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On the Estimation of the Sizes of Local Groups in a Hunting‐Gathering Environment 1
Author(s) -
MARTIN JOHN F.
Publication year - 1973
Publication title -
american anthropologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.51
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1548-1433
pISSN - 0002-7294
DOI - 10.1525/aa.1973.75.5.02a00160
Subject(s) - estimation , adaptation (eye) , range (aeronautics) , geography , agriculture , archaeology , statistics , ethnology , history , demography , mathematics , sociology , psychology , economics , engineering , management , neuroscience , aerospace engineering
The ancestors of the Hualapai and Havasupai Indians were once hunters and gatherers, some of whom did a little farming during the summer. The basic adaptation was to a hunting and gathering life and this adaption included local groups of the classic type with a mean size of twenty‐eight. This paper presents a theory which retrodicts and accounts for the range of local group sizes and their probabilities (frequencies).