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Cultural Dynamics, Vol. 4, No. 2, 135-157 (1991)
DOI: 10.1177/092137409100400203

The Beginnings of Agriculture in Mesoamerica and South America: a View from Decision Theory

Barbara Göbel

Universität Göttingen

The decision theoretical components of two, structurally very different models on the origins of agriculture - Flannery's systemic, decision theoretical model and Cohen's monocausal, demographic model - are analyzed. Beyond that, it is examined to what extent their theoretical assumptions meet the existing archaeological data. It can be demonstrated that Flannery's approach allows a much more differentiated modelling of the process of integration and development of agriculture as it is discernible from the archaeological data than Cohen's approach.


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