The human population has grown significantly since the onset of the Holocene about 12,000 y ago. Despite decades of research, the factors determining prehistoric population growth remain uncertain. Here, we examine measurements of the rate of growth of the prehistoric human population based on statistical analysis of the radiocarbon record. We find that, during most of the Holocene, human popul...

Sanak Island is the easternmost of the Aleutian Islands and was inhabited by the Aleut (Unangan) peoples for nearly 7000 years. The past few centuries of Sanak Island life for its Aleut residents can be summarized from ethnohistoric documents and extensive interviews with former residents as shifting local-global economic patterns beginning with the sea otter fur trade, followed by cod and salm...

The rice theory of culture is the idea that farming societies developed into more interdependent, tight cultures in response to demands plant. Farming general an interdependent subsistence style, but traditional paddy was starkly different from other major crops like wheat, corn, and potatoes. Paddy required twice as much labor per hectare wheat farming. Farmers responded by creating customs sh...

Corporate farming is an agricultural model carried out with the principle of expanding planting area by eliminating land boundaries. The aim to improve group production and productivity. This also a solution conversion functions increasingly massive fragmentation. As result, income obtained farmers limited subsistence land. study aimed determine distribution corporate in Sukoharjo Regency, Cent...

This study assessed the effect of rural-urban transportation on agricultural produce in Ankpa Local Government Area of Kogi State, Nigeria. Primary data obtained from 90 rural farming households were analysed using frequency count, Ordinary Least Square (OLS) regression analysis and mean score from a 3 point Likert type of scale. Results of the study revealed that majority of the farmers were m...

Few systematic studies of play in foragers exist despite their significance for understanding the breadth of contexts for human development and the ontogeny of cultural learning. Forager societies lack complex social hierarchies, avenues for prestige or wealth accumulation, and formal educational institutions, and thereby represent a contrast to the contexts of most play research. Analysis of s...