Family counts: deciding when to murder among the Icelandic Vikings

Evolution and Human Behavior

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 175-180

  Palmstierna, Markel ^a   Frangou, Anna ^a   Wallette, Anna ^b   Dunbar, Robin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Affines; Alliances; Icelandic Vikings; Kinship; Murder

Indexed keywords

EID: 85005939418     PISSN: 10905138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2016.09.001     Document Type: Article

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