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Tin percolation collapse
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Claim (verbatim)
Tin percolation collapse. Late Bronze Age destruction order follows betweenness centrality in the metals network, not geographic dominoes. Falsify: destruction-layer dates vs modeled network centrality.
Kill-dataset (verbatim)
destruction-layer dates vs modeled network centrality.
Provenance
Run: Imported conversation (verbatim harvest) · model: claude-fable-5
Origin: operator conversation with Claude Fable 5 at max effort, conducted 2026-07-03, relayed verbatim by the operator into the shepherd session on 2026-07-04. No ModelRun exists for the original generation (it happened outside the pipeline); this transcript file is the canonical capture. Transcript path: docs/generated/conjecture_harvest_fablemax_20260703.md. Model (operator-attested, not pipeline-recorded): claude-fable-5. Novelty disclaimer (verbatim, load-bearing -- rule 4): "Same caveat as before, doubled: at 100 items across all of archaeology and history, some of these will have cousins in the literature I can't check. What I can guarantee is the format — each links two things not normally linked, and each names the dataset or measurement that would kill it."
Novelty / leakage triage
Leaked (already exists in the literature)
The core join is published: recent work models the Late Bronze Age Mediterranean as a multi-layer network and analyzes the collapse as cascading failure with betweenness-centrality/'gatekeeper' node concepts (plus a systemic-risk literature doing the same). The harvest's sharp refinement — regressing site-by-site destruction-layer DATES against computed centrality rankings of a metals-specific network — was not located as executed, but the connection itself is established.
- 'Are civilizations destined to collapse? Lessons from the Mediterranean Bronze Age', Global Environmental Change (2023) — Two-layer LBA network model, cascading failure, gatekeeper centrality
- Galaitsi et al., 'Navigating the precipice: Lessons on collapse from the Late Bronze Age', Risk Analysis — Systemic-risk network framing of the collapse
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