Document Type

Technical Report

Publication Date

6-1-2006

Abstract

It is widely held that human population growth rates began to increase markedly after the Pleistocene/Holocene transition largely as a consequence of the adoption of agriculture and sedentism. A common explanation for this increase in growth rates has been that circumstances associated with food production and/or the accompanying decrease in mobility allowed for higher fertility rates, but over the past decade a number of empirical studies and simulation analyses have revealed that the relationship between mode of subsistence and fertility is more complex than had previously been realized.

Publisher

The University of Chicago Press

ISSN

0011-3204

Volume

43

Issue

3

First Page

511

Last Page

517

Language (ISO)

English

Keywords

fertility, agriculture, population growth, sedentism

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