Hydroclimate Variability Influenced Social Interaction in the Prehistoric American Southwest

When droughts and floods struck ancient agrarian societies, complex networks of exchange and interaction channeled resources into affected settlements and migrant flows away from them. Did these networks evolve in part to connect populations living in differing climate regimes? Here, I examine this...

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Main Author: Nicolas Gauthier
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-01-01
Series:Frontiers in Earth Science
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/feart.2020.620856/full