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SUBMITTER: Mills BJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3625298 | biostudies-other | 2013 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Mills Barbara J BJ Clark Jeffery J JJ Peeples Matthew A MA Haas W R WR Roberts John M JM Hill J Brett JB Huntley Deborah L DL Borck Lewis L Breiger Ronald L RL Clauset Aaron A Shackley M Steven MS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20130325 15
The late pre-Hispanic period in the US Southwest (A.D. 1200-1450) was characterized by large-scale demographic changes, including long-distance migration and population aggregation. To reconstruct how these processes reshaped social networks, we compiled a comprehensive artifact database from major sites dating to this interval in the western Southwest. We combine social network analysis with geographic information systems approaches to reconstruct network dynamics over 250 y. We show how social ...[more]