By Robert D. Hoppa, James W. Vaupel

During this booklet, actual anthropologists, mathematical demographers, and statisticians take on methodological matters for reconstructing demographic constitution for skeletal samples. subject matters mentioned contain how skeletal morphology is associated with chronological age, evaluate of age from the skeleton, demographic types of mortality and their interpretation, and biostatistical ways to age constitution estimation from archaeological samples. This paintings can be of substantial value to someone attracted to paleodemography, together with organic and actual anthropologists, demographers, geographers, evolutionary biologists, and statisticians.

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D. Hoppa Wood JW, Milner GR, Harpending HC, and Weiss KM (1992a) The osteological paradox: problems of inferring prehistoric health from skeletal samples. Current Anthropology 33, 343—370. Wood JW, Holman DJ, Weiss KM, Buchanan AV, and LeFor B (1992b) Hazards models for human population biology. Yearbook of Physical Anthropology 35, 43—87. 3 Reference samples: the first step in linking biology and age in the human skeleton    .    Introduction One of the most overlooked, but basic, sources of error in skeletal age estimation comes from problems with the human osteological reference collection on which the method is based.

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