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SUBMITTER: Bocinsky RK
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4820384 | biostudies-other | 2016 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Bocinsky R Kyle RK Rush Johnathan J Kintigh Keith W KW Kohler Timothy A TA
Science advances 20160401 4
Cycles of demographic and organizational change are well documented in Neolithic societies, but the social and ecological processes underlying them are debated. Such periodicities are implicit in the "Pecos classification," a chronology for the pre-Hispanic U.S. Southwest introduced in Science in 1927 which is still widely used. To understand these periodicities, we analyzed 29,311 archaeological tree-ring dates from A.D. 500 to 1400 in the context of a novel high spatial resolution, annual reco ...[more]