E Pilaar Birch

Biographic Data

ID6114
NAMEE Pilaar Birch
GIVEN NAMESE Pilaar
FAMILY NAMEBirch
SIGNATUREBIRCH E P
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Georgia
ORCID0000-0003-1544-5881
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS32
TOTAL CITATIONS214
AUTHOR COUNT32
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1850
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX5

  • Emerging strontium isoscapes of Anatolia (Türkiye)

    Open AccessGökçe Bike Yazıcıoğlu, David Meiggs et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Environmental…2025

    Introduction The use of strontium isotope ratio ( 87 Sr/ 86 Sr) analysis in ancient mobility studies in the archaeology of Anatolia (modern Türkiye) has steadily grown since the early 2010s. However, a coherent map of the isotopic variability of bioavailable Sr (isoscape) does not exist for the region and the paucity of baseline data that is necessary for the interpretation of archaeological data significantly constrains the heuristic power of th…

  • A twentieth-century history of the Georgia Museum of Natural History

    Open AccessSavannah Chruszcz, E Pilaar BirchARTICLEJournal of the History of…2025

    The Georgia Museum of Natural History is located on the campus of the University of Georgia, Athens. Its roots can be traced to the founding of the university in 1785. This paper reviews decades’ worth of university annual reports and newspaper articles to provide a comprehensive twentieth-century history of the museum and its collections. While many other comparable university museums would eventually be dissolved or would acquire the funds firm…

  • Improving identification of caprine mandibles

    Open AccessMelina Seabrook, Christine A Mikeska et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science…2025References: 7

  • Bronze Age agropastoral management in central Cyprus and along the Jordan Rift

    Open AccessPatricia L Fall, Steven E Falconer et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science…2025References: 7

  • Inequality at the Dawn of the Bronze Age

    Open AccessDavid Wengrow, B R Hassett et al.ARTICLECambridge Archaeological Journal2025References: 28

    On the upper reaches of the Tigris and Euphrates, archaeologists encounter evidence that challenges conventional understandings of early state formation as a transition from ‘small-scale, egalitarian’ to ‘large-scale, stratified’ societies. One such location is the Early Bronze Age cemetery of Başur Höyük, which presents evidence of grand funerary rituals—including ‘retainer burials’ and spectacular deposits of metallic wealth—in an otherwise sma…

  • Domestic herbivore mobility and herd management at Bronze Age Politiko-Troullia, Cyprus

    Open AccessE Pilaar Birch, Mary Metzger et al.ARTICLEArchaeological and Anthropological…2025Cited by: 1References: 53

    This study presents stable isotope analysis of carbon (δ13C) and oxygen (δ18O) from goat, sheep, and cattle teeth excavated from the Bronze Age village of Politiko-Troullia, Cyprus. The δ18O of local water sources and converted δ18Odrinking water values are used to demonstrate the dietary inputs for goats as compared to those for sheep and cattle. We infer the browsing and grazing behavior of these taxa to reflect different herd management strate…

  • No Pay, Low Pay, and Unequal Pay

    Open AccessB R Hassett, Brenna Hassett et al.CHAPTERWomen in Archaeology2023

  • An osteometric analysis of elk ( Cervus elaphus manitobensis ) from Great Smoky Mountains National Park

    Open AccessClaire E Brandes, E Pilaar BirchARTICLEInternational Journal of…2023References: 8

    Teeth are commonly preserved in the zooarchaeological record and can be used to estimate the age of individuals in a faunal assemblage. However, there are currently no criteria for discerning the sex of elk based on dental metric characteristics. Here, we present the results of an osteometric analysis of modern elk ( Cervus elaphus manitobensis ) from Great Smoky Mountains National Park to create an age profile for the sample, establish metrical …

  • Prehistoric Bronze Age Radiocarbon Chronology at Politiko- Troullia , Cyprus

    Open AccessSteven E Falconer, Elizabeth Ridder et al.ARTICLERadiocarbon2023Cited by: 1References: 36

    Politiko- Troullia has generated the largest radiocarbon ( 14 C) dataset from a Prehistoric Bronze Age settlement on Cyprus. We present Bayesian modeling of 25 calibrated AMS ages, which contributes to an emerging multi-site 14 C chronology for Cyprus covering most of the Prehistoric Bronze Age. Our analysis places the six stratified phases of occupation at Troullia between about 2050 and 1850 cal BCE, in contrast to a longer estimated occupation…

  • Bayesian Modeling of a Peripheral Middle Bronze Age Settlement at Zahrat Adh-Dhra‘ 1, Jordan

    Open AccessPatricia L Fall, Elizabeth Ridder et al.ARTICLERadiocarbon2023References: 44

    Analysis of 20 calibrated accelerator mass spectrometry radiocarbon (AMS 14 C) ages reveals a chronology for the habitation of a unique peripheral settlement at Zahrat adh-Dhra‘ 1 (ZAD 1), Jordan during the Middle Bronze Age of the Southern Levant. Bayesian modeling distinguishes three phases of occupation between the first settlement at ZAD 1, perhaps as early as about 2050 cal BCE, and its abandonment by 1700 cal BCE. ZAD 1 represents a margina…

  • Uncovering the early history of the Georgia Museum of Natural History, 1785–1900

    Open AccessMegan McPherson, Byron J Freeman et al.ARTICLEJournal of the History of…2021

    Although it holds one of the largest university-based natural history collections in the United States, little has been known historically about the early development of the Georgia Museum of Natural History at the University of Georgia in Athens. Formally established in 1978, it was recognized as the state museum of natural history in 1999, but the findings presented here reveal that the origins of the museum’s collections date to much earlier: …

  • Impacts of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Women and Early Career Archaeologists

    Open AccessJulie A Hoggarth, Sylvia Batty et al.ARTICLEHeritage2021Cited by: 4References: 9

    The COVID-19 pandemic has had far-reaching impacts in all segments of life worldwide. While a variety of surveys have assessed the impacts of the pandemic in other fields, few studies have focused on understanding the short- and long-term impacts of the pandemic for archaeology. To assess these trends, we asked survey respondents (n = 570) if they experienced job loss and to rate the percentage of change in their economic situation, workload, tea…

  • Isotope paleodietary analysis of humans from Chalcolithic Uğurlu, Gökçeada Island, Turkey

    Open AccessE Pilaar Birch, B Boz et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science…2021References: 10

  • The premise and potential of model-based approaches to island archaeology

    Thomas P Leppard, Robert J Dinapoli et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Island and Coastal…2021Cited by: 5References: 13

    In a recent paper published in The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology , John Terrell (2020) objected to the proposition that islands can offer model systems to study human behavior and ecodynamics (see Cherry and Leppard 2018; DiNapoli and Leppard 2018; DiNapoli et al. 2018; Fitzpatrick and Erlandson 2018; Kirch 2007; McLaughlin, Stoddart, and Malone 2018; Pilaar Birch 2018). He argues that a review of insular model systems in the study of…

  • Crop management and agricultural responses at Early Bronze IV Tell Abu en-Ni'aj, Jordan

    Open AccessSteven Porson, Steven E Falconer et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science2021Cited by: 3References: 10

  • Combined osteomorphological, isotopic, aDNA, and ZooMS analyses of sheep and goat remains from Neolithic Ulucak, Turkey

    Open AccessE Pilaar Birch, Suzanne E Pilaar Birch et al.ARTICLEArchaeological and Anthropological…2019Cited by: 19References: 67

  • Seasonal mobility and multispecies interactions in the Mesolithic northeastern Adriatic

    E Pilaar Birch, Suzanne E Pilaar BirchCHAPTERMultispecies Archaeology2018

    The traditional archaeological narrative surrounding the early Holocene in the Balkans tends to focus on changes in human cultural material, technology, and subsistence from the Mesolithic into the Neolithic. Demographic continuity—or lack thereof—has been a central debate, but recent models in the eastern Adriatic have increasingly recognized the spatially and temporally nuanced nature of this shift (e.g., Bass 2008; Forenbaher et al. 2013; Fore…

  • A Standard for the Scholarly Citation of Archaeological Data as an Incentive to Data Sharing

    Open AccessBen Marwick, E Pilaar BirchARTICLEAdvances in Archaeological Practice2018Cited by: 12References: 9

    How do archaeologists share their research data, if at all? We review what data are, according to current influential definitions, and previous work on the benefits, costs, and norms of data sharing in the sciences broadly. To understand data sharing in archaeology, we present the results of three pilot studies: requests for data by e-mail, review of data availability in published articles, and analysis of archaeological datasets deposited in rep…

  • A Standard for the Scholarly Citation of Archaeological Data as an Incentive to Data Sharing – Addendum

    Open AccessBen Marwick, E Pilaar BirchARTICLEAdvances in Archaeological Practice2018Cited by: 2References: 5

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  • Neolithic subsistence at Vela Špilja on the island of Lošinj, Croatia

    E Pilaar Birch, Suzanne E Pilaar BirchCHAPTEREconomic Zooarchaeology2017

  • A long hard road… Reviewing the evidence for environmental change and population history in the eastern Adriatic and western Balkans during the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene

    Open AccessE Pilaar Birch, Marc Vander LindenARTICLEQuaternary International2017

  • From the Aegean to the Adriatic

    E Pilaar BirchARTICLEThe Journal of Island and Coastal…2017Cited by: 4References: 23

    Frameworks for understanding Neolithization have increasingly recognized the complex and multifaceted nature of the spread of domesticates from Southwest Asia into Europe. But how do these factors interplay in unique island settings as compared to the continental scale? This article takes a comparative approach using sites located on islands from the Aegean and the Adriatic to discuss subsistence in the earliest Neolithic, between approximately 7…

  • If women have courage…among shepherds, sheiks, and scientists in Algeria

    E Pilaar BirchARTICLEAzania Archaeological Research in…2015

    ‘If women have courage, Madame Pond surely does!’ So begins this volume, a compilation of memoirs written in the 1970s about the author's time in North Africa during the late 1920s and early 1930s

  • Peer Comment

    Open AccessE Pilaar Birch, Suzanne Pilaar BirchARTICLEInternet Archaeology2015

    Peer comment on From Blogs to Books: Blogging as Community, Practice and Platform by William Caraher and Andrew Reinhard

  • Diversity and Demographics of Zooarchaeologists

    Open AccessE Pilaar BirchARTICLEEthnobiology Letters2015

    Nearly 25 years ago, a “Zooarchaeology Practitioner Survey” was distributed via conventional mail to individuals in the USA and Canada and received 122 responses over a period of several months in 1991. Now, a revised “Demographics in Zooarchaeology Survey” provides an update to those data and assesses the current state of the field. The 2014 survey remained open for 3 months and received 288 responses from practitioners worldwide. Global partici…