Mobility-driven cultural transmission along the forager-collector continuum

Journal of Anthropological Archaeology

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 62-68

  Perreault, Charles ^a   Brantingham, P Jeffrey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Central place foraging; Cultural transmission; Human evolution; Hunter gatherers; Levy flight; Lithics; Logistic mobility; Mean squared displacement; Poisson process

Indexed keywords

EID: 78951492023     PISSN: 02784165     EISSN: 10902686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaa.2010.10.003     Document Type: Article

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