Sue Colledge

TL;DR: It is shown that the introduction of agriculture into Europe was followed by a boom-and-bust pattern in the density of regional populations, and the results suggest that the demographic patterns may have arisen from endogenous causes, although this remains speculative.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors presented a new method that used summed probability distributions (SPD) of radiocarbon dates as a proxy for population levels, and Monte-Carlo simulation to test the significance of the observed fluctuations in the context of uncertainty in the calibration curve and archaeological sampling.

TL;DR: Thirty-one sites have records of Panicum (P. miliaceum, P. turgidum) and Setaria (S. italica, S. viridis/verticillata, Setaria sp., Setaria type) and further work is needed to resolve the above issues before the status of these taxa in this period can be fully evaluated.

TL;DR: New evidence from the site of Abu Hureyra suggests that systematic cultivation of cereals in fact started well before the end of the Pleistocene by at least 13000 years ago, and that rye was among the first crops.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors consider the long-term relationship between human demography, food production, and Holocene climate via an archaeological radiocarbon date series of unprecedented sampling density and detail.