Inga Kretschmer
Demographic studies on population density, mobility and land use patterns in the late Upper Palaeolithic
The late Upper Palaeolithic saw one of the gravest demographic upheavals of the last glacial: the re-occupation of Central Europe by the Magdalenian.
During the last glacial maximum some 20,000 years ago, Central Europe was largely depopulated and few sites are known north of the Alps. Some one thousand years later, the Magdalenian is attested to by more than 1,500 sites. In this volume, Inga Kretschmer was successful in tracing this development and calculating associated population sizes for the first time. Above all, comprehensive catalogues and manifold maps make this volume a unique benchmark for the entire Magdalenian.
Moreover, regarding the CRC 806 ‘Our Way to Europe – Culture-Environment Interaction and Human Mobility in the Late Quaternary‘ project, this study presents a ‘blueprint’ making it possible for location data of Palaeolithic and Mesolithic hunter-gatherer sites to become the starting point of demographic analyses.
Hardcover, 368 pages with 90 illustrations, 28 tables
Text in German with summaries in English and French
Size 21.0 x 29.7 cm
Price Euro 54.80ISBN: 978-3-86757-366-5
A CRC 806 Monograph from the Institut für Ur- und Frühgeschichte der Universität zu Köln
VML Verlag Marie Leidorf GmbH - 2015
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