Eco-ruin for Early society
Now here’s an interesting lesson for the modern world and it comes to us from the Argaric people who lived in south Eastern Spain around 4,200 years ago.
These were people of the Bronze Age, as can be deduced form the amount of fires that have been unearthed, a sign of deforestation to facilitate mining in the area.
Within decades, the diverse forest ecosystem had gone – and with it, the Argaric people. This area today is covered by scrub. Full report on the BBC website.