Holocene fluctuations in human population demonstrate repeated links to food production and climate
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The relationship between human population, food production, and climate change is a pressing concern in need of high-resolution, long-term perspectives. Archaeological radiocarbon dates have increasingly been used to reconstruct past population ...

In earlier holocene neolithic and bronze age societies, sharp population increases and downturns closely tracked periods of climate instabilty, pointing at agricultural strategies failing as weather gets unpredictable.