Un habitat du Bronze moyen à Cournon-d'Auvergne (Puy-de-Dôme) : nouvelles données sur la dynamique de l'Âge du Bronze moyen sur la bordure méridionale du Massif central

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

Zanon

Corso

et al. 2018

PLoS ONE

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Demographical Analysis of the Late Chalcolithic/Early Bronze Age Skeletal Population in Kadıini Cave

Usta

2019

Antropoloji

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In the rescue works carried out by the Alanya Museum in 2017 in the Kadıini Cave in the Alanya district of Antalya province, the human skeleton remains dating to the Late Chalcolithic / Early Bronze Age were unearthed. The minimum number of individuals among these skeletal remains was 90. A total of 90 individuals were examined in order to analyze the demographic characteristics of the human skeletons. In the Kadıini community, the mortality rate of infants and children is 37,78%. According to the age groups at the life table, the highest mortality rate in the community (dx: 35,56%) is the 10-19 age group. In the 0-9 age group, mortality rate is a relatively low (22,22%) but life expectancy rate is the highest (e 0 x: 19,56 years). The longevity for adults (15+ age; 25,9 years) is low when evaluated among some Anatolian Chalcolithic and Bronze Age populations. The life expectancy at age 40 (e 0 x) in the community is as low as 5 years and no individual living above 50 years old has been found. The longevity for women (24,5 years) is shorter than it is for men (26,8 years).The life expectancy among surviving individuals who are over 45 years of age in the community ended in women but continued in male (Ix: 11,54%; e 0 x: 5years). The demographic findings exhibit that Kadıini was probably a community with a young and growing population, also that the women were probably more affected by living conditions as seen in some prehistoric societies of Anatolia.

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La minería metálica prehistórica en la península Ibérica

Vidal¹

2012

Lurralde

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Un habitat du Bronze moyen à Cournon-d'Auvergne (Puy-de-Dôme) : nouvelles données sur la dynamique de l'Âge du Bronze moyen sur la bordure méridionale du Massif central

Abstract: habitat du Bronze moyen à Cournon-d'Auvergne (Puy-de-Dôme) : nouvelles données sur la dynamique de l'Âge du Bronze moyen sur la bordure méridionale du Massif central. In: Bulletin

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

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

Demographical Analysis of the Late Chalcolithic/Early Bronze Age Skeletal Population in Kadıini Cave

La minería metálica prehistórica en la península Ibérica

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