Global perspectives on the collapse of complex systems / edited by Jim A. Railey and Richard Martin Reycraft.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Railey, Jimmy A., 1956-

Reycraft, Richard Martin

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Series:

Anthropological papers (Maxwell Museum of Anthropology) ; no. 8.

Anthropological papers / Maxwell Museum of Anthropology ; no. 8

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social archaeology.

Social systems--History.

Social systems.

Social change--History.

Social change.

History.

Social evolution.

Ethnoarchaeology.

Civilization, Ancient.

Prehistoric peoples.

Historic sites.

Excavations (Archaeology).

Physical Description:

viii, 173 pages : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm.

Place of Publication:

Albuquerque, N.M. : Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, [2008]

Contents:

The collapse of centers in late Iron Age Europe / Peter S. Wells

Collapse of civilization and the potential for multilinear evolution / Allen Zagarell

What happened in the Shang Dynasty? Collapse and florescence in the early Bronze Age of North-Central China / Jim A. Railey

Hillforts and the cycling of Maori chiefdoms : do good fences make good neighbors? / Mark W. Allen

Continuities and discontinuities in the Nasca culture, Río Grande de Nazca, South Coastal Peru / Helaine Silverman

Collapse as historical process : the Moche case / Garth Bawden

Sociopolitical collapse, niche adaptation, and ethnogenesis : prehistoric social responses to natural disaster in the far south coast of Peru / Richard Martin Reycraft

Collapse among Amerindian complex societies in Amazonia and the insular Caribbean : endogenous or exogenous factors? / James B. Petersen ... [et al.]

Contemplating Cahokia's collapse / John E. Kelly.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

9780912535159

0912535156

OCLC:

233798870

Publisher Number:

99934996098