J Freeman
Biographic Data
| ID | 4267 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Freeman |
| GIVEN NAMES | J |
| FAMILY NAME | Freeman |
| SIGNATURE | FREEMAN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Utah State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7402-8450 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 158 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1927 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Long-Term Population Dynamics Following Innovations in Food Production
Researchers often posit that innovations in the production of food impact the long-term carrying capacity of human populations. Yet, this proposition has rarely been evaluated by a systematic comparison of different innovations in food production and population dynamics over deep-time. To fill this knowledge gap, we use an Ideal Specialization Model (ISM) to explain how innovations in networks of technology may drive different patterns of populat…
Prenatal readiness for fatherhood, paternal engagement, and child social–emotional competence
The present study utilized a person-centered approach to identify profiles of prenatal readiness for parenthood among a sample of 126 unmarried Black American fathers living in the southeastern United States. Further, prenatal readiness for fatherhood profiles were examined as predictors of distal outcomes of both paternal engagement in early infancy and socioemotional competence in toddlerhood. Expectant fathers reported prenatally on a series o…
The effects of resources and population expansion on female–male protein consumption among hunter-gatherers
An Agent-Based Model of Hierarchical Information-Sharing Organizations in Asynchronous Environments
Most organizations use command hierarchies—the type of hierarchy depicted in a common organizational chart—but it is not well understood why and how environments make this structure useful. One possibility is that command hierarchies provide positive net benefits when groups of agents must respond to changes in the environment, particularly when each group memberâ€TMs local conditions are similar and somewhat synchronous. We ask: How does the per…
Population expansion and intensification from a Malthus-Boserup perspective
Hunter-Gatherer Population Expansion and Intensification
Repeated long-term population growth overshoots and recessions among hunter-gatherers
We propose a model that may explain long-term population growth and decline events among human populations: The intensification of production generates a tradeoff between the adaptive capacity of individuals to generate a surplus of energy to maximize their fitness in the short-run and the long-term capacity of a population as a whole to experience a smooth transition into a demographic equilibrium. The model reconciles the conflicting insights o…
Infrastructure and the Energy Use of Human Polities
This paper integrates scaling theory with variation in systems of governance to help explain cross-cultural differences in the energy use of human polities. In both industrial and pre-industrial polities, systems of governance moderate the scaling of population and energy use. Polities with more inclusive governance systems display, on average, lower energy use per agent. However, as populations increase in size, the energy consumed by polities w…
A New Radiocarbon Database for the Lower 48 States
From 2014 to 2020, we compiled radiocarbon ages from the lower 48 states, creating a database of more than 100,000 archaeological, geological, and paleontological ages that will be freely available to researchers through the Canadian Archaeological Radiocarbon Database. Here, we discuss the process used to compile ages, general characteristics of the database, and lessons learned from this exercise in 'big data' compilation
Past maize consumption correlates with population change in Central Western Argentina
Landscape Engineering Impacts the Long-Term Stability of Agricultural Populations
Radiocarbon data may support a Malthus-Boserup model of hunter-gatherer population expansion
A first empirical analysis of population stability in North America using radiocarbon records
Questions regarding population stability among animals and plants are fundamental to population ecology, yet this has not been a topic studied by archeologists focusing on prehistoric human populations. This is an important knowledge gap. The fluctuation of human populations over decades to centuries – population instability – may constrain the expansion of human economies. A first step toward describing basic patterns of population stability wou…
The global ecology of human population density and interpreting changes in paleo-population density
A Landscape Perspective on Climate-Driven Risks to Food Security
Spatially and temporally unpredictable rainfall patterns presented food production challenges to small-scale agricultural communities, requiring multiple risk-mitigating strategies to increase food security. Although site-based investigations of the relationship between climate and agricultural production offer insights into how individual communities may have created long-term adaptations to manage risk, the inherent spatial variability of clima…
The effect of ownership on ecosystem management among human foragers
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The Effects of Revenue and Social Capital on Collective Governance
We evaluate two models that may explain variation in the inclusiveness of governments and their ability to provision public goods. The revenue model predicts that a government’s source of revenue determines whether elites invest in effective bureaucracy and the provision of public goods that benefit wide swaths of society or the extraction of resources from society to benefit a limited network. In this model, a cooperative society with high socia…
A theory of regime change on the Texas Coastal Plain
Examining the Psychometric Properties of the Pediatric Quality of Life Enjoyment and Satisfaction Questionnaire in Two Samples of Youth with OCD
Marking and Making Differences
Diversity is generally valued, although it sometimes contributes to difficult social situations, as is recognized in recent social science literature. Archaeology can provide insights into how diverse social situations play out over the long term. There are many kinds of diversities, and we propose representational diversity as a distinct category. Representational diversity specifically concerns how and whether differences are marked or masked m…
Characteristics of Young Children with Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder
Toward a theory of non-linear transitions from foraging to farming
The socioecology of hunter-gatherer territory size
Hierarchical method using ethnographic data sets to guide archaeological research
Some Sources of Interviewer Variance in Surveys
Interviewer variance is examined for 33 interviewers and 3,000 interviews, with age, sex, socioeconomic status, social mobility, and interviewer ratings as key variables. It differs among interview schedule items and is influenced by combinations of sex and age of interviewers and respondents. Selecting interviewers and assigning households-respondents to them is a complex process, and matching interviewers with respondents on "face sheet" charac…
Toward a theory of non-linear transitions from foraging to farming
The socioecology of hunter-gatherer territory size
The global ecology of human population density and interpreting changes in paleo-population density
Marking and Making Differences
Diversity is generally valued, although it sometimes contributes to difficult social situations, as is recognized in recent social science literature. Archaeology can provide insights into how diverse social situations play out over the long term. There are many kinds of diversities, and we propose representational diversity as a distinct category. Representational diversity specifically concerns how and whether differences are marked or masked m…
Hierarchical method using ethnographic data sets to guide archaeological research
Alternative adaptive regimes for integrating foraging and farming activities
A first empirical analysis of population stability in North America using radiocarbon records
Questions regarding population stability among animals and plants are fundamental to population ecology, yet this has not been a topic studied by archeologists focusing on prehistoric human populations. This is an important knowledge gap. The fluctuation of human populations over decades to centuries – population instability – may constrain the expansion of human economies. A first step toward describing basic patterns of population stability wou…
Intensification, Tipping Points, and Social Change in a Coupled Forager-Resource System
A New Radiocarbon Database for the Lower 48 States
From 2014 to 2020, we compiled radiocarbon ages from the lower 48 states, creating a database of more than 100,000 archaeological, geological, and paleontological ages that will be freely available to researchers through the Canadian Archaeological Radiocarbon Database. Here, we discuss the process used to compile ages, general characteristics of the database, and lessons learned from this exercise in 'big data' compilation
A comparative ethnoarchaeological analysis of corporate territorial ownership
Radiocarbon data may support a Malthus-Boserup model of hunter-gatherer population expansion
Past maize consumption correlates with population change in Central Western Argentina
Hunter-Gatherer Population Expansion and Intensification
Repeated long-term population growth overshoots and recessions among hunter-gatherers
We propose a model that may explain long-term population growth and decline events among human populations: The intensification of production generates a tradeoff between the adaptive capacity of individuals to generate a surplus of energy to maximize their fitness in the short-run and the long-term capacity of a population as a whole to experience a smooth transition into a demographic equilibrium. The model reconciles the conflicting insights o…
A Landscape Perspective on Climate-Driven Risks to Food Security
Spatially and temporally unpredictable rainfall patterns presented food production challenges to small-scale agricultural communities, requiring multiple risk-mitigating strategies to increase food security. Although site-based investigations of the relationship between climate and agricultural production offer insights into how individual communities may have created long-term adaptations to manage risk, the inherent spatial variability of clima…
Crop Specialization, Exchange and Robustness in a Semi-arid Environment
Infrastructure and the Energy Use of Human Polities
This paper integrates scaling theory with variation in systems of governance to help explain cross-cultural differences in the energy use of human polities. In both industrial and pre-industrial polities, systems of governance moderate the scaling of population and energy use. Polities with more inclusive governance systems display, on average, lower energy use per agent. However, as populations increase in size, the energy consumed by polities w…
The Effects of Revenue and Social Capital on Collective Governance
We evaluate two models that may explain variation in the inclusiveness of governments and their ability to provision public goods. The revenue model predicts that a government’s source of revenue determines whether elites invest in effective bureaucracy and the provision of public goods that benefit wide swaths of society or the extraction of resources from society to benefit a limited network. In this model, a cooperative society with high socia…
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Some Sources of Interviewer Variance in Surveys
Interviewer variance is examined for 33 interviewers and 3,000 interviews, with age, sex, socioeconomic status, social mobility, and interviewer ratings as key variables. It differs among interview schedule items and is influenced by combinations of sex and age of interviewers and respondents. Selecting interviewers and assigning households-respondents to them is a complex process, and matching interviewers with respondents on "face sheet" charac…
Women
Postmodernism and Popular Culture
Journal Article Postmodernism and Popular Culture: A Cultural History Get access JOHN DOCKER . Cambrigge University Press , 1995 . 328 pp., 10 b&w illus cloth ISBN 0521 460 45 £11.95 paper. ISBN 0521 465 982 . JUNE FREEMAN JUNE FREEMAN Nayland, Essex Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Design History, Volume 8, Issue 4, 1995, Pages 315–318, https://doi.org/10.1093/jdh/8.4.315 Published: 01 December …
Recall and response of smokers and recent quitters to the Australian National Tobacco Campaign
A national campaign using graphic advertising to emphasise the health risks of smoking can make significant population wide contributions to improving new learning about smoking damage and positively influence attitudes about smoking risks
Impact of tobacco tax reforms on tobacco prices and tobacco use in Australia
The fall in smoking prevalence over the first two phases of the NTC was substantially greater than would be expected due to tax changes alone. The fall in smoking consumption over the first two phases was slightly less than would be expected and in the third considerably higher than would be expected
Still Struggling
Alternative adaptive regimes for integrating foraging and farming activities
Intensification, Tipping Points, and Social Change in a Coupled Forager-Resource System
A comparative ethnoarchaeological analysis of corporate territorial ownership
Crop Specialization, Exchange and Robustness in a Semi-arid Environment
Characteristics of Young Children with Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder
Toward a theory of non-linear transitions from foraging to farming
The socioecology of hunter-gatherer territory size
Hierarchical method using ethnographic data sets to guide archaeological research
Examining the Psychometric Properties of the Pediatric Quality of Life Enjoyment and Satisfaction Questionnaire in Two Samples of Youth with OCD
Marking and Making Differences
Diversity is generally valued, although it sometimes contributes to difficult social situations, as is recognized in recent social science literature. Archaeology can provide insights into how diverse social situations play out over the long term. There are many kinds of diversities, and we propose representational diversity as a distinct category. Representational diversity specifically concerns how and whether differences are marked or masked m…
A theory of regime change on the Texas Coastal Plain
Full Issue
helping you define your philanthropic purpose offering detailed guidance to ensure that the assets you dedicate to charity are disbursed as you intend outlining common pitfalls, relevant tradeoffs, and successful strategies used by other donors
The Effects of Revenue and Social Capital on Collective Governance
We evaluate two models that may explain variation in the inclusiveness of governments and their ability to provision public goods. The revenue model predicts that a government’s source of revenue determines whether elites invest in effective bureaucracy and the provision of public goods that benefit wide swaths of society or the extraction of resources from society to benefit a limited network. In this model, a cooperative society with high socia…
The effect of ownership on ecosystem management among human foragers
A first empirical analysis of population stability in North America using radiocarbon records
Questions regarding population stability among animals and plants are fundamental to population ecology, yet this has not been a topic studied by archeologists focusing on prehistoric human populations. This is an important knowledge gap. The fluctuation of human populations over decades to centuries – population instability – may constrain the expansion of human economies. A first step toward describing basic patterns of population stability wou…
The global ecology of human population density and interpreting changes in paleo-population density
A Landscape Perspective on Climate-Driven Risks to Food Security
Spatially and temporally unpredictable rainfall patterns presented food production challenges to small-scale agricultural communities, requiring multiple risk-mitigating strategies to increase food security. Although site-based investigations of the relationship between climate and agricultural production offer insights into how individual communities may have created long-term adaptations to manage risk, the inherent spatial variability of clima…
Landscape Engineering Impacts the Long-Term Stability of Agricultural Populations
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