OPEN WORKSHOP 1-4 APRIL 2009:

 

Socio-environmental dynamics over the last 12,000 years: the creation of landscapes

 

 

• Session 5: Population dynamics and demographic proxies

Session chair:

A. Nebel, N. von Wurmb-Schwark, R. Renneberg, C. Rinne, B. Krause-Kyora

 

Session scope:

Population dynamics means migration / movement, settlement patterns, and socio cultural habits in human communities. Demographic data can be used to examine these dynamics. In particular data on fecundity, mortality rates, and variability of age, gender, and physiology are investigated.
In this session we will highlight different aspects from a wide range of disciplines such as genetics, archaeology, anthropology, and sociology. This interdisciplinary approach allows a complex perspective on the reconstruction of dynamic processes in human societies.

 

Session programme:

To download here

 

Abstracts for session 5:

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• Session 1: Monuments and monumentality

 

• Session 2: Central sites

 

• Session 3: Impact of resource exploitation, trade, and transport on environment and societies

 

• Session 4: Separating natural and anthropogenic influences in environmental change

 

• Session 6: Perception, mental construction and conceptualisation of landscapes

 

• Session 7: New approaches and proxies for socio-environmental reconstructions

 

• Public Lectures: Wednesday, 1st April

The current general workshop programme ist available here