Patricia S Bridges
Biographic Data
| ID | 3636413 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Patricia S Bridges |
| GIVEN NAMES | Patricia S |
| FAMILY NAME | Bridges |
| SIGNATURE | BRIDGES P S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queens College, CUNY |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 294 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Warfare-Related Trauma in the Late Prehistory of Alabama
What Mean These Bones?
Skeletal Evidence of Changes in Subsistence Activities Between the Archaic and Mississippian Time Periods in Northwestern Alabama
Changes in long bone diaphyseal strength with horticultural intensification in west-central Illinois
This study examines changes in long bone diaphyseal strength in west-central Illinois from the Middle Woodland through the Mississippian periods. Significant differences occur between the Middle Woodland and the Late Woodland periods, at the time when use of native seed crops intensifies. In females, both humeral and femoral strength increases, which may be related to their role in growing and processing these crops. In males, right arm strength …
Bioarchaeology of the Stillwater Marsh
Bioarchaeology of the Stillwater Marsh
Warfare and mortality at Koger's Island, Alabama
Koger's Island, a late prehistoric agricultural community in the southeastern USA, is the site of a cemetery containing four mass graves of individuals with perimortem trauma and scalping cutmarks. Although the site as a whole has a demographic profile typical for a society of this kind (with high infant mortality), the mass graves contain relatively few infants or children, and an abundance of adult males. It is suggested that the skeletons foun…
Skeletal biology and behavior in ancient humans
For many years, it has been known that archaic hominids had more robust long bones than do living populations, a fact that has been linked to their more physically strenuous lives. But many questions remain. How much stronger, for example, were Neanderthals than living humans? And what does this difference in strength tell us about the behavior of our ancestors? Recent research has shown that some of our earlier assumptions about robusticity and …
Vertebral arthritis and physical activities in the prehistoric Southeastern United States
Vertebral arthritis is examined in a prehistoric Native American sample from northwestern Alabama. Both osteophytosis (OP) of the vertebral bodies and osteoarthritis (OA) of the apophyseal facets are highest in the lumbar vertebrae, followed by the cervical and thoracic segments, although differences are much more striking in OP. OA is bilaterally asymmetric, with greater prevalence on the right side in the upper thoracic region. Much of the patt…
Reply to Dr Knüsel
The effect of variation in methodology on the outcome of osteoarthritic studies
There is a great deal of variability in how osteoarthritis is scored and analysed. This paper compares several commonly used techniques of data presentation and analysis, using a prehistorical skeletal sample from the southeastern USA. It finds that these methodologies result in greatly different outcomes, not only in the overall frequencies of lesions, but also in the statistical findings and in which joints apparently have the most arthritis. I…
Prehistoric Arthritis in the Americas
Infrastructures are material forms that allow for the possibility of exchange over space. They are the physical networks through which goods, ideas, waste, power, people, and finance are trafficked. In this article I trace the range of anthropological ...Read More
Degenerative joint disease in hunter–gatherers and agriculturalists from the Southeastern United States
This study examines degenerative joint disease of the major appendicular joints in hunter‐gatherers and agriculturalists from northwestern Alabama. Arthritis is highest at the shoulder, elbow, and knee and lower at the hip and ankle. There are virtually no sex differences in the hunter‐gatherer group, but in the agriculturalists, males have more severe osteoarthritis than females. The hunters‐gatherers have a somewhat greater prevalence of arthri…
Bone cortical area in the evaluation of nutrition and activity levels
This study compares the differing impacts of nutrition and habitual activities on cortical area. While nutrition should have a systemic effect on cortical area, activities are more likely to result to localized changes in either cortical area, its distribution, or both. Two groups from the Southeastern United States were examined here: Archaic hunter‐gatherers and Mississippian agriculturalists. Cross‐sectional area and strength were greater in t…
The Sargent Site Ossuary (25CU28), Custer County, Nebraska
The analysis of a small Central Plains Tradition ossuary, recovered during salvage excavations near the town of Sargent, Nebraska, highlights both the potentials and current limitations in the understanding of small mortuary occurrences. The Sargent Site Ossuary, which contained the remains of at least twelve adults, yielded evidence both for the mutilation of some, if not all, of the individuals represented in the ossuary and for the differentia…
Spondylolysis and its relationship to degenerative joint disease in the prehistoric Southeastern United States
Spondylolysis, a fatigue fracture in the neural arch of lumbar vertebrae, is common in Eskimos and some athletes. In Archaic Indians from northwestern Alabama, 17% of males and 20% of females with complete lumbar regions showed this defect. It is found at a fairly early age in adult males in this group, but in females it does not appear until after age 40 years. Spondylolysis is associated with higher levels of osteoarthritis around the fifth lum…
Changes in Activities with the Shift to Agriculture in the Southeastern United States
Demography and Human Origins
Changes in Activities with the Shift to Agriculture in the Southeastern United States
Prehistoric Arthritis in the Americas
Infrastructures are material forms that allow for the possibility of exchange over space. They are the physical networks through which goods, ideas, waste, power, people, and finance are trafficked. In this article I trace the range of anthropological ...Read More
Degenerative joint disease in hunter–gatherers and agriculturalists from the Southeastern United States
This study examines degenerative joint disease of the major appendicular joints in hunter‐gatherers and agriculturalists from northwestern Alabama. Arthritis is highest at the shoulder, elbow, and knee and lower at the hip and ankle. There are virtually no sex differences in the hunter‐gatherer group, but in the agriculturalists, males have more severe osteoarthritis than females. The hunters‐gatherers have a somewhat greater prevalence of arthri…
Vertebral arthritis and physical activities in the prehistoric Southeastern United States
Vertebral arthritis is examined in a prehistoric Native American sample from northwestern Alabama. Both osteophytosis (OP) of the vertebral bodies and osteoarthritis (OA) of the apophyseal facets are highest in the lumbar vertebrae, followed by the cervical and thoracic segments, although differences are much more striking in OP. OA is bilaterally asymmetric, with greater prevalence on the right side in the upper thoracic region. Much of the patt…
Spondylolysis and its relationship to degenerative joint disease in the prehistoric Southeastern United States
Spondylolysis, a fatigue fracture in the neural arch of lumbar vertebrae, is common in Eskimos and some athletes. In Archaic Indians from northwestern Alabama, 17% of males and 20% of females with complete lumbar regions showed this defect. It is found at a fairly early age in adult males in this group, but in females it does not appear until after age 40 years. Spondylolysis is associated with higher levels of osteoarthritis around the fifth lum…
Demography and Human Origins
The effect of variation in methodology on the outcome of osteoarthritic studies
There is a great deal of variability in how osteoarthritis is scored and analysed. This paper compares several commonly used techniques of data presentation and analysis, using a prehistorical skeletal sample from the southeastern USA. It finds that these methodologies result in greatly different outcomes, not only in the overall frequencies of lesions, but also in the statistical findings and in which joints apparently have the most arthritis. I…
The Sargent Site Ossuary (25CU28), Custer County, Nebraska
The analysis of a small Central Plains Tradition ossuary, recovered during salvage excavations near the town of Sargent, Nebraska, highlights both the potentials and current limitations in the understanding of small mortuary occurrences. The Sargent Site Ossuary, which contained the remains of at least twelve adults, yielded evidence both for the mutilation of some, if not all, of the individuals represented in the ossuary and for the differentia…
Reply to Dr Knüsel
Demography and Human Origins
Bone cortical area in the evaluation of nutrition and activity levels
This study compares the differing impacts of nutrition and habitual activities on cortical area. While nutrition should have a systemic effect on cortical area, activities are more likely to result to localized changes in either cortical area, its distribution, or both. Two groups from the Southeastern United States were examined here: Archaic hunter‐gatherers and Mississippian agriculturalists. Cross‐sectional area and strength were greater in t…
The Sargent Site Ossuary (25CU28), Custer County, Nebraska
The analysis of a small Central Plains Tradition ossuary, recovered during salvage excavations near the town of Sargent, Nebraska, highlights both the potentials and current limitations in the understanding of small mortuary occurrences. The Sargent Site Ossuary, which contained the remains of at least twelve adults, yielded evidence both for the mutilation of some, if not all, of the individuals represented in the ossuary and for the differentia…
Spondylolysis and its relationship to degenerative joint disease in the prehistoric Southeastern United States
Spondylolysis, a fatigue fracture in the neural arch of lumbar vertebrae, is common in Eskimos and some athletes. In Archaic Indians from northwestern Alabama, 17% of males and 20% of females with complete lumbar regions showed this defect. It is found at a fairly early age in adult males in this group, but in females it does not appear until after age 40 years. Spondylolysis is associated with higher levels of osteoarthritis around the fifth lum…
Changes in Activities with the Shift to Agriculture in the Southeastern United States
Degenerative joint disease in hunter–gatherers and agriculturalists from the Southeastern United States
This study examines degenerative joint disease of the major appendicular joints in hunter‐gatherers and agriculturalists from northwestern Alabama. Arthritis is highest at the shoulder, elbow, and knee and lower at the hip and ankle. There are virtually no sex differences in the hunter‐gatherer group, but in the agriculturalists, males have more severe osteoarthritis than females. The hunters‐gatherers have a somewhat greater prevalence of arthri…
Prehistoric Arthritis in the Americas
Infrastructures are material forms that allow for the possibility of exchange over space. They are the physical networks through which goods, ideas, waste, power, people, and finance are trafficked. In this article I trace the range of anthropological ...Read More
Reply to Dr Knüsel
The effect of variation in methodology on the outcome of osteoarthritic studies
There is a great deal of variability in how osteoarthritis is scored and analysed. This paper compares several commonly used techniques of data presentation and analysis, using a prehistorical skeletal sample from the southeastern USA. It finds that these methodologies result in greatly different outcomes, not only in the overall frequencies of lesions, but also in the statistical findings and in which joints apparently have the most arthritis. I…
Vertebral arthritis and physical activities in the prehistoric Southeastern United States
Vertebral arthritis is examined in a prehistoric Native American sample from northwestern Alabama. Both osteophytosis (OP) of the vertebral bodies and osteoarthritis (OA) of the apophyseal facets are highest in the lumbar vertebrae, followed by the cervical and thoracic segments, although differences are much more striking in OP. OA is bilaterally asymmetric, with greater prevalence on the right side in the upper thoracic region. Much of the patt…
Skeletal biology and behavior in ancient humans
For many years, it has been known that archaic hominids had more robust long bones than do living populations, a fact that has been linked to their more physically strenuous lives. But many questions remain. How much stronger, for example, were Neanderthals than living humans? And what does this difference in strength tell us about the behavior of our ancestors? Recent research has shown that some of our earlier assumptions about robusticity and …
Warfare and mortality at Koger's Island, Alabama
Koger's Island, a late prehistoric agricultural community in the southeastern USA, is the site of a cemetery containing four mass graves of individuals with perimortem trauma and scalping cutmarks. Although the site as a whole has a demographic profile typical for a society of this kind (with high infant mortality), the mass graves contain relatively few infants or children, and an abundance of adult males. It is suggested that the skeletons foun…
Bioarchaeology of the Stillwater Marsh
Bioarchaeology of the Stillwater Marsh
Changes in long bone diaphyseal strength with horticultural intensification in west-central Illinois
This study examines changes in long bone diaphyseal strength in west-central Illinois from the Middle Woodland through the Mississippian periods. Significant differences occur between the Middle Woodland and the Late Woodland periods, at the time when use of native seed crops intensifies. In females, both humeral and femoral strength increases, which may be related to their role in growing and processing these crops. In males, right arm strength …
What Mean These Bones?
Skeletal Evidence of Changes in Subsistence Activities Between the Archaic and Mississippian Time Periods in Northwestern Alabama
Warfare-Related Trauma in the Late Prehistory of Alabama
Archaeology (10 works) · Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (9 works) · Geography (9 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · History (6 works) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (6 works) · Prehistory (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (4 works) · Library science (4 works)