Paleodemographics

Pre-requisites: To have passed the examination in Physical Anthropology during their basic academic studies.

Course objectives: To introduce students to archaeological problems that can be answered using paleodemographic analysis.

Course description: Defining archaeological problems which have been answered using paleodemographic analysis. Students will learn how to create data bases for paleodemographic analysis as well as how to independently do them.

Learning Outcomes: Midterm examination and written examination.

Paleodemographics

Pre-requisites: To have passed the examination in Physical Anthropology during their basic academic studies.

Course objectives: To introduce students to archaeological problems that can be answered using paleodemographic analysis.

Course description: Defining archaeological problems which have been answered using paleodemographic analysis. Students will learn how to create data bases for paleodemographic analysis as well as how to independently do them.

Learning Outcomes: Midterm examination and written examination.

Literature/Reading:

• Buikstra J. Kongisberg LW (1985) Paleodemography: cririques and controversies Arn Anthropol 87:316-333.
• Angel JL (1968): Ecological aspects of paleodemography: In Brothwell DR (ed): "The skeletal Biology of Earlier Human Populations" London: Pergamon Press. pp 263-270
• Acsadi G. Nemeskeri J (1970): "History of Human Life Span and Mortality" Budapest: Akademiai Kiado
• Walker PL, Johnson JR, Lmbert PM (1988): Age and sex blases in the prescrvation of human skeletal remains. Am J Phys Antropol 76: 183-188
• Wess KM (1976): Demographic models for anthropology. Mem Soc Am Archaeol No. 27.
• Paleodemography : age distributions from skeletal samples / edited by Robert D. Hoppa, James W. Vaupel. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
• Mikić, Ž. 1981. Stanje i problemi fizičke antropologije u Jugoslaviji - praistorijski periodi, Posebno izdanje LIII/9 Centra za balkanološka ispitivanja ANU BiH: Sarajevo.
• Mikić, Ž. 1985. Prvi rezultati biostatističke antropološke obrade srednjovekovne nekropole u Vinči, Godišnjak muzeja grada Beograda XXXII: 79- 83.
• Mikić, Ž. 1986. On the anthropological Structure of Skeletons from Necropolis with Standing Tombstones in Yugoslavia, Collegium Anthropologicum 10/1: 53-69.
• Piontek,J., Weber, A. 1990. Controversy on paleodemography, International Journal of Anthropology, Volume 5, Number 1: 71-84.
• Mikić, Ž. 1988. Prilog antropološkoj strukturi stanovništva Srbije, Etnoantropološki problemi, Monografije - knjiga 4, Beograd.
• Chamberlain, A. Demography in Archaeology, Series: Cambridge Manuals in Archaeology: Cambridge University Press.