Environmental productivity predicts migration, demographic, and linguistic patterns in prehistoric California

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 36, 2013, Pages 14569-14573

  Codding, Brian F ^a   Jones, Terry L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Colonization of North America; Human behavioral ecology; Ideal despotic distribution; Ideal free distribution; Prehistoric migrations

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL PRODUCTIVITY; FOOD STORAGE; HABITAT; HUMAN; LATE HOLOCENE; LINGUISTICS; MIGRATION; POPULATION; POPULATION DENSITY; PREHISTORIC PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRODUCTIVITY; RESIDENT; SEASHORE; UNITED STATES; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; GEOGRAPHY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TIME; TRENDS;

CALIFORNIA; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; ENVIRONMENT; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84883336352     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1302008110     Document Type: Article

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