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- Title
Early Neolithic population dynamics in the Eastern Balkans and the Great Hungarian Plain.
- Authors
Blagojević, Tamara; Porčić, Marko; Penezić, Kristina; Stefanović, Sofija
- Abstract
In this study, we reconstruct population dynamics in the Early Neolithic of the Eastern Balkans and the Great Hungarian Plain using frequency of radiocarbon dates as a population proxy. The method of summed calibrated radiocarbon probability distributions is applied to a set of dates recently published in Bulgaria and Hungary. The aim is to test the hypothesis of the Neolithic demographic transition (NDT) in these regions and to compare the patterns between these two and neighbouring regions. The results show that episodes of population growth occurred in both regions, which is in partial agreement with the predictions of the NDT theory. Population growth is detected, but it is followed by a bust, rather than stabilisation as predicted for the second phase of the NDT.
- Subjects
NEOLITHIC Period; PALEODEMOGRAPHY; POPULATION dynamics; DEMOGRAPHIC transition; GREAT Alfold
- Publication
Documenta Praehistorica, 2017, Vol 44, p18
- ISSN
1408-967X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.4312/dp.44.2