Population Dynamics In Prehistory And Early History

Author : Elke Kaiser,Joachim Burger,Wolfram Schier
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2012-07-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110266306

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Population Dynamics in Prehistory and Early History by Elke Kaiser,Joachim Burger,Wolfram Schier Pdf

Migrations and population dynamics are considered very problematic topics in the fields of ancient studies. Recent scholarship in (pre)historical population has generated new impulses by using scientific approaches using radiogenic and stable isotopes, and palaeogenetics, as well as computer simulation. As a result, the state of migration research has undergone rapid change. Several research groups presented papers at aconference held in Berlin in 2010, addressing specific historical aspects of population dynamics and migration, with no chronological or geographical restrictions, in the light of cutting-edge bio-archaeological research. This volume, divided into three larger thematic sections (isotope analysis, population genetics, and modelling and computer simulation), presents experiences and insights about methodological approaches, research results and prospects for future research in this area in a varied collection of papers. Scholars from widely diverse scientific disciplines present their approaches, findings and interpretations to an audience far broader than the circles of the individual disciplines.

Author : Elke Kaiser,Wolfram Schier,Joachim Burger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:929808614

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Population Dynamics in Prehistory and Early History by Elke Kaiser,Wolfram Schier,Joachim Burger Pdf

Author : Joachim Burger,Elke Kaiser,Wolfram Schier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-02
Category : Anthropology, Prehistoric
ISBN : LCCN:2020719416

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Population Dynamics in Pre- and Early History by Joachim Burger,Elke Kaiser,Wolfram Schier Pdf

Author : Thibault Lachenal,Réjane Roure,Olivier Lemercier
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789696660

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Demography and Migration Population trajectories from the Neolithic to the Iron Age by Thibault Lachenal,Réjane Roure,Olivier Lemercier Pdf

This volume presents combined proceedings of two complementary sessions of the XVIII UISPP World Congress (Paris, 2018). These sessions aimed to identify demographic variations during the Neolithic and Bronze Age and to question their causes while avoiding the potential taphonomic and chronological biases affecting the documentation.

Author : Irving Rouse
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1986-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0300045042

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Migrations in Prehistory by Irving Rouse Pdf

In this book, Irving Rouse evaluates research on prehistoric migrations, from successfully tested hypotheses explaining the origins of the Polynesians, Eskimos, Japanese, and Tainos, to the more fanciful postulations by authors such as Thor Heyerdahl and Barry Fell. Rouse's work demonstrates not only the viability of the inference of population movements from archaeological evidence but also the effectiveness of collaboration and communication between branches of archaeology and anthropology.

Author : Juan A. Barceló,Florencia Del Castillo
Publisher : Springer
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-20
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783319314815

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Simulating Prehistoric and Ancient Worlds by Juan A. Barceló,Florencia Del Castillo Pdf

This book presents a unique selection of fully reviewed, extended papers originally presented at the Social Simulation Conference 2014 in Barcelona, Spain. Only papers on the simulation of historical processes have been selected, the aim being to present theories and methods of computer simulation that can be relevant to understanding the past. Applications range from the Paleolithic and the origins of social life up to the Roman Empire and Early Modern societies. Case studies from Europe, America, Africa and Asia have been selected for publication. The extensive introduction offers a thorough review of the computer simulation of social dynamics in past societies as a means of understanding human history. This book will be of great interest to researchers in the social sciences, archaeology, evolutionary anthropology, and social history.

Author : Colin Renfrew,Katherine V. Boyle,McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015054030872

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Archaeogenetics by Colin Renfrew,Katherine V. Boyle,McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research Pdf

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Author : Malcolm C. Lillie,Inna D. Potekhina
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789254617

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Prehistoric Ukraine by Malcolm C. Lillie,Inna D. Potekhina Pdf

This volume covers the Prehistory of Ukraine from the Lower Palaeolithic through to the end of the Neolithic periods. This is the first comprehensive synthesis of Ukrainian Prehistory from earliest times through until the Neolithic Period undertaken by researchers who are currently investigating the Prehistory of Ukraine. At present there are no other English language books on this subject that provide a current synthesis for these periods. The chapters in this volume provide up-to-date overviews of all aspects of prehistoric culture development in Ukraine and present details of the key sites and finds for the periods studied. The book includes the most recent research from all areas of prehistory up to the Neolithic period, and, in addition, areas such as recent radiocarbon dating and its implications for culture chronology are considered; as is a consideration of aDNA and the new insights into culture history this area of research affords; alongside recent macrofossil studies of plant use, and anthropological and stable isotope studies of diet, which all combine to allow greater insights into the nature of human subsistence and cultural developments across the Palaeolithic to Neolithic periods in Ukraine. It is anticipated that this book will be an invaluable resource for students of prehistory throughout Europe in providing an English-language text that is written by researchers who are active in their respective fields and who possess an intimate knowledge of Ukrainian prehistory.

Author : Paul R. Fish
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Excavations (Archaeolgoy)
ISBN : MINN:31951D02977880N

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Prehistory and Early History of the Malpai Borderlands by Paul R. Fish Pdf

Prehispanic and early historic archaeological information for the Malpai Borderlands of southwest New Mexico and southeast Arizona is reviewed using data derived from field reconnaissance, discussion with relevant scholars, archival resources from varied agencies and institutions, and published literature. Previous regional research has focused on late prehistory (A.D. 1200 to 1450), shaping the scope of cultural historical overview and providing an opportunity to examine relationships with Casas Grandes (Paquime) to the south. A second important objective of current study is the exploration of prehispanic and early historic human impacts to Borderlands ecosystems, particularly in relation fire ecology. A recommended sequence of future research is intended to address significant questions surrounding both culture history and anthropogenic environments in the Malpai Borderlands.

Author : James McGlade,Sander E. van der Leeuw
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134525027

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Time, Process and Structured Transformation in Archaeology by James McGlade,Sander E. van der Leeuw Pdf

In a discipline which essentially studies how modern man came to be, it is remarkable that there are hardly any conceptual tools to describe change. This is due to the history of the western intellectual and scientific tradition, which for a long time favoured mechanics over dynamics, and the study of stability over that of change. Change was primarily deemed due to external events (in archaeology mainly climatic or 'environmental'). Revolutionary innovations in the natural and life sciences, often (erroneously) referred to as 'chaos theory', suggest that there are ways to overcome this problem. A wide range of processes can be described in terms of dynamic systems, and modern computing methods enable us to investigate many of their properties. This volume presents a cogent argument for the use of such approaches, and a discussion of a number of its aspects by a range of scientists from the humanities, social and natural sciences, and archaeology.

Author : Daniela Danna
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781785277184

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Procreation and Population in Historical Social Science by Daniela Danna Pdf

The book sees procreation, the forgotten basis of population dynamics, and its macrohistorical results through the lenses of world-system analysis in a nondogmatic way. This interdisciplinary book sheds light on the historical paths leading to the current unprecedented numbers of humans on the globe, fuelled by the capitalist demand for labor and mediated by the role of women in society. Procreation and Population is a critical text, opposing the current disciplinary fences that demonstrably hinder our comprehension of social phenomena. Attentive to gender relations, the book boldly tracks “the big picture” of population dynamics and its most reliable theories in times of postmodernist taboos on generalizations and on the search for the historical laws of human society.

Author : Mark Golitko
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781784910891

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LBK Realpolitik: An Archaeometric Study of Conflict and Social Structure in the Belgian Early Neolithic by Mark Golitko Pdf

This volume explores linkages between conflict and socioeconomic organization during the early Neolithic of eastern Belgium (c. 5200-5000 BC), using compositional analysis of ceramics from Linienbandkeramik villages to assess production organization and map intercommunity connections against the backdrop of increasing evidence for conflict.

Author : Claudia Gerling
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110388381

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Prehistoric Mobility and Diet in the West Eurasian Steppes 3500 to 300 BC by Claudia Gerling Pdf

Questions concerning mobility and migration as well as subsistence strategies of past societies have always been of major importance in archaeological research. The West Eurasian steppes in the Eneolithic, the Early Bronze and the Iron Age were largely inhabited by cultural communities believed to show an elevated level of spatial mobility, often linked to their subsistence economy. In this volume, questions concerning the mobility and potential migration as well as the diet and economy of the West Eurasian steppes communities during the 4th, the 3rd and the 1st Millennia BC are approached by applying isotope analysis, specifically 87Sr/86Sr, δ18O, δ15N and δ13C analyses. Adapting a combination of different isotopic systems to a study area of vast spatial and chronological dimension allowed a wide variety of questions to be answered and establishes the beginning of a database of biogeochemical data for the West Eurasian steppes. Besides the characterisation of mobility and subsistence patterns of the archaeological communities under discussion, attempts to identify possible Early Bronze Age migrations from the steppes to the steppe-like plains in parts of Eastern Europe were made, alongside an evaluation of the applicability of isotope analysis to this context.

Author : Sacha C. Jones,Brian A. Stewart
Publisher : Springer
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789401775205

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Africa from MIS 6-2 by Sacha C. Jones,Brian A. Stewart Pdf

Bringing together archaeological, paleoenvironmental, paleontological and genetic data, this book makes a first attempt to reconstruct African population histories from out species' evolution to the Holocene. Africa during Marine Isotope Stages (MIS) 6 to 2 (~190-12,000 years ago) witnessed the biological development and behavioral florescence of our species. Modern human population dynamics, which involved multiple population expansions, dispersals, contractions and extinctions, played a central role in our species’ evolutionary trajectory. So far, the demographic processes – modern human population sizes, distributions and movements – that occurred within Africa during this critical period have been consistently under-addressed. The authors of this volume aim at (1) examining the impact of this glacial-interglacial- glacial cycle on human group sizes, movements and distributions throughout Africa; (2) investigating the macro- and micro-evolutionary processes underpinning our species’ anatomical and behavioral evolution; and (3) setting an agenda whereby Africa can benefit from, and eventually contribute to, the increasingly sophisticated theoretical and methodological palaeodemographic frameworks developed on other continents.

Author : Penny Bickle,Alasdair Whittle
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781842179147

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The First Farmers of Central Europe by Penny Bickle,Alasdair Whittle Pdf

From about 5500 cal BC to soon after 5000 cal BC, the lifeways of the first farmers of central Europe, the LBK culture (Linearbandkeramik), are seen in distinctive practices of longhouse use, settlement forms, landscape choice, subsistence, material culture and mortuary rites. Within the five or more centuries of LBK existence a dynamic sequence of changes can be seen in, for instance, the expansion and increasing density of settlement, progressive regionalisation in pottery decoration, and at the end some signs of stress or even localised crisis. Although showing many features in common across its very broad distribution, however, the LBK phenomenon was not everywhere the same, and there is a complicated mixture of uniformity and diversity. This major study takes a strikingly large regional sample, from northern Hungary westwards along the Danube to Alsace in the upper Rhine valley, and addresses the question of the extent of diversity in the lifeways of developed and late LBK communities, through a wide-ranging study of diet, lifetime mobility, health and physical condition, the presentation of the bodies of the deceased in mortuary ritual. It uses an innovative combination of isotopic (principally carbon, nitrogen and strontium, with some oxygen), osteological and archaeological analysis to address difference and change across the LBK, and to reflect on cultural change in general.