Managing agricultural risk, or variance in annual production, is a priority for farmers and
herders. This article reviews the ethnographic and historical literature on agricultural risk …

The last few decades have witnessed a rapid rise in the use of foraging models derived from
behavioral ecology to explain and predict temporal and spatial differences in faunal …

In this book, Robert L. Kelly challenges the preconceptions that hunter-gatherers were
Paleolithic relics living in a raw state of nature, instead crafting a position that emphasizes …

Behavioral ecology is the study of adaptive behavior in relation to social and environmental
circumstances. Analysts working from this perspective hold that the reproductive strategies …

Provenance studies can tell us which sources of lithic raw material were used in the past, but
can they tell us why? After all, many factors can have entered into a person's choice to use …

This paper uses rationale derived from central place foraging models to explore the factors
that guide the carcass processing and transport decisions of modern hunters. Using data …

Despite the fact that small seeds are often inefficient to exploit, they are consumed and
sometimes cultivated in many parts of the world, including eastern North America. Foraging …

Lithics in the Land of the Lightning Brothers skilfully integrates a wide range of data-raw-
material procurement, tool design, reduction and curation, patterns of distribution and …

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While agricultural origins have been recently revised in light of new genetic and
archaeological evidence, parallel synthesis of subsequent developments in agricultural …