Estimating population densities in the Late Upper Palaeolithic

After extensive research, the site database of project E1 now comprises data of site location, raw material, faunal remains and artefacts of more than 1800 Late Upper Palaeolithic sites.

Calculations of settlement areas and regionally differentiated population densities using GIS-techniques, ethnographic parameters and on-site information have already been completed successfully for the different time periods: Early, Middle, Late Magdalenian, Epigravettian, and the Hamburgian.

Moreover, the methods and results have been presented at several conferences and workshops, most recently during the Magdalenian session of the XVIII INQUA-Congress in Bern, Switzerland 2011.

This year, project E1 is organizing a workshop near Cologne in cooperation with project D1. The meeting will deal with topics of the Upper to Late Palaeolithic transition in Western Central Europe and palaeodemography.

 

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Generating Thiessen polygons of European Palaeolithic sites.
Graphic: Inga Kretschmer

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Workshop of projects D1 and E1

Workshop of projects D1 and E1

“The Upper-Late Palaeolithic Transition in Western Central Europe.Typology, Technology, Environment and Demography” 21st–24th June...

Population dynamics of the Late Upper Palaeolithic

Population dynamics of the Late Upper Palaeolithic

Currently, the Late Upper Palaeolithic site database of Project E1 comprises more than 1800 sites, and data acquisition (both of s...

Estimating population densities in the Late Upper...

Estimating population densities in the Late Upper Palaeolithic

After extensive research, the site database of project E1 now comprises data of site location, raw material, faunal remains and ar...

International Conference on the Solturean

International Conference on the Solturean

The Solutrean, a cultural phase of the Last Glacial Maximum in Europe, constitutes a focus of interdisciplinary research within se...

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