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What is your favorite extinction event, and why? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm probably going to judge you if you say Holocene, without an interesting non-trivial reason.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago

Not a full on extinction event, but the late bronze age collapse has always fascinated me. So much do that it led me to pursue archaeology in college.

So many theories, everyone has their favourite, but yeah, what ultimately caused every near eastern civilisation as well as the Mycenaean Greeks to just all collapse and disappear over a relatively short 200 years or so (archaeologically speaking a blink-of-an-eye)