Much of paleodemography, an interdisciplinary field with strong ties to archaeology, among
other disciplines, is oriented toward clarifying the life experiences of past people and why …

How wealth is distributed among households provides insight into the fundamental
characters of societies and the opportunities they afford for social mobility,. However …

Recent advances in the use of summed probability distribution (SPD) of calibrated 14C
dates have opened new possibilities for studying prehistoric demography. The degree of …

" All paleoscientists working in the region will want this book because it brings in so much
new material and includes so many new interpretations. This is a grand synthesis and it …

Agriculture—specifically an intensification of the production of readily stored food and its
distribution—has supported an increase in the global human population throughout the …

Abrupt and rapid changes in human societies are among the most exciting population
phenomena. Human populations tend to show rapid expansions from low to high population …

Although the cultural and nutritive importance of the turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) to
precontact Native Americans and contemporary people worldwide is clear, little is known …

Demography plays a large role in cultural evolution through its effects on the effective rate of
innovation. If we assume that useful inventions are rare, then small isolated societies will …

Our understanding of the initial period of agriculture in the southwestern United States has
been transformed by recent discoveries that establish the presence of maize there by 2100 …

The study of past population dynamics is imperative to our understanding of demographic
processes in the context of biology, evolution, environment and sociocultural factors …