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Population Growth: Anthropological Implications

Contributor(s): Spooner, Brian [ed.] | University of Pennsylvania. Near East Center | University of Pennsylvania. University Museum | University of Pennsylvania. Department of AnthropologyMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: Massachusetts MIT Press 1972 Description: xxvii, 425 p. illus. 23 cmISBN: 0262191024Subject(s): Population -- Congresses | Social change -- Congresses | Technological innovations -- Congresses | Population | Social ChangeGenre/Form: Conference papers and proceedings | Conference papers and proceedings.DDC classification: 301.32 LOC classification: HB849 | .P67
Contents:
The evolution of early agriculture and culture in greater Mesopotamia : a trial model -- Demography and the "urban revolution" in lowland Mesopotamia -- From autonomous villages to the state, a numerical estimation -- A regional population in Egypt to circa 600 B.C. -- Population, agricultural history, and societal evolution in Mesoamerica -- Plow and population in temperate Europe -- Some aspects of agriculture in Taita -- Farm labor and the evolution of food production -- Sacred power and centralization : aspects of political adaptation in Africa -- The Iranian deserts -- Demographic aspects of Tibetan nomadic pastoralism -- Population growth and political centralization -- Prehistoric population growth and subsistence change in Eskimo Alaska -- Population growth and the beginnings of sedentary life among the!Kung Bushmen -- The intensification of social life among the!Kung Bushmen -- Biological factors in population control -- The viewpoint of historical demography.
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"Proceedings of a colloquium in general anthropology entitled 'Population, resources, and technology,' held at the University of Pennsylvania, March 11-14, 1970, under the combined auspices of the Near East Center, the University Museum, and the Department of Anthropology of the University of Pennsylvania, in association with the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Incorporated."

Bibliography: p. [375]-413.

The evolution of early agriculture and culture in greater Mesopotamia : a trial model -- Demography and the "urban revolution" in lowland Mesopotamia -- From autonomous villages to the state, a numerical estimation -- A regional population in Egypt to circa 600 B.C. -- Population, agricultural history, and societal evolution in Mesoamerica -- Plow and population in temperate Europe -- Some aspects of agriculture in Taita -- Farm labor and the evolution of food production -- Sacred power and centralization : aspects of political adaptation in Africa -- The Iranian deserts -- Demographic aspects of Tibetan nomadic pastoralism -- Population growth and political centralization -- Prehistoric population growth and subsistence change in Eskimo Alaska -- Population growth and the beginnings of sedentary life among the!Kung Bushmen -- The intensification of social life among the!Kung Bushmen -- Biological factors in population control -- The viewpoint of historical demography.