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Contents
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Preface
I. Setting the Stage
1. Collapse, Resilience, and Transformation in Complex Societies: Modeling Trends and Understanding Diversity - Ronald K. Faulseit
2. Why Collapse Is So Difficult to Understand - Joseph A. Tainter
II. Reframing Narratives of Societal Transformation
3. After Monte Albán in the Central Valleys of Oaxaca: A Reassessment - Gary M. Feinman and Linda M. Nicholas
4. New Perspectives on the Collapse and Regeneration of the Han Dynasty - Tristram R. Kidder, Liu Haiwang, Michael J. Storozum, and Qin Zhen
5. Requestioning the Classic Maya Collapse and the Fall of the Roman Empire: Slow Collapse - Rebecca Storey and Glenn R. Storey
6. A Historical Processual Approach to Continuity and Change in Classic and Postclassic Yucatan - Scott Hutson, Iliana Ancona Aragón, Miguel Covarrubias Reyna, Zachary Larsen, Katie Lukach, Shannon E. Plank, Richard E. Terry, and Willem Vanessendelft
7. The Dangers of Diversity: The Consolidation and Dissolution of Cahokia, Native North America’s First Urban Polity - Thomas E. Emerson and Kristin M. Hedman
III. Resilience Theory and Societal Transformation
8. Release and Reorganization in the Tropics: A Comparative Perspective from Southeast Asia - Gyles Iannone
9. Reestablishment of Complex Societies following Collapse and Abandonment in Nasca, Peru - Christina A. Conlee
10. The Decline and Reorganization of Southwestern Complexity: Using Resilience Theory to Examine the Collapse of Chaco Canyon - Jakob W. Sedig
11. Transformation without Collapse: Two Cases from the U.S. Southwest - Andrea Torvinen, Michelle Hegmon, Ann P. Kinzig, Margaret C. Nelson, Matthew A. Peeples, Colleen Strawhacker, Karen G. Schollmeyer, and Laura Swantek
12. Tres Zapotes: The Evolution of a Resilient Polity in the Olmec Heartland of Mexico - Christopher A. Pool and Michael L. Loughlin
IV. Long-Term Resilience and Adaptive Strategies
13. Finding Resilience in Ritual and History in the Lake Okeechobee Basin - Victor D. Thompson
14. Resilience and Persistent Places in the Mississippi River Delta of Southeastern Louisiana - Christopher B. Rodning and Jayur M. Mehta
15. Political Economy and Craft Production before and after the Collapse of Mississippian Chiefdoms - Maureen Meyers
V. Postcollapse Resilience and Reorganization
16. Crafting a Response to Collapse: Ceramic and Textile Production in the Wake of Tiwanaku State Breakdown - Nicola Sharratt
17. Collapse, Regeneration, and the Origins of Tula and the Toltec State - J. Heath Anderson, Dan M. Healan, and Robert H. Cobean
18. Reconsidering Collapse: Identity, Ideology, and Postcollapse Settlement in the Argolid - Katie Lantzas
19. A Tale of Two Cities: Continuity and Change following the Moche Collapse in the Jequetepeque Valley, Peru - Kari A. Zobler and Richard C. Sutter
20. Household Adaptation and Reorganization in the Aftermath of the Classic Maya Collapse at Baking Pot, Belize - Julie A. Hoggarth and Jaime J. Awe
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