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:

• Acsádi, G., and Nemeskéri, J., 1970. History of Human Life Span and Mortality. Akademiai Kiado, Budapest. str. 13-50; 57-72
• Bocquet-Appel, J. P. 2011. The Agricultural Demographic Transition During and After the Agriculture Inventions. Current Anthropology 52(S4): 497-510.
• Brown, B. M. 1987. Population Estimation From Floor Area: a Restudy of "Naroll’s Constant" Cross-Cultural Research 21: 1-49.
• Buikstra, J.E. and Beck. L.E. (eds.) 2006. Bioarchaeology: The Contextual Analysis of Human Remains.,Poglavlje 9 (str. 227-261)
• Chamberlain, A. T., 2006. Demography in Archaeology. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. str. 1-132.
• Porčić, M. 2012. Effects of Residential Mobility on the Ratio of Average House Floor Area to Average Household Size: Implications for Demographic Reconstructions in Archaeology. Cross-Cultural Research 46(1): 72-86.
• Porčić, M. 2016 .Paleodemografija: kritički pregled teorije, metoda i istraživanja. Beograd: Laboratorija za bioarheologiju, Filozofski fakultet, Univerzitet u Beogradu.