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War in ecological perspective
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The article was published on 1976-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 57 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Perspective (graphical).read more
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Why Do Neighbors Fight? Proximity, Interaction, or Territoriality:
TL;DR: This paper argued that the clustering of war among neighbors may be theoretically significant and presented a territorial explanation of the relationship and juxtaposed it with the proximity and interaction explanations to see which is the most adequate.
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Resource Unpredictability, Mistrust, and War A Cross-Cultural Study
Carol R. Ember,Melvin Ember +1 more
TL;DR: This paper found that war may be caused mostly by a fear of nature and a partially resultant fear of others, and that a history of unpredictable natural disasters strongly predicts more war, as does socialization for mistrust (but less strongly).
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Interpreting Conflict in the Ancient Andes
ElizabethArkush,CharlesStanish +1 more
TL;DR: The authors assesses recent interpretations of premodern defensive architecture and militaristic themes in the archaeological record, using the Andes as a case study, and concludes with a reassessment of the evidence for warfare in a few controversial Andean contexts in terms of more relia...
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Climate, Environment and Society in the Pacific during the Last Millennium
TL;DR: The authors discusses the societal effects of climate and sea-level change, as well as the evidence for externally-driven societal change in the Pacific Basin and synthesizes how climate change has driven environmental change and societal change.
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Male Age Composition and Severity of Conflicts
TL;DR: Mesquida and Wiener as mentioned in this paper found that the relative abundance of young males in a population is associated with the occurrence and severity of war casualties, and the relative prevalence of young men consistently accounts for more than one third of the variance in severity of conflicts.