McAnany Patricia and Norman Yoffee (eds), Questioning collapse. Human resilience, ecological vulnerability, and the aftermath of empire by Florent Kohler

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El territorio de Tonina, Chiapas by Eric Taladoire

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Entre Mochica et Lambayeque : retracer les identités de la période Transitionnelle dans les empreintes du quotidien by Sâm Ghavami

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“In the days of my life.” Elite activity and interactions in the Maya lowlands from Classic to Early Postclassic times (the long ninth century, AD 760-920) by Marie Charlotte Arnauld, Chloé Andrieu, Mélanie Forné

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INFORMACIJOS VISUOMENĖS STUDIJŲ PASTOLIAI: NAUJŲJŲ VYNMAIŠIŲ BEIEŠKANT by Marius P. P. Šaulauskas

“…Furthermore, an adequate criterion of information society cannot be quantitative, it should be qualitative and formulated counterfactually, i. e. arguing, that systematic dysfunction of telematic infrastructure, posited as a conditio sine qua non of habitat, would necessarily undermine the whole societal framework and force it to collapse. Therefore, due to the ex definitio controversial nature of any qualitative conceptualization, the existential presupposition of information society will preserve its pivotal status in the future discourse of information society studies. …”
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Self-Organized Temporal Criticality: Bottom-Up Resilience versus Top-Down Vulnerability by Korosh Mahmoodi, Bruce J. West, Paolo Grigolini

“…The criticality-induced long-range correlation favors the societal benefit and can be interpreted as the social system becoming cognizant of the fact that altruism generates societal benefit. …”
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Recent centennial drought on the Tibetan Plateau is outstanding within the past 3500 years by Yu Liu, Huiming Song, Zhisheng An, Qiang Li, Steven W. Leavitt, Ulf Büntgen, Qiufang Cai, Ruoshi Liu, Congxi Fang, Changfeng Sun, Kerstin Treydte, Meng Ren, Lidong Mo, Yi Song, Wenju Cai, Quan Zhang, Weijian Zhou, Achim Bräuning, Jussi Grießinger, Deliang Chen, Hans W. Linderholm, Ashish Sinha, Hai Cheng, Lu Wang, Ying Lei, Junyan Sun, Wei Gong, Xuxiang Li, Linlin Cui, Liang Ning, Lingfeng Wan, Thomas W. Crowther, Constantin M. Zohner

“…Additionally, our analyses identified three distinct stages (110 BC–AD 280, AD 330–770 and AD 950–1300) characterized by shifts toward arid hydroclimate conditions, corresponding to significant social unrest and dynasty collapses, which underscores the potential societal impacts of severe hydroclimatic shifts.…”
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