Differentiation of the Mortality Structure in Mesolithic, Neolithic and Early Bronze Age Populations from Central Europe and Ukraine: a New Methodological Approach

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  • Janusz Piontek Instytut Antropologii UAM, Fredry 10, 61-701 Poznań
  • Alina Wiercińska Państwowe Muzeum Archeologiczne, Długa 52, 00-140 Warszawa
  • Andrzej Wierciński Zakład Antropologii Historycznej UW, Krakowskie Przedmieście 26/28, 00-071 Warszawa

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https://doi.org/10.18778/1898-6773.59.05

Abstract

The analysis of the mortality structure was based on the following premises: (1) the mortality structure may be derived from frequency distribution of the categories of the age at death and, (2) the mortality structure may be considered as a complex relational system which ought to be investigated on both the elementary and synthetic levels. In the first case, particular trait is analysed in view of the mean age at death. In second case, there are analysed the linear combinations of elementary traits (here, by use of the principal components method).

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1996-12-30

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Piontek, J., Wiercińska, A., & Wierciński, A. (1996). Differentiation of the Mortality Structure in Mesolithic, Neolithic and Early Bronze Age Populations from Central Europe and Ukraine: a New Methodological Approach . Anthropological Review, 59, 51–58. https://doi.org/10.18778/1898-6773.59.05

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