The human experience of social transformation: Insights from comparative archaeology.

ABSTRACT: Archaeologists and other scholars have long studied the causes of collapse and other major social transformations and debated how they can be understood. This article instead focuses on the human experience of living through those transformations, analyzing 18 transformation cases from the US Southwest and the North Atlantic. The transformations, including changes in human securities, were coded based on expert knowledge and data analyzed using Qualitative Comparative Analysis techniques. Results point to the following conclusions: Major transformations, including collapses, generally have a strong and negative impact on human security; flexible strategies that facilitate smaller scale changes may ameliorate those difficulties. Community security is strongly implicated in these changes; st

SUBMITTER: Hegmon M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6264852 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature