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1 online resource (xii, 343 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Origins of human behavior and culture ; 6
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Origins of human behavior and culture ; 6.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
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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. |
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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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Pueblo Indians -- Colorado -- Mesa Verde National Park -- History.
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Pueblo Indians. |
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Colorado -- Mesa Verde National Park. |
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History. |
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Pueblo Indians -- Colorado -- Mesa Verde National Park -- Agricuture.
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Pueblo Indians -- Colorado -- Mesa Verde National Park -- Antiquities.
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Antiquities. |
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Mesa Verde National Park (Colo.) -- Antiquities.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Kohler, Timothy A. (Timothy Alan), 1949-
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Varien, Mark.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Emergence and collapse of early villages. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2012 (DLC) 2011028668 |
| ISBN |
9780520951990 (electronic book) |
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0520951999 (electronic book) |
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0520270142 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780520270145 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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1280116552 |
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9781280116551 |
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9780520270145 |
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