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Male-biased operational sex ratios and the Viking phenomenon : an evolutionary anthropological perspective on Late Iron Age Scandinavian raiding

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dc.contributor.authorRaffield, Ben
dc.contributor.authorPrice, Neil
dc.contributor.authorCollard, Mark
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of Aberdeen.Archaeologyen
dc.date.accessioned2017-06-06T16:00:25Z
dc.date.available2017-06-06T16:00:25Z
dc.date.issued2017-05
dc.descriptionAcknowledgements We would like to thank Laura Whitehouse, John Carman, Oliver Grimm, Julie Lund, Bjørnar Olsen, two anonymous reviewers, and the editor for their comments and suggestions on earlier versions of this paper. We also thank Alex Woolf for providing us with a copy of his forthcoming article on the Vikings in Ireland. Lastly, we are grateful to Luke Glowacki, Shane McFarlane, and Ryan Schacht for their insights about raiding and OSRs. Needless to say, all remaining errors are our own. Funding BR and MC are supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada through a Partnership Grant (895-2011-1009) awarded to the Cultural Evolution of Religion Research Consortium (www.ubc/hecc/cerc). MC is also supported by the Canada Research Chairs Program, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, the British Columbia Knowledge Development Fund, and Simon Fraser University. NP is supported by a Swedish Research Council grant for "The Viking Phenomenon" project (2015-00466).en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.format.extent10
dc.format.extent892994
dc.identifier72392812
dc.identifieracf70210-7ca7-4e3d-ab70-1b56442ce45d
dc.identifier85008144294
dc.identifier.citationRaffield, B, Price, N & Collard, M 2017, 'Male-biased operational sex ratios and the Viking phenomenon : an evolutionary anthropological perspective on Late Iron Age Scandinavian raiding', Evolution and Human Behavior, vol. 38, no. 3, pp. 315-324. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2016.10.013en
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2016.10.013
dc.identifier.iss3en
dc.identifier.issn1090-5138
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2164/8759
dc.identifier.vol38en
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofEvolution and Human Behavioren
dc.subjectVikingsen
dc.subjectLate Iron Age Scandinaviaen
dc.subjectraidingen
dc.subjectpolygynyen
dc.subjectconcubinageen
dc.subjectOperational Sex Ratioen
dc.subjectmale-male competitionen
dc.subjectCC Archaeologyen
dc.subject.lccCCen
dc.titleMale-biased operational sex ratios and the Viking phenomenon : an evolutionary anthropological perspective on Late Iron Age Scandinavian raidingen
dc.typeJournal articleen

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