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State formation across cultures and the role of grain, intensive agriculture, taxation and writing. nature.com/articles/s41562-0…
The invention of agriculture (around 9,000 years ago) spurred the rise of early states? NO. Our research nature.com/articles/s41... (with @DrQueue ) in Nature Human Behaviour supports an alternative theory that States almost invariably formed in societies that grew cereal grains.
Quentin Atkinson retweeted
The invention of agriculture (around 9,000 years ago) spurred the rise of early states? NO. Our research nature.com/articles/s41... (with @DrQueue ) in Nature Human Behaviour supports an alternative theory that States almost invariably formed in societies that grew cereal grains.
What if our universities were being run in a way that was doing them harm? In this long-form essay, I focus on one university (mine) as a case study of managerial misadventure, examining what's gone wrong, why it is happening, and what we can do about it - quentinatkinson.substack.com…


