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9780874807592

Complex Systems and Archaeology

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  • ISBN13:

    9780874807592

  • ISBN10:

    087480759X

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2003-08-19
  • Publisher: Univ of Utah Pr
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Table of Contents

Preface: Considering Complexity Theory in Archaeology 1(8)
R. ALEXANDER BENTLEY AND HERBERT D.G. MAS CHNER
1. An Introduction to Complex Systems 9(16)
R. ALEXANDER BENTLEY
PART I: Scale-Free Networks 25(50)
2. Scale-Free Network Growth and Social Inequality
27(20)
R. ALEXANDER BENTLEY
3. The Power Law of Rank and Household on the North Pacific
47(14)
HERBERT D.G. MASCHNER AND R. ALEXANDER BENTLEY
4. Avalanches of Ideas
61(14)
R. ALEXANDER BENTLEY AND HERBERT D.G. MAS CHNER
PART II: Punctuated Change and Agency 75(46)
5. Searching for Structure in the Past-or Was It "One Damn Thing After Another"?
79(6)
JOHN BINTLIFF
6. Punctuated Dynamic Equilibria: A Model for Chronological Analysis
85(8)
CHRISTOPHER BROLAK RAMSEY
7. The Neolithic Settlement of Riverive Interior Europe as a Complex Adaptive System
93(10)
PETER BO GUCKI
8. Agency, Structuration, and Complexity
103(8)
ROBERT LAYTON
9. The Map Is Not the Territory: Complexity, Complication, and Representation
111(10)
JAMES MCGLADE
References 121(24)
Contributors 145(2)
Index 147

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