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Solich, Martin and Bradtmoeller, Marcel (2017). Socioeconomic complexity and the resilience of hunter-gatherer societies. Quat. Int., 446. S. 109 - 128. OXFORD: PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD. ISSN 1873-4553

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Abstract

Human societies have been challenged by internal and external disturbances throughout history. However, our knowledge of the dynamics and parameters of their resilience remains remarkably incomplete. This deficiency is particularly evident for the longest part of our past, when humans lived as hunter-gatherers. Following Holling's adaptive cycle model, we propose an approach to reconstruct socio-economic developments in hunter-gatherer populations as transitions between different attractor states of complex adaptive systems, with connectedness as a key concept. This allows a reinterpretation of the classical 'simple'-'complex' hunter-gatherer dichotomy by shifting attention to the mechanisms of adaptation and dynamics holding socio-ecologic systems of hunter-gatherers in tension. Applied to the situation in Europe during the late Pleistocene, a model explaining the different long-term dynamics observable in the aftermath of the arrival of the first anatomically modern humans is discussed. (C) 2017 Elsevier Ltd and INQUA. All rights reserved.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Solich, Martin UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Bradtmoeller, Marcel UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-222000
DOI:	10.1016/j.quaint.2017.06.064
Journal or Publication Title:	Quat. Int.
Volume:	446
Page Range:	S. 109 - 128
Date:	2017
Publisher:	PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
Place of Publication:	OXFORD
ISSN:	1873-4553
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language ADAPTIVE CYCLES; POPULATION-SIZE; CULTURAL-EVOLUTION; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; NORTHWEST COAST; NORTHERN SPAIN; CUEVA MORIN; MOBILITY; SETTLEMENT; CLIMATE Multiple languages Geography, Physical; Geosciences, Multidisciplinary Multiple languages
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/22200