Population and Demography - World Archaeology 30:2

Covers recent work on the cultural aspects of past societies, focusing especially on studies of colonisation and migration, and the impact of population growth.

List of contents

Chapters include: 'Terra Deserta': population, politics and the [de]colonization of Dacia; Tiwanaku state colonisation: bioarchaeological evidence of migration in the Moquegua valley, Peru; Colonization and microevolution in Formative Oaxaca, Mexico; Modelling Paleoindian dispersals; The population shuffle in the Central Illinois Valley: a diachronic model of Mississippi biocultural interactions; Demographic growth, environmental change and technical adaptations: responses of an agricultural community from the 32nd to the 30th centuries BC; Using stable nitrogen-isotopes to study weaning behaviour in past populations; Rock art and palaeodemography in northeastern Australia

About the author

Stephen Shennan

Product details

• Authors: Stephen Shennan
• Assisted by: Stephen Shennan (Editor), Shennan Stephen (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.06.2017
• EAN: 9781138405257
• ISBN: 978-1-138-40525-7
• No. of pages: 191
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Pre and early history; Non-fiction book > History > Pre and early history, antiquity; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, Archaeology