Iberian Neolithic Networks: The Rise and Fall of the Cardial World

Recent approaches have described the evolutionary dynamics of the first Neolithic societies as a cycle of rise and fall. Several authors, using mainly c14 dates as a demographic proxy, identified a general pattern of a boom in population coincident with the arrival of food production economies follo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Bernabeu Aubán, Joan, Lozano, Sergi, Pardo-Gordó, Salvador
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2017
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de la UB
OAI Identifier:oai:diposit.ub.edu:2445/150272
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2445/150272
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Neolític
Història econòmica
Evolució cultural
Espai i temps
Península Ibèrica
Neolithic period
Economic history
Social evolution
Space and time
Iberian Peninsula
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Sumario:Recent approaches have described the evolutionary dynamics of the first Neolithic societies as a cycle of rise and fall. Several authors, using mainly c14 dates as a demographic proxy, identified a general pattern of a boom in population coincident with the arrival of food production economies followed by a rapid decline some centuries afterward in multiple European regions. Concerning Iberia, we also noted that this phenomenon correlates with an initial development of archeological entities (i.e., 'cultures') over large areas (e.g., the Impresso-Cardial in West Mediterranean), followed by a phase of 'cultural fragmentation' by the end of Early Neolithic. (...)