Paleodemography

Using the life history model to set the stage (s) of growth and senescence in bioarchaeology and paleodemography

by Stephanie Armstrong

El uso de factores de separación para el cálculo de las probabilidades de muerte en infantes de poblaciones esqueléticas antropológicas

by ALLAN ORTEGA-MUÑOZ

"Published in Navegando"

Crecimiento fisico en poblaciones prehispánicas de la cuenca de México

by ALLAN ORTEGA-MUÑOZ

"Co-authored with Lourdes Márquez y Patricia Hernández"
"Published in Salud-Problema"

Condiciones de vida y demografía en El Meco: Centro cívico-ceremonial secundario maya de Quintana Roo, México

by ALLAN ORTEGA-MUÑOZ

La paleodemografía:¿ un instrumento para simular el comportamiento demográfico del pasado? Análisis comparativo con la demografía histórica en la Ciudad de …

by ALLAN ORTEGA-MUÑOZ

"Pubished in Estudios Demograficos y Urbanos, 2004"

Presenta los resultados del análisis paleodemográfico del Panteón de Santa Paula del Siglo XIX en la Ciudad de México... more Presenta los resultados del análisis paleodemográfico del Panteón de Santa Paula del Siglo XIX en la Ciudad de México y su comparación con un análisis demográfico de los registros de estadísticas vitales de su correspondiente parroquia.

The History, Archaeology, and Skeletal Biology of the Alameda-Stone Cemetery

by Joseph Hefner

Volume 2: The History, Archaeology, and Skeletal Biology of the Alameda-Stone Cemetery edited by Michael Heilen, Joseph T. Hefner, and Mitchell A. Keur

Statistical Research, Inc., has completed four volumes documenting the findings of the Joint Courts Complex... more Statistical Research, Inc., has completed four volumes documenting the findings of the Joint Courts Complex Archaeological Project in Tucson, Arizona, one of the largest and most comprehensive excavations of a historical-period cemetery ever undertaken in North America. Although the central focus of the project was the cemetery component, which dated from the late 1850s or early 1860s through the early 1880s, the project also identified 736 features dating to the postcemetery period, 3 prehistoric features, and prehistoric and historical-period artifact scatters.

Reuse of tombs or cultural continuity? The case of tower-tombs in Shabwa governorate (Yemen)

by Remy Crassard

Crassard R., Guy H., Schiettecatte J. & Hitgen H. 2010.

During a preventive archaeological survey along the Yemen LNG pipeline route, a cemetery was discovered, and was at... more During a preventive archaeological survey along the Yemen LNG pipeline route, a cemetery was discovered, and was at first dated to the Bronze Age period. After excavation, these tombs were not clearly datable to this period, as typical Iron Age material was
discovered inside them. The 14C dating of three typologically similar tombs reveals two distinct occupation phases. The first one starts from the beginning of the 3rd millennium BC, and the second one from the first half of the 1st millennium BC. What can be concluded? Are we facing a reuse of ancient tombs by later populations, or do we have enough data to think that there was a cultural/technical continuity in building tower-tombs?

Luna, L. 2009 [2010]. Aumento poblacional y control demográfico entre los cazadores-recolectores tardíos del centro-sur pampeano: implicancias desde la bioarqueología. Cazadores recolectores del cono sur. Revista de Arqueología 3: 29-51.

by Leandro Luna

Impact of selection and demography on the diffusion of lactase persistence

by Mathias Currat

Sampling and statistical considerations for the Suchey–Brooks method for pubic bone age estimation: Implications for regional comparisons

by sebastian wärmländer

Increasing the resolution of the Broad Spectrum Revolution in the Southern Levantine Epipaleolithic (19-12 ka)

by Aaron Stutz

Stutz, Aaron J., Munro, Natalie. D., & Bar-Oz, Guy. (2009). Increasing the Resolution of the Broad Spectrum Revolution in the Southern Levantine Epipaleolithic (19-12 ka). Journal of Human Evolution 56: 294-306.

We analyze terminal Pleistocene archaeofaunal diversity trends in the Southern Levant by examining eight... more We analyze terminal Pleistocene archaeofaunal diversity trends in the Southern Levant by examining eight Epipaleolithic (ca. 19–12 ka) assemblages from the Western Galilee/Mt. Carmel, Israel subregion. We test predictions from a Broad Spectrum Revolution model of the population dynamics of human foragers and their prey. The study emphasizes control over geographic variability and archaeological recovery and recording methods, as we analyze a time series that samples the Epipaleolithic more fully than have previous studies. This provides a new opportunity to examine human population and economic change in the long-term transition to sedentism and agriculture.
We use the Mantel test to evaluate the significance of temporal trends in body-size-based big game diversity, as well as in diversity of small game prey types. Results demonstrate a highly significant decline through time in the relative abundance of medium and large big game, measured relative to small big
game. This suggests that the apparent ‘‘gazelle specialization’’ by Late Epipaleolithic (Natufian) hunters reflects longer-term anthropogenic overexploitation of the largest prey types in the spectrum. While large and medium big game abundance declined, our results show small game increased in economic
importance over time. Considered with associated climate change data, the results provide substantial support for the
hypothesis that local human populations expanded rapidly in size after the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM). We suggest that following the post-LGM population pulse, human foragers adopted a shifting series of intensification strategies mediated by changes in residential mobility.

The “Nature of Transitions” in the Stone Age: a Comparative Perspective

by Aaron Stutz

In (John J. Shea & Daniel E. Lieberman, eds.) Transitions in Prehistory: Papers in Honor of Ofer Bar-Yosef. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University American School of Prehistoric Research. pp. 477-498. 2009.

Is There a Paloelithic Demography? Implications for Evolutionary Psychology and Sociobiology

by Corey Sparks

Art As Information: Explaining Upper Palaeolithic Art In Western Europe

by Michael Barton

1994 C. Michael Barton, G.A. Clark & Allison Cohen. World Archaeology, 26(2): 184-206.

Proceeding from the information exchange theory of style, we argue that the changing temporal and spatial... more Proceeding from the information exchange theory of style, we argue that the changing temporal and spatial distributions of mobile and parietal art in Paleolithic Europe are related aspects of a single evolutionary process: alternating selective pressures differentially favoring the expression of assertive and emblemic style over the 30–7 kyr BP interval. These pressures result from demographic and social change across the European subcontinent in the late Pleistocene and early Holocene. We develop a model of cultural selection for symbolic behavior manifest as art that proceeds from and parallels natural selection in neo‐Darwinian evolutionary theory.

Technical note: Applicability of tooth cementum annulation to an archaeological population

by Mirjana Roksandic

Bioarchaeology and Climate Change: a view from South Asian prehistory

by Gwen Robbins Schug

Foreword by Clark Spencer Larsen

Details: 192 pages
Cloth: $79.95 ISBN 13: 978-0-8130-3667-0 ISBN 10: 0-8130-3667-4
Pubdate: 8/14/2011
Series: Bioarchaeological Interpretations of the Human Past: Local, Regional, and Global Perspectives

Overview

"Using subadult skeletons from the Deccan Chalcolithic period of Indian prehistory, along... more Overview

"Using subadult skeletons from the Deccan Chalcolithic period of Indian prehistory, along with archaeological and paleoclimate data, this volume makes an important contribution to understanding the effects of ecological change on demography and childhood growth during the second millennium B.C. in peninsular India."--Michael Pietrusewsky, University of Hawai‘i at Manoa

In the context of current debates about global warming, archaeology contributes important insights for understanding environmental changes in prehistory, and the consequences and responses of past populations to them.

In Indian archaeology, climate change and monsoon variability are often invoked to explain major demographic transitions, cultural changes, and migrations of prehistoric populations. During the late Holocene (1400-700 B.C.), agricultural communities flourished in a semiarid region of the Indian subcontinent, until they precipitously collapsed. Gwen Robbins Schug integrates the most recent paleoclimate reconstructions with an innovative analysis of skeletal remains from one of the last abandoned villages to provide a new interpretation of the archaeological record of this period.

Robbins Schug’s biocultural synthesis provides us with a new way of looking at the adaptive, social, and cultural transformations that took place in this region during the first and second millennia B.C. Her work clearly and compellingly usurps the climate change paradigm, demonstrating the complexity of human-environmental transformations. This original and significant contribution to bioarchaeological research and methodology enriches our understanding of both global climate change and South Asian prehistory.

The People of Wairau Bar: a Re-Examination

by Sian Halcrow

(2010) authors H. Buckley, N. Tayles, S. Halcrow, K. Robb and R. Fyfe. Journal of Pacific Archaeology. 1 (1): 1-20.

Southeast Asia

by Sian Halcrow

(In press) Tayles, N., S. E. Halcrow and N. Pureepatpong, In J. Buikstra and C. Roberts and S. Schreiner (eds) The History of Palaeopathology: Pioneers and Prospects. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Investigating mortality and infant feeding in prehistoric skeletal samples: A case study from a 3000 year old Pacific Island cemetery site

by Sian Halcrow

(2009) Kinaston, R., H. R. Buckley, S. E. Halcrow, M. Spriggs, S. Bedford, K. Neal and A. Gray. Journal of Archaeological Science. 36: 2780-2787.

Subadult Health and Disease In Late Prehistoric Mainland Southeast Asia

by Sian Halcrow

PhD thesis, conferred 2007