Twenty-first century approaches to ancient problems: Climate and society

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 113, Issue 51, 2016, Pages 14483-14491

  D'Alpoim Guedes, Jade A ^a   Crabtree, Stefani A ^a,b   Bocinsky, R Kyle ^a,c   Kohler, Timothy A ^a,c,d  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Université Bourgogne Franche Comté   (France)

^c CROW CANYON ARCHAEOLOGICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Agent based modeling; Archaeology; Climate change; Computational modeling

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; ARCHEOLOGY; ASIA; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTATIONAL MODEL; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; HUMAN; NATURAL DISASTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SOCIETY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85006335494     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1616188113     Document Type: Review

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