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Understanding complexity in the prehistoric Southwest

Title
Understanding complexity in the prehistoric Southwest / editors, George J. Gumerman, Murray Gell-Mann.
Publication
Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley Pub. Co., Advanced Book Program, ©1994.

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Additional Authors
  • Gumerman, George J.
  • Gell-Mann, Murray.
Description
xii, 368 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
Series Statement
Proceedings volume XVI, Santa Fe Institute studies in the sciences of complexity
Uniform Title
Proceedings volume in the Santa Fe Institute studies in the sciences of complexity ; v. 16.
Subject
  • Indians of North America > Southwest, New > Antiquities > Computer simulation
  • Adaptation (Biology) > Mathematical models
  • Archaeology > Southwest, New > Methodology
  • 15.85 history of America
  • Adaptation (Biology) > Mathematical models
  • Antiquities
  • Archaeology > Methodology
  • Indians of North America > Antiquities > Computer simulation
  • Vor- und Frühgeschichte
  • Aufsatzsammlung
  • Sociale structuur
  • Precolumbiaans tijdperk
  • Archeologische aspecten
  • Archéologie > États-Unis (sud-ouest)
  • Iwi taketake
  • Southwest, New > Antiquities
  • New Southwest
  • USA > Südweststaaten
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction / George J. Gumerman, Murray Gell-Mann and Linda Cordell -- Approaches to understanding Southwestern prehistory / Stephen Lekson, Linda Cordell and George J. Gumerman -- Southwestern contributions to the understanding of core-periphery relations / Joseph Tainter -- Issues in demography and health / Alan C. Swedlund -- Studies in disruption : demography and health in the prehistoric Southwest / Ben A. Nelson, Debra L. Martin, Alan C. Swedlund, Paul R. Fish, and George J. Armelago -- Demographic alternatives : consequences for current models of Southwestern prehistory / Ben A. Nelson, Timothy A. Kohler, and Keith W. Kintigh -- The nature of explanation in archaeology : a position paper / Linda S. Cordell -- Toward increasing our knowledge of the past : a discussion / Linda S. Cordell, Jane H. Kelley, Keith W. Kintigh, Stephen H. Lekson and Rolf M. Sinclair -- Historical processes and Southwestern prehistory : a position paper / Randall H. McGuire -- Historical processes in the prehistoric Southwest / Jonathan Haas, Edmund J. Ladd, Jerrold E. Levy, Randall H. McGuire and Norman Yoffee -- Ethnographic analogs : strategies for reconstructioning archaeological cultures / Jerrold E. Levy -- Systems modeling and political evolution : a position paper / Steadman Upham -- A perspective on systems modeling in Southwest archaeology / Steadman Upham, Fred Plog, Robert Reynolds, and Joseph Tainter -- Evolutionary and ecological modeling in Southwestern archaeology / Wirt H. Wills -- Complex adaptive systems and Southwestern prehistory / Wirt H. Wills, Patricia L. Crown, Jeffrey S. Dean, and Christopher G. Langton -- Memorandum to Murray Gell-Mann concerning: The complications of complexity in the prehistoric Southwest / Norman Yofee.
ISBN
  • 0201527634
  • 9780201527636
  • 0201527669
  • 9780201527667
LCCN
94006317
OCLC
  • ocm30078671
  • 30078671
  • SCSB-2044409
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library