New approaches to the pre- and post-contact history of Arctic peoples
| Autor: | William S. Laughlin, David D. Thompson, Albert B. Harper |
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| Rok vydání: | 1979 |
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Aging media_common.quotation_subject Population Dynamics Population Fertility Biology History 18th Century Bone and Bones History 17th Century Life Expectancy Asian People Age Determination by Skeleton medicine Humans Population growth education media_common Minerals education.field_of_study Anthropometry Arctic Regions Spina bifida History 19th Century History 20th Century Census medicine.disease Arctic Anthropology Life expectancy Female Anatomy Demography |
| Zdroj: | American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 51:579-587 |
| ISSN: | 1096-8644 0002-9483 |
| DOI: | 10.1002/ajpa.1330510410 |
| Popis: | The last few years have witnessed the addition of new techniques and research strategies to the study of the population history of Arctic peoples. Osteon-photon analysis of bone cores provides an improved method of assigning age at death to skeletons. Consequently, it is possible to improve calculations of life expectancy and relate them to pathological correlates such as osteoporosis, separate neural arches, spina bifida and arthritis along with regular growth changes. This capability enables much better utilization of pre-contact skeletons and therefore of the numbers, density and composition of populations before European contact. The general picture emerging from skeletal studies, census records and living populations is, in Arctic Eskimos, one of high fertility, high mortality and short length of life, with a slow population growth rate. Aleuts show lower fertility, lower mortality and longer length of life, also with a low population growth rate. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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