Recently added articles from Human Biology:
Estimations of Population Density for Selected Periods Between the Neolithic and AD 1800
Apr 01, 2009; ... Abstract We describe a combination of methods applied to obtain reliable estimations of population density using archaeological data. The combination is based on a hierarchical model of scale levels. The necessary data and methods used to obtain the results are chosen so as to define transfer ...
Climate and Demography in Early Prehistory: Using Calibrated ^sup 14^C Dates as Population Proxies
Apr 01, 2009; ... Abstract Although difficult to estimate for prehistoric hunter-gatherer populations, demographic variables-population size, density, and the connectedness of demes-are critical for a better understanding of the processes of material culture change, especially in deep prehistory. Demography is ...
Cultural Innovations and Demographic Change
Apr 01, 2009; ... Abstract Demography plays a large role in cultural evolution through its effects on the effective rate of innovation. If we assume that useful inventions are rare, then small isolated societies will have low rates of invention. In small populations, complex technology will tend to be lost as a ...
Introduction: Demography and Cultural Macroevolution
Apr 01, 2009; ... Abstract The papers in this special issue of Human Biology, which derive from a conference sponsored by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Center for the Evolution of Cultural Diversity, lay some of the foundations for an empirical macroevolutionary analysis of cultural dynamics ....
Kinship, Marriage, and the Genetics of Past Human Dispersals
Apr 01, 2009; ... Abstract The extent to which colonizing farmer populations have overwhelmed or "replaced" indigenous forager populations, as opposed to having intermarried with them, has been widely debated. Indigenous-colonist "admixture" is often represented in genetic models as a single parameter that, ...