Time, Process and Structured Transformation in Archaeology (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Mcglade, James; Leeuw, Sander E. van der

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The volume presents cogent arguments and methods for the study of change, in a range of essays by experts from the humanities, social and natural sciences, and archaeology.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 504
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134524952
• Artikelnr.: 39704833

Autorenporträt

James McGlade, Sander E. van der Leeuw

Inhaltsangabe

Preface 1 Introduction: Archaeology and non-linear dynamics -new approaches
to long-term change Part I Dynamical approaches to social processes 2
Models of creativity: towards a new science of history 3 The dynamics of
peer polities 4 City-size dynamics in urban systems 5 Expectations and
social outcomes Part II Models for archaeology 6 Archaeological
interpretation and non-linear dynamic modelling: between metaphor and
simulation 7 Simulating mammoth hunting and extinctions: implications for
North America 8 Clusters of death, pockets of survival: dynamic modelling
and GIS 9 Fractal environmental changes and the evolution of culture 10 Why
does cultural evolution proceed at a faster rate than biological evolution?
11 Distributed artificial intelligence and emergent social complexity 12
The limits of social control: coherence and chaos in a prestige-goods
economy 13 Structural change and bifurcation in urban evolution: a
non-linear dynamical perspective Part III Issues in modelling 14 Are our
modelling paradigms non-generic? 15 On wholeness, reflexive complexity,
hierarchies, structures and system dynamics 16 Towards an 'appropriate
metrology' of human action in archaeology 17 Dynamic modelling and new
social theory of the mid- to long term