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When was Europe inhabited by only 25 thousand inhabitants?

2022-05-16 18:55:44Lifestyle SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
When was Europe inhabited by only 25 thousand inhabitants?
When was Europe inhabited by only 25 thousand inhabitants?

Today the population of Europe, excluding the transcontinental countries (Russia and Turkey), is about 700 million inhabitants: if we go back in time, between 360,000 and 560,000 years ago, the citizens of Western Europe were between 13,000 and 25,000 people, writes the Italian scientific journal, Focus.

The study was supported by Ana Mateos and Jesús Rodríguez from the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH), who worked with a study group whose goal was to understand the size of the population in the area of ​​today's West.

Despite the small number of people they could meet, comparable to a small town today, that population was larger than previously thought after previous studies.

The period studied was not chosen at random: it is considered one of the most important in human evolution. During that time, Neanderthals appeared on Earth (about 500,000 years ago), and by the end of the period a special technique for producing stone tools began to be developed - called the "Levallois" technique.

Again, by the end of that period there were massive climate fluctuations, which undoubtedly strongly influenced the distribution and evolution of human beings.

How many deaths are there on Earth?

Here is a strange question, to which, however, we can give an answer, approximate but probable, and limited to our species, Homo sapiens.

According to estimates by the Bureau of Population Reference and calculation models developed in 1995 by demographer Carl Haub - updated annually by the legacy collection team - the Sapians who have trespassed on Earth since their first consolidated appearance are over 108 billion. If we subtract the nearly 8 billion current living beings from this considerable mass of individuals, we have our own number of deaths.

According to researchers, this excursion from 13,000 to 25,000 individuals was related to habitable areas that expanded or decreased in relation to the extent of glacial ice: warmer periods favored population growth.

However, human groups during glacial periods were not completely isolated on the peninsulas of Southern Europe, and even in the most difficult periods there must have been a connecting area between the Iberian Peninsula and the British Isles.

Europe, then, was inhabited even in the coldest periods, especially in a generation going from France to West Germany: the habitable zones, during the Middle Pleistocene, in Europe were quite large, and this leads us to assume that it lived a large number of people taller than previously thought.


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