Population and Demography: World Archaeology 30:2

ISBN-13: 9780415198097 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 191 str.

Shennan, Stephen

Opis

This text argues that a knowledge of the demographic aspect of human growth is essential if we are to understand the cultural aspects of past societies. This text covers recent work in this field focusing especially on studies of colonization and migration, and the impact of population growth. Using new analytical methods to understand population movement and change in the archaeological record this book expands the half century long debate on the importance of population movements.

Spis treści

Chapters include:
'Terra Deserta': population, politics and the [de]colonization of Dacia; Tiwanaku state colonisation: bioarchaeological evidence of migration in the Moquegua valley, Peru; Colonization and microevolution in Formative Oaxaca, Mexico; Modelling Paleoindian dispersals; The population shuffle in the Central Illinois Valley: a diachronic model of Mississippi biocultural interactions; Demographic growth, environmental change and technical adaptations: responses of an agricultural community from the 32nd to the 30th centuries BC; Using stable nitrogen-isotopes to study weaning behaviour in past populations; Rock art and palaeodemography in northeastern Australia

O autorze

Stephen Shennan