Coming into the Country: Early Paleoindian Hunting and Mobility
@article{Kelly1988ComingIT, title={Coming into the Country: Early Paleoindian Hunting and Mobility}, author={Robert L. Kelly and Lawrence C. Todd}, journal={American Antiquity}, year={1988}, volume={53}, pages={231 - 244} }
Hunter-gatherer adaptations to long-term fluctuations in regional resource structure require mechanisms to cope with periodic subsistence stresses. Among documented groups, a common response to such stress is temporary movement into adjacent occupied areas-moving in with "relatives" when things go wrong. However, in the case of early (ca. 12,000-10,000 B.P.) Paleoindian groups in the Americas, the availability of neighboring groups with a detailed knowledge of local resource geography could not…
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