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Cliodynamics: The Journal of Quantitative History and Cultural Evolution

Volume 6, Issue 1, 2015

Articles

Modeling Strategic Decisions in the Formation of the Early Neo-Assyrian Empire
Baudains, Peter; Zamazalová, Silvie; Altaweel, Mark; Wilson, Alan

Agricultural productivity in past societies: Toward an empirically informed model for testing cultural evolutionary hypotheses
Currie, Thomas E; Bogaard, Amy; Cesaretti, Rudolf; Edwards, Neil; Francois, Pieter; Holden, Phillip et al.

Modeling the large-scale demographic changes of the Old World
Bennett, James

Databases

Seshat: The Global History Databank
Turchin, Peter; Brennan, Rob; Currie, Thomas; Feeney, Kevin; Francois, Pieter; Hoyer, Daniel et al.

Book Reviews

Are Cultural and Evolutionary Views of Human Warfare Converging? A Review of War, Peace and Human Nature: The Convergence of Evolutionary and Cultural Views, edited by Douglas P. Fry (Oxford University Press, 2015)
Mathew, Sarah

The Central Asian Role in the Making of Modern European Science: A Review of Warriors of the Cloisters: The Central Asian Origins of Science in the Medieval World, by Christopher Beckwith (Princeton University Press, 2012)
Saliba, George

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