Handbook of Palaeodemography

Séguy, Isabelle; Buchet, Luc

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-01553-8

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“…The age and sex data presented in the osteological analysis of the site (Etxeberria & Herrasti, ) are used as the basis for agent‐based demographic modeling. We additionally use the preindustrial standard mortality table (i.e., Séguy & Buchet, ) as a proxy for prehistoric attritional mortality, together with skeletal age and sex data taken from other nearby Late Neolithic funerary sites to understand the demographics of the Rioja Alavesa region [i.e., Las Yurdinas II, Peña Larga, Alto de la Huesera and Longar (Fernández‐Crespo & de‐la‐Rúa, ; Rivera, )].…”

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New radiocarbon dating and demographic insights into San Juan ante Portam Latinam, a possible Late Neolithic war grave in North‐Central Iberia

Fernández-Crespo

Schulting

Ordoño

et al. 2018

American J Phys Anthropol

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It is proposed that San Juan ante Portam Latinam was used as burial place for the mainly adolescent and adult male dead of a particular or multiple violent engagements (e.g., battles), while previously or subsequently seeing use for attritional burial by other members of one or more surrounding communities dead over the course of a few generations. The overall bias towards males, particularly to the extent that many may represent conflict mortality, has implications for the structure of the surviving community, the members of which may have experienced increased vulnerability in the face of neighboring aggressors.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

New radiocarbon dating and demographic insights into San Juan ante Portam Latinam, a possible Late Neolithic war grave in North‐Central Iberia

Fernández-Crespo

Schulting

Ordoño

et al. 2018

American J Phys Anthropol

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“…The infant mortality rate for real populations with a life expectancy of 25 years could therefore be somewhat lower than the Coale & Demeny tables suggest (implying, of course, higher adult mortality rates; see also Hin, 2013;Scheidel, 2001). The Pre-industrial Standard table (Séguy & Buchet, 2013) indicates a mean life expectancy of 34.3 years and an infant mortality of 20.0%. This would point to a somewhat less bleak picture of living conditions before the Industrial Revolution than is often assumed but its applicability to the Roman period is doubtful.…”

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“…For the 960 Cananefatian soldiers this would be 38. According to the Pre-industrial Standard model life table (Séguy & Buchet, 2013) the proportion of males that die between 20 and 45 years of age will be 0.27. In contrast, this proportion would be 0.51 according to the pessimistic South High Mortality with e0=25 table (Woods, 2007;Hin, 2013).…”

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“…Results are collected after a 100 year stabilisation period. Three different model life tables were tested: Model West Level 3 Female (Coale & Demeny, 1966;Hin, 2013) South High Mortality with e0=25 (Woods, 2007;Hin, 2013) and Preindustrial Standard (Séguy & Buchet, 2013). For fertility, the five-year averages of reproduction suggested by Coale & Trussell (1978) were followed.…”

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Modelling the Dynamics of Demography in the Dutch Roman Limes Zone

Verhagen¹,

Joyce²,

Groenhuijzen³

2016

Multi-, Inter- And Transdisciplinary Research in Landscape Archaeology

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In this paper we present the first results of a study that aims to better understand and model the size and development of population in the Dutch Roman limes zone, as part of a larger research project investigating the development of the cultural landscape in the area. Earlier estimates of population size have only used general assumptions based on settlement density and supposed Roman army recruitment requirements and have not considered in any detail the factors influencing population growth and decline. This paper first presents the existing evidence for estimating population size in the area and then discusses the evidence for mortality and fertility estimates in the Roman period, necessary to better understand the large-scale demographic processes involved. From this evidence, new estimates for population size in the Early and Middle Roman period are calculated, using agent-based modelling to better understand the dynamics of population growth and the effects of recruitment of soldiers by the Roman army. It is concluded that earlier calculations underestimated the potential for population growth as well as the effect of forced recruitment on demography.

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“…Figure 1 shows the relationship between d and r for three levels of mortality in stable populations analyzed by C&D (West Family). At constant mortality levels, the value of d changes according to the variation in r; in fact, if the birth rate is higher (or lower) than the death rate the proportion of infants increases (or decreases) and the proportion of child deaths varies accordingly (Ségui and Buchet 2013;Bocquet-Appel 2002;Masset and Bocquet 1977;Bocquet-Appel and Masset 1996). For example, in cases in which mortality is very high (such as level 1 C&D, e 0,F = 20), where the population increases annually by 1%, d = 0.250; conversely, if the population decreases by 1% then d = 0.139.…”

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confidence: 99%