Coin hoards speak of population declines in Ancient Rome

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 41, 2009, Pages 17276-17279

  Turchin, Peter ^a   Scheidel, Walter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Census data; Civil war; Demography; Mathematical model; Preindustrial society

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HISTORY; HUMAN; ITALY; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; POLITICS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GROWTH; POPULATION RESEARCH; POPULATION SIZE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL ASPECT; WAR;

ADULT; CENSUSES; CHILD; FEMALE; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMANS; MALE; NUMISMATICS; POLITICS; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; ROME; WAR;

EID: 70350434331     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0904576106     Document Type: Article

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