J. Tanzler, P. Pichler, K. Kowarik, H. Reschreiter, G. Wurzer, A. Bacher, F. Breitenecker:
"Modelling agricultural constraints for population size in prehistoric Hallstatt";
in: "ERK - International Electrotechnical and Computer Science Conference", Andrej Zemva (ed.); issued by: University of Ljubljana; ERK - International Electrotechnical and Computer Science Conference, Portoroz, 2013, 157 - 160.

In this cooperative project between the Museum of
Natural History Vienna and the Vienna University of
Technology knowledge about the population of Hallstatt
during the Bronze Age should be gained. During that
time period the salt mining was omnipresent in
Hallstatt. This project gives a clue how many people,
including the mine workers, could have been fed by
harvesting the surrounding land in the first step. Based
on a map which discloses the single fields and the crop
plant cultivated on it the total acreage of each crop
plant is calculated. Considering the yields per hectare,
the nutrition facts and the average energy consumption
of a person, the size of the population which could have
been fed is calculated. Depending on the input data
concerning average harvest the size of the population is
estimated between 55 and 70 persons. In the second step
a balanced nutrition and a constant population is
assumed. Depending on weather influences and a
constant size of population a simulation is used to show
the amount of each type of nutrition that has to be
bought or that is over produced

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