{"product_id":"9783319484013","title":"Studies in Human Ecology and Adaptation: Multiple Pathways to Social Complexity","description":"\u003ch1\u003eStudies in Human Ecology and Adaptation: Multiple Pathways to Social Complexity\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003eChacon, Richard J.; Mendoza, Rubén G.\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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, prestige-based and interpersonal-group competition, organized conflict, perennial wartime leadership, wealth finance, opportunistic leadership, climatological change, transport and trade monopolies, resource circumscription, surplus and redistribution, ideological imperialism, and the consideration of individual agency.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHowever, recent approaches such as the inclusion of bioarchaeological perspectives, prospection methods, systematically-investigated archaeological sites along with emerging technologies are necessarily transforming our understanding of socio-cultural evolutionary processes. In short, many pre-existing ways of explaining the origins and development of social complexity are being reassessed. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUltimately, the contributors to this edited volume challenge the status quo regarding how and why social complexity arose by providing revolutionary new understandings of social inequality and socio-political evolution.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Springer\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 2017-01-27\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9783319484013\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1007\/978-3-319-48402-0\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 235cm x155cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 490\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Springer International Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50091278598284,"sku":"9783319484013","price":179.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9783319484013.jpg?v=1779507966","url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9783319484013","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}