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21 - Uto-Aztecan Hunter-Gatherers

from Part VI - North America

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2020

By
Jane H. Hill
Edited by
Tom Güldemann ,
Patrick McConvell  and
Richard A. Rhodes
Tom Güldemann
Affiliation:
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Patrick McConvell
Affiliation:
Australian National University, Canberra
Richard A. Rhodes
Affiliation:
University of California, Berkeley
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Summary

Evans and McConvell (1998) and McConvell (2001) proposed that long-term hunter-gatherer adaptations in Australia required the capacity for both “upstream” movements toward the center of the continent, into relatively empty territory, drawn by improving climatic conditions in the interior, and “downstream” movements back toward the edges of the continent, into populated territory, when conditions in the interior deteriorated.

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The Language of Hunter-Gatherers , pp. 577 - 604
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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