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Agriculture, Cities, and Complex Societies in 2035: Scenarios, Signals, and Falsifiable Predictions

Three grounded bets about how the archaeology of early complexity will move by 2035 — on remote sensing, revisionist theories of hierarchy, and the ancient-DNA sampling gap — each with a horizon, assumptions, and a stated way to be proven wrong.

By Brecht Corbeel · August 28, 2026 · 15 min read

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Agriculture, Cities, and Complex Societies in Practice: An Advanced Technical Guide

How zooarchaeologists, ancient-DNA labs, and settlement-survey teams actually produce the numbers behind "domestication," "urban population," and "collapse"—method by method, with the uncertainty left in.

By Brecht Corbeel · August 28, 2026 · 14 min read

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