Feast, Famine or Fighting? Multiple Pathways to Social Complexity
The advent of social complexity has been a longstanding debate among social scientists. Existing theories and approaches involving the origins of social complexity include environmental circumscription, population growth, technology transfers, p
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Richard J. Chacon Rubén G. Mendoza Editors
Feast, Famine or Fighting? Multiple Pathways to Social Complexity
Studies in Human Ecology and Adaptation Series editors Daniel G. Bates, New York, NY, USA Ludomir R. Lozny, New York, NY, USA
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Editors Richard J. Chacon Department of Sociology and Anthropology Winthrop University Rock Hill, SC USA
Rubén G. Mendoza Social, Behavioral and Global Studies CSU Monterey Bay Seaside, CA USA
ISSN 1574-0501 Studies in Human Ecology and Adaptation ISBN 978-3-319-48401-3 ISBN 978-3-319-48402-0 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-48402-0
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Acknowledgements
Richard J. Chacon wishes to thank his esteemed colleague and co-editor Dr. Ruben Mendoza (California State University, Monterey Bay) for the pleasure of collaborating on their fourth edited volume. He thanks Teresa Krauss, Senior Editor at Springer, for her many proactive efforts to shepherd this volume through the editorial process. Chacon would also like to thank the two anonymous reviewers for their valuable critiques. Chacon is grateful to all the people at Winthrop University who were supportive of this project, especially Dr. Jeannie Haubert (current Chair of the Sociology and Anthropology Department) along with the former chair, Dr. Jonathan Marx. This research benefited greatly from the diligent efforts of the entire Inter-Library Loan (ILL) Staff of Winthrop University’s Dacus Library. Chacon also received indispensable computer support fro
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