Still Bay and Howiesons Poort sites (South Africa) are consistent with the risk hypothesis
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Still Bay and Howiesons Poort sites (South Africa) are consistent with the risk hypothesis.
d’Errico et al.’s (1) conclusion that cultural differences between the Still Bay (SB) and the Howiesons Poort (HP) sites in South Africa (SA) are not accounted for by the risk hypothesis (2) is premature. The risk hypothesis is well-modeled by interaction between risk and mobility as a driver for artifact complexity measured by (number of technounits)/(number of subsistants) = α + βR + e, where...
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عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
سال: 2017
ISSN: 0027-8424,1091-6490
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1713753114