Centralized communities, population, and social complexity after sedentarization

The Neolithic Demographic Transition and its Consequences

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 359-386

  Drennan, Robert D ^a   Peterson, Christian E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Chiefdoms; Communities; Demographic centralization; Regional settlement study

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950521857     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-8539-0_14     Document Type: Chapter

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