Overview

In a discipline which essentially studies how modern man came to be, it is remarkable that there are hardly any conceptual tools to describe change. This is due to the history of the western intellectual and scientific tradition, which for a long time favoured mechanics over dynamics, and the study of stability over that of change. Change was primarily deemed due to external events (in archaeology mainly climatic or 'environmental'). Revolutionary innovations in the natural and life sciences, often (erroneously) referred to as 'chaos theory', suggest that there are ways to overcome this problem. A wide range of processes can be described in terms of dynamic systems, and modern computing methods enable us to investigate many of their properties. This volume presents a cogent argument for the use of such approaches, and a discussion of a number of its aspects by a range of scientists from the humanities, social and natural sciences, and archaeology.

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Author:   James McGlade ,  Sander E. van der Leeuw
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 3.70cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.771kg
ISBN:  

9780415117883

ISBN 10:   0415117887
Pages:   508
Publication Date:   02 January 1997
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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... the chapters that attempt to build models focused on phenomena that are relatively bounded in time and space to be the most productive of insight. <br>- American Anthropology, Sep, 1998 <br>

... the chapters that attempt to build models focused on phenomena that are relatively bounded in time and space to be the most productive of insight. - American Anthropology, Sep, 1998

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