Recent advances in palaeodemography data, techniques, patterns /
The written data used by demographers essentially cover the last five centuries. Since Homo Ergaster moved out of Africa around 1.8 million years ago and until the sub-contemporary periods, there is no data allowing us to reconstruct a demographic history that can be interpreted with the traditional...
| Other Authors: | Bocquet-Appel, Jean-Pierre., SpringerLink (Online service) |
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Dordrecht :
Springer,
©2008.
Dordrecht : [2008] |
| Physical Description: |
1 online resource (xiii, 294 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Jean-Pierre Bocquet-Appel
- From genes to numbers : effective population sizes in human origins / John Hawks
- Assessment of land surveys in Greece : contributions and limitations / Jean-Nicolas Corvisier
- Estimation of an age distribution with its confidence intervals using an iterative Bayesian procedure and a bootstrap sampling approach / Jean-Pierre Bocquet-Appel and Jean-Noël Bacro
- Model life tables for pre-industrial populations : first application in palaeodemography / Isabelle Séguy [and others]
- The Halley band for paleodemographic mortality analysis / Marc A. Luy and Ursula Wittwer-Backofen
- Modeling Paleolithic predator-prey dynamics and the effects of hunting pressure on prey "choice" / Mary C. Stiner [and others]
- The demography of prehistoric fishing/hunting people : a case study of the Upper Columbia area / Nathan B. Goodale, Ian Kuijt, Anna M. Prentiss
- The paleodemography of central Portugal and the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition / Mary Jackes and Christopher Meiklejohn
- The Libben Site : a hunting, fishing, and gathering village from the Eastern Late Woodlands of North America : analysis and implications for palaeodemography and human origins / Richard S. Meindl, Robert P. Mensforth, C. Owen Lovejoy.