The essays collected in this book explore a new and important field of study--the interrelationship between population growth and decline and changes in technology, culture, and social organization.
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The essays collected in this book explore a new and important field of study--the interrelationship between population growth and decline and changes in technology, culture, and social organization.
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Minor rubbing. Name inked in flyleaf. Good., dustwrapper. 23x16cm, xxvii, 425 pp., Some pencilled underlinings & notes to the first 56 pages. Some top page-edge spotting. In a heavily tor. Contents: The Evoluton of Early Agriculture and Culture in Greater Mesopotamia: A Trial Model; Demography and the "Urban Revolution" in Lowland Mesopotamia; From Autonomous Villages to the State, A Numerical Estimation; A Regional population in Egypt to circa 600 b: C.; Population, Agricultural History, and Societal Evolution in Mesoamerica; Plowand population in Temperate Europe; Some Aspects og Agriculture in Taita; Farm Labor and the Evolution of Food Production; Sacred Power and Centralization: Aspects of Political Adaptation in Africa; The Iranian Deserts; Demographic Aspects of Tibetan Nomadic Pastoralism; Polulation Growth and Political centralization; Prehistoric Population Growth and Subsistence Change in Eskimo Alaska; Population Growth and the Beginnings of Sedentary LIfe among the! Kung Bushmen; The Intensification of Social Life among the! Kung Bushmen; Biological Factors in Population Control; The Viewpoint of Historical of Historical Demography.