Maier, Andreas, Lehmkuhl, Frank, Ludwig, Patrick ORCID: 0000-0003-3655-7890, Melles, Martin ORCID: 0000-0003-0977-9463, Schmidt, Isabell, Shao, Yaping ORCID: 0000-0002-2041-5479, Zeeden, Christian ORCID: 0000-0002-8617-0443 and Zimmermann, Andreas (2016). Demographic estimates of hunter-gatherers during the Last Glacial Maximum in Europe against the background of palaeoenvironmental data. Quat. Int., 425. S. 49 - 62. OXFORD: PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD. ISSN 1873-4553

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Abstract

During the Last Glacial Maximum, ca. 25,000 to 20,000 calBP, the settlement remains of European hunter-gatherers show a patchy pattern with clusters of sites in some regions and no reported settlement in others. Using a density-based upscaling approach, we calculate regionally differentiated population densities. To test our results and assess possible biases, we compare the spatial distribution of sites against environmental preference scores derived from palaeoclimate model data and loess/forest distributions. We find pronounced demographic differences between Western Europe and eastern Central Europe that coincide with different environmental preferences: cool temperate conditions in the West as opposed to colder and drier conditions in the East. Comparatively few people and an adaptation to cold and dry conditions eventually may have led to an extinction of the local population in western Central Europe around 22,000 calBP. (C) 2016 Published by Elsevier Ltd.

Item Type: Journal Article
Creators:
CreatorsEmailORCIDORCID Put Code
Maier, AndreasUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
Lehmkuhl, FrankUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
Ludwig, PatrickUNSPECIFIEDorcid.org/0000-0003-3655-7890UNSPECIFIED
Melles, MartinUNSPECIFIEDorcid.org/0000-0003-0977-9463UNSPECIFIED
Schmidt, IsabellUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
Shao, YapingUNSPECIFIEDorcid.org/0000-0002-2041-5479UNSPECIFIED
Zeeden, ChristianUNSPECIFIEDorcid.org/0000-0002-8617-0443UNSPECIFIED
Zimmermann, AndreasUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
URN: urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-252454
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2016.04.009
Journal or Publication Title: Quat. Int.
Volume: 425
Page Range: S. 49 - 62
Date: 2016
Publisher: PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
Place of Publication: OXFORD
ISSN: 1873-4553
Language: English
Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Humanities
Divisions: Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Fächergruppe 2: Archäologie, Altertumskunde und Kulturen des Mittelmeerraums > Institut für Ur- und Frühgeschichte
Subjects: no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:
KeywordsLanguage
QUATERNARY REFUGIA; WESTERN-EUROPE; POPULATION; SETTLEMENT; LOESS; DISTRIBUTIONS; ECOLOGY; DESERT; NICHES; IBERIAMultiple languages
Geography, Physical; Geosciences, MultidisciplinaryMultiple languages
Refereed: Yes
URI: http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/25245

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