Miniaturization optimized weapon killing power during the social stress of late pre-contact North America (AD 600-1600)

• Anna Mika,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Anthropology, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, United States of America

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• Kat Flood,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Anthropology, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, United States of America

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• James D. Norris,

  Roles Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Anthropology, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, United States of America

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• Michael Wilson,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Anthropology, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, United States of America

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• Alastair Key,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Anthropology and Conservation, University of Kent, Kent, United Kingdom

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• Briggs Buchanan,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Anthropology, University of Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States of America

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• Brian Redmond,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Archaeology, Cleveland Museum of Natural History, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

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• Justin Pargeter,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Anthropology, New York University, New York, New York, United States of America, Archaeology and Environmental Studies, School of Geography, Rock Art Research Institute, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Michelle R. Bebber,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Anthropology, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, United States of America

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• Metin I. Eren

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: meren@kent.edu

  Affiliations Department of Anthropology, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, United States of America, Department of Archaeology, Cleveland Museum of Natural History, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3576-6076

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