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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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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Book/Text | Use in library | E78.S7 U54 1994 | Off-site |
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- 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