Neolithic societies' boom-bust cycles linked to warfare: study.

A new study by the Complexity Science Hub suggests that social disintegration and violent conflict played a crucial role in shaping the population dynamics of early farming societies in Neolithic Europe. The study concludes that periodic outbreaks of warfare, and not climate fluctuations, can account for the observed boom-bust patterns in the data. The researchers used computer simulations and compared the results with historical data to test the two rival theories attempting to explain these dynamics.