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Testing the Hypothesis of a Worldwide Neolithic Demographic Transition: Corroboration from American Cemeteries
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The signal of a major demographic change characterized by a relatively abrupt increase in the proportion of immature skeletons has been detected in a paleoanthropological database of 38 MesolithicNeolithic cemeteries from Europe and North Africa. From the Mesolithic to the Neolithic, the proportion of immature skeletons increases by 2030% over a period of 500700 years, indicating a notable increase in the crude birth rate. This shift has been called the Neolithic demographic transition. A similar signal has been detected in an independent set of archaeological data, namely, enclosures. This paper presents results from a sample of 62 cemeteries in North America (7,755 BP350 BP) that point to the same transition over a period of 600800 years.
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- Bocquet‐Appel, J., & Naji, S.
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- Current Anthropology
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- University of Chicago Press
- Published
- 2006-04
- Volume
- 47
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 341-365
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- 0011-3204 (ISSN-L)
- 1537-5382
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- W2014658893
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- 134.37
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- en
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