An ecological model for the emergence of institutionalized social hierarchies on California's Northern Channel Islands

Pattern and Process in Cultural Evolution

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 297-314

  Kennett, Douglas J ^a   Winterhalder, Bruce ^b   Bartruff, Jacob ^a   Erlandson, Jon M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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