Thinking outside the box: A new perspective on diet breadth and sexual division of labor in the Prearchaic Great Basin

World Archaeology

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 103-130

  Elston, Robert G ^a   Zeanah, David W ^a  

^a Dept of University of California ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Foraging behavior; Great Basin; Pleistocene Holocene transition; Sexual division of labor; Simulation

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; DIET; HOLOCENE; HUNTER-GATHERER; LABOR DIVISION; PLEISTOCENE;

ARCHEOLOGY; ARTICLE; DIET; ETHNOLOGY; GENDER IDENTITY; HISTORY; METHODOLOGY; UNITED STATES;

ARCHAEOLOGY; DIET; GENDER IDENTITY; HISTORY, ANCIENT; NORTHWESTERN UNITED STATES; SOUTHWESTERN UNITED STATES;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0036291113     PISSN: 00438243     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00438240220134287     Document Type: Article

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