@inbook {,
	title = {Organizational structure and scalar stress},
	booktitle = {Theory and explanation in archaeology},
	year = {1982},
	note = {Common observation in archaeology: larger societies tend to be more complex than smaller ones, and both size and complexity are normally considered to be major axes of variability in social evolution. Uniformitarian approach.Sequential hierarchies are presented as an egalitarian alternative to {\textquoteleft}simultaneous hierarchies{\textquoteright} which involved institutionalized hierarchical systems.  There is a magic number of 6 at which point human systems tend to subdivide and generate smaller units in the hierarchy to reduce scalar stress. This is purportedly true in both sequential and simultaneous hierarchies. 1. Dispute frequency in sequential hierarchies is a function of scalar-communications stress. 2. Stress is an exponential function of organizational scale.3. Organizational scale is best measured in terms of number of basal organizational units.Conclusion: "Potential system size, degree of control, degree of status differentiation or stratification, degree of elite access to resources, and even rate of system evolution may all be related to general properties of hierarchies. I always wondered why so many things happened so quickly after the Neolithic."},
	pages = {389-421},
	publisher = {Academic Press},
	organization = {Academic Press},
	address = {New York},
	keywords = {processualism 201a},
	isbn = {0125869606},
	author = {Johnson, Gregory A.},
	editor = {Renfrew, Colin and Rowlands, Michael J. and Segraves, Barbara A.}
}