Late Glacial and Early Holocene human demographic responses to climatic and environmental change in Atlantic Iberia.

ABSTRACT: Successive generations of hunter-gatherers of the Late Glacial and Early Holocene in Iberia had to contend with rapidly changing environments and climatic conditions. This constrained their economic resources and capacity for demographic growth. The Atlantic façade of Iberia was occupied throughout these times and witnessed very significant environmental transformations. Archaeology offers a perspective on how past human population ecologies changed in response to this scenario. Archaeological radiocarbon data are used here to reconstruct demographics of the region over the long term. We introduce various quantitative methods that allow us to develop palaeodemographic and spatio-temporal models of population growth and density, and compare our results to independent records of palaeoenviro

SUBMITTER: McLaughlin TR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7741096 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature