Evolutionary demography and the population history of the european early neolithic

Human Biology

Volumn 81, Issue 2-3, 2009, Pages 339-355

  Shennan, Stephen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agricultural spread; Aldenhovener Platte; Demic diffusion; Europe; Evolutionary demography; Ideal despotic distribution; Linear Pottery Culture (LBK); Neolithic; Reproductive skew theory; Spatial population ecology

Indexed keywords

EID: 73649121312     PISSN: 00187143     EISSN: 15346617     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3378/027.081.0312     Document Type: Article

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