TY - JOUR
T1 - Radiocarbon dates, climatic events, and social dynamics during the Early Neolithic in Mediterranean Iberia
AU - Bernabeu Aubán, Joan
AU - García Puchol, Oreto
AU - Barton, Michael
AU - McClure, Sarah
AU - Pardo Gordó, Salvador
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the research projects of government of Spain HAR2012-33111 “MESO COCINA: los últimos caza-recolectores y el paradigma de la neolitización en el mediterráneo peninsular”. Collaborative research in eastern Spain and the Mediterranean Landscape Dynamics project were supported by National Science Foundation grants: BCS-0075292 , BCS-0331583 , BCS-0122866 , BNS-9115209 , SBR-9904050 , BCS-410269 , BCS-638879 , BCS-543848 , and DEB-1313727 .
Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 Elsevier Ltd and INQUA.
PY - 2016/6/1
Y1 - 2016/6/1
N2 - Our goal in this paper is to examine the socioecological dynamics of the Early Neolithic period in Iberia in order to test the usefulness of temporal probability curves built from dated sites as a relative proxy for exploring possible links between trends in population patterns and climatic fluctuations. We compare the information for the entire Iberian Peninsula with four Mediterranean regions, investigating the climate-population relationships that emerge when we zoom into particular regions. We evaluate climatic and other possible causes of similarities in the shapes of temporal probability curves across the Peninsula, associated with demographic changes in the Early Neolithic sequence. Changes in subsistence patterns identified in empirical data from sites like Cendres cave (Alicante province), together with computational modeling that simulates long-term socio-ecological processes, suggest key variables that can help account for local dynamics. Theoretical approaches from Complex System Theory and Evolutionary Archaeology can help us to better understand evolutionary processes including the spread of farming.
AB - Our goal in this paper is to examine the socioecological dynamics of the Early Neolithic period in Iberia in order to test the usefulness of temporal probability curves built from dated sites as a relative proxy for exploring possible links between trends in population patterns and climatic fluctuations. We compare the information for the entire Iberian Peninsula with four Mediterranean regions, investigating the climate-population relationships that emerge when we zoom into particular regions. We evaluate climatic and other possible causes of similarities in the shapes of temporal probability curves across the Peninsula, associated with demographic changes in the Early Neolithic sequence. Changes in subsistence patterns identified in empirical data from sites like Cendres cave (Alicante province), together with computational modeling that simulates long-term socio-ecological processes, suggest key variables that can help account for local dynamics. Theoretical approaches from Complex System Theory and Evolutionary Archaeology can help us to better understand evolutionary processes including the spread of farming.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.quaint.2015.09.020
DO - 10.1016/j.quaint.2015.09.020
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84969645913
SN - 1040-6182
VL - 403
SP - 201
EP - 210
JO - Quaternary International
JF - Quaternary International
ER -