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It is shown how the sex and age distribution of the (once) living population can be calculated from estimated mortalities. Fertility calculations and estimations of the number of children per woman are provided as well. The method is applied to two materials from the Middle Ages: Westerhus and Helgeandsholmen.
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Siven, C.H. On reconstructing the (once) living population from osteological age data. Int. J. Anthropol. 6, 111–117 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02443945
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