Recent Advances in Palaeodemography

1. Front Matter

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2. From Genes to Numbers: Effective Population Sizes in Human Evolution

   • John Hawks

   Pages 9-30

3. Assessment of Land Surveys in Greece: Contributions and Limitations

   • Jean-Nicolas Corvisier

   Pages 31-61

4. Estimation of An Age Distribution With Its Confidence Intervals Using An Iterative Bayesian Procedure and A Bootstrap Sampling Approach

   • Jean-Pierre Bocquet-Appel, Jean-Noël Bacro

   Pages 63-82

5. Model Life Tables for Pre-Industrial Populations: First Application in Palaeodemography

   • Isabelle SÉGuy, Luc Buchet, Arnaud BringÉ

   Pages 83-117

6. The Halley Band for Paleodemographic Mortality Analysis

   • Marc A. Luy, Ursula Wittwer-Backofen

   Pages 119-141

7. Modeling Paleolithic Predator-Prey Dynamics and the Effects of Hunting Pressure on Prey ‘Choice’

   • Mary C. Stiner, Joseph E. Beaver, Natalie D. Munro, Todd A. Surovell

   Pages 143-178

8. The Demography of Prehistoric Fishing/Hunting People: A Case Study of the Upper Columbia Area

   • Nathan B. Goodale, Ian Kuijt, Anna M. Prentiss

   Pages 179-207

9. The Paleodemography of Central Portugal and the Mesolithic-Neolithic Transition

   • Mary Jackes, Christopher Meiklejohn

   Pages 209-258

10. 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

    Pages 259-275

11. Demographic and Health Changes During the Transition to Agriculture in North America

    • Jean-Pierre Bocquet-Appel, Stephan Naji, Matthew Bandy

    Pages 277-292

12. Back Matter

    Pages 293-294

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Jean-Pierre BOCQUET-APPEL CNRS, Paris, France 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 tools of demography. If we want to be able to tackle demographic issues over a long evolutionary duration, trying to reconstitute our human demographic history and thinking out and testing macro-demographic theories, we need to draw on sources other than written data and on techniques other than those commonly used by demographers. This necessarily means using inf- mation of every kind, from archaeology, physical anthropology, pale- tology, primatology or genetics, along with relevant models of interpretation. The volume presented here has been developed from a core of papers selected for the paleodemographic session of the 25th World Population Congress (July 2005, Tours, France), to which further requested contri- tions have been added. The publication covers recent paleodemographic innovations, in terms of data, techniques and the detection of patterns making it possible to highlight hitherto unknown prehistoric demographic processes. Now that the anxiety over ways of defusing the population “time bomb”, which mobilized mainstream demographic thinking as from the 1960s (see, for authority, Bogue and Tsui 1979; Demeny 1979) has largely been dis- pated, the focus has shifted to other important issues.

• Bioarchaeology
• Demography
• Historical Demography
• Palaeodemography
• Physical Anthropology
• Social Sciences
• evolution
• mesolithic
• paleolithic

• CNRS, Paris, France

  Jean-Pierre Bocquet-Appel

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