ISSN:
1824-3096
Keywords:
paleodemography
;
aging
;
sexing
;
methods
;
cognitive value
Source:
Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
Topics:
Biology
Notes:
Abstract Recent discussion expressed in scientific literature proves that these exist some reservations about the role of paleo-demographic investigation in general Phrehistoric research. This concerns mostly the congitive value of the results gained in paleodemography. This misunderstanding should be cleared up. Such reservations spring from an erroneous conviction that paleodemography should be viewed as a simple demography of Prehistoric populations. This seems to be a faulty view. Paleodemography is a separate discipline aiming at the description and explanation of biological characteristics, (e.g. state, dynamics and size), of Prehistoric populations mainly on the basis of archaeological, bone-material, evidence. The aims and specific, empirical material demand particular methods of data-processing and especially the theoretical, explanatory framework based upon the biological evolutionary theory.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF02442374
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