1 This chapter appears in a larger collection published by Berghahn Books (https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/RiedeGoing): Gronenborn, Detlef, Hans-Christoph Strien, Kai W. Wirtz, Peter Turchin, Christoph Zielhofer, and Rolf van Dick. 2020. “Inherent Collapse? Social Dynamics and External Forcing in Early Neolithic and Modern SW Germany.” In Going Forward by Looking Back: Archaeological Perspectives on Socio-Ecological Crisis, Response, and Collapse, edited by Felix Riede and Payson D. Sheets, 333-366. Catastrophes in Context volume 3. New York, Oxford: Berghahn.