Modeling Modes of Hunter-gatherer Food Storage
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thinking about the economics of huntergatherer food storage, this critical component of many foraging economies and important factor in the evolution of complex social systems remains poorly understood, leading Kuijt (2009:641) to recently lament that “archaeologists have yet to develop a detailed understanding of the scale of economic contributions of food storage in preagriculturalist communities.” This problem is an important one, arguably beginning alongside Woodburn’s (1980) modeling of deMODELING MODES OF HUNTER-GATHERER FOOD STORAGE
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تاریخ انتشار 2012