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ITEC Faculty
He is particularly interested in studying the various roles animal resources play in contact situations, hunter-gatherer and incipient complex societies ... . 2002. Vertebrate Faunal Remains From La Blanca, Guatemala. In Early Complex Society in Pacific Guatemala: Settlements and Chronology of the Rio ...
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Land Use History of the Colorado Plateau-Chaco Canyon, New Mexico (part 1 of 3)
Yet a thousand years ago Chaco Canyon was the epicenter of the complex Eastern Anasazi culture, associated with as many as 400 nearby and outlying Chacoan Anasazi villages ... few centuries, Chaco Canyon was the setting for the development of one of the most complex societies in pre-contact North America, a place of power and wealth, and the center of ...
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Research Scholarships and Grants
Dr. John Terrell. Oceanic archaeology and ethnology Dr. Anne Underhill. East Asian archaeology and anthropology: development of complex societies, craft production, ceramic ethnoarchaeology. Dr. Patrick Ryan Williams. Archaeological science: Andean archaeology and anthropology, complex societies, GIS & ...
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Research - The Calusa Domain
Florida in the sixteenth century, they encountered a populous, sedentary, and politically complex society: the Calusa. From several firsthand accounts of south Florida Indians written by Europeans, ... Although they probably kept small home-gardens, they raised no corn, beans, or manioc. Most complex societies depend on one or more staple crops and on the ability to distribute a ...
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A brief history of the relationship between humans and wildlife - MarineBio.org
(Richerson et al. 1996). Permanent villages and small cities usually first occur in agricultural societies. The greater productivity of agriculture can support a more complex ... of labor allows for the development of complex societies with a considerable degree of specialization. Writing is present is advanced agrarian societies, and there often are well-developed artistic, ...
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NAON Chapter 2 - Risks of Inaction on Sustainable Development
Implications of Amazon Fires, USGCRP Seminar, 30 March. 13. Tainter, J. (1988) The Collapse of Complex Societies, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, p133. 14. McNeill, W. (1975) Plagues and Peoples, Anchor/Doubleday, Garden ...
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Robert Gilman - Stages Of Change
Wallace (see Culture and Personality) based on studies of change in both tribal and civilized societies. The process begins with a drift away from some previous state of cultural harmony, ... to recent changes that are seen by the innovators as either positive or unchangeable. In complex societies under stress (like our own), there are usually many revitalization movements competing for attention and ...
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William N. Ellis - Governance
Each of us is governed and governs by many forces ... . In fact, history shows that the societies with the least bureaucratic and hierarchical structures have had the greatest stability over time. Many of these societies are based on precepts that are much ...
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Abrupt Climate Change Research at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University in Palisades, New York
If climate change occurs gradually then it is hoped that societies will have time to adjust to the undoubtedly large consequences, such as an increase in ... plan, causing severe stress on the resource systems - agriculture, water, energy, for example - that support complex social systems and even risking political and economic chaos. We know from studies of the ...
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Soils and Societies
The complex interrelations between societies in different parts of the world and the soils they relied on are ... soils and humans.' (Prof. Winfried E.H. Blum, President, European Confederation of Soil Science Societies and Former Secretary General, International Union of Soil Sciences) TABLE OF CONTENTS 1.Soils, ...
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