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pc as a complex adaptive system ?



Hello John,
I read about your effords to collect natural patterns.
Since the human race is a part of nature it has a lot of such patterns
to offer. The problem is that mankind became a very complex matter over
the last millenia.
Here is an exellent pattern analysis from the transit era between the
last hunters and gatherers ( woodland hunters) and the first farmers in
middle europe, when civilisation was a bit more overseeable.
Here is what I am talking about:
http://www.princeton.edu/~bogucki/saa1995.html
I think it might be of special interest to permaculturalists, since we
are living in such a period of transition again.
We do not have the abundance of loess soils, that seems to have
propelled the neolithic way of live into middle Europe, our substrate (
can you say so in English ?) is rather the abundance of knowlegde, that
was collected all over the planet for so many thousend years and is now
ready for ( almost) everyone who cares.
I wish you lots of succsess with your project.

Harald Wedig