Joseph A. Tainter

Evolving Complexity And Environmental Risk In The Prehistoric Southwest (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores how and why prehistoric Southwestern societies changed in complexity, and offers important new perspectives on evolution of culture. It discusses the factors that made prehistoric Southwesterners vulnerable to an arid environment, and their strategies to lessen risk and stress.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429972218
• Artikelnr.: 59693177

Autorenporträt

Tainter, Joseph A. Tainter, Bonnie Bagley

Inhaltsangabe

About the Santa Fe Institute
Santa Fe Institute Studies in the Sciences of Complexity
Introduction: Prehistoric Societies as Evolving Complex Systems
Demography, Environment, and Subsistence Stress
Notes on Economic Uncertainty and Human Behavior in the Prehistoric North American Southwest
Hunting, Gathering, and Health in the Prehistoric Southwest
Technological Strategies Responsive to Subsistence Stress
Risk, Anthropogenic Environments, and Western Anasazi Subsistence
The Calculus of Self
interest in the Development of Cooperation: Sociopolitical Development and Risk Among the Northern Anasazi
Risk, Reciprocity, and the Operation of Social Networks
Variability in Food Production, Strategies of Storage and Sharing, and the Pithouse
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Pueblo Transition in the Northern Southwest
Models and Frameworks for Archaeological Analysis of Resource Stress in the American Southwest