Ebook: Emergence and collapse of early villages: models of central mesa verde archaeology

Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; Contributors; Chapter 1: Emergence and Collapse of Early Villages in the Central Mesa Verde: An Introduction; Chapter 2: The Study Area and the Ancestral Pueblo Occupation; Chapter 3: Low-Frequency Climate in the Mesa Verde Region: Beef Pasture Revisited; Chapter 4: Simulation Model Overview; Chapter 5: Modeling Paleohydrological System Structure and Function; Chapter 6: Modeling Agricultural Productivity and Farming Effort; Chapter 7: Modeling Plant and Animal Productivity and Fuel Use.;Comparing simulations from agent-based models with the precisely dated archaeological record from this area, this text will interest archaeologists working in the Southwest and in Neolithic studies as well as anyone applying modelling techniques to understanding how human societies shape, and are shaped by the environment.