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SUMMARY:Is there anybody out there? Reconstructing large-scale prehistoric
  population dynamics and migration processes - Isabell Schmidt (University
  of Cologne)
DTSTART:20170607T153000Z
DTEND:20170607T163000Z
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CONTACT:Ann Van Baelen
DESCRIPTION:Demography has become more and more acknowledged as well as cr
 itically discussed within theories and models on Palaeolithic hunter-gathe
 rer societies. However\, there is a continuous debated on how to derive\, 
 apply and interpret such estimates in Prehistoric research. The project 
 “Population Dynamics: Demographic Changes of Hunter-Gatherer Populations
  during the Upper Pleistocene and Early Holocene in Europe” (Prof. A. Zi
 mmermann\, Collaborative Research Centre 806 “Our way to Europe“) deve
 loped an approach to calculate estimates allowing diachronic comparisons a
 s well as the analysis of synchronic\, high resolution spatial dynamics. T
 his approach uses a hierarchically structured model to transfer data from 
 relevant key sites and core areas onto a subcontinental scale. By now\, de
 mographic estimates have been accomplished by a group of researchers along
  a continuous timeline for the European Upper Palaeolithic. \nThe lecture 
 will firstly introduce the methodological protocol that has been establish
 ed at the University of Cologne\, including a critical evaluation of facto
 rs that influence the process of data compilation and the calculation of e
 stimates. Secondly\, the value of informed population density estimates is
  discussed. Future avenues of testing and correlating demographic data in 
 complex models are presented\, drawing from published and current results 
 on population densities\, settlement patterns and human mobility obtained 
 within the Cologne-based project.  
LOCATION:Seminar Room\, Henry Wellcome Building\, Division of Biological A
 nthropology\, Fitzwilliam Street\, Cambridge\, CB2 3QG
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