Reconstructing past population trends in Mediterranean Europe (3000 BC-AD 1800) / 
edited by John Bintliff and Kostas Sbonias. 
 - Oxford :  Oakville, CT, USA :  Oxbow Books ;  David Brown Book Co., [distributor],  1999. 
 - xvi, 261 p. :  ill., maps ;  31 cm. 
 - Archaeology of Mediterranean landscapes ;  1 .
 - Archaeology of Mediterranean landscapes  1. .
<br/><br/> Papers from a colloquium organized by the POPULUS Project, held 25-26 Nov. 1995 in Durham, England. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references. 
<br/><br/>Introduction to issues in demography and survey / Kostas Sbonias -- Regional field surveys and population cycles / John Bintliff -- Counting people in an artefact-poor landscape. The Langadas case, Macedonia, Greece / Stelios Andreou and Kostas Kotsakis -- Demographic trends from archaeological survey. Case studies from the Levant and Near East / Tony Wilkinson -- Archaeological proxy-data for demographic reconstructions : facts, factoids, or fiction? / John Chapman -- An attempt at the demographic interpretation of long-term settlement processes in the prehistory of Slovenia. The case of the 'archaeologcial map of Slovenia' / Predrag Novakovič -- Prospection archéologique et démographie en Provence. Approche paléodémographique de la Rive Occidentale de l'Etang de Berre sur la longue durée / Frédéric Trément -- Demography and Romanization in central Italy / Franco Cambi. Beyond historical demography : the contribution of archaeological survey / Simon Stoddart -- Chance and the human population : population growth in the Mediterranean / Ezra Zubrow and Jennifer Robinson -- The potential of historical demography for regional studies / Malcolm Smith -- Clearing away the cobwebs : a critical perspective on historical sources for Roman population history / Tim Parkin -- The population of Roman Italy in town and country / Elio Lo Cascio -- Documentary sources for the history of Medieval settlements in Tuscany / Maria Ginatempo and Andrea Giorgi -- The Ottoman Imerial registers. Central Greece and Northern Bulgaria in the 15th-19th century, the demographic development of two areas compared / Machiel Kiel. Investigating the interface between regional survey, historical demography and paleodemography / Kostas Sbonias -- The contribution of palaeoanthropology to regional demographic history / C.A. Marlow -- Problems and prospects in paleodemography / Claude Masset -- Relating cemetery studies to regional survey : Rocca San Silvestro, a case study / Riccardo Francovich and Kathy Gruspier -- Counting heads : an overview / Jeremy Paterson. 
<br/><br/><br/>Includes 1 contribution in French. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>1900188627 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>GBA0-Y3075 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Landscape archaeology--Mediterranean Region--Congresses.<br/>Archaeology--Methodology--Congresses<br/>Excavations (Archaeology)--Mediterranean Region--Congresses<br/>Archaeology--methods
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Mediterranean Region--Population--History--Congresses.<br/>Mediterranean Region--Antiquities--Congresses.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Conference papers and proceedings<br/>History<br/>Conference papers and proceedings.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>DE60  / .A68 1999x vol.1