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Effect of Resource Spatial Correlation and Hunter-Fisher-Gatherer Mobility on Social Cooperation in Tierra del Fuego

Publicated to: Plos One. 10 (4): e0121888- - 2015-04-08 10(4), DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0121888

Authors:

Ignacio Santos, Jose; Pereda, Maria; Zurro, Debora; Alvarez, Myrian; Caro, Jorge; Manuel Galan, Jose; Briz i Godino, Ivan
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Affiliations

Consejo Nacl Invest Cient & Tecn, CADIC, Ushuaia, Argentina - Author
CSIC, IMF, CaSEs, Dept Archaeol & Anthropol, Barcelona, Spain - Author
Nexus IC Gran Capita, Barcelona Supercomputing Ctr, CNS, Barcelona, Spain - Author
Univ Autonoma Barcelona, Dept Sociol, GSADI, CaSEs, E-08193 Barcelona, Spain - Author
Univ Burgos, INSISOC, Escuela Politecn Super, Burgos, Spain - Author
Univ York, Dept Archaeol, York YO10 5DD, N Yorkshire, England - Author
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Abstract

This article presents an agent-based model designed to explore the development of cooperation in hunter-fisher-gatherer societies that face a dilemma of sharing an unpredictable resource that is randomly distributed in space. The model is a stylised abstraction of the Yamana society, which inhabited the channels and islands of the southernmost part of Tierra del Fuego (Argentina-Chile). According to ethnographic sources, the Yamana developed cooperative behaviour supported by an indirect reciprocity mechanism: whenever someone found an extraordinary confluence of resources, such as a beached whale, they would use smoke signals to announce their find, bringing people together to share food and exchange different types of social capital. The model provides insight on how the spatial concentration of beachings and agents' movements in the space can influence cooperation. We conclude that the emergence of informal and dynamic communities that operate as a vigilance network preserves cooperation and makes defection very costly.
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Keywords

AltruismEvolutionary gamesFlight search patternsLevy flightsModelsNetworksPrisoners-dilemmaReciprocity

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Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal Plos One due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency Scopus (SJR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2015, it was in position , thus managing to position itself as a Q1 (Primer Cuartil), in the category Medicine (Miscellaneous).

Independientemente del impacto esperado determinado por el canal de difusión, es importante destacar el impacto real observado de la propia aportación.

Según las diferentes agencias de indexación, el número de citas acumuladas por esta publicación hasta la fecha 2025-12-21:

  • WoS: 14
  • Scopus: 17
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Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2025-12-21:

  • The use, from an academic perspective evidenced by the Altmetric agency indicator referring to aggregations made by the personal bibliographic manager Mendeley, gives us a total of: 54.
  • The use of this contribution in bookmarks, code forks, additions to favorite lists for recurrent reading, as well as general views, indicates that someone is using the publication as a basis for their current work. This may be a notable indicator of future more formal and academic citations. This claim is supported by the result of the "Capture" indicator, which yields a total of: 54 (PlumX).

With a more dissemination-oriented intent and targeting more general audiences, we can observe other more global scores such as:

  • The Total Score from Altmetric: 6.
  • The number of mentions on the social network X (formerly Twitter): 9 (Altmetric).

It is essential to present evidence supporting full alignment with institutional principles and guidelines on Open Science and the Conservation and Dissemination of Intellectual Heritage. A clear example of this is:

  • The work has been submitted to a journal whose editorial policy allows open Open Access publication.
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Leadership analysis of institutional authors

This work has been carried out with international collaboration, specifically with researchers from: Argentina; United Kingdom.

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Awards linked to the item

The authors acknowledge support from the following projects: the Spanish MICINN http://www.idi.mineco.gob.es/ CSD2010-00034 (SimulPast CONSOLIDER-INGENIO 2010) and HAR2009-06996; the government of Castilla y Leon http://www.jcyl.es/ GREX251-2009; the Argentine CONICET http://www.conicet.gov.ar/ PIP-0706; and the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research http://www.wennergren.org/ Social Aggregation: A Yamana Society's Short Term Episode to Analyse Social Interaction, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
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