Neo-environmental determinism and agrarian ‘collapse’ in Andean prehistory

1999/09/01 by Clark L. Erickson · 6 citations
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Environmental Science · Arts and Humanities · #Archaeology and ancient environmental studies #Environmental and Cultural Studies in Latin America and Beyond #Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory

paper · doi:10.1017/s0003598x00065236

Abstract

In early anthropology, environmental determinism was used to explain race, human demography, material culture, cultural variation and cultural change. As anthropological interpretation evolved, simplistic reductionist thinking was replaced with more complex socio-cultural explanations. Despite these theoretical advances,environmental determinism continues to be invoked to explain Andean prehistory.

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