Paleodemography in Southern South America

MENDEZ, C, PRTAES, L., YACOBACCIO, H.

Paleodemography in Southern South America

Elsevier

Año: 2015; p. 1 - 3

Demographic processes are of special interest in the study of humandynamics throughout space and time, and for many differentdisciplines other than geography (e.g., biology, genetics, and historicalsciences) (Vaupel and Kohler, 2000; Chamberlain, 2006).Although these processes have always been in the background ofthe archaeological agenda (Borrero, 1989), addressing them hasbecome increasingly important during the last twenty years sinceradiocarbon databases began to offer high-resolution chronologyfor large regions. Ever since the seminal publication of John Rick(1987), radiocarbon dates, and over the last years, summed probabilityplots produced with radiocarbon data, have been used asproxy record of prehistoric occupations (Williams, 2012) and,therefore, as some kind of parameter of large-scale prehistoric populationhistory (Steele, 2010).