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The Agricultural Demographic Transition During and After the Agriculture Inventions

Bocquet-Appel, Jean-Pierre·2011·Current Anthropology
DOI 10.1086/659243
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An abrupt increase in fertility has been recorded in data from 200 cemeteries and ethnographic data ranging from the Meso-Neolithic Eurasian center in the Levant to the arctic circle in the North American continent in the twentieth century AD. This shift has been called, synonymously, the Neolithic demographic transition or the agricultural demographic transition (ADT). It is interpreted as the effect on fertility of an abrupt change in maternal energetics that occurs during the transition from a mobile forager economy to a farming economy in any period, whether prehistoric or historical. The primeval prehistoric ADT was a loop of retroactions capable of rapidly raising the rate of population growth and in which the population was both the cause and the effect of the demographic shift. During the eighteenth century AD, new areas of demographic change appeared across this agricultural population area that were characterized by a drop in mortality and then in fertility and were determined by the introduction of new rules of hygiene along with medical and contraceptive techniques. This shift represents the contemporary demographic transition (CDT). The CDT occurred in reverse symmetry with the ADT. A unique phenomenon occurred at the margins of the residual area of the forager system with a quasi coincidence of the effects of both the ADT and the CDT.

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  • The rise and dispersal of agricultural populations across Earth's land was likely driven by increasing rates of population growth sustained by early agricultural economies, which likely enabled them to dominate Earth's most productive landscapes, where increasingly intensive agricultural systems became established in most regions of the world, despite the periodic collapse of individual societies.

    “The rise and dispersal of agricultural populations across Earth’s land was likely driven by increasing rates of population growth sustained by early agricultural economies (93–95), which likely enabled them to dominate Earth’s most productive landscapes, where increasingly intensive agricultural systems became established in most regions of the world, despite the periodic collapse of individual”

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Authors
Bocquet-Appel, J.-P.
Venue
Current Anthropology
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Published
2011-10
Volume
52
Issue
S4
Pages
S497-S510
ISSN
  • 0011-3204 (ISSN-L)
  • 1537-5382
DOI
10.1086/659243
OpenAlex
W1975073171
Cited by
103
References
94
Citations by year
2026: 3 · 2025: 5 · 2024: 11 · 2023: 5 · 2022: 4 · 2021: 13 · 2020: 9 · 2019: 6 · 2018: 3 · 2017: 9 · 2016: 7 · 2015: 6 · 2014: 11 · 2013: 4 · 2012: 1
FWCI
4.92
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Current Anthropology (publishedVersion)
  • HAL (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Paleontology › Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
  • Social Sciences › Demography › Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management
  • Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Historical Economic and Social Studies
Keywords
Neolithic demographic transition, fertility change, population growth, mortality decline, cemeteries, prehistoric population dynamics, Levant, North America

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