In this study, the author used ethnographic data to construct a general computational model representing key person- and family-level behaviors, constraints, and decisions affecting the size and composition of prehistoric hunter-gatherer families in eastern North America.
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White, A. A. 2013. Subsistence economics, family size, and the emergence of social complexity in hunter-gatherer systems in eastern North America. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 32(1): 122-163.
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2013
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