Book contents
- Palaeolithic Europe
- Cambridge World Archaeology
- Palaeolithic Europe
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Text Boxes
- Preface
- Acknowledgements and Permissions
- 1 Towards a Social Palaeodemography of Early Prehistory
- 2 Stones, Bones, and Genes: A Palaeodemographic Database
- 3 Hunter-Gatherer Demography
- 4 Visitation: The First European Populations (~1.8 million–300,000 years ago)
- 5 Residency: The Neanderthals and Their Neighbours (~300,000–40,000 years ago)
- 6 Expansion: The Arrival of Homo sapiens in Europe and the Extinction of the Neanderthals (~50,000–35,000 years ago)
- 7 Intensification: Mid-to-Late Upper Palaeolithic Population Dynamics (~35,000–15,000 years ago)
- Chapter 8 Palaeolithic Europe: Demography and Society
- Glossary
- References
- Index
7 - Intensification: Mid-to-Late Upper Palaeolithic Population Dynamics (~35,000–15,000 years ago)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 October 2021
- Palaeolithic Europe
- Cambridge World Archaeology
- Palaeolithic Europe
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Text Boxes
- Preface
- Acknowledgements and Permissions
- 1 Towards a Social Palaeodemography of Early Prehistory
- 2 Stones, Bones, and Genes: A Palaeodemographic Database
- 3 Hunter-Gatherer Demography
- 4 Visitation: The First European Populations (~1.8 million–300,000 years ago)
- 5 Residency: The Neanderthals and Their Neighbours (~300,000–40,000 years ago)
- 6 Expansion: The Arrival of Homo sapiens in Europe and the Extinction of the Neanderthals (~50,000–35,000 years ago)
- 7 Intensification: Mid-to-Late Upper Palaeolithic Population Dynamics (~35,000–15,000 years ago)
- Chapter 8 Palaeolithic Europe: Demography and Society
- Glossary
- References
- Index
Summary
During the fourth and final stage of the demographic prehistory of Palaeolithic Europe, people intensified both their presence on the European landscape and their social and material lives. Chapter 7 discusses the developments that occurred within this intensification stage, as well as the demographic effects of the Last Glacial Maximum.
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- Palaeolithic EuropeA Demographic and Social Prehistory, pp. 214 - 258Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021