title: [Factors affecting age structure of skeletal populations].
abstract: Problems concerning the study of the age of a skeletal population are explored.  Five factors are considered including environmental pressures, the initial age structure of the population, migration, epidemics and other natural disasters, and fertility.  "The analysis has been carried out by means of the simulation method, using 3 age structures of living individuals observed several hundred years in the light of various disturbances, 6 life tables and several fertility rates.  Values of expectancy of life calculated by means of the demographic method and that used in anthropology are compared."  The populations considered are from Poland. (SUMMARY IN ENG)
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authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Piasecki
mesh_terms: D017677:Age Distribution; D000367:Age Factors; D000883:Anthropology; D003710:Demography; D019049:Developed Countries; D004196:Disease Outbreaks; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D005060:Europe; D005061:Europe, Eastern; D005298:Fertility; D008017:Life Expectancy; D015993:Life Tables; D008136:Longevity; D008722:Methods; D009026:Mortality; D011044:Poland; D011153:Population; D011154:Population Characteristics; D011157:Population Dynamics; D012106:Research; D012942:Social Sciences
keywords: Age Distribution; Age Factors; Anthropology; Comparative Studies; Demographic Analysis; Demographic Factors; Demography; Developed Countries; Eastern Europe; Epidemics; Europe; Fertility; Historical Demography; Historical Survey; Interdisciplinary Studies; Length Of Life; Life Expectancy; Life Table Method; Methodological Studies; Migration; Mortality; Poland; Population; Population Characteristics; Population Dynamics; Research Methodology; Social Sciences