Handbook of paleodemography

1. Verfasser: Seguy, Isabelle
Weitere Verfasser: Caussinus, Henri
Courgeau, Daniel
Depledge, Roger
Dutreuilh, Catriona
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Cham ; New York : Springer, 2013.
Umfang/Format: xxii, 329 pages : illustrations.
Schriftenreihe: INED population studies ; 2
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Online Zugang: Online available
Inhaltsangabe:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Epistemology of the discipline
  • 3. The osteological data
  • 4. Establishing a reference population
  • 5. Age at death: current approaches and methods
  • 6. Current demographic models
  • 7. Finding the right models for pre-industrial populations
  • 8. Model tables for pre-industrial populations
  • 9. Definition and exploration of a pre-industrial standard
  • 10. Final overview
  • 11. Examples of archaeological applications
  • 12. Critique of current models
  • 13. A new method for estimating age-at-death structure.