TAILIEUCHUNG - Paleodemography: age distributions from skeletal samples

.Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology 31 Paleodemography: age distributions from skeletal samples Paleodemography is the field of inquiry 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. However, paleodemographic theory relies on several assumptions that cannot easily be validated by the researcher and, if incorrect, can lead to large errors or biases. In this book, physical anthropologists, mathematical demographers and statisticians tackle these methodological issues for reconstructing demographic structure for skeletal samples. Topics discussed include how skeletal morphology is. | Paleodemography Age distributions from skeletal samples Robert D. Hoppa James w. Vaupel more information - 9780521800631 Cambridge Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology 31 Paleodemography age distributions from skeletal samples Paleodemography is the field of inquiry 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. However paleodemographic theory relies on several assumptions that cannot easily be validated by the researcher and if incorrect can lead to large errors or biases. In this book physical anthropologists mathematical demographers and statisticians tackle these methodological issues for reconstructing demographic structure for skeletal samples. Topics discussed include how skeletal morphology is linked to chronological age assessment of age from the skeleton demographic models of mortality and their interpretation and biostatistical approaches to age structure estimation from archaeological samples. This work will be of immense importance to anyone interested in paleodemography including biological anthropologists demographers geographers evolutionary biologists and statisticians. ROBERT D. HOPPA is a physical anthropologist in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Manitoba. His research interests include historical demography epidemiology human skeletal biology growth and development and forensic anthropology. He has also coedited Human growth in the past studies from bones and teeth 1999 ISBN 0 521 63153 X . JAMES w. VAUPEL is a demographer and is currently Director of the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock Germany. He is also Professor of Demography and Epidemiology at the Institute of Public Health University of Southern Denmark Odense and Senior Research Scientist at the Sanford Institute at Duke .

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