Global perspectives on the collapse of complex systems / edited by Jim A. Railey and Richard Martin Reycraft

Published:: Albuquerque, N.M. : Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, [2008]
Copyright Date:: ©2008
Physical Description:: viii, 173 pages : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm.
Additional Creators:: Railey, Jimmy A., 1956- and Reycraft, Richard Martin

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Anthropological papers / Maxwell Museum of Anthropology ; no. 8

Contents:

The collapse of centers in late Iron Age Europe / Peter S. Wells -- Collapse of civilization and the potential for multilinear evolution / Allen Zagarell -- What happened in the Shang Dynasty? Collapse and florescence in the early Bronze Age of North-Central China / Jim A. Railey -- Hillforts and the cycling of Maori chiefdoms : do good fences make good neighbors? / Mark W. Allen -- Continuities and discontinuities in the Nasca culture, Río Grande de Nazca, South Coastal Peru / Helaine Silverman -- Collapse as historical process : the Moche case / Garth Bawden -- Sociopolitical collapse, niche adaptation, and ethnogenesis : prehistoric social responses to natural disaster in the far south coast of Peru / Richard Martin Reycraft -- Collapse among Amerindian complex societies in Amazonia and the insular Caribbean : endogenous or exogenous factors? / James B. Petersen ... [et al.] -- Contemplating Cahokia's collapse / John E. Kelly.

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ISBN:

9780912535159
0912535156

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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