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Highly diverse Bronze Age population dynamics in Central-Southern Europe and their response to regional climatic patterns

Capuzzo, Giacomo ; Zanon, Marco ; Dal Corso, Marta ; Kirleis, Wiebke ; Barceló, Juan A Hart, John P.

PloS one, 2018-08, Vol.13 (8), p.e0200709 [Periódico revisado por pares]

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Highly diverse Bronze Age population dynamics in Central-Southern Europe and their response to regional climatic patterns
Autor: Capuzzo, Giacomo ; Zanon, Marco ; Dal Corso, Marta ; Kirleis, Wiebke ; Barceló, Juan A
Hart, John P.
Assuntos: Archaeology ; Biology and Life Sciences ; Bronze Age ; Climate ; Climate and population ; Climate change ; Climatic changes ; Climatic data ; Climatic extremes ; Data collection ; Data processing ; Demographics ; Demography ; Earth Sciences ; Environmental aspects ; Environmental changes ; Handbooks ; Historic artifacts ; Humanities ; Hypotheses ; Local climates ; Neolithic ; Overexploitation ; People and Places ; Population ; Population biology ; Prehistoric era ; Regional climates ; Research and Analysis Methods ; Rivers ; Social Sciences ; Stagnation ; Stone Age ; Test procedures
É parte de: PloS one, 2018-08, Vol.13 (8), p.e0200709
Notas: Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Descrição: The reconstruction of past demographic patterns is a fundamental step towards a better understanding of human-environment relations, especially in terms of quantifiable anthropic impact and population susceptibility to environmental changes. The recently developed Summed Calibrated Probability Distributions (SCPD) approach, based on large collections of archaeological radiocarbon dates, provides a new tool to obtain continuous prehistoric population curves suitable for comparison with palaeoenvironmental time series. Despite a wide application in Mesolithic and Neolithic contexts worldwide, the use of the SCPD method remains rare for post-Neolithic societies. Our aim is to address this visible gap and apply the SCPD approach to South European archeological contexts between the Bronze Age and the transition into the Iron Age (1800-800 cal. BC), then evaluating these results against local archeological narratives and palaeoecological data. We first test the SCPD method at a supra regional scale, ranging from the Ebro to the Danube rivers, and subsequently in five selected regions within this area. We then compare the regional population curves to climate data reconstructed from local palynological records. Our results highlight the contrast between a stable supra regional demographic trend and more dynamic regional patterns. We do not observe any convincing long-term correlations between population and climate, but localized episodes of demographic stagnation or decline are present in conjunction with climatic shifts or extremes. Nevertheless, climate change as a triggering factor should be considered with caution, especially in peripheral areas where the archaeological data is faint, or where local evidence points to contemporaneous, ongoing landscape overexploitation.
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Highly diverse Bronze Age population dynamics in Central-Southern Europe and their response to regional climatic patterns

Capuzzo, Giacomo ; Zanon, Marco ; Dal Corso, Marta ; Kirleis, Wiebke ; Barceló, Juan A Hart, John P.

United States: Public Library of Science

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