Recent Advances in Palaeodemography
Jean-Pierre . Ed(S): Bocquet-Appel
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Hardback. Developed from a core of papers selected for the paleodemographic session of the 25th World Population Congress (July 2005, Tours, France), this title covers paleodemographic innovations, in terms of data, techniques and the detection of patterns making it possible to highlight hitherto unknown prehistoric demographic processes. Editor(s): Bocquet-Appel, Jean-Pierre. Num Pages: 294 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PSX; RBX. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 1360.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
Number of pages
294
Condition
New
Number of Pages
294
Place of Publication
New York, NY, United States
ISBN
9781402064234
SKU
V9781402064234
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