Demographic Estimates in Archaeology: Contributions From Ethnoarchaeology on Mesoamerican Peasants [and Comments and Reply]
Demographic Estimates in Archaeology: Contributions From Ethnoarchaeology on Mesoamerican Peasants [and Comments and Reply]
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考古学中的人口统计估计：民族考古学对中美洲农民的贡献[以及评论和答复]
作者：
C. Kolb;T. Charlton;Warren R. Deboer;Roland J. Fletcher;P. Healy;R. Janes;R. Naroll;Dan Shea
人类学考古学家经常使用民族历史和民族志数据来解释考古记录。“行动”或“生活”考古学的分支学科特别关注的问题是设计合理准确的方法来估计一个遗址或史前家庭的人口。技术开发的各种研究人员在这里进行了总结和批评。然后，现有的人种学证据的家庭规模和居住面积在中美洲，包括从危地马拉高原社区的数据，特别是本文研究，调查。根据这些证据，提出了新的估计，以供在中美洲范围内应用。
Anthropological archaeologists often employ ethnohistoric and ethnographic data to interpret the archaeological record. Of special concern to the subdiscipline of "action" or "living" archaeology is the problem of devising reasonably accurate methods for estimating the population of a site or of a prehistoric household. Techniques developed by various researchers are here summarized and critiqued. Then the available ethnographic evidence on household size and dwelling area in Mesoamerica, including data from two Guatemalan highland communities examined especially for this paper, is surveyed. On the basis of this evidence, new estimates are offered for pplication in the Mesoamerican context.