TY - GEN
T1 - Small-scale societies and environmental transformations
T2 - Coevolutionary dynamics
AU - Reyes-García, Victoria
AU - Zurro, Debora
AU - Caro, Jorge
AU - Madella, Marco
N1 - Funding Information:
Preliminary versions of the papers collected in this special feature were presented in a 2-day conference on small-scale societies and organized by the editors (http://www.s3et.net/). The guest editors are grateful to all involved authors and reviewers for their time and effort. We acknowledge financial support of SimulPast (CSD 2010-00034) and LEK (ERC-FP7, Grant Agreement 261971). This work contributes to the ICTA 'Unit of Excellence' (MINECO, MDM2015-0552) and the CaSEs research group of the Generalitat de Catalunya (SGR-e 1417).
Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - This editorial introduces the special feature of Ecology and Society entitled Small-Scale Societies and Environmental Transformations: Coevolutionary Dynamics. The contributions to this feature explore coevolutionary dynamics developed between small-scale societies and environmental features and the larger-scale effects of these interactions in spatial and chronological terms. Acknowledging the importance of small-scale societies in our evolutionary past and nowadays, contributions to this issue use insights from both archaeological and anthropological case studies, concepts, and methods. This editorial introduces the contributions in three different ways. We start by reviewing the use of the term "small-scale society" in the literature. Then, we briefly examine the concept of "co-evolutionary dynamics" by providing examples of how the process operates between past and present small-scale societies and their surrounding environments. In the last section, we introduce each of the papers.
AB - This editorial introduces the special feature of Ecology and Society entitled Small-Scale Societies and Environmental Transformations: Coevolutionary Dynamics. The contributions to this feature explore coevolutionary dynamics developed between small-scale societies and environmental features and the larger-scale effects of these interactions in spatial and chronological terms. Acknowledging the importance of small-scale societies in our evolutionary past and nowadays, contributions to this issue use insights from both archaeological and anthropological case studies, concepts, and methods. This editorial introduces the contributions in three different ways. We start by reviewing the use of the term "small-scale society" in the literature. Then, we briefly examine the concept of "co-evolutionary dynamics" by providing examples of how the process operates between past and present small-scale societies and their surrounding environments. In the last section, we introduce each of the papers.
KW - Coevolution
KW - Long-term dynamics
KW - Small-scale societies
KW - Social-ecological systems
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85016770821&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-09066-220115
DO - https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-09066-220115
M3 - Other contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85016770821
VL - 22
T3 - Ecology and Society
ER -