Settlement-Size Scaling among Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherer Settlement Systems in the New World.

Settlement size predicts extreme variation in the rates and magnitudes of many social and ecological processes in human societies. Yet, the factors that drive human settlement-size variation remain poorly understood. Size variation among economically integrated settlements tends to be heavy tailed s...

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Main Authors: W Randall Haas, Cynthia J Klink, Greg J Maggard, Mark S Aldenderfer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4633060?pdf=render