A5069546640- Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies
- Archaeological Research and Protection
- Forensic and Genetic Research
- Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
- Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
- Law in Society and Culture
- Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
- Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
- Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation
- Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis
- Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies
- Image Processing and 3D Reconstruction
- Paleopathology and ancient diseases
- Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography
- Research Data Management Practices
- Anthropological Studies and Insights
- Digital Games and Media
- Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration
- Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
- Educational Games and Gamification
- Innovations in Educational Methods
- Autopsy Techniques and Outcomes
- Art History and Market Analysis
- Race, Genetics, and Society
- Cambodian History and Society
The University of Adelaide
2025
Carleton University
2020-2024
The University of Queensland
2021-2024
Institut de Biologia Evolutiva
2021
Universidade de São Paulo
2021
Natural History Museum Vienna
2021
Stockholm University
2017-2019
Virginia Commonwealth University
2019
John Jay College of Criminal Justice
2019
Arthur B. McDonald-Canadian Astroparticle Physics Research Institute
2019
In archaeology, we are accustomed to investing great effort into collecting data from fieldwork, museum collections, and other sources, followed by detailed description, rigorous analysis, in many cases ending with publication of our findings short, highly concentrated reports or journal articles. Very often, these publications all that is visible this lengthy process, even then, most articles only accessible scholars at institutions paying subscription fees the publishers. While traditional...
This communication documents one of the earliest verifiable cases human paralysis associated with severe spinal pathology. A series skeletal abnormalities is described for a young adult male (M9) from Southeast Asian Neolithic community. Differential diagnosis suggests that M9 suffered severely disabling congenital fusion spine (Klippel–Feil Syndrome, Type III), resulting in child-onset lower body at minimum (maximally quadriplegia). experienced severe, most probably total, incapacitation...
The article aims to examine aspects of mortuary behavior in late Neolithic/early Bronze Age (Phung Nguyen phase) populations represented at the site Man Bac Viet Nam, specifically how illuminates role children, and adult attitudes toward children. In addition, authors discuss biological characteristics human sample, focusing particularly on child burials, order explore childhood palaeohealth. methodology includes combining various measures health—including palaeodemography (childhood...
The excavation of the Man Bac site (c. 3800–3500 years BP) in Ninh Binh Province, Northern Vietnam, yielded a large mortuary assemblage. A total 31 inhumations were recovered during 2004–2005 excavation. Multivariate comparisons using cranial and dental metrics demonstrated close affinities people to later early Metal Age Dong Son Vietnamese modern samples from southern China including Neolithic Western Han period Yangtze Basin. In contrast, morphological gaps found between people, except...
There is a thriving trade, and collector community, around human remains that facilitated by posts on new social media such as Instagram, Facebook, Etsy, and, until recently, eBay. In this artic ...
<p class="p1">There is an active trade in human remains facilitated by social media sites. In this paper we ask: can machine learning detect visual signals photographs indicating that the depicted are for sale? Do such even exist? This describes experiment using Tensorflow and Google Inception-v3 model against a corpus of publicly available collected from Instagram. Previous examination associated metadata these photos detected patterns connectivity rhetoric surrounding 'bone trade',...
Our major project explores the discourses that surround buying and selling of human remains over social media. We discuss research ethics framework established in Canada by 'Tri-Council' agencies as it pertains to studying media general. Issues privacy consent are paramount. Human trading happens both public private detail process we went through, protocol evolved a result, for posts closed Facebook groups. This process, protocol, rationale may be useful other researchers how archaeology...
Abstract In the summer of 2021, a video on TikTok was heavily reposted across variety social media platforms (attracting conventional attention too). Unusually (for TikTok), it about trade in human remains. Thus, we were presented with opportunity to watch how knowledge exploded into broader public consciousness comparatively newer platform. this article, scrape for reactions that moment. our previous research remains Instagram, used particular suite digital humanities methods understand...
It is possible to purchase human remains via Instagram. We present an experiment using computer vision and automated annotation of over ten thousand photographs from Instagram, connected with the buying selling remains, in order develop a distant view sensory affect these photos: What macroscopic patterns exist, how do relate self-presentation individual vendors? Using Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing machine learning services, we annotate then visualize co-occurrence tags as series...
Today's global human remains trade -how it operates on and offline, where come from, how algorithmic amplification allows for complex networks to form between buyers, sellers, middlemen -has seen an increasing amount of research media attention.Underpinning this interest is the growing realization that poorly regulated trafficking inflicts genuine psychological harm living (whether relatives body donors or descendant communities), as well accrues losses archaeological record risks...
Teaching and public engagement with the results implications of bioarchaeological research have increasingly attracted more varied social media-savvy audiences. Since 2010, media platform Instagram has also flourished, millions users forming untold numbers communities practice. Here, I seek to address intersection bioarchaeology virtual “stage” that represents. How is discipline act being a bioarchaeologist represented on Instagram? do practicing bioarchaeologists (and enthusiastic...
This article represents the next step in our ongoing effort to understand online human remains trade, how, why and where it exists on social media. It expands upon initial research explore 'rhetoric' structure behind use manipulation of images text by this collecting community, topics explored using Google Inception v.3, TensorFlow, etc. (Huffer Graham 2017; 2018). current goes beyond that work address ethical moral dilemmas can confound new technology classify sort thousands images. The...
The trade in human remains on social media happens an ever-changing field of digital technologies. We attempt to replicate our earlier study, exploring the differences what we can observe now Instagram versus first foray 2016 (published Huffer and Graham 2017). While previous study cannot be reproduced, it replicated, find that is accelerating.
This paper presents an overview of the pre-agricultural, ceramic producing, Neolithic Đa Bút culture in its archaeological, bioarchaeological and environmental contexts. Drawing on numerous examples from ‘grey literature,’ often published solely Vietnamese, we review diversity known sites faunal, floral, material cultural, mortuary osteological evidence they provide regarding structure, life histories foodways communities. We conclude with a discussion possible future research directions...
While traders of human remains on Instagram will give some indication, their best estimate, or repeat hearsay, regarding the geographic origin provenance remains, how can we assess veracity these claims when cannot physically examine remains? A novel image analysis using convolutional neural networks in a one-shot learning architecture with triplet loss function is used to develop range 'distances' known 'reference' images for group skulls provenances and from social media posts. Comparing...