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Bigger Boats, Crowded Creekbanks: Environmental Stresses in Perspective

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Jeanne E. Arnold
Jeanne E. Arnold*
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology and Institute of Archaeology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095
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Abstract

While new data about drought cycles are informative, patterns of ill health and violence and the origins of sociopolitical complexity in southern California are best understood through a broad consideration of multiple conditions and processes. These include various kinds of environmental and demographic conditions, changes in social and economic strategies, and changes in the organization of labor.

Mientras que la nueva información acerca de los ciclos de sequia es informativa, causas de mala salud y violencia, y también teorias acerca de los orígenes de la complejidad sociopolítica en el sur de California son mejor entendidos a través de una amplia consideración de múltiples procesos y condiciones. Estos incluyen varios tipos de condiciones del medio ambiente y demografia, cambios en estrategias económicas y sociales y cambios en organización del trabajo.

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American Antiquity , Volume 62 , Issue 2 , April 1997 , pp. 337 - 339
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1997

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