A5011681229- Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies
- Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
- Paleopathology and ancient diseases
- Forensic and Genetic Research
- Historical and Archaeological Studies
- Archaeological Research and Protection
- Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
- Traumatic Ocular and Foreign Body Injuries
- Ancient and Medieval Archaeology Studies
- Maritime and Coastal Archaeology
- Oral Health Pathology and Treatment
- Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies
- Molecular Biology Techniques and Applications
- Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration
- Yersinia bacterium, plague, ectoparasites research
- Museums and Cultural Heritage
- Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
- Migration, Health and Trauma
- Migration, Identity, and Health
- Isotope Analysis in Ecology
- Geographies of human-animal interactions
- Streptococcal Infections and Treatments
- Interdisciplinary Studies: Technology, Society, and Humanities
- Metallurgy and Cultural Artifacts
- Anthropology: Ethics, History, Culture
University of Edinburgh
2012-2024
University College Dublin
2021-2023
Institute of History and Archaeology
2011-2021
The Robertson Trust
2017-2018
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
2018
University of Oxford
2009-2012
Oxford Archaeology
2009-2012
University of Bradford
2005
Community differentiation is a fundamental topic of the social sciences, and its prehistoric origins in Europe are typically assumed to lie among complex, densely populated societies that developed millennia after their Neolithic predecessors. Here we present earliest, statistically significant evidence for such first farmers Europe. By using strontium isotopic data from more than 300 early human skeletons, find significantly less variance geographic signatures males females, burials with...
Bioarchaeological evidence of interpersonal violence and early warfare presents important insights into conflict in past societies. This is critical for understanding the motivations its effects on opposing competing individuals groups across time space. Selecting Neolithic northwestern Europe as an area study, present paper examines variation societal context recorded human skeletal remains from this region one most elements welfare. Compiling data various sources, it becomes apparent that...
This article examines evidence for violence as reflected in skull injuries 378 individuals from Neolithic Denmark and Sweden (3,900-1,700 BC). It is the first large-scale crossregional study of trauma southern Scandinavia, documenting skeletal at a population level. We also investigate widely assumed hypothesis that male-dominated results primarily male fatalities. Considering crude prevalence individual bones allows more comprehensive understanding interpersonal region, which characterized...
Abstract
Interpersonal violence in the past is studied from different perspectives, one of which experimentation. Using analogues to human skeleton it possible replicate fractures found archaeological record and understand how they were produced. The main objective this paper describe differentiate sharp-blunt force cranial trauma caused by stone axes adzes, test previous interpretations an case. This will create a comparative frame reference for future studies. In present experiment, seven Synbone...
In this paper, osteological and archaeological data are brought together to further our understanding of childhood in the early Neolithic Linearbandkeramik culture (LBK; c. 5500–5000 cal BC). many characterizations LBK society, fixed representations sex or identities based on subsistence strategies pervade, with children rarely considered then only as a specialized separate topic study. As challenge view, summary current models is presented debated reference burial rites children. A period...
Steven Pinker’s thesis on the decline of violence since prehistory has resulted in many popular and scholarly debates topic that have ranged—at times even raged— across disciplinary spectrum evolution, psychology, philosophy, biology, history, beyond. Those disciplines made most substantial contribution to empirical data underpinning notion a more violent prehistoric past, namely, archaeology bioarchaeology/physical anthropology, not featured as prominently these discussions may be expected....
This paper presents an overview of the results two brief excavation seasons (2008 and 2010) at Foxhole Cave, Gower, south Wales, placing them into wider context mid-Holocene Britain. No prehistoric pottery was found few pieces worked flint recovered are diagnostic Mesolithic period. Typically for Carboniferous limestone caves bone well preserved, however, though much material in heavily disturbed upper metre or so deposits modern sheep rabbit, scattered fragments representing remains least...
Abstract This paper provides an overview of the development and current practice physical anthropology as relating to treatment archaeological skeletal remains in Europe. The evolution a discipline is covered detail from 18th century onwards, trends education research are also discussed. Additional topics include synthesis legislative framework for studying human over 40 European countries while addressing challenges, future emerging ethical questions. product extensive review literature...
This article will query the ethics of making and displaying photographs human remains. In particular, we focus on role photography in constituting remains as specimens, centrality creation circulation photographic images to work physical anthropology bioarchaeology. has increasingly become object ethical scrutiny, particularly context a (post)colonial politics recognition which indigenous people seek recover dominion over their looted material heritage, including dead. concern extends...
Children tend to be under-represented in the skeletal record and osteological analyses, partly as a result of taphonomic processes (Andrews Bello 2006; et al. Djuric´ al. 2011; Guy 1997), but also due past research interests that tended focus on adult (skeletally mature) individuals. Archaeological anthropological within last couple decades has begun redress “invisibility” children populations (e.g. Baxter 2005; Crawford Shepherd 2007a; Hogberg 2008; Lewis 2007; Moore Scott 1997; Muller...