Emergence of fusion/fission cycling and self-organized criticality from a simulation model of early complex polities

Journal of Archaeological Science

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 873-883

  Griffin, Arthur F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Political economy; Polity cycling; Prehistoric polities; Rank size; Self organized criticality; Simulation modeling

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; FOREST FIRE; MODELING; POLITICAL ECONOMY; PREHISTORIC; SELF ORGANIZATION; SIMULATION;

EID: 79251614750     PISSN: 03054403     EISSN: 10959238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2010.11.017     Document Type: Article

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