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Egregious Energetics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

David L. Webster
David L. Webster*
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Department of Anthropology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802
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Abstract

Dickson's elaborate linear programming simulation of the agricultural carrying capacity of the Tikal sustaining area is flawed by an energetic miscalculation.

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American Antiquity , Volume 46 , Issue 4 , October 1981 , pp. 919 - 922
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Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1981

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