Four-field anthropology has always struggled with the problem of how to holistically study
human cultural systems that are the products of environment, process, and history�…

Purpose–This paper aims to o review understandings of complexity in anthropology.
Design/methodology/approach–A number of works in the field of anthropology are�…

The contributions in this issue of Social Science Computer Review represent a range of
computational approaches to theoretical and disciplinary specializations in anthropology�…

Textbooks in general anthropology describe the subject as a holistic endeavor with distinct
subfields. However, other than paying lip service to the concept of holism, most establish few�…

Complexity science often uses generative models to study and explain the emergent
behavior of humans, human culture, and human patterns of social organization. In spite of�…

Increased interaction, adaptability, diversity, and emergence are all hallmarks of complexity
(Miller and Page 2007; see Simon 1996). While anthropologists may not use these specific�…

Among the drivers and constraints on the evolution of complex hominin culture that have
been proposed throughout the years, demographic factors have been particularly persistent�…

Distinctions between the 'simple'and the 'complex'have enjoyed a long and varied career in
anthropology. Simplicity was once part of a collective fantasy about what life was like�…

As archeologists have grown disenchanted with the evolutionary models of the 1960s, they
have searched for new frameworks to encompass their endeavors. One area that has shown�…

In February of 2007, the coauthors of this essay met at a workshop on Complexity and
Philosophy, sponsored by the Institute for the Study of Coherence and Emergence, in�…