Naroll Floor Area And Settlement

Pouls basil g thomas r.

Naroll floor area and settlement. This paper is a cross cultural study of dwelling floor area and population size which uses naroll 1962 as a starting point and guide. Population estimation from floor area. In this context the need for and possible methods of more accurate characterization of space use are described. Dwellings and the remains of dwellings therefore can be a good way for archaeologists or cultural anthropologists to estimate a given population s size.

A restudy of naroll s constant. Lyons and james i. 351 raoul naroll s contribution to archaeology peter n. Ebert 1976 photogrammetric mapping and digitization of prehistoric architecture.

Naroll s research has been used extensively by archaeologists for population prediction from dwelling floor area. Naroll raoul 1962 floor area and settlement population american antiquity 27. Peregrine juniata college raoul naroll s 1962 american antiquity article on the floor area of dwellings and its relation to population has had a profound impact on archaeology not only did it provide an objective mechanism to estimate population size and hence to evaluate demographic models of cultural evolution it also helped to spark. Progress beyond a blanket guess based on comparative ethnography for population density requires us to break the urban area down into individual houses and the houses into individual rooms.

41 naroll raoul 1962 floor area and settlement population. Naroll floor area and settlement population p. Techniques and applications in chaco canyon national monument. More specifically when compiled a dwelling floor area can be used by archaeologists to infer the size of a population at a site naroll 1962 588.

Living floor area and marital residence. Floor area and settlement population raoul naroll abstract total area of the dwelling floors and total population of the largest settlements of eighteen societies show a loglog regression which suggests that the population of a prehistoric settlement can be very roughly estimated as of the order of one tenth the floor area in square meters.