Population and warfare: A test of the turchin model in Pueblo societies

Pattern and Process in Cultural Evolution

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 277-295

  Kohler, Timothy A ^a   Cole, Sarah ^a   Ciupe, Stanca ^b  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

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