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El. knyga: Demography in Archaeology

(University of Sheffield)
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Demography in Archaeology is a review of current theory and method in the reconstruction of populations from archaeological data. Starting with a summary of demographic concepts and methods, the book examines historical and ethnographic sources of demographic evidence before addressing the methods by which reliable demographic estimates can be made from skeletal remains, settlement evidence and modern and ancient biomolecules. Recent debates in palaeodemography are evaluated, new statistical methods for palaeodemographic reconstruction are explained, and the notion that past demographic structures and processes were substantially different from those pertaining today is critiqued. The book covers a wide span of evidence, from the evolutionary background of human demography to the influence of natural and human-induced catastrophes on population growth and survival. This is essential reading for any archaeologist or anthropologist with an interest in relating the results of field and laboratory studies to broader questions of population structure and dynamics.

Explains how a diverse range of archaeological evidence can provide insights into past human populations.

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'I think that this is an excellent review of where we have been and where we have got to in the consideration of archaeological demography.' Antiquity ' this reference [ is valuable] as a broadly based, comprehensive overview of a difficult area of study that outlines major topics in a relevant broader context and stimulates interest in finding out more about specific details.' Journal of Biosocial Science

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This book explains how a diverse range of archaeological evidence can provide insights into past human populations.
List of figures
xiii
List of tables
xvi
Preface xviii
Introduction
1(14)
The principal concerns of demography
1(3)
What is a population?
1(1)
Population characteristics
2(1)
Demographic data: from individual life histories to population parameters
3(1)
Demography in archaeology
4(6)
Archaeology and people
4(1)
Population pressure: cause or effect?
4(2)
Population structure
6(1)
Health and disease
7(1)
Migration
8(2)
Sources of evidence
10(5)
Theoretical models
10(1)
Ethnographic and historical evidence
11(1)
Archaeological evidence: skeletal remains, settlements and site catchments
11(1)
Genetic and evolutionary evidence
12(1)
Evidence from disease
13(2)
Demographic Concepts, Theory and Methods
15(30)
Population structure
15(4)
Age categories and age distributions
15(3)
Sex distributions
18(1)
Other structuring categories
19(1)
Population growth and demographic transition
19(6)
Geometric and exponential growth
19(2)
Logistic growth
21(2)
Demographic transition
23(2)
Mortality, survivorship and life tables
25(10)
Mortality
25(1)
Survivorship
25(1)
Stable populations
26(1)
The life table
27(5)
Hazard functions for modelling mortality and survivorship
32(3)
Fertility and population projection
35(3)
Fertility
35(1)
Population projection
36(2)
Migration and colonisation
38(3)
Migration
38(2)
Colonisation
40(1)
Population standardisation and comparison
41(4)
Population standardisation
41(2)
Population comparison
43(2)
Historical and Ethnographic Demography
45(36)
Documentary sources of demographic data
45(5)
Vital registration
45(1)
Censuses
46(1)
Commemorative inscriptions
47(1)
Other written sources
48(2)
Families and households
50(2)
Family units
50(1)
Family reconstitution
50(2)
Household size
52(1)
Longevity, menarche and menopause
52(3)
Perceptions and misperceptions of longevity
52(2)
Menarche and menopause
54(1)
Historical evidence of migration and colonisation
55(3)
Migration in pre-industrial Europe
55(2)
Mass migration and colonisation in the modern era
57(1)
Hunter-gatherer demography
58(6)
Population structure in hunter-gatherers
58(4)
Mortality and fertility in hunter-gatherers
62(2)
Demography of agricultural populations
64(5)
Population structure in agricultural populations
64(3)
Mortality and fertility in agricultural populations
67(2)
Conditions of high mortality
69(12)
Crisis mortality and natural disasters
69(1)
Famine
70(4)
Epidemic disease
74(3)
Conflict mortality
77(4)
Archaeological Demography
81(52)
Past population structure
81(11)
Background to the palaeodemography debate
81(3)
The challenge by Bocquet-Appel and Masset
84(3)
Uniformitarian assumptions in palaeodemography
87(2)
Bias in samples and in estimation
89(3)
Estimation of sex
92(6)
Human sex differences
92(1)
Morphological sex differences in pre-adolescent skeletons
93(2)
Morphological sex differences in adult skeletons
95(2)
Accuracy of sex estimation
97(1)
Biomolecular methods of sex estimation
97(1)
Estimation of age at death
98(14)
Human skeletal development and ageing
98(3)
Age estimation in fetuses and children
101(4)
Age estimation in adults: macroscopic methods
105(5)
Age estimation in adults: microscopic methods
110(2)
Bayesian and maximum likelihood approaches to age estimation
112(14)
General principles in estimating age from morphological indicators
112(1)
Bayes' theorem and its application to age estimation
113(3)
Evaluative studies of Bayesian methods in age estimation
116(3)
Alternative ways of modelling likelihoods: transition analysis and latent traits
119(1)
Perinatal age estimation from long bone length
120(3)
Age estimation and catastrophic mortality profiles
123(2)
Prospects for the future
125(1)
Estimation of population numbers from archaeological data
126(7)
House sizes and floor areas
126(1)
Settlement sizes
127(1)
Site catchments and resource utilisation
128(3)
Monitoring population size from radiocarbon dating distributions
131(2)
Evolutionary and Genetic Palaeodemography
133(18)
Age and sex structure in animal populations
133(4)
Natural animal populations
133(1)
Demography of non-human primates
134(3)
Demography of fossil hominids
137(9)
Maturation times and longevity in fossil hominids
137(3)
Demography of Australopithecus and early Homo
140(3)
Demography of Homo heidelbergensis and Homo neanderthalensis
143(3)
Human genetic palaeodemography
146(5)
Genetic studies of present-day populations
146(2)
Genetic studies of ancient populations
148(3)
Demography and Disease
151(26)
Disease in archaeological populations
151(21)
Concepts and evidence of disease
151(3)
Infectious and epidemic diseases
154(6)
Metabolic, nutritional and deficiency diseases
160(5)
Neoplastic and congenital diseases
165(3)
Trauma and homicide
168(4)
Social and demographic impacts of disease
172(5)
Demographic responses to disease
172(1)
Social responses to disease
173(4)
Concluding Remarks
177(12)
The relevance of demography for archaeology
177(2)
How meaningful are the results of palaeodemographic analysis?
179(1)
How different were populations in the past?
180(3)
Demographic processes and cultural change
183(2)
Challenges for the future
185(4)
References 189(36)
Index 225