Handbook of paleodemography

1. Introduction -- 2. Epistemology of the discipline -- 3. The osteological data -- 4. Establishing a reference population -- 5. Age at death: current approaches and methods -- 6. Current demographic models -- 7. Finding the right models for pre-industrial populations -- 8. Model tables for pre-industrial populations -- 9. Definition and exploration of a pre-industrial standard -- 10. Final overview -- 11. Examples of archaeological applications -- 12. Critique of current models -- 13. A new method for estimating age-at-death structure.