Population studies in archaeology and biological anthropology : a symposium / edited by Alan C. Swedlund.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Swedlund, Alan C., editor.

Series:

Memoirs of the Society for American Archaeology ; no. 30.

Memoirs of the Society for American Archaeology ; no. 30

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Archaeology--Methodology.

Archaeology.

Physical anthropology--Congresses.

Physical anthropology.

Demographic anthropology--Congresses.

Demographic anthropology.

Population research--Congresses.

Population research.

Physical anthropology--Methodology--Congresses.

Demography--Congresses.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

v, 133 pages ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Society for American Archaeology, 1975.

Contents:

Population, disease, and evolution / George J. Armelagos and Alan McArdle

The carrying capacity dilemma / Brian Hayden

Population growth and settlement pattern in Franklin and Hampshire Counties, Massachusetts, 1650-1850 / Alan C. Swedlund

A preliminary report on new research on man-land relations in Aboriginal Australia / Joseph B. Birdsell

Age differentials between spouses and Australian marriage systems / B.J. Williams

Demographic disturbance and the use of life tables in anthropology / Kenneth M. Weiss

The use of life tables in paleodemography / James A. Moore, Alan C. Swedlund and George J. Armelagos

Population dynamics at Grasshopper Pueblo, Arizona / William A. Longacre

The demography of finite populations and the origins of the incest taboo / H. Martin Wobst

Human population dynamics in archaeological time : some simple models / Henry Harpending and Jack Bertram

Demographic studies in Southwestern prehistory / Fred Plog

Alternative cultural models for demographic change : Southwestern examples / George J. Gumerman

The cybernetic analysis of human population growth / Richard E. Blanton

Population pressure as a non-explanation / George L. Cowgill

Discussion / Edwin N. Wilmsen.

Notes:

Issued as American antiquity, v. 40, no. 2, pt. 2, April 1975.

The majority of the papers were delivered at a special session of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists meeting, Amherst, Mass. 1974.

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

Online version: Population studies in archaeology and biological anthropology.

OCLC:

1468994