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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Palaeodemography"”.
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Combining forensic anthropological and geological approaches to investigate the preservation of human remains in British archaeological populations and their effects on palaeodemography
Palaeodemographic studies enable the lifespan and health of a population to be studied and subsequent influences deduced from the analysis of biological profiling data. The aim of this research was to produce the demographic profiles for the medieval sites of Poulton Chapel and St Owens, …
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Dialogues with the dead : an osteological analysis of the palaeodemography and life history of the 18th and 19th century northern frontier in South Africa
Osteological, dental, and molecular analyses were conducted on remains from seven historical archaeological sites within South Africa. The emphasis was on the collection of lifestyle data for the purpose of adding to the unwritten history of indigenous South African peoples and to give voice to a …
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Plague mortality and medieval demography: an osteological analysis of Black Death mass graves and attritional cemeteries from 7-16th century England and Wales
This thesis adopted a holistic approach, considering mass graves and attritional cemeteries, to explore the influence of plague mortality on the demography of medieval Britain. Between 1348-51AD, approximately half of the population of Britain were killed by plague. This epidemic, the Black Death, …