Caption

Past Population Distributions and Densities

Summary

These six world maps show the changes in the population density of different regions over the past 40,000 years. An inset shows estimates of the world population in twelve different years, ranging from 38,000 B.C.E. until the present.

Source

John Allen, Student Atlas of Anthropology, First Edition (p. 70)

Copyright

Copyright © 2004 by The McGraw-Hill Companies
Reproduced by permission of McGraw-Hill Contemporary Learning Series.Category 19th Century