Journey of a committed paleodemographer Farewell to Jean-Pierre Bocquet-Appel

• Other Authors: Degioanni, Anna (Editor), Herrscher, Estelle (Editor), Naji, Stephan (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Aix-en-Provence, France Presses universitaires de Provence 2021
• Series: Préhistoires de la Méditerranée
• Subjects: Population & demography; Paleodemography; biological anthropology; Neolithic Demographic Transition; Demographic estimators; Science history
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

This book is dedicated to Jean-Pierre Bocquet-Appel, anthropologist and biologist, one of the founding fathers of palaeodemography in France, who died in 2018. Known and recognised worldwide, he contributed to the development of new techniques for estimating the age at death of skeletal assemblages...