Understanding Complexity In The Prehistoric Southwest

The ProblemIntroduction (George J. Gumerman, Murray Gell-Mann, and Linda Cordell) Approaches to Understanding Southwestern Prehistory (Stephen Lekson, Linda Cordell, and George J. Gumerman) Southwestern Contributions to the Understanding of Core-Periphery Relations (Joseph Tainter) Human Biology And HealthIssues in Demography and Health (Alan C. Swedlund) Studies in Disruption: Demography and Health in the Prehistoric Southwest (Ben A. Nelson, Timothy A. Kohler, and Keith W. Kintigh) Demographic Alternatives: Consequences for Current Models of Southwestern Prehistory (Ben A. Nelson, Timothy A. Kohler, and Keith W. Kintigh) Offering ExplanationsThe Nature of Explanation in Archaeology: A Position Paper (Linda S. Cordell) Toward Increasing Our Knowledge of the Past: A Discussion (Linda S. Cordell, Jane H. Kelly, Keith W. Kintigh, Stephen H. Lekson, and Rolf M. Sinclair) Historical Processes in the Prehistoric Southwest (Jonathan Haas, Edmund J. Ladd, Jerrold E. Levy, Randall H. McGuire, and Morman Yoffee) Ethnographic Analogs: Strategies for Reconstructioning Archaeological Cultures (Jerrold E. Levy) Systems Modeling and Political Evolution: A Position Paper (Steadman Upham) A Perspective on Systems Modeling in Southwest Archaeology (Steadman Upham, Fred Plog, Robert Reynolds, and Joseph Tainter) Evolutionary and Ecological Moedling in Southwestern Archaeology (Wirt H. Wills) Complex Adaptive Systems and Southwestern Prehistory (Wirt H. Wills, Patricia L. Crown, Jeffrey S. Dean, and Christopher G. Langton) Memorandum to Murray Gell-Mann Concerning: The Complications of Complexity in the Prehistoric Southwest (Norman Yoffee)