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Robert L. Bettinger

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56

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Active since

1972

Affiliations

University of California, Davis(Current)

Lanzhou University

Chinese Academy of Sciences

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

University of California, Los Angeles

Robert L. Bettinger is an author at University of California, Davis specializing in archaeology, humanities, and prehistoric archaeology.

Publications per year

1972–2023

56

Publications

56

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 · 701 citations

Natural Sciences, Archaeology, Environmental Archaeology +7

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 · 568 citations · Full text

Humanities, Botany, Plant Sciences +17

The Numic Spread: Great Basin Cultures in Competition

Robert L. Bettinger, M. A. Baumhoff · American Antiquity · 1982 · 375 citations

Life Sciences, Archaeology, Evolutionary Biology +12

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 · 268 citations

Natural Sciences, Earth Sciences, Geomorphology +11

Central Place Models of Acorn and Mussel Processing

Robert L. Bettinger, Ripan S. Malhi, Helen O. McCarthy · Journal of Archaeological Science · 1997 · 171 citations

Life Sciences, Ecology, Marine Sciences +6

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