Holocene fluctuations in human population demonstrate repeated links to food production and climate
We consider the long-term relationship between human demography, food production, and Holocene climate via an archaeological radiocarbon date series of unprecedented sampling density and detail. There is striking consistency in the inferred human population dynamics across different regions of Brita...
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ftucl:oai:eprints.ucl.ac.uk.OAI2:10038587 2023-12-24T10:23:06+01:00 Holocene fluctuations in human population demonstrate repeated links to food production and climate Bevan, A Colledge, S Fuller, D Fyfe, R Shennan, S Stevens, C 2017-12-05 text https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10038587/7/Bevanetal17_manuscript.pdf https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10038587/ eng eng NATL ACAD SCIENCES https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10038587/7/Bevanetal17_manuscript.pdf https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10038587/ open Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America , 114 (49) E10524-E10531. (2017) Radiocarbon archaeology Britain Ireland agriculture Article 2017 ftucl 2023-11-27T13:07:30Z We consider the long-term relationship between human demography, food production, and Holocene climate via an archaeological radiocarbon date series of unprecedented sampling density and detail. There is striking consistency in the inferred human population dynamics across different regions of Britain and Ireland during the middle and later Holocene. Major cross-regional population downturns in population coincide with episodes of more abrupt change in North Atlantic climate and witness societal responses in food procurement as visible in directly dated plants and animals, often with moves toward hardier cereals, increased pastoralism, and/or gathered resources. For the Neolithic, this evidence questions existing models of wholly endogenous demographic boom–bust. For the wider Holocene, it demonstrates that climate-related disruptions have been quasi-periodic drivers of societal and subsistence change. Article in Journal/Newspaper North Atlantic University College London: UCL Discovery |
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We consider the long-term relationship between human demography, food production, and Holocene climate via an archaeological radiocarbon date series of unprecedented sampling density and detail. There is striking consistency in the inferred human population dynamics across different regions of Britain and Ireland during the middle and later Holocene. Major cross-regional population downturns in population coincide with episodes of more abrupt change in North Atlantic climate and witness societal responses in food procurement as visible in directly dated plants and animals, often with moves toward hardier cereals, increased pastoralism, and/or gathered resources. For the Neolithic, this evidence questions existing models of wholly endogenous demographic boom–bust. For the wider Holocene, it demonstrates that climate-related disruptions have been quasi-periodic drivers of societal and subsistence change. |
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Bevan, A Colledge, S Fuller, D Fyfe, R Shennan, S Stevens, C |
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Holocene fluctuations in human population demonstrate repeated links to food production and climate |
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Holocene fluctuations in human population demonstrate repeated links to food production and climate |
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Holocene fluctuations in human population demonstrate repeated links to food production and climate |
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Holocene fluctuations in human population demonstrate repeated links to food production and climate |
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Holocene fluctuations in human population demonstrate repeated links to food production and climate |
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holocene fluctuations in human population demonstrate repeated links to food production and climate |
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America , 114 (49) E10524-E10531. (2017) |
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