Demografía y control del territorio entre el IV y el III milenios A.C. en el Pasillo de Tabernas (Almería, España)

Intensive systematic surface surveys carried out in Tabernas Corridor have enabled the evaluation of prehistoric occupation in a wide area, and temporal changes that involve differences in settlements number and location, in relation to territorial control. However, to determine the characteristics of temporal changes is also necessary to evaluate the demographic potential of the area and each of the coeval sites. In any case it is clear that the difficulties to establish a precise chronological frame, coupled with the intrinsic problems of the indexes used, will let us to offer only a maximum estimate of the population in each period.