Resilience Theory (Other Keyword)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jakob Sedig.

This dissertation uses new data from Woodrow Ruin to examine the Late Pithouse (AD 550-1000) to Classic period (AD 1000-1130) transition in the Mimbres region of southwest New Mexico. Prior explorations of the Mimbres Late Pithouse to Classic transition have lacked data from one of the largest sites in the region. Woodrow Ruin is a large, multi-component site that had previously received little professional investigation. Fieldwork at Woodrow Ruin for this dissertation demonstrated that it had a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Justine Shaw.

Resilience theory has typically been applied to living people by sociologists or psychologists or to components of the natural world by ecologists. Whatever its application, its scale is that of a community or system, with the focus is often on why particular components are able to persist when the system is inevitably disturbed, transformed, or reorganized, while others fare less well. Such systems move between stability and transformation in an adaptive cycle, with both environmental changes...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Gyles Iannone.

Archaeological examination of the remains of the early tropical states in Central America and Asia have demonstrated that, although they exhibit a unique type of settlement pattern, they do represent large, sophisticated, and undoubtedly "urban" state formations. The unique urban footprint of these tropical states – in which settlement units of varying size and complexity are scattered across the landscape, and agricultural lands and green zones extend up to, and even into epicenters – has come...