[HTML][HTML] Early postglacial hunter-gatherers show environmentally driven “false logistic” growth in a low productivity environment
MA Manninen, G Fossum, T Ekholm…�- Journal of Anthropological�…, 2023 - Elsevier
Studies that employ probability distributions of radiocarbon dates to study past population
size often use exponential increase in radiocarbon dates with time as a standard of
comparison for detecting population fluctuations. We show that in the case of early
postglacial interior Scandinavia, however, the summed probability distribution of
radiocarbon dates has best fit with a S-shaped logistic growth curve. Despite the logistic
growth model having solid grounding in ecological theory, we further argue that what our�…
size often use exponential increase in radiocarbon dates with time as a standard of
comparison for detecting population fluctuations. We show that in the case of early
postglacial interior Scandinavia, however, the summed probability distribution of
radiocarbon dates has best fit with a S-shaped logistic growth curve. Despite the logistic
growth model having solid grounding in ecological theory, we further argue that what our�…