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Paleodemography : age distribution from skeletal samples / edited by Robert D. Hoppa, James W. Vaupel.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Cambridge studies in biological and evolutionary anthropology ; 31.
- Cambridge studies in biological and evolutionary anthropology ; 31
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Human skeleton--Analysis.
- Human skeleton.
- Human remains (Archaeology).
- Demographic anthropology.
- Paleoanthropology.
- Demographic archaeology.
- Population.
- Age distribution (Demography).
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 259 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
- Contents:
- 1 The Rostock Manifesto for paleodemography: the way from stage to age / Robert D. Hoppa, James W. Vaupel 1
- 2 Paleodemography: looking back and thinking ahead / Robert D. Hoppa 9
- 3 Reference samples: the first step in linking biology and age in the human skeleton / Bethany M. Usher 29
- 4 Aging through the ages: historical perspectives on age indicator methods / Ariane Kemkes-Grottenthaler 48
- 5 Transition analysis: a new method for estimating age from skeletons / Jesper L. Boldsen, George R. Milner, Lyle W. Konigsberg, James W. Wood 73
- 6 Age estimation by tooth cementum annulation: perspectives of a new validation study / Ursula Wittwer-Backofen, Helene Buba 107
- 7 Mortality models for paleodemography / James W. Wood, Darryl J. Holman, Kathleen A. O'Connor, Rebecca J. Ferrell 129
- 8 Linking age-at-death distributions and ancient population dynamics: a case study / Richard R. Paine, Jesper L. Boldsen 169
- 9 A solution to the problem of obtaining a mortality schedule for paleodemographic data / Bradley Love, Hans-Georg Muller 181
- 10 Estimating age-at-death distributions from skeletal samples: a multivariate latent-trait approach / Darryl J. Holman, James W. Wood, Kathleen A. O'Connor 193
- 11 Markov chain Monte Carlo estimation of hazard model parameters in paleodemography / Lyle W. Konigsberg, Nicholas P. Herrmann 222
- 12 A re-examination of the age-at-death distribution of Indian Knoll / Nicholas P. Herrmann, Lyle W. Konigsberg 243.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0521800633
- OCLC:
- 48092141
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