Wasteful Advertising and Variance Reduction: Darwinian Models for the Significance of Nonutilitarian Architecture

Journal of Anthropological Archaeology

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 356-375

  Aranyosi, E F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Irish megaliths; Irish agricultural conditions; bet hedging; costly signaling; evolutionary archaeology

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346874199     PISSN: 02784165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jaar.1999.0346     Document Type: Article

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