1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990009720890403321

Autore

International summer school on neural networks : <1997

Titolo

Adaptive processing of sequences and data structures : tutorial lectures : international summer school on neural networks "E. R. Caianiello" Vietri sul Mare, Salerno, Italy september 6-13, 1997 / C. Lee Giles, Marco Gori editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin [etc.] : Springer, ©1998

ISBN

3-540-64341-9

Descrizione fisica

434 p. : ill. ; 25 cm

Collana

Lecture notes in computer science , Subseries lecture notes in artificial intelligence ; 1387

Disciplina

006.32

Locazione

DINEL

Collocazione

10 C 195

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910450497403321

Titolo

Paleodemography : age distribution from skeletal samples / / edited by Robert D. Hoppa, James W. Vaupel [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2002

ISBN

1-107-13024-7

1-280-43028-1

1-139-14699-8

0-511-17048-3

0-511-06326-1

0-511-05693-1

0-511-29755-6

0-511-54242-9

0-511-07172-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 259 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Cambridge studies in biological and evolutionary anthropology ; ; 31

Disciplina

599.9/47

Soggetti

Human skeleton - Analysis

Human remains (Archaeology)

Demographic anthropology

Paleoanthropology

Demographic archaeology

Population

Age distribution (Demography)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The Rostock manifesto for paleodemography: the way from stage to age / Robert D. Hoppa and James W. Vaupel -- Paleodemography: looking back and thinking ahead / Robert D. Hoppa -- Reference samples: the first step in linking biology and age in the human skeleton / Bethany M. Usher -- Aging through the ages: historical perspectives on age indicator methods / Ariane Kemkes-Grottenthaler -- Transition analysis: a new method for estimating age from skeletons / Jesper L. Boldsen [and others] -- Age estimation by tooth cementum annulation:



perspectives of a new validation study / Ursula Wittwer-Backofen and Helene Buba -- Mortality models for paleodemography / James W. Wood [and others] -- Linking age-at-death distributions and ancient population dynamics: a case study / Richard R. Paine and Jesper L. Boldsen.

A solution to the problem of obtaining a mortality schedule for paleodemographic data / Bradley Love and Hans-Georg Müller -- Estimating age-at-death distributions from skeletal samples: a multivariate latent-trait approach / Darryl J. Holman, James W. Wood, and Kathleen A. O'Connor -- Markov chain Monte Carlo estimation of hazard model parameters in paleodemography / Lyle W. Konigsberg and Nicholas P. Herrmann -- A re-examination of the age-at-death distribution of Indian Knoll / Nicholas P. Herrmann and Lyle W. Konigsberg.

Sommario/riassunto

Paleodemography is the field of enquiry that attempts to identify demographic parameters from past populations (usually skeletal samples) derived from archaeological contexts, and then to make interpretations regarding the health and well-being of those populations. However, paleodemographic theory relies on several assumptions that cannot easily be validated by the researcher, and if incorrect, can lead to large errors or biases. In this book, physical anthropologists, mathematical demographers and statisticians tackle these methodological issues for reconstructing demographic structure for skeletal samples. Topics discussed include how skeletal morphology is linked to chronological age, assessment of age from the skeleton, demographic models of mortality and their interpretation, and biostatistical approaches to age structure estimation from archaeological samples. This work will be of immense importance to anyone interested in paleodemography, including biological and physical anthropologists, demographers, geographers, evolutionary biologists and statisticians.