Anthropologists have determined from cave paintings that early hominids died off because they reached the period of “peak stone.” After peak stone the material was increasingly more expensive and only the rich 1% had it. Attempts to switch to the solar powered wood technology were continuously thwarted be the 1% who pointed out that wood spears required more stone use than stone ax heads by themselves. Despite daily warnings by the stoners that stone use was unsustainable and that wood technology required subsidies to become competitive nobody listened. The last alive were the 1% who ate the last stoners and then died surrounded by their incredible wealth.
LOL!
“The Stone Age didn’t end because people ran out of stones.” — Sheikh Yamani, 1990s
ROTFL
You completely neglected to mention that that the "Peak Stone Era" had a disproportionately harmful effect on minority hunter-gatherers, was particularly severe on members of the hunter-gatherer LGBTG Community, and negatively impacted women, who must have felt stonewalled in their search for equal pay, their advancement curtailed by a glass (well, stone) ceiling.
Furthermore, although your photographic evidence clearly showed the effects of massive Global Warming leading to total deforestation, your monograph obtusely ignored the subject. You did hint at economic hegemony, but in our opinion, did not forcefully condemn it.
BTW, you are under arrest.