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are necessary as counter weights to simplified collapse archaeology. The authors offer an�…

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play in altering their environments, appear in headlines more and more as concern over�…

Archaeologists generally agree that high-power computer technology constitutes the most
efficient venue for addressing many issues in archaeological research. Digital techniques�…

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testing present-day climate models and projections. Archaeological sites are�…

Hundreds of thousands of archaeological investigations in the United States conducted over
the last several decades have documented a large portion of the recovered archaeological�…

While agricultural origins have been recently revised in light of new genetic and
archaeological evidence, parallel synthesis of subsequent developments in agricultural�…

Explaining the processes underlying the emergence of monument construction is a major
theme in contemporary anthropological archaeology, and recent studies have employed�…

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interest in multivocality and participatory research. In this new epistemology of�…

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to understanding the emergence of complex social systems. Due to its long-term�…