A5014163031- Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
- Language and cultural evolution
- Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
- Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis
- Historical and Archaeological Studies
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Agricultural risk and resilience
- Latin American history and culture
- Agricultural Economics and Policy
- Complex Systems and Time Series Analysis
- Primate Behavior and Ecology
- Islamic Studies and History
- Archaeology and Historical Studies
- Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
- Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
- Housing Market and Economics
- Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
- Soil Geostatistics and Mapping
- Tree-ring climate responses
- Medieval European History and Architecture
- Historical Economic and Social Studies
- Archaeological Research and Protection
- Archaeology and Natural History
- Spatial and Panel Data Analysis
Arizona State University
2015-2020
Do human societies from around the world exhibit similarities in way that they are structured, and show commonalities ways have evolved? These long-standing questions proven difficult to answer. To test between competing hypotheses, we constructed a massive repository of historical archaeological information known as "Seshat: Global History Databank." We systematically coded data on 414 30 regions spanning last 10,000 years. were able capture 51 variables reflecting nine characteristics...
Medieval European urbanization presents a line of continuity between earlier cities and modern urban systems. Yet, many the spatial, political economic features medieval were particular to Middle Ages, subsequently changed over Early Modern Period Industrial Revolution. There is long tradition demographic studies estimating population sizes cities, comparative analyses these data have shed much light on long-term evolution However, next step—to systematically relate size their spatial...
Agricultural productivity, and its variation in space time, plays a fundamental role many theories of human social evolution. However, we often lack systematic information about the productivity past agricultural systems on large enough scale order to be able test these properly. The effect climate crop yields has received great deal attention resulting range empirical process-based models, yet focus primarily been current or future conditions. In this paper, argue for "bottom-up" approach...
The Classic Period Maya cities of Caracol and Tikal possessed unique urban morphologies water management. In part, the built environment at each city reflects adaptations to hydrology their landscapes. exists in a rugged, hilly, karst environment; its residents invested landesque capital constructing agricultural terraces residential reservoirs. These features created Caracol's anthropogenic garden‐city landscape. This landscape was unified through dendritic causeway system distributed...
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Urban agglomeration economies make cities central to theories of modern economic growth. There is historical evidence for the presence Smithian growth and effects in English towns c.1450-1670, but seminal assessments deny productivity gains Early Modern towns. This study evaluates increasing returns scale (IRS) aggregate urban outputs—the empirical signature feedbacks between effects—among 16th century England. To do so, we test a model from settlement scaling theory against 1524/5 Lay...