Central Western Argentina & The Great Basin/Intermountain Region: Parallels In Culture Process And Interests In Archaeological Method And Theory

A. GIL, S. SIMMS Y G. NEME

Gunnison, Colorado. EEUU

Conferencia; Rocky Mountain Anthropological Conference; 2009

University of Colorado

Contemporary ecology employs comparisons among ecosystems to explore how similarities and differences in circumstances in the natural and social environment shape alternative human adaptive strategies. The province of Mendoza in central western Argentina and the Great Basin/Intermountain region exhibit similarities and differences that present opportunities to investigate topics such as the forager-farmer transition, forager mobility, settlement pattern and group size, technology, and the evolution of social complexity. The exploration of ecological problems by researchers working in distant geographic areas is consistent with an evolutionary analysis of cultural causation at scales beyond culture history. 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