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Migration Studies
Practitioners
Selected Works
Irving B. Rouse
E.G. Ravenstein
V. Gordon Childe
Robert Bettinger
David W. Anthony
Wesley Bernardini
Migration Studies
Practitioners
Selected Works
Irving B. Rouse
E.G. Ravenstein
V. Gordon Childe
Robert Bettinger
David W. Anthony
Wesley Bernardini
The Use of Migration as an Explanatory Concept in Archaeology
David J. Willers
Migration Studies
Migration Studies
David J. Willers, Southern Methodist University E-Mail: dwillers@smu.edu
Robert L. Bettinger
Bettinger currently teaches at University California Davis and received his Ph.D. in 1975 from the University of California Riverside. His research is focused on hunter gatherer adaptations and the fieldwork primarily takes place in the Great Basin, China, Siberia, and Argentina. Although he has contributed to a wide range of theoretical perspectives, his Numic Spread model of ethnic spread using Optimal Foraging Theory has been influential in migration studies.
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Selected Relevant Works:
BETTINGER, R. L., and J. EERKENS1999. Point typologies, cultural transmission
and the spread of bow and arrow technology in the prehistoric Great Basin.
American Antiquity 64(2): 231-242.
R. L. BETTINGER, AND M. A. BAUMHOFF. 1982. The Numic Spread: Great Basin
Cultures in Competition. American Antiquity, 47(3): 485-503
R. L. BETTINGER, AND M. A. BAUMHOFF. 1983. Return Rates and Intensity of
Resource Use in Numic and Prenumic Adaptive Strategies. American Antiquity,
48 (4): 830-834.
BETTINGER, R. L., and J. EERKENS1999. Point typologies, cultural transmission
and the spread of bow and arrow technology in the prehistoric Great Basin.
American Antiquity 64(2): 231-242.
R. L. BETTINGER, AND M. A. BAUMHOFF. 1982. The Numic Spread: Great Basin
Cultures in Competition. American Antiquity, 47(3): 485-503
R. L. BETTINGER, AND M. A. BAUMHOFF. 1983. Return Rates and Intensity of
Resource Use in Numic and Prenumic Adaptive Strategies. American Antiquity,
48 (4): 830-834.