Adaptive responses to demographic fragility: Mitigating stochastic effects in early island colonization

Human Ecology

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 721-734

  Leppard, Thomas P ^a  

^a Rutgers University   (United States)

Author keywords

Insularity; Island archaeology; Palaeodemography; Population ecology; Prehistoric colonization; Social evolution

Indexed keywords

EID: 84946488183     PISSN: 03007839     EISSN: 15729915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10745-015-9779-4     Document Type: Article

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