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Time, process, and structured transformation in archaeology /

0415117887 (alk. paper)

9780415117883 (alk. paper)

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Time, process, and structured transformation in archaeology /

[Book]

edited by Sander van der Leeuw and James McGlade

New York :

Routledge,

1997

xix, 484 p. :

ill., maps ;

25 cm

One world archaeology ;

26

Includes bibliographical references and index

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

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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

Revolutionary innovations in the natural and life sciences, often erroneously referred to as 'chaos theory', suggest that there are ways to overcome this problem. A wide range of processes can be described in terms of these dynamical systems, and modern computing methods enable us to investigate many of their properties. This volume presents a cogent argument for the use of such approaches, and a discussion of a number of its aspects, by a range of scientists from the humanities, social and natural sciences, and archaeology

Archaeology

Chaotic behavior in systems

Leeuw, Sander Ernst van der

McGlade, James,1949-

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