british and irish archaeological bibliography
Areal decrease, density increase, and circumscription: a mathematical note
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546 - 549
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Population density increases whenever a population grows more rapidly, or shrinks more slowly, than the area it inhabits; areal contraction therefore accelerates density increase. This consideration not only reinforces Dickson's (1987) suggestion that circumscription by anthropogenic environmental destruction contributed to the rise of some early states; it also implies that rate of density increase should be distinguished, as a motor of sociocultural evolution, from density itself. Hence the rise of the state in SW Iran, and occasional instances of high density among non-state societies, are not necessarily inconsistent with population-pressure theories. Au
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Graber, Robert Bates 1990 `Areal decrease, density increase, and circumscription: a mathematical note' Amer Antiquity 55, 1990 546-9 []
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546-9