The Model-Based Archaeology of Socionatural Systems

by Timothy A. Kohler (Editor), Sander E. van der Leeuw (Editor)

Overview

How should archaeologists and other social scientists tackle the big and little questions about change in socionatural systems? Although fieldwork is certainly the place to start, it alone is not enough to answer troublesome how or why questions. To make sense of what they find in the field, archaeologists build models-possible explanations for the data.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781930618879
Publisher:	University of New Mexico Press
Publication date:	05/23/2007
Series:	A School for Advanced Research Resident Scholar Book
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Timothy A. Kohler is a professor of anthropology at Washington State University, Pullman. His exposure to the archaeology of New Mexico's Northern Rio Grande region began during a sabbatical year at the School of American Research in Santa Fe. He completes a four-year term as editor of American Antiquity in 2004.

Editorial Reviews

"This will be the book on the simulations of past social systems. The various chapters divide into exploratory efforts and incredibly detailed paleoenvironmental and social systems....These studies involve the intimate participation of archaeologists, hydrologists, soil scientists, paleoclimatologists, evolutionary biologists, and computer modelers." -- George Gumerman

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