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Demography, Including Paleodemography
2023Demography is the study of a group's age and sex structure. This chapter focuses on the life table and its continuous form, known as a hazard or survivorship model. For an extant group it may be possible to obtain information on ages-at-death, although generally it is more common to have census information on the living.
Konigsberg, Lyle W. +2 more
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Paleodemography: Critiques and Controversies
American Anthropologist, 1985Recent criticism of paleodemographic methods (Bocquet‐Appel and Masset 1982) has centered on biases introduced by the nature of reference samples and the population‐specificity of techniques for estimating age in skeletal remains. This paper examines five key arguments concerning this bias and alleged imprecision from the perspective of life table ...
Jane E. Buikstra, Lyle W. Konigsberg
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Paleodemography: “Not quite dead”
Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews, 1994AbstractAs Kim Hill1recently noted inEvolutionary Anthropology, humans are unique among the hominoids with regard to the length of their lives, as well as other elements in the individual life histories. The evolutionary details that modified a basic pongid life history into a hominid one remain obscure, but aspects of recent human demographic history ...
Lyle W. Konigsberg, Susan R. Frankenberg
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2002
Paleodemography is the field of enquiry that attempts to identify demographic parameters from past populations (usually skeletal samples) derived from archaeological contexts, and then to make interpretations regarding the health and well-being of those populations.
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Paleodemography is the field of enquiry that attempts to identify demographic parameters from past populations (usually skeletal samples) derived from archaeological contexts, and then to make interpretations regarding the health and well-being of those populations.
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Toward a uniformitarian theory of human paleodemography
Journal of Human Evolution, 1976Nancy Howell
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The Use of Life Tables in Paleodemography
Memoirs of the Society for American Archaeology, 1975Anthropologists have become increasingly aware of the importance of population as a factor in a systematic view of human biological and cultural development. This awareness has generated an interest in the field of demography, and consequently, techniques once utilized almost exclusively by demographers are now frequently utilized for anthropological ...
James A. Moore +2 more
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Revisiting Hohokam Paleodemography
American Antiquity, 2015Archaeological evidence documents apparent depopulation of the Hohokam region of Southern Arizona at the end of the Classic period (A.D. 1150-1450). Major population centers were no longer occupied, and many distinctive material culture traits associated with the Hohokam tradition seem to disappear.
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Paleodemography of the Libben Site, Ottawa County, Ohio
Science, 1977The Libben site, a Late Woodland ossuary and occupation site from the Great Black Swamp of northern Ohio has yielded a well-preserved skeletal sample of 1327 articulated individuals. The outstanding preservation and completeness of the site and the utilization of an exhaustive aging methodology make this the largest and most comprehensively censused ...
C O, Lovejoy +5 more
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RECENT ADVANCES IN METHOD AND THEORY IN PALEODEMOGRAPHY
Annual Review of Anthropology, 1998▪ Abstract Current methods in skeletal biology have improved significantly our ability to estimate the demographic parameters of extinct populations. Gross morphological and histological age indicators have been developed and tested in a variety of contexts, revealing great variation in the levels of accuracy of age prediction of each indicator ...
Richard S. Meindl, Katherine F. Russell
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