MORTALITY STRUCTURE IN MESOLITHIC, NEOLITHIC AND EARLY BRONZE AGE POPULATIONS OF CENTRAL EUROPE AND UKRAINE: A NEW METHODOLOGICAL APPROACH

The analysis of the mortality structure was based on the following premises: (1) the mortality structure may be derived from frequency distribution of the categories of the age at death and, (2) the mortality structure may be considered as a complex relational system which ought to be investigated o...

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Published in:Anthropologie (Brno) 1996-01, Vol.34 (3), p.307-313
Main Authors: PIONTEK, JANUSZ, WIERCIŃSKA, ALINA, WIERCIŃSKI, ANDRZEJ
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Age
Animal age determination
Anthropological methods
Bronze age
Death
Human paleontology
Life expectancy
Methodology and general studies
Mortality
Paleoanthropology
Papers in honour of Professor Jan Jelínek's 70th anniversary PART II
Population parameters
Population structure
Prehistory and protohistory
Slavic culture
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Summary:The analysis of the mortality structure was based on the following premises: (1) the mortality structure may be derived from frequency distribution of the categories of the age at death and, (2) the mortality structure may be considered as a complex relational system which ought to be investigated on both the elementary and synthetic levels. In the first case, a particular trait is analysed in view of the mean age at death. In the second case, the linear combinations of elementary traits (here, by use of the principal components method) are analysed.
ISSN:0323-1119