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  • Beyond Collapse

    Archaeological Perspectives on Resilience, Revitalization, and Transformation in Complex Societies

    de J. Heath Anderson, Christina Conlee, Thomas Emerson, Kristin Hedman, Gary Feinman, Julie Hoggarth, Scott Hutson, Gyles Iannone, T. R. Kidder, Michael Loughlin0, Katie Lantzas1, Maureen Meyers2, Christopher Pool3, Christopher Rodning4, Jakob Sedig5, Nicola Sharratt6, Rebecca Storey7, Glenn Storey8, Joseph Tainter9, Joseph Tainter0, Victor Thompson1, Victor Thompson2, Andrea Torvinen3, Andrea Torvinen4, Kari Zobler5, Kari Zobler6, Richard Sutter7, Richard Sutter8 ...
    The Maya. The Romans. The great dynasties of ancient China. It is generally believed that these once mighty empires eventually crumbled and disappeared. A recent trend in archaeology, however, focusing on what happened during and after the decline of once powerful societies has found social resilience and transformation instead of collapse. In Beyond Collapse: Archaeological Perspectives on ... Leer más

    $33.99 USD

  • The Way the Wind Blows

    Climate Change, History, and Human Action

    Edición de Susan Keech McIntosh, Roderick McIntosh, Joseph Tainter ...
    Series series Historical Ecology Series
    Scientists and policymakers are beginning to understand in ever-increasing detail that environmental problems cannot be understood solely through the biophysical sciences. Environmental issues are fundamentally human issues and must be set in the context of social, political, cultural, and economic knowledge. The need both to understand how human beings in the past responded to climatic and other ... Leer más

    $44.99 USD

  • Supply-Side Sustainability

    de Timothy Allen, Joseph Tainter, Thomas Hoekstra ...
    Series series Complexity in Ecological Systems
    While environmentalists insist that lower rates of consumption of natural resources are essential for a sustainable future, many economists dismiss the notion that resource limits act to constrain modern, creative societies. The conflict between these views tinges political debate at all levels and hinders our ability to plan for the future.Supply-Side Sustainability offers a fresh approach to ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

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  • The Way the Wind Blows

    Climate Change, History, and Human Action

    Edición de Roderick J. McIntosh, Joseph A. Tainter, Susan Keech McIntosh ...
    Series series Historical Ecology Series
    -- Robert W. Harms, Yale University ... Leer más

    $40.99 USD

  • The Indigenous Paleolithic of the Western Hemisphere

    de Paulette F. C. Steeves ...
    2022 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleThe Indigenous Paleolithic of the Western Hemisphere is a reclaimed history of the deep past of Indigenous people in North and South America during the Paleolithic. Paulette F. C. Steeves mines evidence from archaeology sites and Paleolithic environments, landscapes, and mammalian and human migrations to make the case that people have been in the Western ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • Alternative Pathways to Complexity

    A Collection of Essays on Architecture, Economics, Power, and Cross-Cultural Analysis

    Edición de Lane F. Fargher, Verenice Y. Heredia Espinoza ...
    Alternative Pathways to Complexity focuses on the themes of architecture, economics, and power in the evolution of complex societies. Case studies from Mesoamerica, Asia, Africa, and Europe examine the relationship between political structures and economic configurations of ancient chiefdoms and states through a framework of comparative archaeology.A group of highly distinguished scholars takes up ... Leer más

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  • Ancient Households of the Americas

    Conceptualizing What Households Do

    Edición de John G. Douglass, Nancy Gonlin ...
    In Ancient Households of the Americas archaeologists investigate the fundamental role of household production in ancient, colonial, and contemporary households.Several different cultures-Iroquois, Coosa, Anasazi, Hohokam, San Agustín, Wankarani, Formative Gulf Coast Mexico, and Formative, Classic, Colonial, and contemporary Maya-are analyzed through the lens of household archaeology in concrete, ... Leer más

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  • Ten Thousand Years of Inequality

    The Archaeology of Wealth Differences

    Edición de Timothy A. Kohler, Michael E. Smith ...
    Series series Amerind Studies in Archaeology
    Is wealth inequality a universal feature of human societies, or did early peoples live an egalitarian existence? How did inequality develop before the modern era? Did inequalities in wealth increase as people settled into a way of life dominated by farming and herding? Why in general do such disparities increase, and how recent are the high levels of wealth inequality now experienced in many ... Leer más

    $28.79 USD

  • Surviving Sudden Environmental Change

    Answers From Archaeology

    Edición de Jago Cooper, Payson Sheets ...
    Archaeologists have long encountered evidence of natural disasters through excavation and stratigraphy. In Surviving Sudden Environmental Change, case studies examine how eight different past human communities-ranging from Arctic to equatorial regi ... Leer más

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  • Handbook of Archaeological Theories

    de R. Alexander Bentley, Kenneth M. Ames, Alex W. Barker, Peter Bellwood, Reinhard Bernbeck, John Bintliff, Briggs Buchanan, Mark Collard0, Tom D. Dillehay1, Timothy Earle2, Don D. Fowler3, Liane Gabora4, Andrew Gardner5, David W.J. Gill6, Kelly Hays-Gilpin7, ThomasJ Green8, Edward A. Jolie9, Sian Jones0, Peter Jordan1, Stephanie Koerner2, Carl Lipo3, Ben Marler4, Herbert D.G. Maschner5, Randall H. McGuire6, Ian J. McNiven7, Mark Pluciennuk8, Steven D. Price9, Lynette Russell0, Marion Salter1, Michael Shanks2, Stephen Shennan3, Timothy Taylor4, Patty Jo Watson5, Gillian Wallace6, Gary S. Webster7, David S. Whitley8, David R. Yesner9, Marek Zvelebil0 ...
    This handbook gathers original, authoritative articles from leading archaeologists to compile the latest thinking about archaeological theory. The authors provide a comprehensive picture of the theoretical foundations by which archaeologists contextualize and analyze their archaeological data. Student readers will also gain a sense of the immense power that theory has for building interpretations ... Leer más

    $109.99 USD

  • Anthropology Explored, Second Edition

    The Best of Smithsonian AnthroNotes

    Edición de Ruth Selig, Marilyn R. London, P. Ann Kaupp ...
    This new edition offers a variety of clearly written and readily accessible articles from the Smithsonian’s highly acclaimed, award-winning publication AnthroNotes. Some of the world's leading anthropologists explore fundamental questions humans ask about themselves as individuals, as societies, and as a species. The articles reveal the richness and breadth of anthropology, covering not only the ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD

  • How the Maya Built Their World

    Energetics and Ancient Architecture

    de Elliot M. Abrams ...
    Maya architecture is often described as "massive" and "monumental," but experiments at Copan, Honduras, convinced Elliot Abrams that 300 people could have built one of the large palaces there in only 100 days.In this groundbreaking work, Abrams explicates his theory of architectural energetics, which involves translating structures into volumes of raw and manufactured materials that are then ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD