The traditional demographic regime of ancient Greece and Rome is almost entirely unknown; but our best chance for understanding its characteristics is provided by the three hundred census returns that survive on papyri from Roman Egypt. These returns, which date from the first three centuries AD, list the members of ordinary households living in the Nile valley: not only family members, but lodgers and slaves. The Demography of Roman Egypt has a complete and accurate catalogue of all demographically relevant information contained in the returns. On the basis of this catalogue, the authors use modern demographic methods and models to reconstruct the patterns of mortality, marriage, fertility and migration that are likely to have prevailed in Roman Egypt. They recreate a more or less typical Mediterranean population as it survived and prospered nearly two millennia ago.
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This book reconstructs the demographic regime in Roman Egypt during the first three centuries AD, using as its main evidence the three hundred surviving census returns filed by ordinary declarants. The authors use modern demographic methods and models to reconstruct the patterns of mortality, marriage, fertility and migration that are likely to have prevailed in Roman Egypt.
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gross reproduction rate, household history, declarant registers, weighted sex ratio, village sex ratio, modern fertility transition, age shoving, surviving census returns, metropolitan returns, nome metropoleis, male life table, female age structure, male age distribution, census declarations, fertility curve, age rounding, age exaggeration, surviving returns, attested ages, principal family members, other nomes, census process, tax flight, overall sex ratio, intrinsic growth rate Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Roman Egypt, Model West, Life Tables, United Nations, Roman Empire, Decline of Fertility, Soknopaiou Nesos, Thelbonthon Siphtha, United States, Population Studies, Family Forms, Whipple's Index, Demographic Yearbook, Family History, Own Children, The Oriental, Middle Egypt, Age Figure, Age Patterns, Annales de Démographie Historique, Mari Bhat, East Asian History, Model South, Nile Delta, Sex Differences Browse Sample Pages:
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gross reproduction rate, household history, declarant registers, weighted sex ratio, village sex ratio, modern fertility transition, age shoving, surviving census returns, metropolitan returns, nome metropoleis, male life table, female age structure, male age distribution, census declarations, fertility curve, age rounding, age exaggeration, surviving returns, attested ages, principal family members, other nomes, census process, tax flight, overall sex ratio, intrinsic growth rate Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Roman Egypt, Model West, Life Tables, United Nations, Roman Empire, Decline of Fertility, Soknopaiou Nesos, Thelbonthon Siphtha, United States, Population Studies, Family Forms, Whipple's Index, Demographic Yearbook, Family History, Own Children, The Oriental, Middle Egypt, Age Figure, Age Patterns, Annales de Démographie Historique, Mari Bhat, East Asian History, Model South, Nile Delta, Sex Differences Browse Sample Pages:
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