Nature Communications (Sep 2022)

Changes in limiting factors for forager population dynamics in Europe across the last glacial-interglacial transition

  • Alejandro Ordonez,
  • Felix Riede

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-32750-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Here, the authors use climate and resource availability, to statistically model the limiting factors in the dynamics of hunter-gatherer population densities in Europe between 21,000 and 8,000 years ago. They find that limiting factors varied spatiotemporally and the effects of these may be visible in the archaeological record.