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PLOS ONE
Volume 7, Issue 7, Pages -Publisher
PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0040975
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- Canada Research Chairs Program
- Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)
- Canada Foundation for Innovation
- British Columbia Knowledge Development Fund
- Simon Fraser University (SFU)
- University of Missouri
- SFU
- Joseph-Armand Bombardier CGS Master's Scholarship from SSHRC
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Recent work suggests that global variation in toolkit structure among hunter-gatherers is driven by risk of resource failure such that as risk of resource failure increases, toolkits become more diverse and complex. Here we report a study in which we investigated whether the toolkits of small-scale farmers and herders are influenced by risk of resource failure in the same way. In the study, we applied simple linear and multiple regression analysis to data from 45 small-scale food-producing groups to test the risk hypothesis. Our results were not consistent with the hypothesis; none of the risk variables we examined had a significant impact on toolkit diversity or on toolkit complexity. It appears, therefore, that the drivers of toolkit structure differ between hunter-gatherers and small-scale food-producers.
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