id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-016310-7655ggxz Bocquet-Appel, Jean-Pierre Explaining the Neolithic Demographic Transition 2008 .txt text/plain 6805 340 49 The demographically identifiable part of the signal indicates a sharp increase in the birth rate, and beyond, a transition towards higher fertility values than those characterising the preceding forager period. The same applies to archaeological data representing the cemeteries of forager and farming populations, whose putative gradient of mobility from nomadic to sedentary (see below) closely coincides with the expected birth rate estimates. This is the message contained Fig. 4 3D representation of demographic density (proxy for fertility), accounted for by energy expenditure (mobility, from 0 = nomadic to 7 = sedentary) and energy intake (diet from (a) hunting, (b) aquatic animals, (c) agricultural produce) with the relative metabolic load model applied to Jorgensen's sample (1979 Jorgensen's sample ( , 1999 of western North American Indians on first European contact. ./cache/cord-016310-7655ggxz.txt ./txt/cord-016310-7655ggxz.txt