What drives the evolution of hunter-gatherer subsistence technology? A reanalysis of the risk hypothesis with data from the Pacific northwest

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 366, Issue 1567, 2011, Pages 1129-1138

  Collard, Mark ^a,b   Buchanan, Briggs ^a,b   Morin, Jesse ^c   Costopoulos, Andre ^d  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^d MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Hunter gatherers; Northwest coast; Plateau; Risk; Subsistence; Toolkit variation

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ZONE; DECISION MAKING; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY; HUNTER-GATHERER; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; PLATEAU; RISK ASSESSMENT; SUBSISTENCE;

PACIFIC NORTHWEST;

AMERICAN INDIAN; ARCHEOLOGY; ARTICLE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TOOL USE; UNITED STATES;

ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; ARCHAEOLOGY; CULTURAL EVOLUTION; ECOSYSTEM; HUMANS; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; LIFE STYLE; NORTHWESTERN UNITED STATES; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TOOL USE BEHAVIOR;

EID: 79959533179     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2010.0366     Document Type: Article

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