Looking into the demography of an iron age population in the Western Mediterranean. I. Mortality

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 110, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 285-301

  Alesan, Alícia ^a   Malgosa, Assumpció ^a   Simó, Carles ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Census errors; Iron Age; Mortality; Paleodemography

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LIFESTYLE; MALE; MORTALITY; PALEOANTHROPOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SCHOOL CHILD; SKELETON;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTHROPOLOGY, PHYSICAL; BONE AND BONES; DEMOGRAPHY; HUMANS; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; MORTALITY;

EID: 0032718902     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-8644(199911)110:3<285::AID-AJPA3>3.0.CO;2-2     Document Type: Article

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