Recent Advances in Palaeodemography Data, Techniques, Patterns /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Bocquet-Appel, Jean-Pierre (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2008.
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Anthropology.; Archaeology.; Demography.; Social Sciences.; Social Sciences, general.

The written data used by demographers essentially cover the last five centuries. Since Homo Ergaster moved out of Africa around 1.8 million years ago and until the sub-contemporary periods, there is no data allowing us to reconstruct a demographic history that can be interpreted with the traditional...