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Population dynamics during the Neolithic transition and the onset of megalithism in Portugal according to summed probability distribution of radiocarbon determinations

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dc.contributor.authorPardo-Gordo, Salvador
dc.contributor.authorCarvalho, AF
dc.date.accessioned2021-06-24T11:35:30Z
dc.date.available2021-06-24T11:35:30Z
dc.date.issued2020-06
dc.description.abstractAs field data accumulates, the study of Neolithic Portugal has been receiving increasing attention recently, from material culture and subsistence to ideology. However, little is known about population dynamics. In this paper, we use a judicious selection of radiocarbon determinations to evaluate demographic phenomena within the 9.500-5.000 cal BP range (thus, starting in the Late Mesolithic) making use of "summed probability distribution" analysis. In greater Portugal, results show a negative deviation (i.e. demographic decrease) at 6.400-6.300 cal BP and a positive deviation (i.e. demographic increase) at 5.350-4.950 cal BP. These can be explained, respectively, by the impact of farming about one millennium after its introduction (confirming the "Neolithic demographic transition" model) and by the full establishment of the "secondary products revolution" in the Late Neolithic. However, individual analyses of the northern and southern halves of the country-i.e. using the Mondego river valley as an ecological-geographical divide-show rather contrasting trajectories, with scarce Mesolithic populations and a demographic increase in the megalithism in the North, whereas in the South a demographic crisis occurred at the onset of megalithism (which remains to be fully explained) being followed in the Late Neolithic by a sharp demographic increase. Further summed probability distribution analyses of radiocarbon determinations, particularly if combined with other populational proxies, will be able in the future to detect other demographic events taking place in space and time.
dc.description.sponsorshipJuan de la Cierva postdoctoral grant [FJCI-2016-30588]
dc.description.sponsorshipCatalonian government [PGC2018-096943-B-C21]
dc.description.sponsorshipSpanish governmentSpanish GovernmentEuropean Commission [2017-SGR-1302]
dc.description.sponsorshipAPOSTD Postdoctoral grant by the Valencian government [APOST/2019/179]
dc.description.versioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/s12520-020-01086-2
dc.identifier.issn1866-9557
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/16457
dc.language.isoeng
dc.peerreviewedyes
dc.publisherSpringer
dc.subjectNeolithisation
dc.subjectMegalithism
dc.subjectSummed probability distribution
dc.subjectRadiocarbon
dc.subjectDemography
dc.subjectAnthropology
dc.subjectArchaeology
dc.subjectGeology
dc.titlePopulation dynamics during the Neolithic transition and the onset of megalithism in Portugal according to summed probability distribution of radiocarbon determinations
dc.typejournal article
dspace.entity.typePublication
oaire.citation.issue7
oaire.citation.startPage129
oaire.citation.titleArchaeological and Anthropological Sciences
oaire.citation.volume12
person.familyNameFaustino de Carvalho
person.givenNameAntónio Manuel
person.identifier.ciencia-id1817-DD0F-21B4
person.identifier.orcid0000-0002-0912-2325
person.identifier.ridAAH-9034-2019
person.identifier.scopus-author-id16174587700
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