Reflections on the Life, Career and Influence of Stephen D. Fretwell

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This is an abstract from the "Fifty Years of Fretwell and Lucas: Archaeological Applications of Ideal Distribution Models" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Steve Fretwell served as a Visiting Maytag Professor at Arizona State University in the Biology Department in 1976-1977. He was a well-published, aspiring young evolutionary ecologist and taught several courses and seminars. I was a first-year graduate student in anthropology at that time and had the opportunity to take Animal Ecology and Mathematical Ecology from him. He later served as a member of my doctoral committee. I worked with him in the field in Kansas and Nebraska and had many discussions with him on science, ecology, spirituality and life. I here share some of my reminiscences on his work and career and reflect on his influence in evolutionary ecology and archaeology.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Fifty Years of Fretwell and Lucas: Archaeological Applications of Ideal Distribution Models   •
• Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)

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Abstract Id(s): 24194