fucking fascist WESTOIDS love their silly gay little romane boys in their foolish fucking garb and their daft protofascist customs but cannote fathom writing interesting his-fi about da fucking bronze age collapse which is INFINITELY cooler
TO CLARIFY: i do not want anyone to the political right of Stalin to write fuck nor shit about the Bronze Age Collapse lest they focus entirely on da scary migrant Sea Peoples
"singular" is doing tons of work here though— there were plenty of catastrophic city razings and local collapses but they happened over many decades.
there's a whole chapter in 1177 by Eric Cline about how the title year is somewhat arbitrarily chosen and the collapse took over a hundred years. according to him the economic decline included a lot of sharp discontinuities like with tin but otherwise pretty consistent with that book
The post seems to mainly be a critique of 1177, and includes more recent work:
That's part of a section arguing that there just isn't evidence that civilizations collapsed at all: the broader populace remained in the same places and kept living fundamentally the same lives as before, and that what disappeared were specific aristocratic systems which generally lost power for more mundane economic and social reasons (and that the continuity of the civilizations was previously overlooked in older literature because the luxury goods were very noticeable and easy to date in a way that more mundane and functional goods were not, along with classist things like seeing the end of nice murals and fancy art as the end of a civilization in its entirety rather than just the end of people paying to have those things made).
thanks, sorry for not investigating more myself but I'm on a "not visiting reddit" streak that I don't feel like breaking yet
I will say that I don't know how mainstream this view is now, but the materialism of the new narrative and the way it emphasizes the class character of what disappeared vs what persisted is particularly appealing imo.