Optimality models and the food quest in Pleistocene Tasmania

Journal of Anthropological Archaeology

Volumn 44, Issue , 2016, Pages 206-215

  Allen, Jim ^a   Cosgrove, Richard ^a   Garvey, Jillian ^a  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Diet breadth; Equilibrium; Ideal free distribution; Late Pleistocene; Marginal value; Tasmania

Indexed keywords

EID: 84997522708     PISSN: 02784165     EISSN: 10902686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaa.2016.07.009     Document Type: Article

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