Understanding how systems of political and economic inequality evolved from relatively
egalitarian origins has long been a focus of anthropological inquiry. Many hypotheses have …

Spatial technology is integral to how archaeologists collect, store, analyze, and represent
information in digital data sets. Recent advances have improved our ability to look for and …

Historians and archaeologists define primary states—" cradles of civilization" from which all
modern nation states ultimately derive—as significant territorially-based, autonomous …

Intensive agricultural systems interact strongly and reciprocally with features of the lands
they occupy, and with features of the societies that they support. We modeled the distribution …

Niche construction theory has played a prominent role in archaeology during the last
decade. However, the potential of niche construction in relation to agricultural development …

Modeling Hawaiian dryland (rainfed) agriculture has been an effective means for examining
interactions between ecosystems and human behavior. Dryland agriculture in these …

We assess 926 radiocarbon dates from Hawai'i Island, the largest assemblage of dates
compiled from a single island in Oceania. Based on a classificatory approach that arranges …

Before European contact, Native Hawaiian agriculture was highly adapted to place and
expressed a myriad of forms. Although the iconic lo 'i systems (flooded irrigated terraces) are …

The incongruity between the small and apparently impoverished Rapa Nui population that
early European travelers encountered and the magnificence of its numerous and massive …

Agricultural productivity, and its variation in space and time, plays a fundamental role in
many theories of human social evolution. However, we often lack systematic information …