Risk, mobility or population size? Drivers of technological richness among contact-period western North American hunter-gatherers

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 368, Issue 1630, 2013, Pages

  Collard, Mark ^a   Buchanan, Briggs ^a,b   O'Brien, Michael J ^b   Scholnick, Jonathan ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Hunter gatherers; Mobility hypothesis; Population size hypothesis; Risk hypothesis; Technological richness; Western North America

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL RISK; HUMAN EVOLUTION; POPULATION SIZE; RESIDENTIAL MOBILITY; SEASONAL VARIATION; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT;

NORTH AMERICA;

ARTICLE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; HUMAN; HUNTER-GATHERERS; MOBILITY HYPOTHESIS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NORTH AMERICA; POPULATION-SIZE HYPOTHESIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TECHNOLOGICAL RICHNESS; TOOL USE; WESTERN NORTH AMERICA;

HUNTER-GATHERERS; MOBILITY HYPOTHESIS; POPULATION-SIZE HYPOTHESIS; RISK HYPOTHESIS; TECHNOLOGICAL RICHNESS; WESTERN NORTH AMERICA;

ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; CULTURAL EVOLUTION; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; HUMANS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NORTH AMERICA; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TOOL USE BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84885202936     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2012.0412     Document Type: Article

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