Some implications for hunter‐gatherer ecology derived from the spatial structure of resources
- 1 February 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in World Archaeology
- Vol. 8 (3) , 275-286
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00438243.1977.9979673
Abstract
Frequency‐domain methods for analyzing data on the spatial structure of resources are discussed. The effects of spatial variation on reliability and diversity are high when the variance of resource abundance is greater than the squared mean abundance. Mobility of foragers should be high in poor environments with few resources, all maximally out of phase with each other. Mobility should be low when resources show either little spatial variation or when they vary in phase.Keywords
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- Hunter‐gatherer populations and archaeological inferenceWorld Archaeology, 1972