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An Estimate of Mortality in a Pre‐Columbian Urban Population
Author(s) -
Storey Rebecca
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
american anthropologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.51
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1548-1433
pISSN - 0002-7294
DOI - 10.1525/aa.1985.87.3.02a00010
Subject(s) - geography , apartment , population , demography , life table , juvenile , archaeology , biology , ecology , sociology , civil engineering , engineering
The excavation of an apartment compound, Tlajinga 33, of the city of Teotihuacan yielded a representative skeletal sample for a first paleodemographic study of a New World pre‐Columbian urban population. Life‐table analysis revealed a population with high juvenile mortality and a relatively short life span. Comparison with other populations revealed basic similarities in mortality between Teotihuacan and Old World preindustrial cities and differences with other non‐urban North American populations.