Paleodemography: an Instrument for Simulating the Demographic Behavior of the Past? Comparative Analysis with the Historical Demography of 19th Century Mexico City

Several methods of information assessment and demographic analysis were used in this study to examine the behavior of two population series in 19th century Mexico City, drawn from the skeletal remains exhumed in the Panteón de Santa Paula and the records from the Parroquia de Santa María.The results...

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Autor: Ortega Muñoz, Allan
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2004
País:México
Institución:EL COLEGIO DE MÉXICO
Repositorio:Estudios Demográficos y Urbanos
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:oai.estudiosdemograficosyurbanos.colmex.mx:article/1199
Acceso en línea:https://estudiosdemograficosyurbanos.colmex.mx/index.php/edu/article/view/1199
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:paleodemography
historical demography
demographic analysis
paleodemografía
demografía histórica
análisis demográfico
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Sumario:Several methods of information assessment and demographic analysis were used in this study to examine the behavior of two population series in 19th century Mexico City, drawn from the skeletal remains exhumed in the Panteón de Santa Paula and the records from the Parroquia de Santa María.The results, showing differences between all the analyses, were subsequently used to construct two demographic scenarios, since historical demography yields more results than paleodemography, which also leads to certain differences in the calculations of mortality. These differences are due to the unequal distributions of age at death, which effectively refutes the idea of complementing the demographic study of earlier populations through the combination of these disciplines.