Time, Process and Structured Transformation in Archaeology

By: James McGlade (Editor), Sander E. van der Leeuw (Editor)

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Hardcover | 2 January 1997 | Edition Number 1

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In a discipline which essentially studies how modern man came to be, it is remarkable that there are hardly any conceptual tools to describe change. This is due to the history of the western intellectual and scientific tradition, which for a long time favoured mechanics over dynamics, and the study of stability over that of change. Change was primarily deemed due to external events (in archaeology mainly climatic or 'environmental').
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 dynamic 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.

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..."the chapters that attempt to build models focused on phenomena that are relatively bounded in time and space to be the most productive of insight." -"American Anthropology, Sep, 1998

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List of figures
List of tables
List of contributors
Preface
Introduction: Archaeology and non-linear dynamics - new approaches to long-term change	p. 1
Dynamical approaches to social processes	p. 33
Models of creativity: towards a new science of history	p. 39
The dynamics of peer polities	p. 57
City-size dynamics in urban systems	p. 97
Expectations and social outcomes	p. 118
Models for archaeology	p. 143
Archaeological interpretation and non-linear dynamic modelling: between metaphor and simulation	p. 151
Simulating mammoth hunting and extinctions: implications for North America	p. 176
Clusters of death, pockets of survival: dynamic modelling and GIS	p. 216
Fractal environmental changes and the evolution of culture	p. 254
Why does cultural evolution proceed at a faster rate than biological evolution?	p. 269
Distributed artificial intelligence and emergent social complexity	p. 283
The limits of social control: coherence and chaos in a prestige-goods economy	p. 298
Structural change and bifurcation in urban evolution: a non-linear dynamical perspective	p. 331
Issues in modelling	p. 373
Are our modelling paradigms non-generic?	p. 383
On wholeness, reflexive complexity, hierarchies, structures and system dynamics	p. 396
Towards an 'appropriate metrology' of human action in archaeology	p. 426
Dynamic modelling and new social theory of the mid- to long term	p. 449
Index	p. 464
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