The current political conflict and economic crisis have impacted all aspects of life in Yemen,
especially intertribal conflict, which plays a significant role in hindering educational …

Variation in late Holocene artiodactyl (eg, deer, pronghorn, bighorn sheep) hunting in
northern California has often been examined from a behavioral ecological perspective to …

Previous research has documented declines in the abundance of high-return resources
including tule elk (Cervus canadensis nannodes) over the past three millennia in central …

Prehispanic agricultural populations in the central Andes exhibit some of the highest rates of
lethal and sublethal trauma ever recorded. Explanations for high rates of violence focus on …

The historic western edge of the bison (Bison bison) range and the ecological processes
that caused its formation are frequently debated with important implications for bison …

Networking during the early stages of the Levantine Neolithic appears to have been
encouraged by increasing demands for exotics, ie non-local commodities. The actual …

This dissertation research addresses two central questions: 1) what conditions promote
warfare? 2) how do people cope with conflict? I seek to answer these questions by …

Territoriality often arises as a way to ensure access to scarce or unevenly distributed
resources. An unintended consequence, however, is a shift in the availability of other …

The territorialization of resources is a continual topic of interest for researchers investigating
human social organization and resource competition. While scholars have proposed …

In this paper we examine territorial behavior in the ecological conditions that foster conflict.
We develop an economic model that isolates the effects of resource skew on territorial …