The Neolithic Demographic Transition and its Consequences Jean-Pierre Bocquet-Appel · Ofer Bar-Yosef Editors The Neolithic Demographic Transition and its Consequences 123 Editors Jean-Pierre Bocquet-Appel National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) UPR2147 44 rue de L’Amiral Mouchez 75014 Paris France
[email protected] ISBN: 978-1-4020-8538-3 Ofer Bar-Yosef Harvard University Department of Anthropology Peabody Museum 11 Divinity Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
[email protected] e-ISBN: 978-1-4020-8539-0 Library of Congress Control Number: 2008931585 c 2008 Springer Science+Business Media B.V. No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Printed on acid-free paper 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 springer.com Contents Prehistoric Demography in a Time of Globalization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jean-Pierre Bocquet-Appel and Ofer Bar-Yosef 1 Part I Demographic and Economic Dimensions of the NDT The Expansions of Farming Societies and the Role of the Neolithic Demographic Transition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Peter Bellwood and Marc Oxenham Explaining the Neolithic Demographic Transition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Jean-Pierre Bocquet-Appel The Signal of the Neolithic Demographic Transition in the Levant . . . . . . . 57 Emma Guerrero, Stephan Naji and Jean-Pierre Bocquet-Appel The Nature and Timing of the Neolithic Demographic Transition in the North American Southwest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 Timothy A. Kohler and Matt Glaude The Neolithic Demographic Transition in Mesoamerica? Larger Implications of the Strategy of Relative Chronology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 Richard G. Lesure An