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Laura Finsten
Researcher at McMaster University
Publications - 14
Citations - 562
Laura Finsten is an academic researcher from McMaster University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Settlement (litigation) & Ethnohistory. The author has an hindex of 10, co-authored 14 publications receiving 541 citations.
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Monte Albán's Hinterland, Part II: Prehispanic Settlement Patterns in Tlacolula, Etla, and Ocotlan, the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico, Vols. 1 and 2
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Ecological Theory and Cultural Evolution in the Valley of Oaxaca [and Comments and Reply]
William T. Sanders,Deborah L. Nichols,Richard E. Blanton,Frederick J. Bove,George L. Cowgill,Gary M. Feinman,Linda M. Nicholas,Kent V. Flannery,Kenneth G. Hirth,Stephen A. Kowalewski,Laura Finsten,Joyce Marcus,J.-F. Moreau,Michael J. O'Brien,John Paddock,Karl H. Schwerin,Charles S. Spencer,Paul Tolstoy,Marcus Winter +18 more
TL;DR: In this article, a rather traditional ecological model is presented to explain pre-Hispanic ultural evolution in the valley of Oaxaca, showing that the published data do not permit he rejection of either.
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Engendering Tomb 7 at Monte Alban: Respinning an Old Yarn [and Comments and Reply]
Sharisse McCafferty,Geoffrey McCafferty,Elizabeth M. Brumfiel,Clemency Coggins,Cathy Lynne Costin,Laura Finsten,Joan M. Gero,Cecelia F. Klein,Jill Leslie Mckeever-Furst,John Paddock,Lynn Stephen +10 more
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Boundaries, scale, and internal organization☆
TL;DR: The abstract systems properties of size, centralization, and boundary permeability are related in a theoretical model, wherein size and permeability were positively associated and these two properties are in turn negatively associated with centralization as discussed by the authors.
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Long-Term Demographic Change: a Perspective from the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico
TL;DR: Based on the findings of more than 10 years of regional archaeological survey, the prehispanic settlement history of the Valley of Oaxaca in Southern Mexico is presented for the 3,OOO-year period prior to Spanish Conquest as mentioned in this paper.