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Further Simulations of Ancient Agriculture and Population at Tikal, Guatemala

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

D. Bruce Dickson
D. Bruce Dickson*
Affiliation:
Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Texas A & M University, College Station, Texas 77843
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Abstract

Webster's criticism of my linear programming simulation of the agricultural carrying capacity of the Tikal sustaining area is answered.

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American Antiquity , Volume 46 , Issue 4 , October 1981 , pp. 922 - 926
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Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1981

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