Explaining the Neolithic demographic transition

The Neolithic Demographic Transition and its Consequences

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 35-55

  Bocquet Appel, Jean Pierre ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Farming; Fertility explosion; Maternal energetics; Mobile foragers; Neolithic demographic transition; Western North American Indian Sample

Indexed keywords

EID: 84892123127     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-8539-0_3     Document Type: Chapter

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