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| Other authors / contributors: | Bocquet-Appel, Jean-Pierre.
Bar-Yosef, Ofer.
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| ISBN: | 9781402085390
1402085397
9781402085383
9786611810870
6611810870
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.
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| Summary: | 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, over a period of less than a millennium following the transition to agriculture, this global demographic process has been termed the Neolithic Demographic Transition (NDT). The NDT signature has so far been detected in Europe, North America, Mesoamerica and South America. The methodological innovation.
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| Other form: | Print version: Neolithic demographic transition and its consequences. Dordrecht ; London : Springer, c2008 9781402085383 1402085389
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