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Paleodemography: Age Distributions from Skeletal Samples (Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology) | Paperback

by Robert D. Hoppa (Editor), James W. Vaupel (Editor)

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Cambridge University Press

Edition:

1st Edition

Page Count:

276 Pages

Publication Date:

October 30, 2008

Sales Rank:

1,466,949st

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In this book, physical anthropologists, mathematical demographers, and statisticians tackle methodological issues for reconstructing demographic structure for skeletal samples. Topics discussed include how skeletal morphology is linked to chronological age, assessment of age from the skeleton, demographic models of mortality and their interpretation, and biostatistical approaches to age structure estimation from archaeological samples. This work will be of immense importance to anyone interested in paleodemography, including biological and physical anthropologists, demographers, geographers, evolutionary biologists, and statisticians.

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