Hunter-Gatherer Social Costs and the Nonviability of Submarginal Environments

Conceptualizing the Autism Spectrum in Terms of Natural Selection and Behavioral Ecology: The Solitary Forager Hypothesis

“…When food is not abundant and nutritional intake is low, the optimal foraging strategy is to lower population size and density ( Belovsky, 1988 ). As with other apes, submarginal or impoverished habitats cannot support large groups of humans, and group size diminishes under these circumstances ( Mandryk, 1993 ).…”

Living through changing climates: Temperature and seasonality correlate with population fluctuations among Holocene hunter-fisher-gatherers on the west coast of Norway

“…BP). However, despite its strong correlation, this paper falls short in ascribing an exclusive causal role of climate, inviting the possibility that climate formed but a part of a larger system of socio-ecological interactions that lead to cultural change (Mandryk, 1993), the substantiation of which requires significant empirical improvements to the archaeological record within and outside of Western Norway.…”

Biogeographic barriers in the circulation and interaction of hunter-gatherer marine fishers: The role of the Taitao Peninsula and the Gulf of Penas (∼ 47°S) in the differentiation of the cultural trajectories of West Patagonia

“…The used spaces are defined qualitatively and quantitatively according to the presence of these barriers and the temporal context in which they could or could not be overcome (e.g., Neme and Gil, 2008;Borrero and Borrazzo, 2011;McNiven, 2015;Lovis and Whallon, 2016;Barberena et al, 2017;Franco et al, 2018) in interactions with the environment and with regard to the structure of available resources (Kelly, 1983;Kelly, 1995;Binford, 1990, Binford, 2001Bailey, 2004). In this case, the study of these barriers lies in understanding how marine fisher hunter-gatherers innovate to overcome such barriers and what subsistence and technological strategies were used and since when (e.g., Llagostera, 1982;Mandryk, 1993;Erlandson, 2001;Legoupil et al, 2011;Orquera et al, 2011;Zangrando et al, 2016) and how they define limits or not in the distribution of the archaeological record on multiple temporal and spatial scales (sensu Foley, 1981;Dincauze, 2000). In addition, such studies allow identifying particularities with respect to adjacent areas that are equally occupied, in what is understood as a hierarchy in the human use of various occupied spaces (Borrero, 1989;Borrero, 1994;Belardi, 2003;Borrero, 2004;Keegan et al, 2008), understanding archaeological sites as "distributed longterm observation networks of the past", making it possible to record the conditions of ecosystems and their period of time during human interactions (Sandweiss et al, 2020: 8276).…”

“…Stable isotopes analysis inform on the dietary composition of individuals (e.g., Zangrando et al, 2004;Borrero and Barberena, 2006;Barberena, 2008). These movements consider routes built under social and technological variables (Gamble, 1996;Gamble, 1999;Pallo, 2011;Pallo and Borrero, 2015) in addition to biogeographic variables that allow or limit access to other regions (Borrero and Borrazzo, 2011;Borrero, 2018) or discourage access (Cameron and Tomka, 1993;Mandryk, 1993). However, we understand the settlement of a region as a concept that integrates different moments, including the initial occupation of an unpopulated area by human groups (Borrero, 2004).…”