Multi-Season Reproduction and Pastoralist Production Strategies: New Approaches to Birth Seasonality from the South Caucasus Region

Citation metadata

Type

journal article

Publication

Journal of Field Archaeology, vol. 46, no. 7, 448–460

Peer reviewed

Yes

Open DOI or stable record (opens in a new tab)

Records informed by this source

• causal hypothesis Climate as a single master cause of 1600–800 BCE transitions
  Evidence confidence: ◈ low
  contradicts_or_criticizes · contradicts uniform vulnerability · Flexible pastoral strategies

  Source linked to causal_hypothesis record hyp_srsc1_climate_master_cause.

• claim Palaeoclimatic change may have affected steppe and Caucasian subsistence systems, but it is not established as a single master cause of regional transitions.
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  supports · provides local system case · Flexible pastoral production strategies

  Source linked to claim record claim_srsc1_climate_not_master_cause.

• ranked model Multi-causal environmental, economic, and political transition
  Evidence confidence: ◈ moderate
  supports · supports · Pastoral flexibility

  Source linked to ranked_model record model_srsc1_3_multi_causal_transition.