This paper reflects on the methodology for estimating population size from settlement data. Archaeologists are faced with a static record of houses, which is the result of dynamic processes of population growth and house use. There is no simple relationship between the total number of houses and population size. In order to produce more realistic estimates of population size, a quantitative model is presented which takes into account population dynamics and the dynamics of house accumulation. The model is used to estimate the population size of three Late Neolithic settlements in Southeast Europe: Gomolava, Divostin and Uivar.
Keywords:
Vinca culture / settlements / population size / Late Neolithic / demography
TY - JOUR
AU - Porčić, Marko
PY - 2011
UR - http://reff.f.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/1234
AB - This paper reflects on the methodology for estimating population size from settlement data. Archaeologists are faced with a static record of houses, which is the result of dynamic processes of population growth and house use. There is no simple relationship between the total number of houses and population size. In order to produce more realistic estimates of population size, a quantitative model is presented which takes into account population dynamics and the dynamics of house accumulation. The model is used to estimate the population size of three Late Neolithic settlements in Southeast Europe: Gomolava, Divostin and Uivar.
PB - Univ Ljubljani, Fak Filozofska, Ljubljana
T2 - Documenta Praehistorica
T1 - An exercise in archaeological demography: estimating the population size of Late Neolithic settlements in the Central Balkans
EP - 332
SP - 323
VL - 38
DO - 10.4312/dp.38.25
ER -
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publisher = "Univ Ljubljani, Fak Filozofska, Ljubljana",
journal = "Documenta Praehistorica",
title = "An exercise in archaeological demography: estimating the population size of Late Neolithic settlements in the Central Balkans",
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Porčić, M.. (2011). An exercise in archaeological demography: estimating the population size of Late Neolithic settlements in the Central Balkans. in Documenta Praehistorica
Univ Ljubljani, Fak Filozofska, Ljubljana., 38, 323-332.
https://doi.org/10.4312/dp.38.25
Porčić M. An exercise in archaeological demography: estimating the population size of Late Neolithic settlements in the Central Balkans. in Documenta Praehistorica. 2011;38:323-332.
doi:10.4312/dp.38.25 .
Porčić, Marko, "An exercise in archaeological demography: estimating the population size of Late Neolithic settlements in the Central Balkans" in Documenta Praehistorica, 38 (2011):323-332,
https://doi.org/10.4312/dp.38.25 . .
