Demography and nutrition : evidence from historical and contemporary populations
- نوع فایل : کتاب
- زبان : انگلیسی
- مؤلف : Susan Scott; C J Duncan
- ناشر : Oxford ; Malden, MA : Blackwell Science
- چاپ و سال / کشور: 2002
- شابک / ISBN : 9780632059836
Description
The history of human diet -- The diet of the hunter-gatherers -- Demographic change linked to the beginnings of agriculture -- To which diet is modern man adapted? -- Consequences of an agricultural life-style -- Domestication of animals -- Interactions between demographic pressures and diet -- Height and nutrition -- The working class diet in pre-industrial England -- Mortality Oscillations in 404 English Parishes - a Metapopulation Study -- Use of time-series analysis techniques -- Exogenous oscillations in 404 parishes -- The role of wheat prices in driving exogenous population oscillations -- Short wavelength oscillation in baptisms in 404 parishes -- The Staple Food Supply: Fluctuating Wheat Prices and Malnutrition -- Hypotheses to account for fluctuating grain prices -- Sources for the data series -- Cycles in the wheat price index -- Oats and barley price indices -- Correspondence between the grain price indices in England -- The effect of seasonal temperatures on wheat prices -- The effect of rainfall on wheat prices -- Wheat prices and short wavelength temperature cycles -- Use of a predicted wheat prices series -- What drove the different cycles in wheat prices? -- Rust and other parasitic infestations of grain crops -- Famine -- Major famines in world history -- The demographic impact of famine -- Changes in fertility -- The Bangladesh famine of 1974-5: a case study -- The Dutch famine of 1944-5: a case study -- The siege of Leningrad, 1941-4 -- Why do women survive famine better than men? -- Famines in pre-industrial England.
A collection of papers presented at the symposium, Human Biology in the Archives, jointly sponsored by the Human Biology Association and American Association of Physical Anthropologists.
