A dazzling new history of the irrepressible demographic changes and mass migrations that have made and unmade nations, continents, and empires The rise and fall of the British Empire; the emergence of America as a superpower; the ebb and flow of global challenges from Nazi Germa…
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One of the continuing issues in biological anthropology research on human variation is whether two closely related populations can be distinguished using skeletal methods. This dissertation uses morphological approaches to analyze 2D and 3D cranial data from Korean and Japanese …
This dissertation explores the prehistory of Mongolia during a time when nomadic tribes created the world's first steppe empire in Inner Asia. These aggregated tribes, known to Chinese historians as Xiongnu, ruled from the 3rd century BCE to the 2nd century CE. They came to defi…
Mixture between populations is an evolutionary process that shapes genetic variation. Intermixing between groups of distinct ancestries creates mosaics of chromosomal segments inherited from multiple ancestral populations. Studying populations of mixed ancestry (admixed populati…
"Il y a 70000 ans, Homosapiens sortait d'Afrique pour coloniser le monde. Il y a 6000 ans, il fondait les premières villes. Aujourd'hui, à l'ère des réseaux de villes, il crée des réglons métropolitaines de plus en plus étendues et complexes. De la préhistoire à l'ère des métrop…
La 4e de couverture indique : "Il y a 70 000 ans, Homo sapiens sortait d'Afrique pour coloniser le monde. Il y a 6000 ans, il fondait les premières villes. Aujourd'hui, à l'ère des réseaux de villes, il crée dés réglons métropolitaines de plus en plus étendues et complexes. De l…
This thesis investigates the settlement history of Alkali Ridge during the late Pueblo II through the Pueblo III periods. The study incorporates data derived from surface reconnaissance survey to derive settlement movement and population history utilizing the Community Successio…
"By 1300 medieval men and women were beginning to measure multitude, counting, for example, numbers of boys and girls being baptized. Their mental capacity to grapple with population, to get its measure, was developing, and this book describes how medieval people thought about p…