Introduction / Jean-Pierre Bocquet-Appel -- Data: From genes to numbers : effective population sizes in human origins / John Hawks. Assessment of land surveys in Greece : contributions and limitations / Jean-Nicolas Corvisier -- Techniques: Estimation of an age distribution with its confidence intervals using an iterative Bayesian procedure and a bootstrap sampling approach / Jean-Pierre Bocquet-Appel and Jean-Noël Bacro. Model life tables for pre-industrial populations : first application in palaeodemography / Isabelle Séguy [and others]. The Halley band for paleodemographic mortality analysis / Marc A. Luy and Ursula Wittwer-Backofen -- Patterns: Modeling Paleolithic predator-prey dynamics and the effects of hunting pressure on prey "choice" / Mary C. Stiner [and others]. The demography of prehistoric fishing/hunting people : a case study of the Upper Columbia area / Nathan B. Goodale, Ian Kuijt, Anna M. Prentiss. The paleodemography of central Portugal and the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition / Mary Jackes and Christopher Meiklejohn. The Libben Site : a hunting, fishing, and gathering village from the Eastern Late Woodlands of North America : analysis and implications for palaeodemography and human origins / Richard S. Meindl, Robert P. Mensforth, C. Owen Lovejoy. Demographic and health changes during the transition to agriculture in North America / Jeann-Pierre Bocquet-Appel, Stephan Naji, Matthew Bandy.