ANTH 206 Chapter week 9 : reading notes
10 Dec 2017
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Week 9 reading notes: chapter 10 : popultion. Wold population is one of those big questions. It had taken only 40 years for the world population to double , going from three billion in 1960 to six billion in 1999. The building up and subsequent collapse of the great maya civilization. The central authority collapse and the elaborate structures ell into disuse long before the. The urban centre of copan contained a l place complex where the knig and nobles lived and an elaborate collection of pyramids, temples, tombs, and sculptures. The city may have had as many as 10, 000 to 12, 000 people living in one square kilometre. Totalling at 20, 000 the population began dropping. Method 1: the house count method requires making an assumption about the average number of persons per household, (4-6 persons per nuclear family) Method 2: computer simulations of the agricultural productivity of the soils under cultivation at each period.
