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- Author
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Bettinger, Robert L.
- Subjects
PALEODEMOGRAPHY ,CLIMATE change ,DEMOGRAPHIC anthropology - Abstract
The article presents the author's views on the research paper "Environmental Imperatives Reconsidered," by Terry L. Jones and associates, which is published within the issue. He criticizes the overstated significance given to environmental flux as a factor responsible for the extinction of the late prehistoric population in western North America. He argues that there is a lack of convincing demonstration in the paper to support the vigorous effect of climatic anomalies on human system.
- Published
- 1999