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War, space, and the evolution of Old World complex societies. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2013 Turchin P +3 more
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Evolutionary transitions toward pair living in nonhuman primates as stepping stones toward more complex societies. [PDF]
Sci Adv, 2019 Kappeler PM, Pozzi L.
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Bulletin de l'Institut Français d'Études Andines, 2006 This work is focussed on the archaeology of Los Puestos basin, better known in archaeological literature as Ambato Valley (Catamarca, Argentina). It is based on some field studies performed between 1999 and 2003.
Pablo J. Cruz
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Practical implications of 'postmodern philosophy' [PDF]
Filozofija i Društvo, 2002 The article examines the implications of the discourse about postmodernity. Postmodernity is analyzed as a complex discursive figure. Within the discourse about postmodernity three levels are distinguished: the postmodern condition, postmodernism, and ...
Savić Mile V.
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Biocultural Diversity in the Southern Amazon
Diversity, 2009 Recent studies in Amazonia historical ecology have revealed substantial diversity and dynamic change in coupled natural human systems. In the southern Amazon, several headwater basins show evidence of substantial pre-Columbian landscape modification ...
Michael Heckenberger
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Danish Journal of Archaeology, 2018 The purpose of this paper is to analyse roads to complexity and societal development. By comparing the processes leading to complexity in Late Iron Age and early Viking society in South Scandinavia with the pre-contact Hawaiian state, I set the ...
Mads Ravn
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Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2020 Understanding why large, complex human societies have emerged and persisted more readily in certain regions of the world than others is an issue of long-standing debate.
Thomas E. Currie +3 more
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Linhas Críticas, 2014 This bibliographic paper proposes to reflect on education in the context of complex societies, placed within the reframing of the school. The text begins by problematizing complex societies, to then question the limits of the science model that has ...
Telmo Marcon, Consuelo Cristine Piaia
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Scaling human sociopolitical complexity.
PLoS ONE, 2020 Human societies exhibit a diversity of social organizations that vary widely in size, structure, and complexity. Today, human sociopolitical complexity ranges from stateless small-scale societies of a few hundred individuals to complex states of millions,
Marcus J Hamilton +3 more
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Organizational complexity and demographic scale in primary states [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2018 The relationship between organizational complexity and demographic scale is an enduring research problem at the intersection of the natural and social sciences and has far reaching implications for the study of social evolution, particularly the ...
David S. Sandeford
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