Reconstructing regional population fluctuations in the European Neolithic using radiocarbon dates: A new case-study using an improved method

Journal of Archaeological Science

Volumn 52, Issue , 2014, Pages 549-557

  Timpson, Adrian ^a   Colledge, Sue ^a   Crema, Enrico ^a   Edinborough, Kevan ^a   Kerig, Tim ^b   Manning, Katie ^a   Thomas, Mark G ^a   Shennan, Stephen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Demography; Europe; Monte Carlo; Neolithic; Radiocarbon; Simulation; SPD; Summed probability distribution

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; DEMOGRAPHY; NEOLITHIC; POPULATION DECLINE; RADIOCARBON DATING; REGIONAL PATTERN;

EUROPE;

EID: 84909642055     PISSN: 03054403     EISSN: 10959238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2014.08.011     Document Type: Article

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