What do we know about the agricultural demographic transition?

Current Anthropology

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 649-655

  Gage, Timothy B ^a   DeWitte, Sharon ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; FERTILITY; HEALTH STATUS; HISTORY; HUMAN; MORTALITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

AGRICULTURE; FERTILITY; HEALTH STATUS; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMANS; MORTALITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 70349566581     PISSN: 00113204     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/605017     Document Type: Article

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