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Testing the hypothesis of a worldwide Neolithic demographic transition: Corroboration from American cemeteries (with comments)

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The signal of a major demographic change characterized by a relatively abrupt increase in the proportion of immature skeletons has been detected in a paleoanthropological database of 38 Mesolithic- Neolithic cemeteries from Europe and North Africa. From the Mesolithic to the Neolithic, the proportion of immature skeletons increases by 20-30% over a period of 500-700 years, indicating a notable increase in the crude birth rate. This shift has been called the Neolithic demographic transition. A similar signal has been detected in an independent set of archaeological data, namely, enclosures. This paper presents results from a sample of 62 cemeteries in North America (7,755 BP-350 BP) that point to the same transition over a period of 600-800 years.
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Jean-Pierre Bocquet-Appel, Stephan Naji. Testing the hypothesis of a worldwide Neolithic demographic transition: Corroboration from American cemeteries (with comments). Current Anthropology, 2006, 47 (2), pp.341-365. ⟨hal-00834373⟩
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