K Hardy
Biographic Data
| ID | 22386 |
|---|---|
| NAME | K Hardy |
| GIVEN NAMES | K |
| FAMILY NAME | Hardy |
| SIGNATURE | HARDY K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1127-2397 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 258 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Children at Work and Play. Observations from the Khovsgol Province, Mongolia, the Saloum Delta, Senegal and Mutitjulu, Central Australia
Spending time in traditional non-Western economies helps to reduce reliance on modern perspectives. Based on informal interactions with children as I worked with their parents in Mongolia, Senegal and Australia, I offer some observations on their lives and economic roles. Unlike in Western cultures where adult work is frequently separate, in traditional societies, this tends to include children. Children still play of course, with an emphasis on …
South Cuidrach
A new site in north Skye has revealed evidence of human occupation from the Late Upper Palaeolithic as well as the Early and Late Mesolithic periods, suggesting repeated visits by humans for at least 5,000 years from the Late Glacial Interstadial through the Loch Lomond Readvance and up to the mid-Holocene, a time of dynamic climatic and sea-level change. South Cuidrach is one of several sites in the north of the Isle of Skye and around the Inner…
The Effect of Plant Food Treatment on Stable Isotopes and Their Relevance for Archaeological Studies
Plants are a crucial part of the human diet, serving as a primary source of micronutrients, fiber, and carbohydrates, providing readily available energy. Beyond the consumption of cooked and raw edible plants, early humans also developed methods for plant processing for delayed consumption, to de-toxify/improve bioavailability, and perhaps for flavor. In later prehistory delayed consumption includes preservation processes for storage. The process…
The use of plants by Neanderthals as food, medicine, and raw materials
Reconstructing Neanderthal diet
Dexamethasone Alters Tracheal Aspirate T-Cell Cytokine Production in Ventilated Preterm Infants
Postnatal corticosteroids improve respiratory status and facilitate respiratory support weaning in preterm infants with bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD). Older literature describes characteristic cytokine profiles in tracheal aspirates (TA) of BPD patients which are altered with corticosteroids. Corticosteroids also influence peripheral blood T-cell presence. However, little is known regarding TA T-cell phenotype and cytokine production before or…
Rapidly changing worlds. Finding the earliest human occupations on Scotland's north-west coastline
Coastal prehistory and submerged landscapes
Holocene resource exploitation along the Nile
The subsistence practices of Holocene communities living in the Nile Valley of Central Sudan are comparatively little known. Recent excavations at Khor Shambat, Sudan, have yielded well-defined Mesolithic and Neolithic stratigraphy. Here, for the first time, archaeozoological, palaeobotanical, phytolith and dental calculus studies are combined with lipid residue analysis of around 100 pottery fragments and comparative analysis of faunal remains a…
Paleomedicine and the use of plant secondary compounds in the Paleolithic and Early Neolithic
Reconstructing plant use before domestication is challenging due to a lack of evidence. Yet, on the small number of sites with assemblages, the wide range of different plant species cannot be explained simply in terms of nutrition. Assemblages from the Lower Paleolithic to the Early Neolithic were examined to investigate the relative edible and medicinal properties of the plants. The assemblages contain a mixture of edible species, plants that ar…
Pleistocene dental calculus
Dental calculus is now widely used to recover information on items ingested in the past. It is particularly valuable in the earlier Paleolithic, where recovered data may represent the only evidence for plant use. Several recovery methods are used and each one produces different results. Biomolecular markers and genetic material recovered from dental calculus is providing new data on identifiable dietary and medicinal items and human microbial com…
Neanderthal behaviour, diet, and disease inferred from ancient DNA in dental calculus
Amas et sites coquilliers du delta du Saloum (Sénégal)
Not Just Fuel
Shellfishing and shell midden construction in the Saloum Delta, Senegal
Scotland's intertidal prehistory
Sea-level rise and coastal change have impacted on the visibility of early to mid-Holocene sites worldwide. Due to the combination of eustatic and isostatic effects, modern coastal landscapes rarely reflect those occupied and exploited by prehistoric people. This suggests that intertidal and marine archaeology is set to become increasingly important in future studies of the coastal populations of prehistoric Britain. Though Scotland’s west coast …
Neanderthals, trees and dental calculus
Doctors, chefs or hominin animals? Non-edible plants and Neanderthals
In 2013, Hardyet al.offered a broad behavioural context for the hypothesis that the ingestion of non-nutritional plants (yarrow and camomile) by Neanderthals was for the purpose of self-medication. Chemical traces of these plants had been detected in samples of dental calculus from Neanderthals at the site of El Sidrón, Spain, along with traces of bitumen and wood smoke, as well as starch granules that showed evidence of roasting (Hardyet al.2012…
Variable Use of Coastal Resources in Prehistoric and Historic Periods in Western Scotland
Evidence for coastal resource use, in the form of shell middens, is found in many parts of the world, including along Scotland's west coast. Scotland's seas are among the most biologically productive in the world, and their coastlines have attracted human habitation throughout the Holocene. An outstanding record of the human use of coastal resources throughout the prehistoric and historic periods has endured here through a fortunate combination o…
Dental calculus reveals potential respiratory irritants and ingestion of essential plant-based nutrients at Lower Palaeolithic Qesem Cave Israel
Dental Calculus Reveals Unique Insights into Food Items, Cooking and Plant Processing in Prehistoric Central Sudan
Accessing information on plant consumption before the adoption of agriculture is challenging. However, there is growing evidence for use of locally available wild plants from an increasing number of pre-agrarian sites, suggesting broad ecological knowledge. The extraction of chemical compounds and microfossils from dental calculus removed from ancient teeth offers an entirely new perspective on dietary reconstruction, as it provides empirical res…
Microtaphonomy in archaeological sites
Neanderthal self-medication in context
In a recent study, Hardy et al. (2012) identified compounds from two non-nutritional plants, yarrow and camomile, in a sample of Neanderthal dental calculus from the northern Spanish site of El Sidrón. Both these plants are bitter tasting and have little nutritional value but are well known for their medicinal qualities. Bitter taste can signal poison. We know that the bitter taste perception gene TAS2R38 was present among the Neanderthals of El …
Automated classification of starch granules using supervised pattern recognition of morphological properties
Starch granules, dental calculus and new perspectives on ancient diet
Starch granules, dental calculus and new perspectives on ancient diet
Dental calculus reveals potential respiratory irritants and ingestion of essential plant-based nutrients at Lower Palaeolithic Qesem Cave Israel
Prehistoric string theory. How twisted fibres helped to shape the world
The author reviews the role of string in early human communities, using prehistoric and ethnographic evidence. Fibres, rolled into string, offer a technical means of holding things together; but the process of manufacturing string itself inspired special roles and structures - which in turn held together the members of communities
Living Lithics
This paper represents the joint work of two very different specialists. The fieldwork was undertaken by Sillitoe as part of his ethnographic research in Papua New Guinea (PNG) and the interpretative work was done by an archaeologist, Hardy. The work described here represents some of the last direct evidence from users of stone tools. It shows how procurement, manufacture, use, storage and the relative roles of men and women in the process was dep…
Microtaphonomy in archaeological sites
Automated classification of starch granules using supervised pattern recognition of morphological properties
Neanderthals, trees and dental calculus
Neanderthal self-medication in context
In a recent study, Hardy et al. (2012) identified compounds from two non-nutritional plants, yarrow and camomile, in a sample of Neanderthal dental calculus from the northern Spanish site of El Sidrón. Both these plants are bitter tasting and have little nutritional value but are well known for their medicinal qualities. Bitter taste can signal poison. We know that the bitter taste perception gene TAS2R38 was present among the Neanderthals of El …
The Preceramic Sequence From the Tehuacan Valley
Doctors, chefs or hominin animals? Non-edible plants and Neanderthals
In 2013, Hardyet al.offered a broad behavioural context for the hypothesis that the ingestion of non-nutritional plants (yarrow and camomile) by Neanderthals was for the purpose of self-medication. Chemical traces of these plants had been detected in samples of dental calculus from Neanderthals at the site of El Sidrón, Spain, along with traces of bitumen and wood smoke, as well as starch granules that showed evidence of roasting (Hardyet al.2012…
Reconstructing Neanderthal diet
Holocene resource exploitation along the Nile
The subsistence practices of Holocene communities living in the Nile Valley of Central Sudan are comparatively little known. Recent excavations at Khor Shambat, Sudan, have yielded well-defined Mesolithic and Neolithic stratigraphy. Here, for the first time, archaeozoological, palaeobotanical, phytolith and dental calculus studies are combined with lipid residue analysis of around 100 pottery fragments and comparative analysis of faunal remains a…
Pleistocene dental calculus
Dental calculus is now widely used to recover information on items ingested in the past. It is particularly valuable in the earlier Paleolithic, where recovered data may represent the only evidence for plant use. Several recovery methods are used and each one produces different results. Biomolecular markers and genetic material recovered from dental calculus is providing new data on identifiable dietary and medicinal items and human microbial com…
Scotland's First Settlers
BackgroundThe Mesolithic occupation of Scotland began soon after the end of the last glaciation, between 10,000 and 9000 years ago. Considerablc research has been undertaken in the past two decades (Mithen 2000; Pollard & Morrison 1996; Woodman 1989; Young 2000); much has been published, more is awaited, and work continues apace. Mesolithic sites occur throughout Scotland, though recent archaeological activity has been concentrated on the western…
On the Tehuacán Project
Material Perspectives
Flaked stone tools are synonymous with prehistory to the extent that it is arguable that without these, the discipline would not exist. Yet we know relatively little about how people used them and what role they played within the material cultures of which they formed a part. The opportunity to study habitual users of flaked tools in an ethnographic context has always been limited and is now arguably non-existent. But in 1983, despite having stee…
South Cuidrach
A new site in north Skye has revealed evidence of human occupation from the Late Upper Palaeolithic as well as the Early and Late Mesolithic periods, suggesting repeated visits by humans for at least 5,000 years from the Late Glacial Interstadial through the Loch Lomond Readvance and up to the mid-Holocene, a time of dynamic climatic and sea-level change. South Cuidrach is one of several sites in the north of the Isle of Skye and around the Inner…
The Effect of Plant Food Treatment on Stable Isotopes and Their Relevance for Archaeological Studies
Plants are a crucial part of the human diet, serving as a primary source of micronutrients, fiber, and carbohydrates, providing readily available energy. Beyond the consumption of cooked and raw edible plants, early humans also developed methods for plant processing for delayed consumption, to de-toxify/improve bioavailability, and perhaps for flavor. In later prehistory delayed consumption includes preservation processes for storage. The process…
Freddy Lambert as "Narractor" of "Cambio de Piel
The fact that Freddy Lambert is really a narractor and not simply a narrator seems to trigger a chain reaction within the novel, one which affects both the novel's structure and language. As important as the internal reaction itself is the effect which this interaction produces on the reader. Principally because of the narrative role which Freddy Lambert assumes, the notion of reader as passive observer is challenged and denied. Freddy Lambert ma…
The Preceramic Sequence From the Tehuacan Valley
On the Tehuacán Project
Lithic Implements and the Circulationof Raw Materials in the Great Hungarian Plain During the Late Neolithic Period
Scotland's First Settlers
BackgroundThe Mesolithic occupation of Scotland began soon after the end of the last glaciation, between 10,000 and 9000 years ago. Considerablc research has been undertaken in the past two decades (Mithen 2000; Pollard & Morrison 1996; Woodman 1989; Young 2000); much has been published, more is awaited, and work continues apace. Mesolithic sites occur throughout Scotland, though recent archaeological activity has been concentrated on the western…
Material Perspectives
Flaked stone tools are synonymous with prehistory to the extent that it is arguable that without these, the discipline would not exist. Yet we know relatively little about how people used them and what role they played within the material cultures of which they formed a part. The opportunity to study habitual users of flaked tools in an ethnographic context has always been limited and is now arguably non-existent. But in 1983, despite having stee…
Living Lithics
This paper represents the joint work of two very different specialists. The fieldwork was undertaken by Sillitoe as part of his ethnographic research in Papua New Guinea (PNG) and the interpretative work was done by an archaeologist, Hardy. The work described here represents some of the last direct evidence from users of stone tools. It shows how procurement, manufacture, use, storage and the relative roles of men and women in the process was dep…
Starch granules, dental calculus and new perspectives on ancient diet
Prehistoric string theory. How twisted fibres helped to shape the world
The author reviews the role of string in early human communities, using prehistoric and ethnographic evidence. Fibres, rolled into string, offer a technical means of holding things together; but the process of manufacturing string itself inspired special roles and structures - which in turn held together the members of communities
Automated classification of starch granules using supervised pattern recognition of morphological properties
Microtaphonomy in archaeological sites
Neanderthal self-medication in context
In a recent study, Hardy et al. (2012) identified compounds from two non-nutritional plants, yarrow and camomile, in a sample of Neanderthal dental calculus from the northern Spanish site of El Sidrón. Both these plants are bitter tasting and have little nutritional value but are well known for their medicinal qualities. Bitter taste can signal poison. We know that the bitter taste perception gene TAS2R38 was present among the Neanderthals of El …
Dental Calculus Reveals Unique Insights into Food Items, Cooking and Plant Processing in Prehistoric Central Sudan
Accessing information on plant consumption before the adoption of agriculture is challenging. However, there is growing evidence for use of locally available wild plants from an increasing number of pre-agrarian sites, suggesting broad ecological knowledge. The extraction of chemical compounds and microfossils from dental calculus removed from ancient teeth offers an entirely new perspective on dietary reconstruction, as it provides empirical res…
Variable Use of Coastal Resources in Prehistoric and Historic Periods in Western Scotland
Evidence for coastal resource use, in the form of shell middens, is found in many parts of the world, including along Scotland's west coast. Scotland's seas are among the most biologically productive in the world, and their coastlines have attracted human habitation throughout the Holocene. An outstanding record of the human use of coastal resources throughout the prehistoric and historic periods has endured here through a fortunate combination o…
Dental calculus reveals potential respiratory irritants and ingestion of essential plant-based nutrients at Lower Palaeolithic Qesem Cave Israel
Not Just Fuel
Shellfishing and shell midden construction in the Saloum Delta, Senegal
Scotland's intertidal prehistory
Sea-level rise and coastal change have impacted on the visibility of early to mid-Holocene sites worldwide. Due to the combination of eustatic and isostatic effects, modern coastal landscapes rarely reflect those occupied and exploited by prehistoric people. This suggests that intertidal and marine archaeology is set to become increasingly important in future studies of the coastal populations of prehistoric Britain. Though Scotland’s west coast …
Neanderthals, trees and dental calculus
Doctors, chefs or hominin animals? Non-edible plants and Neanderthals
In 2013, Hardyet al.offered a broad behavioural context for the hypothesis that the ingestion of non-nutritional plants (yarrow and camomile) by Neanderthals was for the purpose of self-medication. Chemical traces of these plants had been detected in samples of dental calculus from Neanderthals at the site of El Sidrón, Spain, along with traces of bitumen and wood smoke, as well as starch granules that showed evidence of roasting (Hardyet al.2012…
Neanderthal behaviour, diet, and disease inferred from ancient DNA in dental calculus
Amas et sites coquilliers du delta du Saloum (Sénégal)
Pleistocene dental calculus
Dental calculus is now widely used to recover information on items ingested in the past. It is particularly valuable in the earlier Paleolithic, where recovered data may represent the only evidence for plant use. Several recovery methods are used and each one produces different results. Biomolecular markers and genetic material recovered from dental calculus is providing new data on identifiable dietary and medicinal items and human microbial com…
Paleomedicine and the use of plant secondary compounds in the Paleolithic and Early Neolithic
Reconstructing plant use before domestication is challenging due to a lack of evidence. Yet, on the small number of sites with assemblages, the wide range of different plant species cannot be explained simply in terms of nutrition. Assemblages from the Lower Paleolithic to the Early Neolithic were examined to investigate the relative edible and medicinal properties of the plants. The assemblages contain a mixture of edible species, plants that ar…
Dexamethasone Alters Tracheal Aspirate T-Cell Cytokine Production in Ventilated Preterm Infants
Postnatal corticosteroids improve respiratory status and facilitate respiratory support weaning in preterm infants with bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD). Older literature describes characteristic cytokine profiles in tracheal aspirates (TA) of BPD patients which are altered with corticosteroids. Corticosteroids also influence peripheral blood T-cell presence. However, little is known regarding TA T-cell phenotype and cytokine production before or…
Archaeology (26 works) · Geography (26 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (23 works) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (17 works) · Biology (16 works) · Geology (9 works) · Ecology (8 works) · History (8 works) · Prehistory (8 works) · Ecology (7 works)