searching for extinct agricultural (non-industrialized) civilizations on alien worlds. I consider three climatological scenarios that have forced the extinction of civilizations—snowball worlds, water worlds, and desert worlds—through the disruption of settled agriculturalism. To set this up I discuss some methodological preliminaries on satellite archaeology, and I finish with some of the methodological lessons learned.
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Episode: S02EP20
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