Researchers explore population size, density in rise of centralized power in antiquity

ScienceDaily
Nov 30, 2020, 3:58 pm141 pts
A group of researchers developed Power Theory, a model emphasizing the role of demography in political centralization, and applied it to the shift in power dynamics in prehistoric northern coastal societies in Peru. To test the theory, the team created a summed probability distribution (SPD) from 755…

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