Complexity and demographic explanations of cumulative culture

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2014, Pages

  Querbes, Adrien ^a   Vaesen, Krist ^b   Houkes, Wybo ^b  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DEMOGRAPHY; HOLOCENE; PALEOLITHIC; POPULATION SIZE; TECHNOLOGY; AUSTRALIA; HUMAN; POPULATION; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PROCEDURES; THEORETICAL MODEL;

CULTURAL EVOLUTION; CULTURE; DEMOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POPULATION; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TASMANIA; TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 84904536906     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0102543     Document Type: Article

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