Time, Process and Structured Transformation in Archaeology

by: van der Leuuw, S.E. McGlade, J.

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Time, process, and structured transformation in archaeology

Authors:Sander Ernst van der Leeuw, James McGlade

Summary:Is 'chaos theory' relevant to archaeology? In a discipline which essentially studies how human beings came to be, it is remarkable that there are hardly any conceptual tools to describe change. The western intellectual and scientific tradition has for a long time favoured mechanics over dynamics, and the study of stability, over that of change. In the case of archaeology, change has been primarily viewed in terms of external climatic and 'environmental' events

Series:
One world archaeology, 26

Contents:
Introduction: archaeology and non-linear dynamics- new approaches to long-term change / James McGlade and Sander E. van der Leeuw
Models of creativity: towards a new science of history / Peter M. Allen
The dynamics of peer politics / Harry R. Erwin
City-size dynamics in urban systems / Denise Pumain
Expectations and social outcomes / Natalie S. Glance and Bernardo A. Huberman
Archaeological interpretation and non-linear dynamic modelling: between metaphor and simulation / Henri-Paul Francfort
Simulating mammoth hunting and extinctions: implications for North America / Steven J. Mithen
Clusters of death, pockets of survival: dynamic modelling and GIS / Ezra Zubrow
Fractal environmental changes and the evolution of culture / Geoffrey C.P. King and Allan G. Lindh
Why does cultural evolution proceed at a faster rate than biological evolution? / Robert G. Reynolds
Distributed artificial intelligence and emergent social complexity / Jim Doran
The limits of social control: coherence and chaos in a prestige-goods economy / James McGlade
Structural change and bifurcation in urban evolution: a non-linear dynamical perspective / Sander E. van der Leeuw and James McGlade
Are our modelling paradigms non-generic? / Robert Rosen
On wholeness, reflexive complexity, hierarchies, structures and system dynamics / Graham P. Chapman
Towards an 'appropriate metrology' of human action in archaeology / H. Martin Wobst
Dynamic modelling and new social theory of the mid- to long term / Tim Murray

Time, Process and Structured Transformation in Archaeology

by: van der Leuuw, S.E. McGlade, J.

• ISBN-13: 9780415117883 / 978-0-415-11788-3
• ISBN-03: 0415117887 / 0-415-11788-7
• Routledge, London, 1997

Price: 139,00 EURO

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