@article{702375,
      recid = {702375},
      author = {Carballo, David M.},
      title = {Cooperation & collective action archaeological  perspectives / [electronic resource] :},
      publisher = {University Press of Colorado,},
      address = {Boulder, Colo. :},
      pages = {x, 319 p. :},
      year = {2013},
      abstract = {"Past archaeological literature on cooperation theory has  emphasized competition's role in cultural evolution. As a  result, bottom-up possibilities for group cooperation have  been under-theorized in favor of models stressing top-down  leadership, and evidence from a range of disciplines has  demonstrated that humans effectively sustain cooperative  undertakings through a number of social norms and  institutions. Cooperation and Collective Action is the  first volume to focus on the use of archaeological evidence  to understand cooperation and collective action.  Disentangling the motivations and institutions that foster  group cooperation among competitive individuals remains a  great conundrum in evolutionary theory. The breadth and  material focus of archaeology provide a much-needed  complement to existing research on cooperation and  collective action, which thus far has relied largely on  game-theoretic modeling, surveys of college students from  affluent countries, brief ethnographic experiments, and  limited historic cases. In Cooperation and Collective  Action, diverse case studies address the evolution of the  emergence of norms, institutions, and symbols in complex  societies over the last 10,000 years. This book is an  important contribution to the literature on cooperation in  human societies and will appeal to archaeologists and other  scholars interested in cooperation research"--},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/702375},
}