Hunter–gatherer movement patterns: Causes and constraints

摘要: The study of hunter-gatherer mobility patterns is vital importance to our understanding the paleolithic archeological record. Such necessarily comprise many interacting locales, and it at landscape scale that we should attempt understand relationship between ethnographic data. This paper derives, quantifies tests a series basic predictions about effects group size, occupation duration habitat quality on strategies using substantial dataset. results demonstrate best determinant move distances among hunter-gatherers, but also has an effect those foragers who rely principally hunting. It suggested three roughly concentric zones, limit scatter, foraging radius, logistic are predicted by size duration, quality, proportions hunting logistical mobility, respectively. relevance these conclusions more generic ecological theory discussed in context evolutionary forces acting prehistory.