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Adoption and Intensification of Agriculture in the North American Southwest: Notes toward a Quantitative Approach

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

David A. Phillips Jr.
David A. Phillips Jr.*
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Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131 (dap@unm.edu)
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Abstract

Qualitative models are unable to explain the known variability in the adoption and intensification of agriculture in the prehistoric North American Southwest. Adoption of a quantitative approach (specifically, a model based on marginal costs and benefits) better accounts for that variability.

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Résumé

Los modelos cualitativos no pueden explicar la variabilidad en la agricultura prehistórica del suroeste de Norteamérica. Un modelo cuantiativo, en base a costos y beneficios margenales, parece mejor explicar la variabilidad observada.

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American Antiquity , Volume 74 , Issue 4 , October 2009 , pp. 691 - 707
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Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 2009

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