Objective
Our major goal is to test with quantitative and qualitative tools the hypothesis that some key aspects of the current economic and socio cultural diversity of European nations have roots in prehistory. We shall integrate the expertise in mathematics computing archaeology palaeodemography and palaeoenvironment into an interdisciplinary approach aimed at a groundbreaking comprehensive theory of the Neolithic Revolution. We shall quantify and hence clarify the interaction of the environmental factors with social cultural and human aspects of the Neolithic Revolution.
This project will be the first to consider the Neolithisation of Western Central and Eastern Europe as a pan European process. Our main tool will be a novel mathematical model of population dynamics for the epoch of the initial spread of the Neolithic in Europe 8000 - 3000 BC.
The model will be based on advanced population dynamics theory with full allowance for environmental factors including geomorphology waterways and coastlines soil fertility and biomass and climatic variations.
The methodology of parameter estimation for large scale population dynamics models will be developed and various mathematical and geostatistical approaches to local and non local demographic processes will be implemented.
The model will be refined using the abundant radiocarbon age determinations genetic markers and archaeological evidence. Much of the high resolution archaeological evidence will be collected in several case studies focussed on the Adriatic Sea area the Eastern Balkans Central and Eastern Europe.
Our results may significantly change the understanding of the origin and nature of modern cultural social and economic diversity in Europe. We anticipate that this project will develop into a new field of research Quantitative Environmental Archaeology at the boundary between science and the humanities.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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- humanities history and archaeology history prehistory
- social sciences political sciences political transitions revolutions
- humanities history and archaeology archaeology
- natural sciences earth and related environmental sciences geology geomorphology
- natural sciences mathematics applied mathematics mathematical model
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FP6-2004-NEST-C-1
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Coordinator
NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE
United Kingdom
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