Evolving Complexity And Environmental Risk In The Prehistoric Southwest: Proceedings of the Workshop "Resource Stress, Economic Uncertainty, and Human ... 1992 in san (Santa Fe Institute Series) - Softcover

Buch 11 von 14: Santa Fe Institute Studies in the Sciences of Complexity

Workshop "Resource Stress, Economic Uncertainty, And Human Response In The Prehistoric Southwest" (1992 : Santa Fe, N. M.); Tainter, Bonnie Bagley

 
9780201870404: Evolving Complexity And Environmental Risk In The Prehistoric Southwest: Proceedings of the Workshop "Resource Stress, Economic Uncertainty, and Human ... 1992 in san (Santa Fe Institute Series)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0201870401 ISBN 13: 9780201870404
Verlag: Westview Press, 1996

Inhaltsangabe

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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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Joseph A. Tainter is project leader of Cultural Heritage Research, Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station, Albuquerque, New Mexico. He has taught anthropology at the University of New Mexico, and is the author or editor of many articles and monographs. His book The Collapse of Complex Societies develops a long-standing research interest in the evolution of socioeconomic complexity. His work has been recognized in several fields, and has led to invitations to lecture to organizations as diverse as the Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities and the International Society for Ecological Economics.Bonnie Bagley Tainter is an archaeologist, poet, editor, and private consultant. Her academic interests range from vertebrate and invertebrate evolution to Southwestern archaeology, and include historic preservation planning for her home community of Corrales, New Mexico. She previously contributed to the editing of several papers for the book Effects of War on Society, and has done research on the architecture of Hovenweep National Monument and on prehistoric settlement changes in the Albuquerque area.

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Verlag
Westview Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1996
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0201870401
ISBN 13 
9780201870404
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
300
Kontakt zum Hersteller
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