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Evolving Complexity And Environmental Risk In The Prehistoric Southwest
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eBook - ePub
Evolving Complexity And Environmental Risk In The Prehistoric Southwest
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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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Yes, you can access Evolving Complexity And Environmental Risk In The Prehistoric Southwest by Joseph A. Tainter,Bonnie Bagley Tainter in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Biological Sciences & Biology. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Index
A
abandonment 16, 18, 124, 133, 149, 188, 253, 261
and social collapse 253
and resources 124–125
of regions 16, 18, 72, 124, 149, 183, 188, 253, 261
Ache 118
adaptation 18, 27–29, 31–33, 35, 45, 261
and evolution 27
behavioral 31
cultural 48
demographic 30
environmental variables in 29–30
human behavioral variables in 30
adaptational model 51
adaptive behavior 26–27, 30, 49
change 26, 28, 45, 51
adaptive configurations 29
adaptive crises 45
adaptive evolution 47
adaptive systems 28, 50
Africa 59
agave 119–120
agent-based computer simulations 258, 263
aggradation-degradation 37
aggregated populations 80, 255–256
see also sharing
aggregated settlements 121, 125
sites 183
aggregation 181, 183, 188, 224, 257
see also aggregated populations
agricultural economies 25
agricultural production 170, 37
agricultural risk 257
agriculturalists 200, 225
agriculture 115, 120–121
Anasazi dependence on 188
and social networks 225
and storage 64, 115
Bantu 225
famine foods 62–64
growing season 227
Hopi 18, 62, 226–228
irrigation in 224, 228
Mbuti 225
multiple field locations 62
polyculture 61
sustainable 58
technological strategies for 107
see also ak...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication Page
- Contents
- 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
- Variablity in Food Production, Strategies of Storage and Sharing, and the Pithouse-to-Pueblo Transition in the Northern Southwest
- Models and Frameworks for Archaeological Analysis of Resource Stress in the American Southwest
- Index