CSSS 2007 Beijing-Readings-Week-One

Henry Wright

Additional Reading

Foragers and the Emergence of Agriculture

• Brief Syllabus of Sources on the “Forager” Project
• PowerPoint presentation of Part 1 (Updated 21 July 2006)
• Talk Outline (Updated 21 July 2006)
• Boundary Conditions for Paleolithic Social Systems: A Simultaion Approach. Martin Wobst.
• Archaological Systems Theory and Early Mesoamerica, Kent V. Flannery. In Anthropological Archaeology in the Americas. The Anthropological Society of Washington. 1968.
• The Research Problem, Kent V. Flannery. In Guila Naquitz: Archaic Foraging and Early Agriculture in Oaxaca, Mexico, Ken V. Flannery, ed.
• Guila Naquitz in Spacial, Temporal, and Cultural Context, Kent V. Flannery. In Guila Naquitz: Archaic Foraging and Early Agriculture in Oaxaca, Mexico, Ken V. Flannery, ed..
• The Physical Environment of the Guila Naquitz Cave Group, Kirkby, M. J., A. V. Whyte, and K. V. Flannery. In Guila Naquitz: Archaic Foraging and Early Agriculture in Oaxaca, Mexico, Ken V. Flannery, ed..
• The Modeling of Foraging Strategy: An Introduction to Part IV, Robert Reynolds. In Guila Naquitz: Archaic Foraging and Early Agriculture in Oaxaca, Mexico, Kent V. Flannery, ed.
• Jared Diamond's Overview of the Emergence of Food Production

Villages and the Emergernce of Tribal Alliance Systems

• Brief Syllabus of Sources on the “Village” Project
• Revised PowerPoint presentation of Part 2 (Updated 21 July 2006)
• Talk Outline (Updated 21 July 2006)
• Simulating Ancient Societies Kohler, T. A., G.J. Gumerman and R.G. Reynolds
• Long House Valley Simulation
• Agent-Based Modeling of Prehistoric Settlement Systems in the Northern American Southwest Kohler, T. A., C. R. Van West, E. P. Carr and C. G. Langton
• Cultural Algorithms: A Tutorial Robert G. Reynolds
• A Multi-Agent Simulation Using Cultural Algorithms: The Effect of Culture on the Resilience of Social Systems Kobti, Z., R. G. Reynolds, and T. A. Kohler
• The Effects of Generalized Reciprocal Exchange on the Resilience of Social Networks: An Example from the Prehispanic Mesa Verde Region Reynolds, R. G., T. A. Kohler and Z. Kobti
• The Effect ofKinship Cooperation Learning Stategy and culture on the Resilience of Social Systems in the Village Mulit-Agent Simulation Kobti, Z., R. G. Reynolds, and T. A. Kohler
• Agent-Based Modeling of Cultural Change in Swarm Using Cultural Algorithms Kobti, Z., R. G. Reynolds, and T. A. Kohler
• Unraveling Ancient Mysteries: Reimagining the Past Using Evolutionary Computation in a Complex Gaming Environment Reynolds, R. G., Z. Kobti, T. A. Kohler, and L. Y. L. Yap
• Web Access to Kohler's VILLAGE and Lansings BALI

Raising Civilizations

• Brief Syllabus of Sources on the “States” Project
• PowerPoint presentation of Part 3
• Talk Outline (Updated 21 July 2006)
• A Theory of the Origin of the State Robert L. Carneiro
• Recent Research on the Origin of the State Henry T. Wright
• The Changing Organization of Uruk Administration on the Susiana Plain Gregory A. Johnson. In The Archaeology of Western Iran, Frank Hole, ed.
• Uruk States in Southwestern Iran Henry T. Wright. In Archaic States, Gary M. Feinman and Joyce Marcus, eds.
• Cultural Action in the Uruk World Henry T. Wright. In Uruk Mesopotamia & Its Neighbors, Mitchell S. Rothman, ed.
• Settlement Patterns, Chiefdom Variability, and the Development of Early States in North China Li Liu
• Regional survey and the development of complex societies in southeastern Shandong, China Underhill, A. P., G. M. Feinman, L. M. Nicholas, G. Bennett, H. Fang, F. Luan, H. Yu and F. Cai
• control strategies and polity competition in the lower Yi-Luo Valley, North China Yun Kuen Lee
• System-dependent Selection, Ecological Feedback and the Emergence of Functional Struction in Ecosystems Lansing, S. J., J. N. Kremer, and B. B. Smuts
• Digitizing 'Development' Stefan Helmreich
• Foucault and the Water Temples Steve Lansing