If a population crashes in prehistory, and there is no paleodemographer there to hear it, does it make a sound?

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 112, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 181-190

  Paine, Richard R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Age at death distribution; Leslie matrix; Population models

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; DISASTER; HUMAN; MORTALITY; PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; PLAGUE; POPULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; ANTHROPOLOGY, PHYSICAL; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MORTALITY; NATURAL DISASTERS; PLAGUE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RURAL POPULATION; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 0034043986     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-8644(2000)112:2<181::AID-AJPA5>3.0.CO;2-9     Document Type: Article

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