Adaptive cycles in archaeology. Indicators of change and stability in socio-economic systems.
The adaptive cycle
Abstract
In this chapter, I will evaluate the potential of adaptive cycles as a heuristic device to structure and interpret archaeological data, with the aim of understanding the nature, drivers and consequences of multi-dimensional, multi-scalar change over a long-term diachronic perspective covering the Iron Age to late Hellenistic period (10th to 1st c. BCE).
Type
Publication
Book chapter. In: Once upon a river. Long-term change in social metabolism of the Aglasun valley.
Dries Daems
Assistant Professor in Spatial Digital Humanities
I am Assistant Professor in Spatial Digital Humanities at VU Amsterdam.I got my PhD in Archaeology from KU Leuven. My research interests include social complexity, urbanism, connectivity and information exchange, artisanal production, and human-environment interactions through computational modeling and pottery studies. My core research focus lies in the Hellenistic Mediterranean.