Dissertation
Trade, territoriality, alliances and conflict : Complexity science approaches to the archaeological record of the U.S. Southwest with a case study from Languedoc, France
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Washington State University
01/2016
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/12026
Abstract
This project utilizes network analysis and agent-based modeling to examine long-standing questions that can only now be asked with the rich data provided in southwestern Colorado and southern France: how Gauls and colonists established economic partnerships, how violence may have shaped the development of multiple levels of leadership, and how early farmers interacted with their environments. Writing a dissertation composed of three distinct case studies, two from the U.S. Southwest and one from the south of France, I use tools developed in complexity science to better address how people in prehistory dealt with challenges related to resource acquisition. Agent-based modeling and network analysis (both social network analysis and trophic network analysis) will allow me to characterize human decision-making processes and discuss how sharing of strategies within a group can lead to greater fitness of those in the in-group.
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- Title
- Trade, territoriality, alliances and conflict
- Creators
- Stefani A. Crabtree
- Contributors
- Timothy A Kohler (Advisor)Francois Favory (Advisor)Laure Nuninger (Committee Member)Andrew I. Duff (Committee Member)
- Awarding Institution
- Washington State University
- Academic Unit
- Anthropology, Department of
- Theses and Dissertations
- Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Washington State University
- Number of pages
- 261
- Identifiers
- 99900581431701842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Dissertation