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This section looks very rough and contains obvious errors. E.g. if the life expectancy was 20 it doesn't follow that there were 5 generations per century! (Which would only be the case if the average age at which women gave birth was 20.) 93.96.236.8 ( talk) 21:27, 10 May 2011 (UTC)
The reasoning is sound, it's just a vocabulary error. Instead "5 generations per century", replace by "the population is completely renewed 5 times per century", which is actually what the computation is based on, and voila. Alestane ( talk) 06:18, 30 March 2012 (UTC)
As it is we have articles here and in classical demography leaving a long gap in the neolithic, bronze age, and early iron age before the relatively restricted classical demography. We probably need something to cover the gap, the neolithic revolution, the urban revolution, etc. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.66.211.53 ( talk) 02:49, 15 March 2013 (UTC)
There appears to be a slight difference in meaning between 'prehistoric demography' or 'archaeological demography' and 'paleodemography', [1] but not enough to justify two separate articles. Essentially they both refer to the study of demography in prehistory. – Joe ( talk) 13:22, 16 April 2020 (UTC)
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This section looks very rough and contains obvious errors. E.g. if the life expectancy was 20 it doesn't follow that there were 5 generations per century! (Which would only be the case if the average age at which women gave birth was 20.) 93.96.236.8 ( talk) 21:27, 10 May 2011 (UTC)
The reasoning is sound, it's just a vocabulary error. Instead "5 generations per century", replace by "the population is completely renewed 5 times per century", which is actually what the computation is based on, and voila. Alestane ( talk) 06:18, 30 March 2012 (UTC)
As it is we have articles here and in classical demography leaving a long gap in the neolithic, bronze age, and early iron age before the relatively restricted classical demography. We probably need something to cover the gap, the neolithic revolution, the urban revolution, etc. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.66.211.53 ( talk) 02:49, 15 March 2013 (UTC)
There appears to be a slight difference in meaning between 'prehistoric demography' or 'archaeological demography' and 'paleodemography', [1] but not enough to justify two separate articles. Essentially they both refer to the study of demography in prehistory. – Joe ( talk) 13:22, 16 April 2020 (UTC)