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 | Codding, Brian F. | Explaining prehistoric variation in the abundance of large prey: a zooarchaeological analysis of deer and rabbit hunting along the Pecho Coast of Central California | Three main hypotheses are commonly employed to explain diachronic variation in the relative abun dance of remains of large terrestrial herbivores: (1) large prey populations decline as a function of anthro pogenic overexploitation; (2 ) large prey tends to increase as a result of increasing social p... | Foraging; resource depression; prestige hunting; paleoclimatic variability; human behavioral ecology; zooarchaeology; central California | 2009-11-14 |