Book contents
- Palaeolithic Europe
- Cambridge World Archaeology
- Palaeolithic Europe
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Text Boxes
- Preface
- Acknowledgements and Permissions
- 1 Towards a Social Palaeodemography of Early Prehistory
- 2 Stones, Bones, and Genes: A Palaeodemographic Database
- 3 Hunter-Gatherer Demography
- 4 Visitation: The First European Populations (~1.8 million–300,000 years ago)
- 5 Residency: The Neanderthals and Their Neighbours (~300,000–40,000 years ago)
- 6 Expansion: The Arrival of Homo sapiens in Europe and the Extinction of the Neanderthals (~50,000–35,000 years ago)
- 7 Intensification: Mid-to-Late Upper Palaeolithic Population Dynamics (~35,000–15,000 years ago)
- Chapter 8 Palaeolithic Europe: Demography and Society
- Glossary
- References
- Index
Chapter 8 - Palaeolithic Europe: Demography and Society
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 October 2021
- Palaeolithic Europe
- Cambridge World Archaeology
- Palaeolithic Europe
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Text Boxes
- Preface
- Acknowledgements and Permissions
- 1 Towards a Social Palaeodemography of Early Prehistory
- 2 Stones, Bones, and Genes: A Palaeodemographic Database
- 3 Hunter-Gatherer Demography
- 4 Visitation: The First European Populations (~1.8 million–300,000 years ago)
- 5 Residency: The Neanderthals and Their Neighbours (~300,000–40,000 years ago)
- 6 Expansion: The Arrival of Homo sapiens in Europe and the Extinction of the Neanderthals (~50,000–35,000 years ago)
- 7 Intensification: Mid-to-Late Upper Palaeolithic Population Dynamics (~35,000–15,000 years ago)
- Chapter 8 Palaeolithic Europe: Demography and Society
- Glossary
- References
- Index
Summary
Chapter 8 summarises the new four stage demographic prehistory of Palaeolithic Europe developed in this book, identifies the ongoing challenges in reconstructing Palaeolithic population histories and places the evidence from Europe in its global context.
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- Palaeolithic EuropeA Demographic and Social Prehistory, pp. 259 - 271Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021