Emergence and collapse of early villages : models of central mesa verde archaeology /
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| Imprint: | Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2012. |
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| Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 343 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Origins of human behavior and culture ; 6 Origins of human behavior and culture ; 6. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11149672 |
| Summary: | Ancestral Pueblo farmers encountered the deep, well watered, and productive soils of the central Mesa Verde region of Southwest Colorado around A.D. 600, and within two centuries built some of the largest villages known up to that time in the U.S. Southwest. But one hundred years later, those villages were empty, and most people had gone. This cycle repeated itself from the mid-A.D. 1000s until 1280, when Puebloan farmers permanently abandoned the entire northern Southwest. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, this book examines how climate change, population size, interpersonal conflict, resource depression, and changing social organization contribute to explaining these dramatic shifts. Comparing the 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 societies around the world as well as anyone applying modeling techniques to understanding how human societies shape, and are shaped by the environments we inhabit. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 343 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520951990 0520951999 0520270142 9780520270145 1280116552 9781280116551 |