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Robert L. Bettinger

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64

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1972

Affiliations

University of California, Davis(Current)

U.S. Air Force Institute of Technology

Lanzhou University

Chinese Academy of Sciences

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Robert L. Bettinger is an author at University of California, Davis specializing in anthropology, archaeology, and language studies.

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1972–2024

64

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Was Agriculture Impossible during the Pleistocene but Mandatory during the Holocene? A Climate Change Hypothesis

Peter J. Richerson, Robert Boyd, Robert L. Bettinger · American Antiquity · 2001 · 694 citations

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Agricultural origins and the isotopic identity of domestication in northern China

Loukas Barton, Seth D. Newsome, Fahu Chen et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2009 · 549 citations · Full text

The Numic Spread: Great Basin Cultures in Competition

Robert L. Bettinger, M. A. Baumhoff · American Antiquity · 1982 · 373 citations

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Point Typologies, Cultural Transmission, and the Spread of Bow-and-Arrow Technology in the Prehistoric Great Basin

Robert L. Bettinger, Jelmer W. Eerkens · American Antiquity · 1999 · 266 citations

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Central Place Models of Acorn and Mussel Processing

Robert L. Bettinger, Ripan S. Malhi, Helen O. McCarthy · Journal of Archaeological Science · 1997 · 170 citations

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