Bintliff John, Sbonias Kostas (eds). Reconstructing Past Population Trends in Mediterranean Europe (3000 BC - AD 1800)

Oxford: Oxbow Books, 1999. — 280 p. — (The Archaeology of Mediterranean Landscapes; 1). — ISBN: 1-900188-62-7.Archaeology of Populus Monograph in Archaeology of Mediterranean Landscapes Series. Population trends and demographics in general are discussed through a variety of case studies based in Mediterranean Europe. The range of archaeological techniques and methods of analysis includes regional field surveys, artifact scatter analysis, palaeoanthropology, historical and documentary sources, and studies of cemeteries.Archaeological survey and demography.
Introduction to issues in demography and survey (Kostas Sbonias).
Regional field surveys and population cycles (John Bintliff).
Counting people in an artefact-poor landscape. The Langadas case, Macedonia, Greece (Stelios Andreou and Kostas Kotsakis).
Demographic trends from archaeological survey. Case studies from the Levant and Near East (Tony Wilkinson).
Archaeological proxy-data for demographic reconstructions: facts, factoids or fiction? (John Chapman).
An attempt at the demographic interpretation of long-term settlement processes in the prehistory of Slovenia. The case of the 'archaeological map of Slovenia' (Predrag Novakovic).
Prospection archéologique et démographie en Provence. Approche paléodémographique de la Rive Occidentale de l'Etang de Berre sur la longue durée (Frédéric Trément).
Demography and Romanization in central Italy (Franco Cambi).
Beyond Historical demography: the contribution of archaeological survey (Simon Stoddart).
Interdisciplinary approaches.
Chance and the human population: population growth in the Mediterranean (Ezra Zubrow and Jennifer Robinson).
The potential of historical demography for regional studies (Malcolm Smith).
Clearing away the cobwebs: A critical perspective on historical sources for Roman population history (Tim Parkin).
The population of Roman Italy in town and country (Elio Lo Cascio).
Documentary sources for the history of Medieval settlements in Tuscany (Maria Ginatempo and Andrea Giorgi).
The Ottoman Imperial Registers. Central Greece and Northern Bulgaria in the 15th-19th Century, the demographic development of two areas compared (Machiel Kiel).
Investigating the interface between regional survey, historical demography and paleodemography (Kostas Sbonias).
The contribution of palaeoanthropology to regional demographic history (C. A. Marlow).
Problems and prospects in paleodemography (Claude Masset).
Relating cemetery studies to regional survey: Rocca San Silvestro, a case study (Riccardo Francovich and Kathy Gruspier).
Counting heads: an overview (Jeremy Paterson).