Brief communication: Estimates of some demographic parameters in a neolithic rock-cut chamber (approximately 2000 BC) using iterative techniques for aging and demographic estimators

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 102, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 569-575

  Bocquet Appel, Jean Pierre ^a   Bacro, Jean Noel ^b  

^a MUSÉE DE L HOMME   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

aging; demographic estimators; iterated age length key; iterative proportional fitting procedure; neolithic demography

Indexed keywords

AGING; ARTICLE; DEATH; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMUR HEAD; HUMAN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; PALEOANTHROPOLOGY; STOCHASTIC MODEL; TECHNIQUE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DETERMINATION BY SKELETON; AGING; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEMOGRAPHY; FOSSILS; FRANCE; HUMANS; INFANT; LIFE EXPECTANCY; PALEODONTOLOGY; PALEONTOLOGY; PROBABILITY; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; TOOTH ERUPTION;

EID: 0030890227     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-8644(199704)102:4<569::AID-AJPA11>3.0.CO;2-Z     Document Type: Article

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