1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910781975003321

Titolo

The comparative archaeology of complex societies / / edited by Michael E. Smith [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2012

ISBN

1-107-22370-9

1-139-13992-4

1-283-31514-9

9786613315144

1-139-13916-9

1-139-14494-4

1-139-14074-4

1-139-13761-1

1-139-02271-7

1-139-14162-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxii, 334 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Classificazione

SOC003000

Disciplina

930.1

Soggetti

Social archaeology

Social groups

Complex organizations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Comparative archaeology : a commitment to understanding variation / Robert D. Drennan [and others] -- Approaches to comparative analysis in archaeology / Michael E. Smith and Peter Peregrine -- Comparative frames for the diachronic analysis of complex societies : next steps / Gary M. Feinman -- What it takes to get complex : food, goods, and work as shared cultural ideals form the beginning of sedentism / Monica L. Smith -- Challenges for comparative study of early complex societies / Robert D. Drennan and Christian E. Peterson -- Patterned variation in regional trajectories of community growth / Christian E. Peterson and Robert D. Drennan -- The genesis of monuments in island societies / Michael J. Kolb -- Power and legitimation : political



strategies, typology and cultural evolution / Peter Peregrine -- The strategies of provincials in empires / Barbara L. Stark and John K. Chase -- Household economies under the Aztec and Inka empires : a comparison / Timothy Earle and Michael E. Smith -- Low-density, agrarian-based urbanism : scale, power, and ecology / Roland Fletcher -- Archaeology, early complex societies, and comparative social science history / Michael E. Smith.

Sommario/riassunto

Part of a resurgence in the comparative study of ancient societies, this book presents a variety of methods and approaches to comparative analysis through the examination of wide-ranging case studies. Each chapter is a comparative study, and the diverse topics and regions covered in the book contribute to the growing understanding of variation and change in ancient complex societies. The authors explore themes ranging from urbanization and settlement patterns, to the political strategies of kings and chiefs, to the economic choices of individuals and households. The case studies cover an array of geographical settings, from the Andes to Southeast Asia. The authors are leading archaeologists whose research on early empires, states, and chiefdoms is at the cutting edge of scientific archaeology.



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788734603321

Autore

Sowers R. B (Richard Bucher), <1965->

Titolo

Short-time geometry of random heat kernels / / Richard B. Sowers

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Providence, Rhode Island : , : American Mathematical Society, , 1998

ISBN

1-4704-0218-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (145 p.)

Collana

Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society, , 0065-9266 ; ; number 629

Disciplina

510 s

519.2

Soggetti

Heat equation

Stochastic partial differential equations

Filters (Mathematics)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"March 1998, volume 132, number 629 (end of volume)."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""Chapter 1. Introduction""; ""Â1.1. The Short-Time Problem""; ""Â1.2. The Main Results and Some Examples""; ""Â1.3. Notation and Assumptions""; ""Chapter 2. Guessing the Dominant Asymptotics""; ""Â2.1. A Simpler Problem""; ""Â2.2. A Minimization Problem""; ""Â2.3. A Rate Function and Approximation for the Random Heat Kernel""; ""Â2.4. Representation Results for the Secondary and Tertiary Terms""; ""Chapter 3. Initial Condition and Evolution of the Approximate Kernel""; ""Â3.1. The Short-Time Behavior of the Approximation""; ""Â3.2. The Evolution of the Approximation""

""Chapter 4. The Minakshisundaram-Pleijel Coefficients""""Â4.1. An Ansatz""; ""Â4.2. Some Results on Multiple Wiener Integrals""; ""Â4.3. The Minakshisundaram-Pleijel Expansion""; ""Chapter 5. Error Estimates, Proof of the Main Theorem, and Extensions""; ""Â5.1. Setup of Equations""; ""Â5.2. Estimates on the Continuity of SPDE's""; ""Â5.3. The Near-Field Error""; ""Â5.4. The Far-Field Error""; ""Â5.5. Proof of the Main Theorem""; ""Â5.6. Extensions""; ""Appendices""; ""Appendix A: The Jacobi Flow""; ""Appendix B: Some Results on Multiple Wiener Integrals""

""Appendix C: Garsia-Rodemich-Rumsey Estimates""""Bibliography""