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How Many Frogs Does It Take to Leap around the Americas? Comments on Anderson and Gillam

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

John H. Moore  and
Michael E. Moseley
John H. Moore
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, 1112 Turlington Hall, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611-7305
Michael E. Moseley
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, 1112 Turlington Hall, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611-7305
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Abstract

In modeling the colonization of the Americas, Anderson and Gillam (2000) employ size estimates for vanguard forager bands that are of dubious reproductive viability in light of human incest prohibitions and variable sex ratios at birth.

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Résumé

Al modelar la colonizatión de las Américas, Anderson y Gillam (2000) emplean calculus de tamaño de los conjuntos de vanguardia de cazadores-recolectores, los cuales tienen la capacidad dudosa de viabilidad reproductive debido a las prohibiciones humanas contra el incesto y a la natalidad variable entre los sexos.

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American Antiquity , Volume 66 , Issue 3 , July 2001 , pp. 526 - 529
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 2001

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