Does anyone have a reference for how much land is needed to support hunter-gatherers or paleolithic people? I'm having some trouble finding one.
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Different types of land have different carrying capacities. Don’t recall a source on estimates
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Lot of variation but often a local group (ex. band of about ~30) has home range of say ~200 km2, ethnic group (say 800 people) has a core range of about ~4,000 km2 (size of Rhode Island), but potentially extended much larger http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.539.6111&rep=rep1&type=pdf … and https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0102806 …pic.twitter.com/2Q52Wb8K7O
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That Marlowe paper is great
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