Representativeness and Bias in Archaeological Skeletal Samples

Social Bioarchaeology

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 107-146

  Jackes, Mary ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bayesian approach, influence of reference samples' age structure; Cemeteries, beginnings, middle periods and endings in and out migration; Cemetery records for St. John's Anglican Church in Ashfield Sydney, Australia, very informative; DeWitte and Wood's study, skeletal indicator and likelihood of death, linear enamel hypoplasia (LEH); Estimate fertility levels total fertility rate (TFR) from cemetery populations; Exact pattern of marriage, polygamy, monogamy, marriages remarriage permitted or forbidden; Recognition of sample composition bias through fertility estimates; Representativeness and bias in archaeological skeletal samples; St. John's cemetery, and change people, choosing not to be buried in inner city church graveyard; Taphonomy, macroscopic age indicators and demography

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959320910     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444390537.ch5     Document Type: Chapter

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