Risk of resource failure and toolkit variation in small-scale farmers and herders.

Recent work suggests that global variation in toolkit structure among hunter-gatherers is driven by risk of resource failure such that as risk of resource failure increases, toolkits become more diverse and complex. Here we report a study in which we investigated whether the toolkits of small-scale...

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Main Authors: Mark Collard, April Ruttle, Briggs Buchanan, Michael J O'Brien
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3406040?pdf=render