Socioeconomic complexity and the resilience of hunter-gatherer societies
| Autor: | Marcel Bradtmöller, Martin Solich |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Reinterpretation
010506 paleontology 060101 anthropology Social connectedness Ecology media_common.quotation_subject Shifting attention 06 humanities and the arts Biology 01 natural sciences 0601 history and archaeology Socio-ecological system Psychological resilience Economic geography Adaptation Complex adaptive system Hunter-gatherer 0105 earth and related environmental sciences Earth-Surface Processes media_common |
| Zdroj: | Quaternary International. 446:109-127 |
| ISSN: | 1040-6182 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.quaint.2017.06.064 |
| Popis: | Human societies have been challenged by internal and external disturbances throughout history. However, our knowledge of the dynamics and parameters of their resilience remains remarkably incomplete. This deficiency is particularly evident for the longest part of our past, when humans lived as hunter-gatherers. Following Holling's adaptive cycle model, we propose an approach to reconstruct socio-economic developments in hunter-gatherer populations as transitions between different attractor states of complex adaptive systems, with connectedness as a key concept. This allows a reinterpretation of the classical ‘simple’–‘complex’ hunter-gatherer dichotomy by shifting attention to the mechanisms of adaptation and dynamics holding socio-ecologic systems of hunter-gatherers in tension. Applied to the situation in Europe during the late Pleistocene, a model explaining the different long-term dynamics observable in the aftermath of the arrival of the first anatomically modern humans is discussed. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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