Dates and demography: are radiometric dates a robust proxy for long-term prehistoric demographic change?

Can archaeologists describe human population size and population growth in prehistoric A ustralia? This question is at the heart of some of the most intense debates about A ustralian prehistory: investigations into the spread of people into A ustralia, the rate of dispersal of people across the continent and the impact of colonisers on the environment. A ustralian researchers have proposed explicit models of population change based on...