Isabelle SÉGUY PALAEODEMOGRAPHY

Abstract

Understanding demographic behaviour in populations is vital to interpreting and reconstructing historical phenomena. Palaeodemography is a discipline central to much archaeological and historical questioning. Studying biological archives from human remains enables a perception of lifestyles and crises endured. With such intrinsically incomplete and biased data, resolving major statistical problems is a prerequisite before undertaking any analysis. Methodological progress in the estimation of age-at-death in a buried adult population offers new perspectives: the regional study here presented testifies to the demographic impact of a succession of major hardships.

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