Agricultural productivity drove Euro-American settlement of Utah

(University of Utah) Utah anthropologists adapted a well-known ecological model, and tested its predictions by combining satellite-derived measures of agricultural suitability with historical census data. They found that the model accurately predicted the patterns in which settlement occurred in Utah, as well as the present-day distribution of people.
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news