The Neolithic Demographic Transition and its Consequences

Using cemetery data, it has been possible to identify the signature of a previously unknown demographic process associated with the transition from a hunter-gatherer to an agricultural economy. Characterized by a dramatic increase in the birth rate, and consequently of the population growth rate, ov...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Bocquet-Appel, Jean-Pierre (Editor ), Bar-Yosef, Ofer (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2008.
Edición:1st ed. 2008.
Temas:
Demography.
Population.
History.
Archaeology.
Anthropology.
Population and Demography.
Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Demographic and Economic Dimensions of the NDT
  • The Expansions of Farming Societies and the Role of the Neolithic Demographic Transition
  • Explaining the Neolithic Demographic Transition
  • The Signal of the Neolithic Demographic Transition in the Levant
  • The Nature and Timing of the Neolithic Demographic Transition in the North American Southwest
  • The Neolithic Demographic Transition in Mesoamerica? Larger Implications of the Strategy of Relative Chronology
  • An Alternative Approach in Tracing Changes in Demographic Composition
  • Zooarchaeological Aspects of the Neolithic Diet Transition in the Near East and Europe, and Their Putative Relationships with the Neolithic Demographic Transition
  • Impacts of the Neolithic Demographic Transition on Linear Pottery Culture Settlement
  • Settlement and Village Practices
  • A Roof Over One's Head: Developments in Near Eastern Residential Architecture Across the Epipalaeolithic-Neolithic Transition
  • Demography and Storage Systems During the Southern Levantine Neolithic Demographic Transition
  • Population Processes and Their Consequences in Early Neolithic Central Europe
  • Community Size and Social Organization
  • Global Patterns of Early Village Development
  • Centralized Communities, Population, and Social Complexity After Sedentarization
  • Charming Lives: Human and Animal Figurines in the Late Epipaleolithic and Early Neolithic Periods in the Greater Levant and~Eastern Anatolia
  • Evaluating the Emergence of Early Villages in the North American Southwest in Light of the Proposed Neolithic Demographic Transition
  • Population Growth and Health
  • Demographic, Biological and Cultural Aspects of the Neolithic Revolution: A View from the Southern Levant
  • Implications of the NDT for World Wide Health and Mortality in Prehistory
  • From Health to Civilization Stress? In Search for Traces of a Health Transition During the Early Neolithic in Europe
  • Prehistoric Demography in a Time of Globalization
  • Prehistoric Demography in a Time of Globalization.

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