Risk, climatic variability, and the study of southwestern prehistory: An evolutionary perspective

American Antiquity

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 217-241

  Larson, Daniel O ^a   Neff, Hector ^b   Graybill, Donald A ^c   Michaelsen, Joel ^d   Ambos, Elizabeth ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000232311     PISSN: 00027316     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/282419     Document Type: Review

References (109)

1. Abruzzi, W. S. 1987 Ecology Stability and Community Diversity during Mormon Colonization of the Little Colorado River Basin. Human Ecology 15:317-338.
2. Baksh, M., and A. Johnson 1990 Insurance Policies among the Machiguenga: An Ethnographic Analysis of Risk Management in a Non-Western Society. In Risk and Uncertainty in Tribal and Peasant Economies, edited by E. Cashdan, pp. 193-228. Westview Press, Boulder, Colorado.
3. Berry, M. S. 1982 Time, Space, and Transition in Anasazi Prehistory. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City.
4. Binford, L. R. 1983 In Pursuit of the Past. Thames and Hudson, New York.
5. Boone, J. L. 1992 Competition, Conflict, and Development of Social Hierarchies. In Evolutionary Ecology and Human Behavior, edited by E. A. Smith and B. Winterhalder, pp. 301-338. Aldine de Gruyter, New York.
6. Braun, D. P., and S. Plog 1982 Evolution of "Tribal" Social Networks: Theory and Prehistoric North American Evidence. American Antiquity 47:504-525.
7. Brereton, J. Le G. 1973 An Ecosystem Approach to Wildlife and Drought. In The Environmental, Economic and Social Significance of Drought, edited by V. Lovett, pp. 164-180. Angus and Robertson, Sydney.
8. Burns, B. T. 1983 Simulated Anasazi Storage Behavior Using Crop Yields Reconstructed from Tree-Rings: A.D. 652-1968. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Arizona. University Microfilms International, Ann Arbor.
9. Caraco, T. 1980 On Foraging Time Allocation in a Stochastic Environment. Ecology 61:119-128.
10. 1983 White Crowned Sparrows (Zonotricha leucophrys): Foraging Preferences in a Risky Environment. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 12:63-69.
11. Cashdan, E. 1985 Coping with Risk: Reciprocity among the Basarwa of Northern Botswana. Man 20:454-474.
12. 1987 Trade and Its Origins on the Boteti River, Botswana. Journal of Anthropological Research 43:121-138.
13. 1990 Information Costs and Customary Prices. In Risk and Uncertainty in Tribal and Peasant Economies, edited by E. Cashdan, pp. 259-278. Westview Press, Boulder, Colorado.
14. 1992 Spatial Organization and Habitat Use. In Evolutionary Ecology and Human Behavior, edited by E. A. Smith and B. Winterhalder, pp. 237-268. Aldine de Gruyter, New York.
15. Cook E. R., D. W. Stahle, and M. K. Cleaveland 1992 Dendroclimatic Evidence from Eastern North America. In Climate Since A.D. 1500, edited by R. S. Bradley and P. D. Jones, pp. 331-348. Routledge, London.
16. Cordell, L. S., and F. Plog 1979 Escaping the Confines of Normative Thought: A Reevaluation of Puebloan Prehistory. American Antiquity 52:565-577.
17. Dean, J. S. 1988 A Model of Anasazi Behavioral Adaptation. In The Anasazi in a Changing Environment, edited by G. J. Gumerman, pp. 25-44. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
18. Dean, J. S., W. H. Doelle, and J. D. Orcutt 1994 Adaptive Stress: Environment and Demography. In Themes in Southwest Prehistory, edited by G. J. Gummerman, pp. 53-86. School of American Research Press, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
19. Dean, J. S., R. C. Euler, G. J. Gumerman, F. Plog, R. H. Hevly, and T. N. V. Karlstrom 1985 Human Behavior, Demography, and Paleoenvironment on the Colorado Plateaus. American Antiquity 50:537-554.
20. Douglass, A. E. 1928 Climatic Cycles and Tree Growth. In Publication No. 289, vol. 2, p. 127. Carnegie Institution, Washington, D.C.
21. Dunnell, R. C. 1978 Style and Function: A Fundamental Dichotomy. American Antiquity 35:305-319.
22. 1980 Evolutionary Theory and Archaeology. In Advances in Archaeological Method and Theory, vol. 3, edited M. B. Schiffer, pp. 35-99. Academic Press, New York.
23. 1989 Aspects of the Application of Evolutionary Theory in Archaeology. In Archaeological Thought in America, edited by C. C. Lamberg-Karlovsky, pp. 35-49. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
24. Durham, W. H. 1990 Advances in Evolutionary Culture Theory. Annual Review of Anthropology 19:187-210.
25. Eldredge, N. 1989 Punctuated Equilibria, Rates of Change and Large-scale Entities in Evolutionary Systems. Journal of Social Biological Structure 17:173-184.
26. Euler, R. C., G. J. Gumerman, T. N. V. Karlstrom, J. S. Dean, and R. H. Hevly 1979 The Colorado Plateaus: Cultural Dynamics and Paleoenvironment. Science 205:1089-1101.
27. P. R. Fish, S. K. Fish, G. J. Gumerman, and J. Reid 1994 Toward an Explanation for Southwestern "Abandonments." In Themes in Southwest Prehistory, edited by G. J. Gummerman, pp. 135-164. School of American Research Press, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
28. Fritts, H. C. 1976 Tree Rings and Climate. Academic Press, New York.
29. 1991 Reconstructing Large-Scale Climatic Patterns from Tree-Ring Data: A Diagnostic Analysis. University of Arizona Press, Tucson.
30. Gilman, P. A. 1983 Changing Architectural Forms in the Prehistoric Southwest. Ph.D. dissertation, University of New Mexico. University Microfilms International, Ann Arbor.
31. Glascock, M. D. 1992 Characterization of Archaeological Ceramics at MURR by Neutron Activation Analysis and Multivariate Statistics. In Chemical Characterization of Ceramic Pastes in Archaeology, edited by H. Neff, pp. 11-25. Prehistory Press, Madison, Wisconsin.
32. Glassow, M. A. 1980 Prehistoric Agricultural Development in the Northern Southwest: A Study in Changing Patterns of Land Use. Anthropological Paper 16. Ballena Press, Socorro, New Mexico.
33. Gould, S. J. 1989 Punctuated Equilibrium in Fact and Theory. Journal of Social Biological Structure 12:117-136.
34. Graves, M. W., and T. N. Ladefoged 1995 The Evolutionary Significance of Ceremonial Architecture in Polynesia. In Evolutionary Archaeology: Methodological Issues, edited by P. A. Teltser, pp. 149-174. University of Arizona Press, Tucson.
35. Graybill, D. A., D. A. Gregory, F. L. Nials, S. K. Fish, C. H. Miksicek 1989 The 1982-1984 Excavations at Las Colinas: Environment and Subsistence. Archaeological Series 162(5). Arizona State Museum, Tucson.
36. Gumerman, G. J. 1991 Trends in Western Anasazi Archaeology: From Fewkes to the Future. Kiva 56:99-122.
37. Gumerman, G. J. (editor) 1988 The Anasazi in a Changing Environment. School of American Research. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
38. Gumerman, G. J., and J. S. Dean 1989 Prehistoric Cooperation and Competition in the Western Anasazi Area. In The Dynamics of Southwestern Prehistory, edited by L. S. Cordell and G. J. Gumerman, pp. 99-148. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C.
39. Halstead, P., and J. O'Shea 1989 Bad Year Economics: Cultural Responses to Risk and Uncertainty. Cambridge University Press, London.
40. Hantman, J., and S. Plog 1982 The Relationship of Stylistic Similarity to Patterns of Material Exchange. In Context for Prehistoric Exchange, edited by J. E. Ericson and T. Earle, pp. 237-264. Academic Press, New York.
41. Hegmon, M. 1989 Risk Reduction and Variation in Agricultural Economies: A Computer Simulation of Hopi Agriculture. In Research in Economic Anthropology, vol. 11, edited by B. L. Isaac, pp. 89-122. Jai Press, Greenwich, Connecticut.
42. 1991 The Risks of Sharing and Sharing as Risk Reduction: Interhousehold Food Sharing in Egalitarian Societies. In Between Bands and States, edited by S. A. Gregg, pp. 309-329. Occasional Paper No. 9. Center for Archaeological Investigations, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale.
43. Jochim, M. A. 1981 Strategies for Survival: Cultural Behavior in an Ecological Context. Academic Press, New York.
44. 1991 Archaeology as Long-Term Ethnography. American Anthropologist 93:308-321.
45. Jones, G. T., R. D. Leonard, and A. L. Abbott 1995 The Structure of Selectionist Explanations in Archaeology. In Evolutionary Archaeology: Methodological Issues, edited by P. A. Teltser, pp. 13-32. University of Arizona Press, Tucson.
46. Larson, A. K. 1946 Agricultural Pioneering in the Virgin River Basin. Unpublished Master's thesis, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah.
47. Larson, D. O. 1987 An Economic Analysis of the Differential Effects of Population Growth and Climatic Variability among Hunters and Gatherers and Food Producers. Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Barbara. University Microfilms International, Ann Arbor.
48. 1994 California Climatic Reconstructions. Journal of Interdisciplinary History 25:225-253.
49. 1996 Population Growth, Agricultural Intensification, and Culture Change among the Virgin Branch Anasazi. Journal of Field Archaeology 23:55-76.
50. Larson, D. O., and D. A. Graybill 1991 Measuring Climatic Variability and Demographic Change: Theory Building through Exploratory Data Analysis. Paper presented at the 56th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, New Orleans.
51. Larson, D. O., J. Johnson, and J. Michaelsen 1994 Missionization among the Coastal Chumash of California: A Study of Risk Minimization Strategies. American Anthropologist 96:263-300.
52. Larson, D. O., and J. Michaelsen 1990 Impacts of Climatic Variability and Population Growth on Virgin Branch Anasazi Cultural Developments. American Antiquity 55:227-249.
53. Leonard, R. D. 1989 Resource Specialization, Population Growth, and Agricultural Production in the American Southwest. American Antiquity 54:491-503.
54. Leonard, R. D., and G. T. Jones 1987 Elements of an Inclusive Evolutionary Model in Archaeology. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 6:199-219.
55. Leonard, R. D., and H. E. Reed 1993 Population Aggregation in the Prehistoric American Southwest: A Selectionist Model. American Antiquity 58:648-661.
56. Lightfoot, K. G., and G. M. Feinman 1982 Social Differentiation and Leadership Development in Early Pithouse Villages in the Mogollon Region of the American Southwest. American Antiquity 47:64-86.
57. Lightfoot, K. G., and S. Upham 1989 Complex Societies in the Prehistoric American Southwest: A Consideration of the Controversy. In The Sociopolitical Structure of Prehistoric Southwestern Societies, edited by S. Upham, K. G. Lightfoot, and R. A. Jewett, pp. 3-32. Westview Press, Boulder, Colorado.
58. Lipe, W. D., and M. Hegmon (editors) 1989 The Architecture of Social Integration in Prehistoric Pueblos. Occasional Papers No. 1. Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, Cortez, Colorado.
59. Low, B. S. 1990 Human Responses to Environmental Extremeness and Uncertainty: A Cross-Cultural Perspective. In Risk and Uncertainty in Tribal and Peasant Economies, edited by E. Cashdan, pp. 229-258. Westview Press, Boulder, Colorado.
60. Martin, D. L, A. H. Goodman, G. J. Armelagos, and A. L. Magennis 1991 Black Mesa Anasazi Health: Reconstructing Life from Pattern of Death and Disease. Occasional Paper No. 14. Center for Archaeological Investigations, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale.
61. Mayr, E. 1991 One Long Argument: Charles Darwin and the Genesis of Modern Evolutionary Thought. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
62. Meko, D., C. W. Stockton, and W. R. Boggess 1980 A Tree-ring Reconstruction of Drought in Southern California. Water Resources Bulletin 16:594-600.
63. Minnis, P. 1981 Economic and Organizational Responses to Food Stress by Non-Stratified Societies: An Example from Prehistoric New Mexico. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Michigan. University Microfilms International, Ann Arbor.
64. 1985 Social Adaptation to Food Stress: A Prehistoric Southwestern Example. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
65. 1992 Earliest Plant Husbandry in the Desert Borderlands of North America. In The Origins of Agriculture: An International Perspective, edited by C. W. Cowan and P. J. Watson, pp. 121-142. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C.
66. Neff, H. 1992 Ceramics and Evolution. In Archaeological Method and Theory, vol. 4, edited by M. B. Schiffer, pp. 141-193. University of Arizona Press, Tucson.
67. 1993 Theory, Sampling, and Analytical Techniques in Archaeological Study of Prehistoric Ceramics. American Antiquity 58:23-44.
68. Neff, H., D. O. Larson, M. D. Glascock 1996 The Evolution of Anasazi Ceramic Production and Distribution: Compositional Evidence from a Pueblo-III Site in South-Central Utah. Journal of Field Archaeology, in press.
69. Netting, R. McC. 1990 Population, Permanent Agriculture, and Polities: Unpacking the Evolutionary Portmanteau. In The Evolution of Political Systems, edited by S. Upham, pp. 21-61. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
70. O'Brien, M. J., and T. D. Holland 1990 Variation, Selection, and the Archaeological Record. In Archaeological Method and Theory, vol. 2, edited by M. B. Schiffer, pp 31-80. University of Arizona Press, Tucson.
71. 1992 The Role of Adaptation in Archaeological Explanation. American Antiquity 57:36-59.
72. 1995 The Nature and Premise of a Selection-Based Archaeology. In Evolutionary Archaeology: Methodological Issues, edited by P. A. Teltser, pp. 175-200. University of Arizona Press, Tucson.
73. O'Brien, M. J., T. D. Holland, R. J. Hoard, and G. L. Fox 1994 Evolutionary Implications of Design and Performance Characteristics of Prehistoric Pottery. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 1:259-304.
74. Palmer, W. C. 1965 Meteorological Drought. United States Weather Bureau Research Paper 45. U.S. Department of Commerce, Washington, D.C.
75. Plog, F. T. 1983 Political and Economic Alliances on the Colorado Plateaus, A.D. 400-1450. Advances in World Archaeology, vol 2, edited by F. Wendorf and A. E. Close, pp. 289-330. Academic Press, New York.
76. 1984 Exchange, Tribes, and Alliances: The Northern Southwest. American Archaeology 4:217-223.
77. Plog, F., G. J. Gumerman, R. C. Euler, J. S. Dean, R. H. Hevly, and T. N. V. Karlstrom 1988 Anasazi Adaptive Strategies: The Model, Predictions, and Results. In The Anasazi in a Changing Environment, edited by G. J. Gumerman, pp. 230-276. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
78. Plog, S. 1990 Agriculture, Sedentism, and Environment in the Evolution of Political Systems. In The Evolution of Political Systems, edited by S. Upham, pp. 177-202. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
79. Plog, S. (editor) 1986 Spatial Organization and Exchange: Archaeological Survey on Northern Black Mesa. Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale.
80. Plog, S., and J. L. Hantman 1990 Chronology Construction and the Study of Prehistoric Culture Change. Journal of Field Archaeology 17:439-456.
81. Rindos, D. 1984 The Origins of Agriculture: An Evolutionary Perspective. Academic Press, New York.
82. 1989a Darwinism and Its Role in the Explanation of Domestication. In Foraging and Farming: The Evolution of Plant Exploitation, edited by D. R. Harris and G. C. Hilliman, pp. 27-41. Unwin Hyman, London.
83. 1989b Undirected Variation and Darwinian Explanation of Culture Change. In Archaeological Method and Theory, vol. 1, edited by M. B. Schiffer, pp. 1-45. University of Arizona Press, Tucson.
84. Rose, M. R., W. J. Robinson, and J. S. Dean 1982 Dendroclimatic Reconstruction for the Southeastern Colorado Plateau. Final Report to the Dolores Archaeological Project. Manuscript on file, Dolores Archaeological Program, Dolores, Colorado.
85. Smith, E. A. 1988 Risk and Uncertainty in the "Original Affluent Society": Evolutionary Ecology of Resource Sharing and Land Tenure. In Hunters and Gatherers: History, Evolution, and Social Change, edited by T. Ingold, D. Riches, and J. Woodburn, pp. 222-252. Berg, Oxford.
86. 1991 Inujjuamiut Foraging Strategies: Evolutionary Ecology of an Arctic Hunting Economy. Aldine de Gruyter, New York.
87. Smith, E. A., and R. Boyd 1990 Risk and Reciprocity: Hunter-Gatherer Socioecology and the Problem of Collective Action. In Risk and Uncertainty in Tribal and Peasant Economies, edited by E. Cashdan, pp. 167-192. Westview Press, Boulder, Colorado.
88. Smith, E. A., and B. Winterhalder (editors) 1992 Evolutionary Ecology and Human Behavior. Aldine de Gruyter, New York.
89. Sober, E. 1984 The Nature of Selection: Evolutionary Theory in Philosophical Focus. MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
90. Stephens, D. W., and E. L. Charnov 1982 Optimal Foraging; Some Simple Stochastic Models. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 10:251-263.
91. Stockton, C. W., and W. R. Boggess 1980 Augmentation of Hydrologic Records Using Tree Rings. In Improved Hydrologic Forecasting, edited by W. P. Henry, pp. 239-265. American Society of Civil Engineers, New York.
92. Stockton, C. W., W. R. Boggess, and D. Meko 1985 Climate and Tree Rings. In Paleoclimate Analysis and Modeling, edited by A. D. Hecht. John Wiley and Sons, New York.
93. Stockton, C. W., and H. C. Fritts 1971 Augmenting Annual Runoff Records Using Tree-Ring Data. Hydrology and Water Resources in Arizona and the Southwest 1:1-12.
94. Stockton, C. W., and G. C. Jacoby 1976 Long-Term Surface Water Supply and Streamflow Levels in the Upper Colorado River Basin. Lake Powell Research Project Bulletin 18. Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California, Los Angeles.
95. Stockton, C. W., and D. M. Meko 1975 A Long-Term History of Drought Occurrence in Western United States as Inferred from Tree Rings. Weatherwise 28:244-249.
96. Teltser, P. A. 1995 The Methodological Challenge of Evolutionary Theory in Archaeology. In Evolutionary Archaeology: Methodological Issues, edited by P. A. Teltser, pp. 1-12. University of Arizona Press, Tucson.
97. Upham, S. 1990 Analog or Digital?: Toward a Generic Framework for Explaining the Development of Emergent Political Systems. In The Evolution of Political Systems, edited by S. Upham, pp. 87-118. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
98. Walker, P. L. 1985 Anemia Among Prehistoric Indians of the American Southwest. In Health and Disease in the Prehistoric Southwest, edited by C. F. Merbs and R. J. Miller, pp. 139-164. Anthropological Research Papers No. 34. Arizona State University, Tempe.
99. Webb, R., S. S. Smith, and V. A. S. McCord 1991 Historic Channel Change of Kanab Creek: Southern Utah and Northern Arizona. Monograph Number 9. Grand Canyon Natural History Association, Tucson, Arizona.
100. Wiens, J. A. 1977 On Competition and Variable Environments. American Scientist 65:590-597.
101. Wills, W. H. 1992 Foraging Systems and Plant Cultivation during the Emergence of Agricultural Economies in the American Southwest. In Transitions to Agriculture in Prehistory, edited by A. B. Gebauer and T. D. Price, pp. 153-176. Monographs in World Prehistory No. 4. Prehistory Press, Madison, Wisconsin.
102. Winterhalder, B. 1980 Environmental Analysis in Human Evolution and Adaptation Research. Human Ecology 8:135-170.
103. 1986 Diet Choice, Risk, and Food Sharing in a Stochastic Environment. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 5:205-223.
104. 1988 The Population Ecology of Hunter-Gatherers and Their Prey. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 7:289-328.
105. 1990 Open Field, Common Pot: Harvest Variability and Risk Avoidance in Agricultural and Foraging Societies. In Risk and Uncertainty in Tribal and Peasant Economies, edited by E. Cashdan, pp. 67-88. Westview Press, Boulder, Colorado.
106. 1994 The Ecological Basis of Water Management in the Central Andes: Rainfall and Temperature in Southern Peru. In Irrigation at High Altitudes: The Social Organization of Water Control Systems in the Andes, edited by W. P. Mitchell and D. Guillet, pp. 21-67. American Anthropological Association, Washington, D.C.
107. Winterhalder, B., W. Baillargeon, F. Cappelletto, I. R. Daniel, Jr., and C. Prescott 1988 The Population Ecology of Hunter-Gatherers and Their Prey. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 7:289-328.
108. Young, C. E. 1979 Tree Rings and Kaibab North Deer Hunting. Journal of Arizona-Nevada Academy of Science 14:6-65.
109. Zedeño, M. N. 1994 Sourcing Prehistoric Ceramics at Chodistaas Pueblo, Arizona: The Circulation of People and Pots in the Grasshopper Region. Anthropological Papers No. 58. University of Arizona Press, Tucson.