The study of warfare in the ancient Pueblos of the U.S. Southwest has become politicized and contentious, and southwestern data are only rarely used to address larger anthropological theories of war. A cross-cultural model of violence proposed by Carol and Melvin Ember (1992) suggests that war in pre-state societies is predicted by resource unpredictability and socialization for fear. The Ember and Ember model is evaluated using syntheses of southwestern warfare by Steven LeBlanc (1999), environmental variability by Jeffrey Dean (1988, 1996), and political history by Stephen Lekson (1999). The fit between the southwestern data and the model is close, and supports the Ember and Ember model. El estudio de la guerra entre los Pueblos antiguos del Suroeste de los Estados Unidos se ha vuelto politizado y contencioso, y los datos del Suroeste han sido usados raramente para tratar las teorias antropologicas mas extensas sobre la guerra. Un modelo transcultural de violencia propuesto por Carol y Melvin Ember (1992) sugiere que la guerra en sociedades pre-estatales es predecible por la incertidumhre de los recursos y la socializacion por miedo. El modelo de Ember y Ember es evaluado usando la sintesis de la guerra en el Suroeste por Steven LeBlanc (1999), la variabilidad del medio ambiente por Jeffrey Dean (1988, 1996), y la historia politico por Stephen Lekson (1999). La estrecha concordancia entre los datos del Suroeste y el modelo apoya la propuesta de Ember y Ember.
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.