Plant utility indices: Two Great Basin examples

Journal of Archaeological Science

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 351-371

  Barlow, K Renee ^a   Metcalfe, Duncan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Caloric return rates; Central place foraging; Optimal foraging theory; Plant macrofossils

Indexed keywords

FORAGING BEHAVIOUR; PLANT FOSSIL; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TAPHONOMY;

USA, GREAT BASIN;

EID: 0029729752     PISSN: 03054403     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jasc.1996.0033     Document Type: Article

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