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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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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, Robert S Walker, Briggs Buchanan, David S Sandeford   +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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The Transformation of Citizenship in Complex Societies [PDF]

, 2010
The main purpose of this paper is to propose a theoretical framework for understanding the transformation of citizenship in complex societies. To this end, the paper is divided into six sections.
Adorno TW, Alibhai-Brown Y., Anderson RD, Bauman Z., Beck U., Bloch E., Boucher Castel L., Bovens MAP, Burchardt H-J, Chomsky N., Chomsky N., Clark GL, Cohen J., Cohen J., Delgado-Moreira JM, DeMartino G., Dunne M, Giddens A., Gleizer Salzman M., Gopinath C., Habermas J., Hardt M., Hardt M., Harvey D., Haug WF, Held D, Held D, Held D, Held D., Hirst PQ, Holmes L., Horváth E., Ianni O., Isin EF, Kincheloe JL, Lash S., Levey GB, Mandel RE, Mandelbaum M, Marshall G, Melucci A., Mouffe C, Rogers A, Roy RK, Saad-Filho A, Sakwa R., Scott A., Seligman AB, Simon Susen, Smith A, Steger MB, Susen S., Susen S., Susen S., Susen S., Susen S., Taras R, Touraine A., von Beyme K., White S, Young IM   +60 more
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Educação em sociedades complexas: desafios para ressignificar sociopedagógica e politicamente a escola

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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New Evidence of the Emergence of Complex Societies Discovered on the Central Iranian Plateau [PDF]

Iranian Journal of Archaeological Studies, 2011
The archaeological mound of Sofalin south of the Alborz Mountains of Northern Iran (Eastern Rey plain) sheds considerablelight on at least four problems connected with the emergence of complex societies in this part of Iran.
Morteza Hessari
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Vientos del sur: El valle de Yocavil (Noroeste Argentino) bajo la dominación incaica

Estudios Atacameños
El sector meridional del valle de Yocavil (provincia de Catamarca) conformó un espacio de importancia estratégica y económica para la administración incaica.
Luis R González, Myriam N Tarragó
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The Genome and Methylome of a Subsocial Small Carpenter Bee, Ceratina calcarata [PDF]

, 2016
Understanding the evolution of animal societies, considered to be a major transition in evolution, is a key topic in evolutionary biology. Recently, new gateways for understanding social evolution have opened up due to advances in genomics, allowing for ...
Glastad, Karl M., Hunt, Brendan G., Lawson, Sarah P., Rehan, Sandra M.   +3 more
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Language, Values, and Ideology in Complex Human Societies [PDF]

, 2015
Using language requires simultaneously verifying communication and the linguistic message of the speaker. There is, therefore, an emphasis on understanding, which is contained in the linguistic message.
Gash, Hugh, Nescolarde-Selva, Josué Antonio, Usó i Domènech, Josep Lluís   +2 more
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Solteros o casados: ¿Quién come mejor? La evidencia faunística del asentamiento minero histórico de Capote, región de Atacama (Chile)

Estudios Atacameños
A partir de un análisis zooarqueológico se discute la posibilidad de detectar diferencias en las opciones dietarias de dos segmentos de la población, casados y solteros, del asentamiento minero histórico de Capote durante la primera mitad del s. XX.
Rafael Labarca, Elisa Calás, Francisco Rivera   +2 more
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