January 4, 2008

Declines in upper paleolithic European human populations due to less food

Eugène Morin of Trent University has just published this paper in PNAS, “Evidence for declines in human population densities during the early Upper Paleolithic in western Europe.”
He studied the fluctuations in the zooarchaeological record from the Saint-Césaire site in France. And he found remains of rodents that live in the tundra species which indicate [...]