A5045703333- Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
- Archaeology and Rock Art Studies
- Archaeology and Natural History
- Image Processing and 3D Reconstruction
- Anthropological Studies and Insights
- Psychedelics and Drug Studies
- Complex Network Analysis Techniques
- Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies
- Social and Cultural Dynamics
- Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
- Anthropology: Ethics, History, Culture
- Botany, Ecology, and Taxonomy Studies
- Archaeological Research and Protection
- Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
- Indigenous Cultures and History
- Qualitative Comparative Analysis Research
- Urban Design and Spatial Analysis
- Indigenous Studies and Ecology
- Vehicle License Plate Recognition
- Reformation and Early Modern Christianity
- Latin American history and culture
- Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
- Semantic Web and Ontologies
- Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation
- Global Maritime and Colonial Histories
Arizona State University
2015-2024
Archaeology Southwest
2012-2020
University of Arizona
2012-2020
Springer Nature (United States)
2020
Seminary of the Southwest
2019
Utah State University
2015
The late pre-Hispanic period in the US Southwest (A.D. 1200–1450) was characterized by large-scale demographic changes, including long-distance migration and population aggregation. To reconstruct how these processes reshaped social networks, we compiled a comprehensive artifact database from major sites dating to this interval western Southwest. We combine network analysis with geographic information systems approaches dynamics over 250 y. show networks were transformed across region at...
ABSTRACT Change is inevitable, but some changes and transformations are more dramatic fraught with suffering than others. Resilience theory suggests the concept of a “rigidity trap” as an explanation for these differences. In rigidity traps, high degree connectivity suppression innovation prolong increasingly rigid state, result that eventual transformation harsh. Three archaeological cases from U.S. Southwest (Mimbres, Mesa Verde, Hohokam) new methods assessing used to evaluate this...
Significance Climate-induced disasters are impacting human well-being in ever-increasing ways. Disaster research and management recognize emphasize the need to reduce vulnerabilities, although extant policy is not line with this realization. This paper assesses extent which vulnerability food shortage, as a result of social, demographic, resource conditions at times climatic challenge, correlates subsequent declines social security. Extreme climate challenges identified prehispanic US...
Abstract Analyzing historical trajectories of social interactions at varying scales can lead to complementary interpretations relationships among archaeological settlements. We use network analysis combined with geographic information systems three spatial over time in the western U.S. Southwest show how same processes affected dynamics each scale. The period we address, A.D. 1200–1450, was characterized by migration and demographic upheaval. tumultuous late thirteenth-century interval...
ABSTRACT In social network analysis, brokerage refers to the processes through which individuals or larger groups mediate interactions between actors that would otherwise not be directly connected. Brokers occupy key intermediate positions have alternately been interpreted as sources of capital potential disadvantages. Recent empirical studies suggest relationship and rewards risks varies considerably depending on nature in a given setting. this study, we use large settlement ceramic...
In 1966 the US Congress passed National Historic Preservation Act. Its intent: to ensure that values embedded in historic buildings, archaeological sites, and other important places of past honored all Americans ways would inspire motivate present future generations. intervening 50 years, archaeologists have diligently discovered, documented, analyzed, curated our collective past. Fig. 1. Public support can expand archeological finds help tell stories people places. Here, surveyors work...
We propose a dedicated research effort on the determinants of settlement persistence in ancient world, with potential to significantly advance scientific understanding urban sustainability today. Settlements (cities, towns, villages) are locations two key attributes: They frame human interactions and activities space, they where people dwell or live. Sustainability, this case, focuses capacity structures functions system (geography, demography, institutions) provide for continuity safe...
Some human settlements endure for millennia, while others are founded and abandoned within a few decades or centuries. The reasons variation in the duration of site occupation, however, rarely addressed. Here, authors introduce new approach analysis settlement longevity persistence. Using seven regional case studies comprising both survey excavation data, they demonstrate how median persistence individual varies widely among regions. In turn, this variability is linked to effects...
Nelson, M. C., Hegmon, S. R. Kulow, A. Peeples, K. W. Kintigh, and P. Kinzig. 2011. Resisting diversity: a long-term archaeological study. Ecology Society 16(1): 25. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-03887-160125
Applications of SNA to interpret archaeological evidence have been increasing dramatically, as has an interest in identifying communities and neighborhoods. Social Network Analysis (SNA) can be a lens tool explore neighborhoods with datasets from range temporal periods regions. The spatial distribution material culture facilitates the creation spatially located networks that demonstrate social linkages between individuals or communities. Yet, limitations exist using data; we cannot directly...
For at least the past 8000 years, small-scale farmers in semi-arid environments have had to mitigate shortfalls crop production due variation precipitation and stream flow.To reduce their vulnerability a shortfall food supply, developed short-term strategies, including storage community-scale sharing, inter-annual production, long-term such as migration, effects of sustained droughts.We use archaeological paleoclimatic records from A.D. 900-1600 two regions American Southwest explore nature...
Research in psychology has established that humans organize spatial information into “cognitive maps” oriented around visual landmarks. Much of this research focuses on individual cognitive processes such as orienteering and wayfinding. We extend to the level social groups, exploring degree which maps are shared among near distant neighbors implications common, overlapping, or discrete maps. develop concept “sight communities” —populations similar maps—and then propose methodologies (1)...
Recent research in ecology suggests that generic indicators, referred to as early warning signals (EWS), may occur before significant transformations, both critical and non-critical, complex systems. Up this point, on EWS has largely focused simple models controlled experiments climate science. When humans are considered these arenas they invariably seen external sources of disturbance or management. In article we explore ways include societal components socio-ecological systems directly...
Peeples, M. A., C. Barton, and S. Schmich 2006. Resilience lost: intersecting land use landscape dynamics in the prehistoric southwestern United States. Ecology Society 11(2): 22. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-01868-110222