The Neolithic Demographic Transition in Mesoamerica

Lesure, Richard G.; Martin, Lana S.; Bishop, Katelyn J.; Jackson, Brittany; Chykerda, C. Myles

doi:10.1086/678325

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“…The 15 P 5 juvenility index remains a widely accepted tool in paleodemography and may be suitable for those samples where either differential preservation and recovery or cultural practices have led to an apparent underrepresentation of infants (Bocquet‐Appel & Naji, ; Hershkovitz & Gopher, ; Kohler, Glaude, Bocquet‐Appel, & Kemp, ; Kohler & Reese, ; Lesure, Martin, Bishop, Jackson, & Chykerda, ). However, this is not always the case and in Southeast Asia, for instance, infants are often well represented in skeletal assemblages and the use of the 15 P 5 juvenility index may fail to accurately represent the demographic parameters of such populations (Bellwood & Oxenham, ).…”

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The D0‐14/D ratio: A new paleodemographic index and equation for estimating total fertility rates

McFadden

Oxenham

2017

American J Phys Anthropol

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The exclusion of infants can result in inaccurate demographic measures, particularly where subadults aged over 5 years of age experience robust survivorship. In addition to providing a solution for sites with good infant representation, this study indicates that the 0-4 years of age category possesses great predictive power when compared to other age categories. The regression equation provides a total fertility rate which is comparable with data regardless of their temporal origin. This method will provide more accurate demographic measures for bioarcheological sites with good infant preservation.

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The D0‐14/D ratio: A new paleodemographic index and equation for estimating total fertility rates

McFadden

Oxenham

2017

American J Phys Anthropol

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“…Although the social value ascribed to maize may have shifted after 1000 BC (Rosenswig et al 2015; VanDerwarker and Kruger 2012), during what we refer to as the high-productivity phase of the ADT, it is clear that maize was a significant component of the diet from the beginning of the Formative (Bérubé et al 2020; Hepp et al 2017; Kennett et al 2020; Lesure et al 2021). An analysis of proportions of young individuals in human skeletal assemblages is also consistent with a long Mesoamerican ADT beginning at 1900 BC and extending throughout the Formative (Lesure et al 2014).…”

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confidence: 52%

Large-Scale Patterns in the Agricultural Demographic Transition of Mesoamerica and Southwestern North America

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This article examines large-scale spatial and temporal patterns in the agricultural demographic transition (ADT) of Mesoamerica and southwestern North America (“the Southwest”). An analysis of published settlement and subsistence data suggests that the prolonged ADTs of these regions involved two successive eras of rapid population growth. Although both periods of growth were fueled by the introduction or development of more productive domesticates, they had distinctive demographic and social consequences. The first phase of the ADT occurred only in a scattering of favorable regions, between 1900 and 1000 BC in Mesoamerica and 1200 BC–AD 400 in the Southwest. Its demographic consequences were modest because it was underwritten by still rather unproductive maize. During this phase, increased population was confined mainly to a few agricultural heartlands, whereas surrounding regions remained sparsely populated. The second phase of the ADT was more dramatic in the spatial scale of its impact. This “high productivity” phase unfolded between 1000 and 200 BC in Mesoamerica and AD 500–1300 in the Southwest, and it was fueled by more productive maize varieties and improving agricultural technologies. It was accompanied by sweeping social, economic, and political changes in both regions.

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“…The NDT has since been detected elsewhere (Bocquet-Appel and Bar-Yosef 2008), confirming the utility of the concept but also showing that it played out in different places in different ways (e.g., Lesure et al 2014; Schlanger and Craig 2012). Kohler and colleagues (2008) applied the concept in a collaborative effort known as the Village Ecodynamics Project, focused on southwest Colorado and northern New Mexico.…”

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Village Growth, Emerging Infectious Disease, and the End of the Neolithic Demographic Transition in the Southwest United States and Northwest Mexico

Phillips

Wearing²,

Clark³

2018

Am. Antiq.

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In the final centuries prior to the arrival of the Spanish, the southwest United States and northwest Mexico underwent two major sociodemographic changes: (1) many people coalesced into large villages, and (2) most of the villages were depopulated within two centuries. Basic epidemiological models indicate that village coalescence could have triggered epidemic diseases that caused the observed demographic decline. The models also link this decline to a global phenomenon, the Neolithic Demographic Transition.

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The Neolithic Demographic Transition in Mesoamerica

Cited by 16 publications

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The D0‐14/D ratio: A new paleodemographic index and equation for estimating total fertility rates

The D0‐14/D ratio: A new paleodemographic index and equation for estimating total fertility rates

Large-Scale Patterns in the Agricultural Demographic Transition of Mesoamerica and Southwestern North America

Village Growth, Emerging Infectious Disease, and the End of the Neolithic Demographic Transition in the Southwest United States and Northwest Mexico

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