Title Emergence and collapse of early villages : models of central mesa verde archaeology / edited by Timothy A. Kohler and Mark D. Varien

Published Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2012

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 343 pages) : illustrations, maps Series Origins of human behavior and culture ; 6 Origins of human behavior and culture ; 6. Contents Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; Contributors; Chapter 1: Emergence and Collapse of Early Villages in the Central Mesa Verde: An Introduction; Chapter 2: The Study Area and the Ancestral Pueblo Occupation; Chapter 3: Low-Frequency Climate in the Mesa Verde Region: Beef Pasture Revisited; Chapter 4: Simulation Model Overview; Chapter 5: Modeling Paleohydrological System Structure and Function; Chapter 6: Modeling Agricultural Productivity and Farming Effort; Chapter 7: Modeling Plant and Animal Productivity and Fuel Use Chapter 8: Supply, Demand, Return Rates, And Resource Depression: Hunting in the Village Ecodynamics WorldChapter 9: How Hunting Changes the Vep World, and how the Vep World Changes Hunting; Chapter 10: Exercising the Model: Assessing Changes in Settlement Location and Efficiency; Chapter 11: Simulating Household Exchange with Cultural Algorithms; Chapter 12: Tool-Stone Procurement in the Mesa Verde Core Region Through Time; Chapter 13: Population Dynamics and Warfare in the Central Mesa Verde Region Chapter 14: Characterizing Community-Center (Village) Formation in the Vep Study Area, A.D. 600-1280Chapter 15: The Rise and Collapse of Villages in the Central Mesa Verde Region; Appendix A; Appendix B; Bibliography; Notes on Contributors; Index; Color insert follows page 84 Summary Comparing 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 studies as well as anyone applying modelling techniques to understanding how human societies shape, and are shaped by the environment Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Pueblo Indians -- Colorado -- Mesa Verde National Park -- History Pueblo Indians -- Colorado -- Mesa Verde National Park -- Agricuture Pueblo Indians -- Colorado -- Mesa Verde National Park -- Antiquities SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Archaeology. Antiquities Pueblo Indians Pueblo Indians -- Antiquities SUBJECT Mesa Verde National Park (Colo.) -- Antiquities Subject Colorado -- Mesa Verde National Park Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Kohler, Timothy A. (Timothy Alan), 1949- Varien, Mark. LC no. 2011028668 ISBN 9780520951990 0520951999 0520270142 9780520270145 1280116552 9781280116551

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