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Relationships Between Surface Area and Population Size: A Cautionary Note

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Richard W. Casteel
Richard W. Casteel*
Affiliation:
Department of Archaeology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia V5A 1S6, Canada
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Abstract

Two models relating various measures of camp surface area to population size among !Kung Bushmen are examined. It is shown that though there does exist a significant, positive correlation between some areal measures and population size, neither of the previously published models correctly represents these relationships. Alternative regression models are presented for the !Kung Bushmen which describe surface area as a function of population size in an acceptably accurate and reasonably concise fashion.

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American Antiquity , Volume 44 , Issue 4 , October 1979 , pp. 803 - 807
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Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1979

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