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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*
Affiliation:
Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Texas A & M University, College Station, Texas 77843

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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Copyright
Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1981

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