Overview
- With the contributions of Henri Caussinus, Université de Toulouse, and Daniel Courgeau, INED, France
- Offers new research perspectives in paleodemography
- Provides means to retrace the living conditions of past populations
- Practical manual for anthropologists and archaeologists for interpreting ancient bones in demographic terms ?
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: INED Population Studies (INPS, volume 2)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Data of Interest
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Developing a Study Protocol
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Further Analysis
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Age at death
- Archaeolocial remains
- Bioanthropology
- Brass method
- Civil age, biological age and social age
- Crossroad between demography and archaeology
- Demographic parameters
- Dynamics of human settlement
- Epistemology of the discipline
- Estimation by the probability vector
- Estimator method
- Exhumed skeletons
- General methodological principles
- Interpret ancient bones in demographic terms
- Life tables
- Logarithmic model
- Methods for estimating age and sex
- Mortality regimes
- New paleodemographic tools
- Osteological data
- Paleodemographic research
- Pre-industrial populations models
- Probabilities of dying
- Reconstructuring demographic parameters
- Retrace living conditions of past populations
- Statistical method for reconstructing age-at death structure
About this book
This book examines methods for linking osteo-archaeological data with historical and environmental sources to shed light on the living conditions of past populations. Covering all time periods from prehistory to the 20th century, it aims to construct models that capture plausible demographic dynamics from highly fragmentary evidence.
Starting from the known in order to explore the unknown, this book presents a historical view of methods used in the past and present as well as proposes original ones. The paleodemographic methods presented in this handbook have been tested on anthropological and archaeological data and can easily be applied.
This manual represents a fruitful collaboration between historical demographers and anthropological archaeologists who, with the help of mathematicians and statisticians, detail research that opens an important historical dimension to the discipline. Written in a readily understandable manner, it serves as an ideal resource for those wishing to interpret ancient bones in demographic terms.
Authors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Handbook of Palaeodemography
Authors: Isabelle Séguy, Luc Buchet
Series Title: INED Population Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01553-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-01552-1Published: 30 January 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-34814-8Published: 27 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-01553-8Published: 20 January 2014
Series ISSN: 2214-2452
Series E-ISSN: 2214-2460
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 329
Number of Illustrations: 78 b/w illustrations
Additional Information: Original French edition published by the INED, Paris, 2011.
Topics: Demography, Anthropology, Archaeology