Title: Environmental Limitation on the Development of Culture
Abstract: American AnthropologistVolume 56, Issue 5 p. 801-824 Free Access Environmental Limitation on the Development of Culture1 BETTY J. MEGGERS, BETTY J. MEGGERS Washington, D. C.Search for more papers by this author BETTY J. MEGGERS, BETTY J. MEGGERS Washington, D. C.Search for more papers by this author First published: October 1954 https://doi.org/10.1525/aa.1954.56.5.02a00060Citations: 200 1 Various versions of this paper have been read by Marshall T. Newman, Philip Drucker, Waldo Wedel, Clifford Evans, James A. Ford and Gordon Ekholm. I should like to express my gratitude to them for their constructive comments. 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