Residential Density and Community Performance in the US Southwest

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Multiscale Data and the History of Human Development in the US Southwest" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

One of the simplest and most illuminating properties of human communities is residential density, as it provides a useful summary of many other properties of the associated socio-spatial network. In contemporary societies fast and low-cost commuting make it challenging to determine community boundaries. In archaeology, the challenge has been to organize the data from dispersed communities in such a way that they can be directly compared with data for aggregated villages and towns. The cyberSW Project has invested in this, and here we present some preliminary findings regarding the effect of residential density for community productivity and resilience.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 90th Annual Meeting, Denver, CO (2025)   •
• Multiscale Data and the History of Human Development in the US Southwest

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Abstract Id(s): 50037