Was agriculture impossible during the Pleistocene but mandatory during the Holocene? A climate change hypothesis

American Antiquity

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 387-411

  Richerson, Peter J ^a   Boyd, Robert ^b   Bettinger, Robert L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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DOI: 10.2307/2694241     Document Type: Article

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