Evolving complexity and environmental risk in the prehistoric Southwest : proceedings of the Workshop "Resource Stress, Economic Uncertainty, and Human Response in the Prehistoric Southwest," held February 25-29, 1992, in Santa Fe, NM
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Evolving complexity and environmental risk in the prehistoric Southwest : proceedings of the Workshop "Resource Stress, Economic Uncertainty, and Human Response in the Prehistoric Southwest," held February 25-29, 1992, in Santa Fe, NM
（Proceedings volume in the Santa Fe Institute studies in the sciences of complexity, v. 24）
Addison-Wesley Pub. Co., c1996
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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ISBN 9780201870398
内容説明
Proceedings of the Workshop Resource Stress, Economic Uncertainty, and Human Response in the Prehistoric Southwest, Held February 2529, 1992 in Santa Fe, NM.. Cultural behavior exhibits many of the features of complex adaptive systems, but is in some ways distinctive. Cultural complexity is enigmatic, improbable, and difficult to maintain. It constrains behavior, limits understanding of processes, and imposes economic burdens. The advantages of complexity are modified by human cognition and limited by economic and environmental costs. This book explores in detail how and why prehistoric Southwestern societies changed in complexity, and thus offers important new perspectives on the evolution of culture.The papers discuss the factors that made prehistoric Southwesterners vulnerable to an arid environment, and their strategies to lessen risk and stress. The topics of the book link Southwestern data to fields such as economics, climatology, and evolutionary theory.
In addition to a readership of archaeologists and anthropologists, this volume will be of interest to specialists in these related fields and to those concerned with complex adaptive systems and the work of the Santa Fe Institute.
目次
- Introduction: Prehistoric Societies as Evolving Complex Systems (Joseph A. Tainter)
- Demography, Environment, and Subsistence Stress (Jeffrey S. Dean)
- Notes on Economic Uncertainty and Human Behavior in the Prehistoric North American Southwest (Paul E. Minnis)
- Hunting, Gathering, and Health in the Prehistoric Southwest (Katherine A. Spielmann and Eric A. Angstadt-Leto)
- Technological Strategies Responsive to Subsistence Stress (Margaret C. Nelson)
- The Calculus of Self-Interest in the Development of Cooperation: Sociopolitical Development and Risk Among the Northern Anasazi (Timothy A. Kohler and Carla R. Van West)
- Risk, Reciprocity, and the Operation of Social Networks (Alison E. Rautman)
- Variability in Food Production, Strategies of Storage and Sharing, and the Pithouse-to-Pueblo Transition in the Northern Southwest (Michelle Hegmon)
- Models and Frameworks for Archaeological Analysis of Resource Stress in the American Southwest (Linda S. Cordell)
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pbk. ISBN 9780201870404
内容説明
Cultural behaviour exhibits many of the features of complex adaptive systems, but is in some ways distinctive. Cultural complexity is enigmatic, improbable, and difficult to maintain. It constrains behaviour, limits understanding of processes, and imposes economic burdens. The advantages of complexity are modified by human cognition and limited by economic and environmental costs. This book explores in detail how and why prehistoric Southwestern societies changed in complexity, and thus offers important new perspectives on the evolution of culture.The papers discuss the factors that made prehistoric Southwesterners vulnerable to an arid environment, and their strategies to lessen risk and stress. The topics of the book link Southwestern data to fields such as economics, climatology, and evolutionary theory. In addition to a readership of archaeologists and anthropologists, this volume will be of interest to specialists in these related fields and to those concerned with complex adaptive systems and the work of the Santa Fe Institute.
目次
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-to-Pueblo Transition in the Northern Southwest -- Models and Frameworks for Archaeological Analysis of Resource Stress in the American Southwest
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