Neolithic Demographic Transition and its Consequences

Jean-Pierre Bocquet-Appel, Ofer Bar-Yosef: Introduction : Demographic prehistory at the time of globalization,- Part 1: Demographic and Economic Dimensions of the NDT: Peter Bellwood and Marc Oxenham: The expansions of farming societies and the role of the Neolithic demographic transition,- Jean-Pierre Bocquet-Appel: Questions concerning the pattern of the Neolithic demographic transition inferred from cemetery data,- Emma Guerrero et al: The signal of the Neolithic demographic transition in the Levant,- Timothy A. Kohler and Matt Glaude: The Nature and Timing of the Neolithic Demographic Transition in the North American Southwest,- Richard G. Lesure: The Neolithic Demographic Transition in Mesoamerica? Larger Implications of the Strategy of Relative Chronology,- Mehmet Özdogan: Demographic crisis or a shift of population due to a crisis. An Overview on Changes in Demographic Composition During the Westward Expansion of the Neolithic Way of Life,- Jean-Denis Vigne: Zooarchaeological aspects of the Neolithic diet transition in the near east and europe, and their putative relationships with the Neolithic demographic transition,- Jérome Dubouloz: Impacts of the Neolithic demographic transition on linear pottery culture settlementPart 2: Settlement and Village Practices: Goring-Morris Adrian Nigel & Belfer-Cohen, A: Developments in Near Eastern residential architecture across the Epipalaeolithic-Neolithic Transition,- Ian Kuijt: Demography and storage systems during the southern Levantine Neolithic demographic transition,- Stephen Shennan: Population processes and their consequences in Neolithic Central EuropePart 3: Community Size and Social Organization,- Matthew Bandy: Global patterns of early village development,- Robert D. Drennan and Christian E. Peterson: Centralized communities, population, and social complexity after sedentarization,- Gary O. Rollefson: Charming Lives: Human and Animal Figurines in the Late Epipaleolithic and EarlyNeolithic Periods in

From the reviews:

"Bocquet-Appel and Bar-Yosef have organized and produced a superb thematic volume that provides a wide variety of applications and perspectives on the NDT" James T. Watson, University of Arizona

"The main strength of this volume is its clear focus on the NDT and related processes. ... well suitable ... to a readership of advanced undergraduates, postgraduate students in the social sciences and to academics from a wide range of disciplines who are interested in the social, economic and demographic facets of the 'Neolithic Revolution'. ... a highly recommended volume which highlights how interdisciplinary approaches can provide new insight into the study of the Neolithic transition and the great potential of thematic scientific discourse." (Ron Pinhasi, Human Ecology, Vol. 37 (5), October, 2009)

"The collected papers address the demographic process associated with the transition from a hunter-gatherer economy to an agricultural economy in the Neolithic. ... the papers are stimulating, informative and address a myriad of topics associated with population growth, providing food for thought for historians, archaeologists and anthropologists as well as demographers. ... provide an extremely stimulating discussion of the implications of the NDT and its consequences, with all due caution and a number of flags raised about a precocious global application." (Helena Fracchia, Canadian Studies in Population, Vol. 37 (3-4), Fall/Winter, 2010)