Contemporary Shellfish Gathering Strategies among the Meriam of the Torres Strait Islands, Australia: Testing Predictions of a Central Place Foraging Model

Journal of Archaeological Science

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 39-63

  Bird, Douglas W ^a   Bliege Bird, Rebecca L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Central place foraging theory; Differential transport; Meriam; Shell middens; Shellfish gathering

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; CENTRAL PLACE MODEL; FORAGING MODEL; MERIAM; RESOURCES GATHERING; SHELLFISH GATHERING;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0031394297     PISSN: 03054403     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jasc.1995.0095     Document Type: Article

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