Previous articleNext article No AccessThoughts on Upward Collapse: An Essay on Explanation in AnthropologyCharles J. ErasmusCharles J. Erasmus Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Volume 24, Number 2Summer, 1968 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/soutjanth.24.2.3629421 Views: 8Total views on this site Citations: 16Citations are reported from Crossref Journal History This article was published in the Southwestern Journal of Anthropology (1945-1972), which is continued by the Journal of Anthropological Research (1973-present). Copyright 1968 Department of Anthropology, The University of New MexicoPDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:Michelle R. Bebber The Role of Functional Efficiency in the Decline of North America’s Copper Culture (8000–3000 BP): an Experimental, Ecological, and Evolutionary Approach, Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 361 (Jan 2021).https://doi.org/10.1007/s10816-020-09497-0Adrian S. Z. Chase, Rudolf Cesaretti Diversity in ancient Maya water management strategies and landscapes at Caracol, Belize, and Tikal, Guatemala, WIREs Water 6, no.22 (Dec 2018).https://doi.org/10.1002/wat2.1332R. Lee Lyman American Archaeology Textbooks as Reflections of the History of the Discipline, North American Archaeologist 31, no.11 (Jan 2010): 1–25.https://doi.org/10.2190/NA.31.1.aJames J. Aimers What Maya Collapse? Terminal Classic Variation in the Maya Lowlands, Journal of Archaeological Research 15, no.44 (Aug 2007): 329–377.https://doi.org/10.1007/s10814-007-9015-xRobert C. Dunnell, Diana M. Greenlee Late Woodland Period “Waste” Reduction in the Ohio River Valley, Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 18, no.33 (Sep 1999): 376–395.https://doi.org/10.1006/jaar.1999.0347Philip Duke Working through theoretical tensions in contemporary archaeology: A practical attempt from southwestern Colorado, Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 2, no.33 (Sep 1995): 201–229.https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02229007Jeremy A. Sabloff Interpreting the Collapse of Classic Maya Civilization: A Case Study of Changing Archaeological Perspectives, (Jan 1992): 99–119.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1826-2_4 References, American Behavioral Scientist 28, no.11 (Jul 2016): 154–160.https://doi.org/10.1177/000276484028001012Patricia J. Netherly The Management of Late Andean Irrigation Systems on the North Coast of Peru, American Antiquity 49, no.22 (Jan 2017): 227–254.https://doi.org/10.2307/280017 Robert C. Dunnell Methodological Issues in Contemporary Americanist Archaeology, PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1984, no.22 (Oct 2015): 717–744.https://doi.org/10.1086/psaprocbienmeetp.1984.2.192535 Lewis R. Binford , and Jeremy A. Sabloff Paradigms, Systematics, and Archaeology, Journal of Anthropological Research 38, no.22 (Sep 2015): 137–153.https://doi.org/10.1086/jar.38.2.3629594Gordon R. Willey Maya Archeology, Science 215, no.45304530 (Jan 1982): 260–267.https://doi.org/10.1126/science.215.4530.260Raymond Martin Explanatory Controversy in Historical Studies, (Jan 1980): 219–235.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-3528-5_13Thomas Nickles On the Independence of Singular Causal Explanation in Social Science: Archaeology, Philosophy of the Social Sciences 7, no.22 (Aug 2016): 163–187.https://doi.org/10.1177/004839317700700203Gair Tourtellot, Jeremy A. Sabloff Exchange Systems among the Ancient Maya, American Antiquity 37, no.11 (Jan 2017): 126–135.https://doi.org/10.2307/278894Bruce G. Trigger Aims in Prehistoric Archaeology, Antiquity 44, no.173173 (Jan 2015): 26–37.https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003598X00040953