Radiocarbon test for demographic events in written and oral history [Anthropology]

We extend an established simulation-based method to test for significant short-duration (1–2 centuries) demographic events known from one documented historical and one oral historical context. Case study 1 extrapolates population data from the Western historical tradition using historically derived demographic data from the catastrophic European Black Death/bubonic plague (Yersinia pestis)....
Source: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - Category: Science Authors: Tags: Social Sciences Source Type: research