Paleodemography
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Demographic change lies at the core of debates on genetic inheritance and resilience to climate change of prehistoric hunter-gatherers. Here we analyze the radiocarbon record of Iberia to reconstruct long-term changes in population levels... more
Palaeodemography provides information about what life was like in a past human population, as long as the death cohort meets certain criteria and some assumptions are made. Palaeodemographic analyses of British archaeological sites... more
This contribution discusses possible relationships between human populations and Holocene environmental deterioration phenomena (cold/arid pulses and volcanic eruptions) in the Fuegian Archipelago (South America), based on summed... more
The paper outlines data for the reconstruction of paleodemographic structure of the Pyany Bor culture. Totally three samples (Novo-Sasykul, Oshki cemeteries and Nyrgynda stage burials of Tarasovo burial ground), including skeletal remains... more
La fouille de l’église et du cimetière Saint-Ayoul de Provins (Seine-et-Marne) ayant déjà été plusieurs fois présentée nous ne nous étendrons pas plus que nécessaire sur le sujet. Le site et le développement de Saint-Ayoul sont ceux d’un... more
Cross-culturally and across time archaeologists have found that—in cases where human societies have become hierarchically structured—individuals of higher rank tend to manage resources and allocate risk primarily to their own benefit.... more
A comprehensive approach to certain structural problems and a wide array of scientific issues of both natural sciences and humanities should include methods of digital modelling of complex systems. Past human societies and their... more
В статье обсуждаются половозрастные особенности населения эпохи средней бронзы, оставившего захоронения манычских катакомбных культур в курганных могильниках на востоке Ростовской области. Авторы приходят к выводу об изменении... more
Since the 12th century AD, with the spread of Christianity, burials around temples have appeared complying with the strict church rules. At the same time the grave goods disappear and the suit items of clothin become less common.... more
Although maize agriculture is often cast as a primary driver of population growth during the Mississippi period recent research suggests that the coevolutionary mutualism that developed between maize and humans did not drive population... more
Older people have been very much ignored in archaeological contexts and part of the reason for that has been the inability to identify them with the methods of classic paleodemographic analysis. The maximum life span often equated with... more
Paleobiogeography is proposed here as a helpful source of information on limiting environmental factors and the shape and range of the archaic hominin ecological niche. The cluster analysis of Early Pleistocene ircum-Mediterranean mammal... more