The Neolithic Demographic Transition in the Central Balkans: population dynamics reconstruction based on new radiocarbon evidence.

ABSTRACT: In this paper, we test the hypothesis of the Neolithic Demographic Transition in the Central Balkan Early Neolithic (6250-5300 BC) by applying the method of summed calibrated probability distributions to the set of more than 200 new radiocarbon dates from Serbia. The results suggest that there was an increase in population size after the first farmers arrived to the study area around 6250 BC. This increase lasted for approximately 250 years and was followed by a decrease in the population size proxy after 6000 BC, reaching its minimum around 5800 BC. This was followed by another episode of growth until 5600 BC when population size proxy rapidly declined, reaching the minimum again around 5500 BC. The reconstructed intrinsic growth rate value indicates that the first episode of growth might

SUBMITTER: Porcic M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7741097 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature