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Reconstructing Past Population Trends in Mediterranean Europe (3000BC-AD1800)

edited by John Bintliff and Kostas Sbonias

Archaeology of Populus Monograph in Archaeology of Mediterranean Landscapes Series. Population trends and demographics in general are discussed through a variety of case studies based in Mediterranean Europe. The range of archaeological techniques and methods of analysis includes reginal field surveys, artefact scatter analysis, palaeoanthropology, historical and documentary sources, and studies of cemeteries. 288p with illus (Oxbow Books 1999)

Review Quotes

"These are the result of research by a highly impressive European network which addressed methodological issues in Mediterranean landscape archaeology...
The scale of work and detail of publication, as well as the broad vision by such a group of serious scholars, make this an enviable project for British archaeologists...
A useful quarry for techniques and comparative data."

Alison Taylor
The Archaeologist 41 (Summer 2001)

"To me the most important contribution of the publication is the rich overview of diverse methodologies that is made available in one integrated source."

Richard E. Blanton
Antiquity 75 (2001)

Archeological survey and demography
Introduction (Kostas Sbonias)
Regional field surveys and population cycles (John Bintliff)
An artefact-poor landscape: the Langadas case, Macedonia (Stelios Andreou and Kostas Kotsakis)
Case studies from the Levant and the Near East (Tony Wilkinson)
Archaeological proxy-data (John Chapman)
'Archaeological map of Slovenia' (Predrag Novakovic)
Prospection Archéologique et démographie en Provence (Frédéric Trément)
Demography and Romanization in central Italy (France Cambi)
The contribution of documentary sources for Medieval Tuscany (Maria Ginatempo & Andrea Giorgi)
Archaeological Survey (Simon Stoddart)
Interdisciplinary approaches
Chance and the human population growth (Ezra Zubrow & Jennifer Robinson)
The potential of historical demography (Malcolm Smith)
Historical sources for Roman population history (Tim Parkin)
Documentary sources for Medieval Tuscany (Maria Ginatempo & Andrea Giorgi)
The population of Roman Italy in town and country (Elio Lo Cascio)
The Ottoman Imperial registers for central Greece and northern Bulgaria (Machiel Kiel)
The interface between regional survey, historical demography and palaeodemography (Kostas Sbonias)
The contribution of palaeoanthropology (C. A. Marlow)
Problems and prospects (Claude Masstt)
Relating cemetery studies to survey at Rocca San Silvestro (Riccardo Francovich & Kathy Gruspier)
Counting heads (Jeremy Paterson)

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Series Introduction (47.6kb)

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