News Release 09-187 - Video
Peter Turchin explains coin hoards as a proxy for population size.
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Peter Turchin makes an analogy between tree rings and coin hoards. Just as tree rings are used to determine past environmental conditions, he argues that clumps of unrecovered coin hoards are an excellent indicator of intense internal warfare, which has direct impacts on population size.
Credit: University of Connecticut/National Science Foundation