The Neolithic Demographic Transition and its Consequences

@inproceedings{Fracchia2008TheND,
  title={The Neolithic Demographic Transition and its Consequences},
  author={Helena Fracchia},
  year={2008}
}
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… 
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