ROMU/Frederikssund Museum, Jægerspris, Denmark.
Department of History, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany.
PLoS One. 2024 Oct 28;19(10):e0301938. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0301938. eCollection 2024.
The present study aims to explore the hypothesis of a link between a population increase derived from intensified food production and the development from the widespread cultural diversity of the Middle Neolithic B (MNB) to the cultural unity towards the end of the Late Neolithic (LN) in Southern Scandinavia. We explore this through quantitative modelling of radiocarbon dates, aoristic time series of material culture and palynological data. On this basis, we propose three main results that may explain the transformation: (1) A supra-regional population increase, culminating in the middle of the LN (c. 2100 BCE). (2) A depopulation in Western Jutland at the transition from the MNB to the LN (c. 2400-2300 BCE) counterbalanced by a population increase in North and East Denmark. (3) A population boom in Southern Sweden around 2250-2000 BCE, possibly leading to migrations towards west. Furthermore, we propose an overall decline in population in the final LN (c. 1850 BCE).
本研究旨在探讨一个假设，即人口增长源于强化的粮食生产，这种增长与从中石器时代中期（MNB）到新石器时代晚期（LN）末期的文化多样性发展有关，这种多样性在南斯堪的纳维亚地区广泛存在。我们通过对放射性碳年代的定量建模、物质文化的历时序列和孢粉数据来探索这一假设。在此基础上，我们提出了三个可能解释这种转变的主要结果：（1）超区域人口增长，在 LN 中期达到顶峰（约公元前 2100 年）。（2）MNB 到 LN 过渡期，日德兰半岛西部人口减少（约公元前 2400-2300 年），而丹麦北部和东部的人口增加。（3）瑞典南部大约公元前 2250-2000 年人口暴增，可能导致人口向西部迁移。此外，我们还提出了 LN 末期（约公元前 1850 年）人口的整体下降。
