Brief communication: estimates of some demographic parameters in a Neolithic rock-cut chamber (approximately 2000 BC) using iterative techniques for aging and demographic estimators.
Two new techniques-one anthropological, which estimates the mean age at death for adult skeletons, the other demographic, which gives main survivorship curve parameters-are used on a sample of skeletons (N approximately 170) discovered in a Neolithic rock-cut chamber (Loisy-en-Brie, France). The iterative technique for aging used a stochastic sampled F matrix derived from the trabecular involution of the femoral head observed in the reference collection of Coimbra (Portugal; N = 421). The results, obtained from techniques and data, independent of each other, are strongly consistent. Overall, they give a life expectancy at birth of about 25-28 years and the probability of death at 1 and 5 years, respectively, of about .271-.249 and .429-.380.
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CNRS, UMR 152, Paris, France. Bocquet@mnhn.fr
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000365:Age Determination by Skeleton / Q000379:methods*; D000375:Aging; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003710:Demography; D005580:Fossils; D005602:France; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008017:Life Expectancy; D010161:Paleodontology; D010163:Paleontology; D011336:Probability; D013269:Stochastic Processes; D014078:Tooth Eruption