Emergence and collapse of early villages: models of central mesa verde archaeology
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Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Berkeley University of California Press c2012
Schriftenreihe:Origins of human behavior and culture 6
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Comparing simulations from agent-based models with the precisely dated archaeological record from this area, this text will interest archaeologists working in the Southwest and in Neolithic studies as well as anyone applying modelling techniques to understanding how human societies shape, and are shaped by the environment
Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; Contributors; Chapter 1: Emergence and Collapse of Early Villages in the Central Mesa Verde: An Introduction; Chapter 2: The Study Area and the Ancestral Pueblo Occupation; Chapter 3: Low-Frequency Climate in the Mesa Verde Region: Beef Pasture Revisited; Chapter 4: Simulation Model Overview; Chapter 5: Modeling Paleohydrological System Structure and Function; Chapter 6: Modeling Agricultural Productivity and Farming Effort; Chapter 7: Modeling Plant and Animal Productivity and Fuel Use
Chapter 8: Supply, Demand, Return Rates, And Resource Depression: Hunting in the Village Ecodynamics WorldChapter 9: How Hunting Changes the Vep World, and how the Vep World Changes Hunting; Chapter 10: Exercising the Model: Assessing Changes in Settlement Location and Efficiency; Chapter 11: Simulating Household Exchange with Cultural Algorithms; Chapter 12: Tool-Stone Procurement in the Mesa Verde Core Region Through Time; Chapter 13: Population Dynamics and Warfare in the Central Mesa Verde Region
Chapter 14: Characterizing Community-Center (Village) Formation in the Vep Study Area, A.D. 600-1280Chapter 15: The Rise and Collapse of Villages in the Central Mesa Verde Region; Appendix A; Appendix B; Bibliography; Notes on Contributors; Index; Color insert follows page 84
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xii, 343 p.)
ISBN:0520951999
1280116552
9780520270145
9780520951990
9781280116551

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