ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book introduces Complexity Theory mathematical methods incorporating known economic laws to enable analysis of the hydraulic engineering technical base that underlies hydraulic societal development in ancient South American, Middle Eastern and Asian societies. It seeks to explain the evolutionary transition to more complex governmental structure by Complexity Theory and Similitude Theory methods and present new analysis paths to understand this evolutionary transition. The book provides the basis for the classification of Andean societies as hydraulic societies based upon Wittfogel’s studies of ancient Chinese society examples. It describes the Preceramic Period, Late Formative site of Caral located in the coastal Supe Valley which had one of the earliest agricultural systems based on an amuna groundwater system that maintained valley groundwater levels sufficiently high to promote extensive agriculture.
