Climate and demography in early prehistory: Using calibrated 14C dates as population proxies

Human Biology

Volumn 81, Issue 2-3, 2009, Pages 309-337

  Riede, Felix ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bromme culture; Climatic stress; Demography; Ireland; Mesolithic; Paleolithic; Prehistory; Scandinavia

Indexed keywords

EID: 73649093139     PISSN: 00187143     EISSN: 15346617     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3378/027.081.0311     Document Type: Article

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