Abstract
Historical demography is one of a number of types of historical investigations that together comprise quantitative history. As a method, it is primarily concerned with ascertaining facts with regard to the demographic characteristics of populations in the past (e.g., fertility and mortality schedules, marriage and migration patterns, household and family structures). As a discipline, historical demography may be thought of as the process of reasoning about the mutual interaction of population and history (Hollingsworth, 1969). That is, how do the events of history, both long and short term, affect population; and, conversely, in what ways might the demographic characteristics of a population influence historical and social trends? At the same time, anthropology is concerned with population genetic structure and the historical, social, and demographic features that together influence this genetic composition.
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Mielke, J.H., Devor, E.J., Kramer, P.L., Workman, P.L., Eriksson, A.W. (1982). Historical Population Structure of the Åland Islands, Finland. In: Crawford, M.H., Mielke, J.H. (eds) Current Developments in Anthropological Genetics. Advances in Human Genetics, vol 2. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-6769-1_10
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