Paleodemography : age distribution from skeletal samples /
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| Imprint: | Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002. |
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| Description: | xiii, 259 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Cambridge studies in biological and evolutionary anthropology ; 31 |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4625390 |
Table of Contents:
- 1. The Rostock Manifesto for paleodemography: the way from stage to age
- 2. Paleodemography: looking back and thinking ahead
- 3. Reference samples: the first step in linking biology and age in the human skeleton
- 4. Aging through the ages: historical perspectives on age-indicator methods
- 5. Transition analysis: a new method for estimating age-indicator methods
- 6. Age estimation by tooth cementum annulation - perspectives of a new validation study
- 7. Mortality models for paleodemography
- 8. Linking age-at-death distributions and ancient population dynamics: a case study
- 9. A solution to the problem of obtaining a mortality schedule for paleodemographic data
- 10. Estimating age-at-death distributions from skeletal samples: a multivariate latent trait approach
- 11. Markov Chain Monte Carlo estimation of hazard model parameters in paleodemography
- 12. A re-examination of the age-at-death distribution of Indian Knoll