The Classic Period Maya transition from an ideal free to an ideal despotic settlement system at the polity of Uxbenká

Prufer, Keith M.; Thompson, Amy E.; Meredith, Clayton; Culleton, Brendan J.; Jordan, Jillian M.; Ebert, Claire E.; Winterhalder, Bruce; Kennett, Douglas J.

doi:10.1016/j.jaa.2016.11.003

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“…Several 'despots' are assumed to be able to defend shares better than others, with predictable effects on migration and population distribution (Bell & Winterhalder, 2014;Kennett, Winterhalder, Bartruff, & Erlandson, 2015;Prufer et al, 2017;Summers, 2005). If any assumption is changed, we will have a corresponding predictions.…”

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“…The pastoralist minorities of China, migrating under the duress of reduced precipitation in search of better pastures, had to overcome the resistance of the residential agriculturalists who already occupied the most attractive presumably led to unequal access to resources (Jazwa, Kennett, & Winterhalder, 2016;Prufer et al, 2017). The pastoralist minorities of China, migrating under the duress of reduced precipitation in search of better pastures, had to overcome the resistance of the residential agriculturalists who already occupied the most attractive presumably led to unequal access to resources (Jazwa, Kennett, & Winterhalder, 2016;Prufer et al, 2017).…”

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“…In the despotic or ideal despotic distribution (IDD) variant individuals or perhaps groups of individuals are not affected equally by suitability changes. Several 'despots' are assumed to be able to defend shares better than others, with predictable effects on migration and population distribution (Bell & Winterhalder, 2014;Kennett, Winterhalder, Bartruff, & Erlandson, 2015;Prufer et al, 2017;Summers, 2005).…”

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“…Our empirical findings are based on precipitation anomaly data, historical records and quantitative analysis. The pastoralist minorities of China, migrating under the duress of reduced precipitation in search of better pastures, had to overcome the resistance of the residential agriculturalists who already occupied the most attractive presumably led to unequal access to resources (Jazwa, Kennett, & Winterhalder, 2016;Prufer et al, 2017). However, resistance by the agrarian population was also negatively affected by reduced precipitation.…”

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Regional patterns of pastoralist migrations under the push of reduced precipitation in imperial China

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Aim: As a response of pastoralists to climate change, nomadic migration deeply shaped Chinese history during the imperial era. Existing research on climate-driven nomadic migration is conducted mainly on a national-continental scale. To advance the current work, we aim to resolve migratory movements at a provincial-regional scale using a large and long-term historical dataset as a first attempt. The spatiotemporal features of nomadic migration under climatic effects, specifically precipitation, are analysed in the theoretical context of behavioural ecology. Location: China.Time: Imperial era (220 BC-1910 AD). Study subject: Nomadic pastoralist minorities in imperial China.Methods: We frame the analysis using an ideal free distribution model. A total of 1,842 historical location records of pastoralist immigration are empirically examined.Precipitation anomalies and nomadic migration are statistically assessed with nonparametric and Poisson regression methods, and temporal interdependencies among provincial-regional migratory movements are explored with a vector autoregressive model. Results:We divide imperial China into six regions according to statistical results and geographic factors. Overall, decreased precipitation and drought provoked pastoralist migrations in a north-to-south direction. Northern nomads, with an apparent preference for central China as a major destination, triggered the most conflicts with resident agriculturalists. Nomads originating from the Tibetan minority regions moved north-eastward into Qinghai Province as their main destination.Main conclusions: Long-term regional patterns of pastoralist migration are closely associated with drought-induced ecological change in imperial China. Climate-driven dynamics assessed with long-term historical data facilitate the understanding of climate-ecology-society interactions in behavioural ecology and macroecology.Moreover, findings from imperial China may imply that cultural acceptance and communications could avoid conflicts between immigrants and original residents when facing mass migration, an issue of growing contemporary urgency in many parts of the world. K E Y W O R D SChinese history, climate change, decreased rainfall, ideal free distribution, redistribution, spatio-temporal pattern

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“…Explaining prehistoric colonization and migration events is a central research theme in American archaeology (e.g., Bell et al 2015; Schwindt et al 2016; Smallwood 2012). Recent advances framed by behavioral ecology have drawn on the Ideal Free Distribution model (IFD; Fretwell and Lucas 1969) to explain population movements across continents (Codding and Jones 2013; Hildebrandt et al 2016; O'Connell and Allen 2012; Prufer et al 2017) and islands (Giovas and Fitzpatrick 2014; Jazwa et al 2013; Jazwa et al 2016; Kennett 2005; Winterhalder et al 2010; see Codding and Bird 2015 for review). The IFD model makes the simple prediction that if individuals are free to choose where to make a living, they should distribute themselves across a varying landscape proportional to the suitability of the local environment.…”

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The Ideal Distribution of Farmers: Explaining the Euro-American Settlement of Utah

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2017

Am. Antiq.

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Explaining how and why populations settle a new landscape is central to many questions in American archaeology. Recent advances in settlement research have adopted predictions from the Ideal Free Distribution model (IFD). Explicar cómo y por qué las poblaciones se instalan en un nuevo lugar es fundamental para muchas preguntas en la arqueología americana. Los avances recientes en la investigación de asentamientos han adoptado las predicciones del modelo de Distribución Libre Ideal (DLI). Mientras que las pruebas de las predicciones de DLI hasta la fecha se basan, ya sea en información diacrónica impresisa, que nos llega a través de los arqueólogos, o de información sincrónica precisa de etnografía. Aquí proporcionamos la primera prueba utilizando datos históricos derivados que es a la vez precisa y diacrónica. Los datos diacrónicos precisos nos permiten, evaluar las predicciones a largo plazo del modelo, en una escala temporal en línea con las decisiones de los asentamientos humanos, y también validar los proxies

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Virtual cultural landscapes: Geospatial visualizations of past environments

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Recent advances in spatial and remote sensing technology have led to new methods in archaeological site identification and reconstruction, allowing archaeologists to investigate landscapes and sites on multiple scales. These remotely conducted surveys create virtual cultural landscapes and seascapes that archaeologists and the public interact with and experience, often better than traditional maps. Our study examines landscape reconstruction and archaeological site classifications from a phenomenological and human behavioural ecology (HBE) perspective. HBE aims to reconstruct how humans interacted with these places as part of their active and passive decision making. Through temporal reconstructions, archaeologists and others can experience and interpret past landscapes and subtle changes in cultural land-and seascapes. Here, we evaluate the use of remotely sensed data (lidar, satellite imagery, sonar, radar, etc.) for developing virtual cultural landscapes while also incorporating Indigenous perspectives. Our study compares two vastly different landscapes and perspectives: a seascape in coastal Alaska, USA, and a neotropical jungle in Belize, Central America. By incorporating ethnographic accounts, oral histories, Indigenous traditional knowledge and community engagement, archaeologists can develop new tools to understand decisions made in the past, especially pertaining to settlement selection and resource procurement. These virtual reconstructions become cognitive images of a possible place that the observer experiences. Virtual cultural landscapes allow archaeologists to reproduce landscapes that may otherwise be invisible and present them to different publics. These processes elucidate how landscapes changed over time based on human behaviours while simultaneously allowing archaeologists to engage with Indigenous communities and the public in the protection of prehistoric and historic sites and sacred spaces through cultural heritage management.

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The Classic Period Maya transition from an ideal free to an ideal despotic settlement system at the polity of Uxbenká

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Regional patterns of pastoralist migrations under the push of reduced precipitation in imperial China

Regional patterns of pastoralist migrations under the push of reduced precipitation in imperial China

The Ideal Distribution of Farmers: Explaining the Euro-American Settlement of Utah

Virtual cultural landscapes: Geospatial visualizations of past environments

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