The Model-Based Archaeology of Socionatural Systems

by Kohler, Timothy A.; Leeuw, Sander E. Van Der

• ISBN13: 9781930618879
• ISBN10: 1930618875
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-05-31
• Publisher: School for Advanced Research/Sar pr

Summary

Taken together, the chapters in this volume constitute an argument for a new way of thinking about how archaeology is (and should be) conducted.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Historical Socionatural Systems and Models	p. 1
Continuity and Change in Different Domains of Culture: An Emerging Approach to Understanding Diversity in Technological Traditions	p. 13
Modeling the Role of Resilience in Socioenvironmental Co-evolution: The Middle Rhone Valley between 1000 B.C. and A.D. 1000	p. 41
Settlement Ecodynamics in the Prehispanic Central Mesa Verde Region	p. 61
The Emergence of Inequality in Small-Scale Societies: Simple Scenarios and Agent-Based Simulations	p. 105
Human Ecodynamics in the Hawaiian Ecosystem, from 1200 to 200 Yr BP	p. 121
The Spread of Farming into Central Europe and Its Consequences: Evolutionary Models	p. 141
Stylized Models to Analyze Robustness of Irrigation Systems	p. 157
Modeling Settlement Systems in a Dynamic Environment: Case Studies from Mesopotamia	p. 175
Evolution toward Complexity in a Coastal Desert Environment: The Early Bronze Age in the Ja'alan, Sultanate of Oman	p. 209
Progress in Cultural Modeling	p. 229
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