Did the mid-Holocene environmental changes cause the boom and bust of hunter-gatherer population size in eastern Fennoscandia?

Holocene

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 215-225

  Tallavaara, Miikka ^a   Seppä, Heikki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

climate change; environmental change; Holocene; human environment relationship; hunter gatherers; population size

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL INTENSIFICATION; ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY; HOLOCENE; HUNTER-GATHERER; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION SIZE; PREHISTORIC; RECONSTRUCTION;

FENNOSCANDIA;

CONIFEROPHYTA; PICEA ABIES;

EID: 84855400517     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: 14770911     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959683611414937     Document Type: Article

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