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ArticlePloS one2019

Tracing long-term demographic changes: The issue of spatial scales.

Johannes Müller, Aleksandr Diachenko

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Article in PloS one, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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  4. A manifesto for palaeodemography in the twenty-first century.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2021
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  5. Approaching prehistoric demography: proxies, scales and scope of the Cologne Protocol in European contexts.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2021
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Johannes MüllerInstitute of Pre- and Protohistoric Archaeology, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-3538-197X
Aleksandr DiachenkoInstitute of Archaeology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This paper deals with the analysis of long-term changes in population densities at the regional and macro-regional scale and in the density of metapopulations. The following issues concerning estimations are addressed: chronological resolution of demographic changes, estimation of the weight of values for population density in order to transform the initial values included in the sample into the values that may be compared with each other at the regional scale, calibration of the transformed values into real population densities, and the estimation of the weight of values for population density at the scales of macro-regions and for the density of metapopulations. The proposed methods are tested on demographic changes in Central Europe, Southern Scandinavia, Southeastern Europe, and the Near East. The obtained results represent major trends in demographic development, while the proposed methodology could also be applied in other wide-scale demographic analyses.

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DemographyEuropeGeographyHumansMiddle EastPopulation DensityPopulation DynamicsScandinavian and Nordic Countries

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PMID30601860
PMCPMC6314571

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