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Science. 2011 Jul 29;333(6042):560-1. doi: 10.1126/science.1208880.
During the economic transition from foraging to farming, the signal of a major demographic shift can be observed in cemetery data of world archaeological sequences. This signal is characterized by an abrupt increase in the proportion of juvenile skeletons and is interpreted as the signature of a major demographic shift in human history, known as the Neolithic Demographic Transition (NDT). This expresses an increase in the input into the age pyramids of the corresponding living populations with an estimated increase in the total fertility rate of two births per woman. The unprecedented demographic masses that the NDT rapidly brought into play make this one of the fundamental structural processes of human history.
在从采集狩猎到农业的经济转型过程中，可以从世界考古序列的墓地数据中观察到人口结构的重大转变信号。这个信号的特点是幼年骨骼的比例突然增加，被解释为人类历史上的一次重大人口结构转变的标志，被称为新石器时代人口转变（NDT）。这意味着相应的现有人口中的生育高峰期的人口输入增加，估计每名妇女生育的总生育率增加了两个。NDT 迅速带来的前所未有的人口规模使这一过程成为人类历史的基本结构过程之一。
