Approaching the demography of late prehistoric Iberia through summed calibrated date probability distributions (7000-2000 cal BC)

Quaternary International

Volumn 386, Issue , 2015, Pages 208-211

  Balsera, Verónica ^a   Díaz del Río, Pedro ^a   Gilman, Antonio ^b   Uriarte, Antonio ^a   Vicent, Juan M ^a  

^a Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales   (Spain)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Iberia; Late prehistory; Prehistoric demography; Radiocarbon data; SCDPD analysis

Indexed keywords

BRONZE AGE; DEMOGRAPHY; FERTILITY; MESOLITHIC; NEOLITHIC; POPULATION DENSITY; PREHISTORIC; PROBABILITY; RADIOCARBON DATING; SOCIAL HISTORY;

IBERIAN PENINSULA;

EID: 84946496375     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2015.06.022     Document Type: Article

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