If Pigs Could Fly: Timucuan Population and Native American Historical Demography

procreation, meaning rates of population growth. With these laws he concluded that there could have been, without crowding, want, or procreative miracles, as many as 412 billion people in Noah's time. Relying on warrior counts and urban population figures, Wallace asserted that I00,810 Greeks had besieged Troy, David commanded an army of 1,69I,000 men, and Gaul contained between 36 million and 48 million people when Julius Caesar conquered it. Understandably, by the end of the century this simple approach to ancient demography was wholly discredited.1 Estimating the numbers of people who lived beyond the historical horizon continues to fascinate scholars. At the moment,