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A new population curve for prehistoric Australia

Date

Authors

Williams, Alan

Publisher

Royal Society of London

Abstract

This paper presents a newreconstruction of prehistoric population of Australia for the last 50 ka, using the most comprehensive radiocarbon database currently available for the continent. The application of new techniques to manipulate radiocarbon data (i

Keywords

Keywords: database; demographic history; disease incidence; economic activity; genetic analysis; growth rate; Holocene; Last Glacial Maximum; population dynamics; population estimation; population growth; prehistoric; radiocarbon dating; taphonomy; viral disease; A Growth rates; Population; Prehistoric demography; Radiocarbon data; Summed probability plots; Taphonomic bias

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/1885/72558

Collections

ANU Research Publications

Source

Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B: Biological Sciences

Type

Journal article

DOI

10.1098/rspb.2013.0486

Restricted until

2037-12-31

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