Transformations. Mathematical Approaches to Culture Change

Content: 
Front Matter, Page iii
Copyright, Page iv
Dedication, Page v
Le Temps scintille et le Songe est savoir, Page vi
List of Contributors, Pages xv-xvi
Foreword, Pages xvii-xviii, RENÉ THOM
Preface, Pages xix-xx, COLIN RENFREW, KENNETH L. COOKE
Acknowledgments, Pages xxi-xxii
INTRODUCTION TO MATHEMATICS AND CULTURE CHANGE, Page 1
1 - Transformations, Pages 3-44, COLIN RENFREW
2 - Mathematical Approaches to Culture Change, Pages 45-81, KENNETH L. COOKE
3 - Mathematics in the Field of History, Pages 83-90, RICHARD BELLMAN
4 - Morphogenesis in Biological and Social Systems, Pages 91-111, ROBERT ROSEN
INTRODUCTION TO HIERARCHY AND SOCIAL SPACE, Pages 113-115
5 - Simulating the Growth of Hierarchies, Pages 117-144, IAN HODDER
6 - Exploring Dominance: Predicting Polities from Centers, Pages 145-167, COLIN RENFREW, ERIC V. LEVEL
7 - A Reconstruction of Toltec Period Political Units in the Valley of Mexico, Pages 169-200, JOHN R. ALDEN
INTRODUCTION TO SIMULATION AND THE MEASUREMENT OF CHANGE, Pages 201-203
8 - Logistic Trends in Southwest Population Growth, Pages 205-220, JEFFREY L. EIGHMY
9 - Alternative Models of Prehistoric Change, Pages 221-236, FRED PLOG
10 - Settlement Simulation, Pages 237-255, A.J. CHADWICK
11 - Occupation Frequency Simulation on a Broad Ecotone, Pages 257-274, JOEL GUNN
12 - The Wave of Advance Model for the Spread of Agriculture in Europe, Pages 275-293, ALBERT J. AMMERMAN, L.L. CAVALLI-SFORZA
INTRODUCTION TO SYSTEMS AND SUBSYSTEM INTERACTION, Pages 295-298
13 - A Structural Model of Industrialized Societies: Evolutions, Stability, Policies, Governability, Pages 299-325, LUCIEN A. GÉRARDIN
14 - An Experiment on the Simulation of Culture Changes, Pages 327-348, KENNETH L. COOKE, COLIN RENFREW
INTRODUCTION TO THE DECISION NEXUS AND EARLY ECONOMIES, Pages 349-352
15 - A Preliminary Consideration of Behavioral Change, Pages 353-368, MICHAEL B. SCHIFFER
16 - Economic Optimization Models and the Study of Hunter–Gatherer Subsistence Settlement Systems, Pages 369-404, ARTHUR S. KEENE
17 - A Formal Mathematical Model for the Operation of Consensus-Based Hunting–Gathering Bands, Pages 405-418, ROBERT G.D. REYNOLDS, BERNARD P. ZEIGLER
INTRODUCTION TO HOLISTIC BEHAVIOR AND CATASTROPHE THEORY, Pages 419-423
18 - The Elements of Catastrophe Theory or The Honing of Occam's Razor, Pages 425-436, TIM POSTON
19 - Discontinuities in the Endogenous Change of Settlement Pattern, Pages 437-461, COLIN RENFREW, TIM POSTON
20 - A Geometrical Model of Ideologies, Pages 463-479, E.C. ZEEMAN
21 - Systems Collapse as Social Transformation: Catastrophe and Anastrophe in Early State Societies, Pages 481-506, COLIN RENFREW
Index, Pages 507-515