ABSTRACT
In order to make a microdemographic study of a group of people, it is essential that time, in the form of age of individuals and of periods of time during which events occur, be available as the framework within which events are analyzed. This chapter is devoted to an explication of how the estimates were made for the study population, along with some results of the study for the age structure, based on the age estimates. Probably the most powerful tool the anthropologist has to improve age estimates over those that can be produced by demographers is the wider study of the people and their interrelations that the anthropologist is likely to have made. Having estimated the year of birth of each individual, it looks at the implications of those estimates for the age and sex structure of the total population and various subunits within the population.
