Author: Swedlund, Alan C. ; editor:
Title: Population Studies in Archaeology and Biological Anthropology : A Symposium
Description: Washington, D.C. Soc.for American Archaeology, 1975. orig.wrappers. 25x17cm, v,133 pp. Series : Memoirs of the Society for American Archaeology, no. 30. Issued as American antiquity, v. 40, no. 2. Minor rubbing. Small tear to spine. VG. ¶ Some of the papers delivered at a special session of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists meeting, Amherst, Mass. 1974."; Contents: Population, Disease, & Evolution; The Carruing Capacity Dilemma; Population Growth & Settlement Pattern in Franklin & Hampshire Countries, Massachusetts, 1650-1850; A Preliminary Report on New Research on Man-Land Relations in Aboriginal Australia; Age Differentials Between Spouses & Australian Marriage Systems; Discussion; Demographic Disturbance & the Use of Life Tables in Anthropology; Population Dynamics at Grasshopper Pueblo, Arizona; The Demography of Finite Populations & the Origins of the Incest Taboo; Human Population Dynamics in Archaeological Time: Some Simple Models; Discussion; Demographic Studies in Southwestern Prehistory; Alternative Cultural Models for Demographic Change: Southwestern Examples; The Cybernetic Analysis of Human Population Growth; Population Pressure as a Non-Explanation; Discussion.

Keywords: Biological Anthropology, Demography, Methodology, Archaeology, Population, , , ,