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This document summarizes a chapter that models prehistoric maize agriculture in Eastern Woodlands societies as a dissipative process within a thermodynamic framework. It discusses how earlier anthropologists metaphorically applied concepts from thermodynamics like energy, entropy, and the second law of thermodynamics to understand cultural evolution. However, these approaches often inappropriately treated societies as closed mechanical systems. The chapter proposes using a non-equilibrium thermodynamics app

Author

Diana Rocio Carvajal Contreras

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EN