Neolithic population dynamics based on SPDs and site counts in the Scheldt basin (western Belgium and northern France)

During the Mesolithic hunter-gatherers were faced with a multitude of adversities, which included changing land- scapes, climate upheavals and rising sea levels. In the following Neolithic period this only partially stabilized. The first farming communities entering Belgium encountered poor soils and more climatic downturns, which put a limit and strain on the size and the spread of populations. We studied this in the western half of the Scheldt drainage basin in western Belgium and northern France. The area has been extensively studied during the preceding decades, mainly through developer-le... Mehr ...