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Codding, Brian | Alternative aboriginal economies: Martu livelihoods in the 21st century | In the western deserts of Australia, hunting and gathering endures as an important social and economic activity. That foraging persists within the boundaries of developed industrialized nation states may come as a surprise to those who evaluate foraging as less profitable than agricultural, wage or ... | Aboriginal economics; Aboriginal foraging | 2015 |
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Vernon, Kenneth B. | Numic fires: modeling the effects of anthropogenic fire on foraging decisions in the Great Basin | Across Western North America, hunter-gatherers modified their surrounding environment with the application of fire (1; 11; 15). However, to date we lack a general theoretical framework to investigate the reasons why people would burn or its effects on traditional foraging economies. To begin to fill... | Behavioral ecology; Diet; Fire | 2015 |
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Codding, Brian | Behavioral ecology and the future of archaeological science | The future of archaeological science relies as much (if not more) on theoretical as on methodological developments. As with anything in biology, explaining past human behavior will require the application of evolutionary theory. As with anything in archaeology, theory is useless without clear ties t... | | 2015-01-01 |
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Bell, Adrian | Driving factors in the colonization of Oceania: developing island-level statistical models to test competing hypotheses (Electronic Supporting Material) | To test the model specification and fitting algorithms, we simulated data using randomly generated parameters, settlement chronology, and accessibility matrix for N islands. Using the function optim in R, we found the maximum likelihood estimates and compared them with the "true" parameter values us... | Oceania; Archaeology; Settlement; Statistical models | 2015-01-23 |