Feast, Famine or Fighting? : Multiple Pathways to Social Complexity

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Chacon, Richard J. (Editor), Mendoza, Rubén G. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: Studies in Human Ecology and Adaptation, 8
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Community ecology, Biotic.; Anthropology.; Archaeology.; Social sciences > Philosophy.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9783319484020
• ISSN: 1574-0501 ;
• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-48402-0
• Physical Description: XXIX, 490 p. 149 illus., 108 illus. in color. online resource.

The advent of social complexity has been a longstanding debate among social scientists. Existing theories and approaches involving the origins of social complexity include environmental circumscription, population growth, technology transfers, prestige-based and interpersonal-group competition, orga...