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O'Connell, James F. | A Different Paradigm for the Initial Colonisation of Sahul: Archaeological, genetic, demographic and geographic perspectives | The questions of when and how humans reached Sahul, the Pleistocene continent of Australia and New Guinea, has remained a central issue of Australian archaeology since its development as an academic discipline in the mid-twentieth century. Additionally, this has been a dominant theme linking Austral... | Sahul; Wallacea; colonisation; isolation; genomics; mitochondrial DNA | 2019-08-20 |
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Yaworsky, Peter M. | Archaeological Potential of the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument | Executive proclamation 9682 reduces the size of the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument (GSENM), removing protections for at least 2,000 known archaeological sites and an unknown number of undiscovered cultural properties. Because only 10% of the GSENM's 1.9 million acres has been inventorie... | Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument; Anthropology-Research | 2018 |
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Macfarlan, Shane | Male Survival Advantage on the Baja California Peninsula | A consistent finding from contemporary Western societies is that women outlive men. However, what is unclear is whether sex differences in survival are constant across varying socio-ecological conditions. We test the universality of the female survival advantage with mortality data from a nineteenth... | ecology; health and disease and epidemiology; behaviour | 2020 |
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Vernon, Kenneth B. | Prearchaic land use in Grass Valley, Nevada: A novel statistical implementation of optimal distribution modeling | Using Prearchaic (PA) sites in Grass Valley, NV (Fig. 1), this project investigates (i) environmental factors driving variation in PA settlement and (ii) geomorphological factors driving variation in PA surface visibility. Building on previous research [1,2], we evaluate variables using Ideal Free D... | Prearchaic - Great Basin; Ideal Free Distribution; Maximum Entropy | 2018 |
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Codding, Brian F. | Socioecological dynamics structuring the spread of farming in the North American Basin-Plateau Region | The spread of agriculture is a major driver of social and environmental change throughout 25 the Holocene, yet experimental and ethnographic data indicate that farming is less profitable than foraging, so why would individuals choose to adopt agriculture leading to its expansion? Ideal distribution ... | Ideal free distribution model; population ecology; behavioral ecology; maize agriculture; Ancestral Puebloan; Fremont Complex | 2021 |
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