Michele Toomay Douglas
Biographic Data
| ID | 73228 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michele Toomay Douglas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michele Toomay |
| FAMILY NAME | Douglas |
| SIGNATURE | DOUGLAS M T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4982-1761 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 75 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Pietrusewsky, Michael
Resource utilisation and regional interaction in protohistoric Cambodia – The evidence from Angkor Borei
Skeletal and Dental Health of Precontact Marquesans
Skeletal and dental indicators (e.g., stature, linear enamel hypoplasia, cribra orbitalia, trauma, dental pathologies, and other evidence of disease) recorded in 45 subadult and 36 adult skeletons from the NHaa 1 site at Ha‘atuatua, Nuku Hiva, northern Marquesas, are used to examine the health, diet, and lifestyle of precontact Marquesans during the Expansion Period (ca. a.d. 1300–1600). Limited comparisons with skeletons from Hane on Ua Huka and…
Enigmatic Cranial Superstructures among Chamorro Ancestors from the Mariana Islands
Sublime expression of three ectocranial occipital superstructures (OSSs)—occipital torus tubercles (TOTs), retromastoid processes (PRs), and posterior supramastoid tubercles (TSPs)—is virtually restricted to Oceania, with epicenters in the Mariana Islands, Tonga, Mocha Island, and perhaps other Oceanic locales such as the West Sepik Coast of New Guinea. Enigmatic in etiology, OSSs are anatomically related to entheses for the trapezius, superior o…
Skeletal and Dental Health of Early Tongans
Using a variety of skeletal and dental indicators (e.g., stature, linear enamel hypoplasia, cribra orbitalia, infection, trauma, dental pathologies) recorded in 33 adult and 11 subadult skeletons from the To-At-36 site at Ha‘ateiho, Tongatapu, this study examines the health, diet, and lifestyle of precontact Tongans during the Tongan Chiefdom Period (ca. 750–150 BP). Limited comparisons with skeletons from the ‘Atele mound sites (To-At-1 and To-A…
Skeletal and dental health
In this paper, we examine the health, diet, and lifestyle of the early inhabitants of Fiji using non-specific and specific indicators of health recorded in 42 adult and six subadult skeletons excavated at the Sigatoka Sand Dunes site, VL 16/1, on Viti Levu, one of the largest samples of prehistoric skeletons from Fiji. Because the dates of the Sigatoka cemetery may coincide with contact with later intrusions of people from regions located to the …
Biocultural Practices during the Transition to History at the Vat Komnou Cemetery, Angkor Borei, Cambodia
Mainland Southeast Asia underwent dramatic changes after the mid-first millennium B.C.E., as its populations embraced new metallurgical and agricultural technologies. Southeast Asians transformed their physical and social environments further through their participation in international maritime trade networks. Early state formation characterized much of the mainland by the mid-first millennium C.E. We examined a protohistoric (200 B.C.E.–200 C.E…
Sex and Geographic Differences in Health of the Early Inhabitants of the Mariana Islands
The early inhabitants of the Mariana Islands encountered numerous challenges that likely affected their health, including island size, vulnerability to natural disasters, availability of resources, and shifts in climate. Other factors that could have led to differences in health include biological sex, social status, diet, and genetic factors (e.g., host resistance). This article examines the effects of environment and biological sex on the healt…
Patterns of health in Early Neolithic and Iron Age Taiwan
This study examines the health and lifestyle of some of Taiwan's earliest Neolithic inhabitants using skeletons from the Nankuanli East site (c. 5000–4200 BP) from the Tainan Science Park in southwestern Taiwan. Two indicators of health, cribra orbitalia and adult stature, and evidence of dental staining are reported for the first time. Comparisons between males and females, and between the early Neolithic Taiwan, Iron Age Taiwan (Shihsanhang sit…
Polynesian origins
Biological distance studies, especially those based on cranial and skeletal morphology, continue to provide physical anthropologists and bioarchaeologists with an exceptional set of mathematically based methods for understanding population relatedness and population history. Because of the demonstrated correlation between phenotypic and genotypic similarities, studies of cranial form, most notably cranial measurements, occupy a central role in mo…
Bioarchaeology of East Asia
Bioarchaeology of East Asia: Movement, Contact, Health. Edited by Kate Pechenkina and Marc Oxenham. University Press of Florida, Gainesville, FL. 2013. ISBN-13 978-0-8130-4427-9 (Hardback US $99.95
Health in Ancient Mariana Islanders
Previous investigation of health and lifestyle in the Mariana Islands indicated that the prehistoric inhabitants living on the smaller islands of this archipelago experienced more stress than those living on the larger islands. This article expands on previous research by using one of the largest datasets (N = 385) now available for examining the health of prehistoric skeletons from the Mariana Islands. A total of 13 indicators of health are inve…
Cultural Modifications in an Adolescent Earth-Oven Interment from Fiji
The incomplete skeletal remains of a young adolescent (10–12 years of age) recovered from the surface of an earth-oven in Qaranicagi Cave, Site Y2–39, Waya Island, Fiji are used to explore mortuary practices in these islands. Mortuary practices in Fiji are documented in explorer and missionary accounts, and a limited number of excavated burials. Additionally, cannibalism is ethnographically and archaeologically known in the region. Cannibalism ap…
Matrilocality during the prehistoric transition to agriculture in Thailand
Stable isotopes in teeth are providing important correlations between ancient people and the geographical location of their childhood homes. In an exciting new application, the authors measured the varying signatures of strontium, oxygen and carbon isotopes in the teeth of a sequence of people buried in Thailand during the period of the introduction and intensification of agriculture. Preliminary results point to the arrival of immigrant men, fol…
Culturally modified human remains recovered from an earth‐oven interment on Waya Island, Fiji
The incomplete skeletal remains of a young adolescent (10–12 years of age) were recovered from the uppermost layer of an earth‐oven at the Qaranicagi Site (Y2‐39), Waya Island, Fiji. Analysis of the remains revealed minimal fire or heat alteration. Cut marks are distributed across several elements and suggest at least partial butchering of the individual
Health in Late Prehistoric Thailand (review)
Reviewed by: Health in Late Prehistoric Thailand Michele T. Douglas Health in Late Prehistoric Thailand. Kathryn M. Domett. BAR International Series 946, Oxford: Archaeopress, 2001. xii + 180 pp, 48 figs., 100 tables, bibliography, $45.00. ISBN 1-84171-238-8. Health in Late Prehistoric Thailand is Kathryn M. Domett's Ph.D. dissertation in full. At a cost of approximately $45 (£30), the 180-page paperback volume, brightly bound in red, is an excel…
Intensification of Agriculture at Ban Chiang
Human skeletal remains excavated in 1974 -1975 at Ban Chiang, a premetal to Bronze/Iron Age site located in northeastern Thailand, are used to examine the health effects of sedentism and agricultural intensification. The archaeological sequence provides evidence for the introduction of iron and water buffalo in the Middle period, suggesting the beginning of intensified agriculture. The effects of this agricultural intensification on the paleodemo…
On Treponemal Disease in the Western Pacific
An assessment of health and disease in the prehistoric inhabitants of the Mariana Islands
Cultural alteration of human teeth in the Mariana Islands
Evidence of cultural dental modification in a precontact (pre-1521) skeletal sample from the Academy of Our Lady of Guam gymnasium site in Agana, Guam, is documented. Two of the four individuals recovered at the Academy Gym site exhibit modification of the maxillary teeth. One individual displays vertical incising of a single tooth, and the other exhibits horizontal abrading of the anterior teeth which may be a purposeful or an incidental alterat…
Skeletal biology of Apurguan
The human skeletal remains of a minimum of 152 individuals from the precontact Latte Period (AD 1000-1521) on Guam, Mariana Islands, are described. The sample, recovered at Apurguan, in the Tamuning District, is one of the largest series of well-provenienced Chamorro skeletal remains to be analyzed in recent years. The size and systematic nature of this database are a major contribution to the human biology of the region. Paleodemographic charact…
Cultural alteration of human teeth in the Mariana Islands
Evidence of cultural dental modification in a precontact (pre-1521) skeletal sample from the Academy of Our Lady of Guam gymnasium site in Agana, Guam, is documented. Two of the four individuals recovered at the Academy Gym site exhibit modification of the maxillary teeth. One individual displays vertical incising of a single tooth, and the other exhibits horizontal abrading of the anterior teeth which may be a purposeful or an incidental alterat…
Skeletal biology of Apurguan
An assessment of health and disease in the prehistoric inhabitants of the Mariana Islands
Using a variety of skeletal and dental stress indicators, an assessment of the health and disease of the indigenous inhabitants of the Mariana Islands, the Chamorro, is made. The major hypothesis to be tested is that the Chamorro were relatively healthy and that deviations from the expected, as well as inter-island variation, may reflect environmental, ecological, and cultural differences. The major skeletal series surveyed include sites on Guam …
Tooth ablation in old Hawai'i
L'etude de la pratique de l'ablation des dents, dans l'ancienne Hawai, a partir de 11 prelevements sur des squellettes hawaiens venant de 6 iles, montre : un faible pourcentage de cette pratique, qu'elle est plus frequente chez les hommes, qu'elle est absente chez les enfants et tres courante chez les adultes d'âge moyen. Des cas differents apparaissent : une ablation deliberee des 4 incisives superieures et de l'incisive centrale superieure chez…
Intensification of Agriculture at Ban Chiang
Human skeletal remains excavated in 1974 -1975 at Ban Chiang, a premetal to Bronze/Iron Age site located in northeastern Thailand, are used to examine the health effects of sedentism and agricultural intensification. The archaeological sequence provides evidence for the introduction of iron and water buffalo in the Middle period, suggesting the beginning of intensified agriculture. The effects of this agricultural intensification on the paleodemo…
Matrilocality during the prehistoric transition to agriculture in Thailand
Stable isotopes in teeth are providing important correlations between ancient people and the geographical location of their childhood homes. In an exciting new application, the authors measured the varying signatures of strontium, oxygen and carbon isotopes in the teeth of a sequence of people buried in Thailand during the period of the introduction and intensification of agriculture. Preliminary results point to the arrival of immigrant men, fol…
On Treponemal Disease in the Western Pacific
Culturally modified human remains recovered from an earth‐oven interment on Waya Island, Fiji
The incomplete skeletal remains of a young adolescent (10–12 years of age) were recovered from the uppermost layer of an earth‐oven at the Qaranicagi Site (Y2‐39), Waya Island, Fiji. Analysis of the remains revealed minimal fire or heat alteration. Cut marks are distributed across several elements and suggest at least partial butchering of the individual
Cultural Modifications in an Adolescent Earth-Oven Interment from Fiji
The incomplete skeletal remains of a young adolescent (10–12 years of age) recovered from the surface of an earth-oven in Qaranicagi Cave, Site Y2–39, Waya Island, Fiji are used to explore mortuary practices in these islands. Mortuary practices in Fiji are documented in explorer and missionary accounts, and a limited number of excavated burials. Additionally, cannibalism is ethnographically and archaeologically known in the region. Cannibalism ap…
Skeletal and Dental Health of Early Tongans
Using a variety of skeletal and dental indicators (e.g., stature, linear enamel hypoplasia, cribra orbitalia, infection, trauma, dental pathologies) recorded in 33 adult and 11 subadult skeletons from the To-At-36 site at Ha‘ateiho, Tongatapu, this study examines the health, diet, and lifestyle of precontact Tongans during the Tongan Chiefdom Period (ca. 750–150 BP). Limited comparisons with skeletons from the ‘Atele mound sites (To-At-1 and To-A…
Patterns of health in Early Neolithic and Iron Age Taiwan
This study examines the health and lifestyle of some of Taiwan's earliest Neolithic inhabitants using skeletons from the Nankuanli East site (c. 5000–4200 BP) from the Tainan Science Park in southwestern Taiwan. Two indicators of health, cribra orbitalia and adult stature, and evidence of dental staining are reported for the first time. Comparisons between males and females, and between the early Neolithic Taiwan, Iron Age Taiwan (Shihsanhang sit…
Bioarchaeology of East Asia
Bioarchaeology of East Asia: Movement, Contact, Health. Edited by Kate Pechenkina and Marc Oxenham. University Press of Florida, Gainesville, FL. 2013. ISBN-13 978-0-8130-4427-9 (Hardback US $99.95
Health in Ancient Mariana Islanders
Previous investigation of health and lifestyle in the Mariana Islands indicated that the prehistoric inhabitants living on the smaller islands of this archipelago experienced more stress than those living on the larger islands. This article expands on previous research by using one of the largest datasets (N = 385) now available for examining the health of prehistoric skeletons from the Mariana Islands. A total of 13 indicators of health are inve…
Wryneck in the ancient Hawaiians
A unique cranial asymmetry previously noted in the skeletal remains from Mokapu, O'ahu, Hawai'i, is described. The anomaly involves an indentation of one or both of the occipital condyles and facial and vault asymmetry. This examination of the asymmetry includes a search for other reported occurrences, a detailed description, and a differential diagnosis. A multiple working hypothesis approach is employed. Comparison of the osseous material with …
Resource utilisation and regional interaction in protohistoric Cambodia – The evidence from Angkor Borei
Skeletal and Dental Health of Precontact Marquesans
Skeletal and dental indicators (e.g., stature, linear enamel hypoplasia, cribra orbitalia, trauma, dental pathologies, and other evidence of disease) recorded in 45 subadult and 36 adult skeletons from the NHaa 1 site at Ha‘atuatua, Nuku Hiva, northern Marquesas, are used to examine the health, diet, and lifestyle of precontact Marquesans during the Expansion Period (ca. a.d. 1300–1600). Limited comparisons with skeletons from Hane on Ua Huka and…
Wryneck in the ancient Hawaiians
A unique cranial asymmetry previously noted in the skeletal remains from Mokapu, O'ahu, Hawai'i, is described. The anomaly involves an indentation of one or both of the occipital condyles and facial and vault asymmetry. This examination of the asymmetry includes a search for other reported occurrences, a detailed description, and a differential diagnosis. A multiple working hypothesis approach is employed. Comparison of the osseous material with …
An assessment of health and disease in the prehistoric inhabitants of the Mariana Islands
Cultural alteration of human teeth in the Mariana Islands
Evidence of cultural dental modification in a precontact (pre-1521) skeletal sample from the Academy of Our Lady of Guam gymnasium site in Agana, Guam, is documented. Two of the four individuals recovered at the Academy Gym site exhibit modification of the maxillary teeth. One individual displays vertical incising of a single tooth, and the other exhibits horizontal abrading of the anterior teeth which may be a purposeful or an incidental alterat…
Skeletal biology of Apurguan
The human skeletal remains of a minimum of 152 individuals from the precontact Latte Period (AD 1000-1521) on Guam, Mariana Islands, are described. The sample, recovered at Apurguan, in the Tamuning District, is one of the largest series of well-provenienced Chamorro skeletal remains to be analyzed in recent years. The size and systematic nature of this database are a major contribution to the human biology of the region. Paleodemographic charact…
Cultural alteration of human teeth in the Mariana Islands
Evidence of cultural dental modification in a precontact (pre-1521) skeletal sample from the Academy of Our Lady of Guam gymnasium site in Agana, Guam, is documented. Two of the four individuals recovered at the Academy Gym site exhibit modification of the maxillary teeth. One individual displays vertical incising of a single tooth, and the other exhibits horizontal abrading of the anterior teeth which may be a purposeful or an incidental alterat…
Skeletal biology of Apurguan
An assessment of health and disease in the prehistoric inhabitants of the Mariana Islands
Using a variety of skeletal and dental stress indicators, an assessment of the health and disease of the indigenous inhabitants of the Mariana Islands, the Chamorro, is made. The major hypothesis to be tested is that the Chamorro were relatively healthy and that deviations from the expected, as well as inter-island variation, may reflect environmental, ecological, and cultural differences. The major skeletal series surveyed include sites on Guam …
A preliminary discussion of trauma in the human skeletons from Ban Chiang, Northeast Thailand
On Treponemal Disease in the Western Pacific
Intensification of Agriculture at Ban Chiang
Human skeletal remains excavated in 1974 -1975 at Ban Chiang, a premetal to Bronze/Iron Age site located in northeastern Thailand, are used to examine the health effects of sedentism and agricultural intensification. The archaeological sequence provides evidence for the introduction of iron and water buffalo in the Middle period, suggesting the beginning of intensified agriculture. The effects of this agricultural intensification on the paleodemo…
Health in Late Prehistoric Thailand (review)
Reviewed by: Health in Late Prehistoric Thailand Michele T. Douglas Health in Late Prehistoric Thailand. Kathryn M. Domett. BAR International Series 946, Oxford: Archaeopress, 2001. xii + 180 pp, 48 figs., 100 tables, bibliography, $45.00. ISBN 1-84171-238-8. Health in Late Prehistoric Thailand is Kathryn M. Domett's Ph.D. dissertation in full. At a cost of approximately $45 (£30), the 180-page paperback volume, brightly bound in red, is an excel…
Culturally modified human remains recovered from an earth‐oven interment on Waya Island, Fiji
The incomplete skeletal remains of a young adolescent (10–12 years of age) were recovered from the uppermost layer of an earth‐oven at the Qaranicagi Site (Y2‐39), Waya Island, Fiji. Analysis of the remains revealed minimal fire or heat alteration. Cut marks are distributed across several elements and suggest at least partial butchering of the individual
Matrilocality during the prehistoric transition to agriculture in Thailand
Stable isotopes in teeth are providing important correlations between ancient people and the geographical location of their childhood homes. In an exciting new application, the authors measured the varying signatures of strontium, oxygen and carbon isotopes in the teeth of a sequence of people buried in Thailand during the period of the introduction and intensification of agriculture. Preliminary results point to the arrival of immigrant men, fol…
Cultural Modifications in an Adolescent Earth-Oven Interment from Fiji
The incomplete skeletal remains of a young adolescent (10–12 years of age) recovered from the surface of an earth-oven in Qaranicagi Cave, Site Y2–39, Waya Island, Fiji are used to explore mortuary practices in these islands. Mortuary practices in Fiji are documented in explorer and missionary accounts, and a limited number of excavated burials. Additionally, cannibalism is ethnographically and archaeologically known in the region. Cannibalism ap…
Polynesian origins
Biological distance studies, especially those based on cranial and skeletal morphology, continue to provide physical anthropologists and bioarchaeologists with an exceptional set of mathematically based methods for understanding population relatedness and population history. Because of the demonstrated correlation between phenotypic and genotypic similarities, studies of cranial form, most notably cranial measurements, occupy a central role in mo…
Bioarchaeology of East Asia
Bioarchaeology of East Asia: Movement, Contact, Health. Edited by Kate Pechenkina and Marc Oxenham. University Press of Florida, Gainesville, FL. 2013. ISBN-13 978-0-8130-4427-9 (Hardback US $99.95
Health in Ancient Mariana Islanders
Previous investigation of health and lifestyle in the Mariana Islands indicated that the prehistoric inhabitants living on the smaller islands of this archipelago experienced more stress than those living on the larger islands. This article expands on previous research by using one of the largest datasets (N = 385) now available for examining the health of prehistoric skeletons from the Mariana Islands. A total of 13 indicators of health are inve…
Sex and Geographic Differences in Health of the Early Inhabitants of the Mariana Islands
The early inhabitants of the Mariana Islands encountered numerous challenges that likely affected their health, including island size, vulnerability to natural disasters, availability of resources, and shifts in climate. Other factors that could have led to differences in health include biological sex, social status, diet, and genetic factors (e.g., host resistance). This article examines the effects of environment and biological sex on the healt…
Patterns of health in Early Neolithic and Iron Age Taiwan
This study examines the health and lifestyle of some of Taiwan's earliest Neolithic inhabitants using skeletons from the Nankuanli East site (c. 5000–4200 BP) from the Tainan Science Park in southwestern Taiwan. Two indicators of health, cribra orbitalia and adult stature, and evidence of dental staining are reported for the first time. Comparisons between males and females, and between the early Neolithic Taiwan, Iron Age Taiwan (Shihsanhang sit…
Skeletal and dental health
In this paper, we examine the health, diet, and lifestyle of the early inhabitants of Fiji using non-specific and specific indicators of health recorded in 42 adult and six subadult skeletons excavated at the Sigatoka Sand Dunes site, VL 16/1, on Viti Levu, one of the largest samples of prehistoric skeletons from Fiji. Because the dates of the Sigatoka cemetery may coincide with contact with later intrusions of people from regions located to the …
Biocultural Practices during the Transition to History at the Vat Komnou Cemetery, Angkor Borei, Cambodia
Mainland Southeast Asia underwent dramatic changes after the mid-first millennium B.C.E., as its populations embraced new metallurgical and agricultural technologies. Southeast Asians transformed their physical and social environments further through their participation in international maritime trade networks. Early state formation characterized much of the mainland by the mid-first millennium C.E. We examined a protohistoric (200 B.C.E.–200 C.E…
Enigmatic Cranial Superstructures among Chamorro Ancestors from the Mariana Islands
Sublime expression of three ectocranial occipital superstructures (OSSs)—occipital torus tubercles (TOTs), retromastoid processes (PRs), and posterior supramastoid tubercles (TSPs)—is virtually restricted to Oceania, with epicenters in the Mariana Islands, Tonga, Mocha Island, and perhaps other Oceanic locales such as the West Sepik Coast of New Guinea. Enigmatic in etiology, OSSs are anatomically related to entheses for the trapezius, superior o…
Skeletal and Dental Health of Early Tongans
Using a variety of skeletal and dental indicators (e.g., stature, linear enamel hypoplasia, cribra orbitalia, infection, trauma, dental pathologies) recorded in 33 adult and 11 subadult skeletons from the To-At-36 site at Ha‘ateiho, Tongatapu, this study examines the health, diet, and lifestyle of precontact Tongans during the Tongan Chiefdom Period (ca. 750–150 BP). Limited comparisons with skeletons from the ‘Atele mound sites (To-At-1 and To-A…
Resource utilisation and regional interaction in protohistoric Cambodia – The evidence from Angkor Borei
Skeletal and Dental Health of Precontact Marquesans
Skeletal and dental indicators (e.g., stature, linear enamel hypoplasia, cribra orbitalia, trauma, dental pathologies, and other evidence of disease) recorded in 45 subadult and 36 adult skeletons from the NHaa 1 site at Ha‘atuatua, Nuku Hiva, northern Marquesas, are used to examine the health, diet, and lifestyle of precontact Marquesans during the Expansion Period (ca. a.d. 1300–1600). Limited comparisons with skeletons from Hane on Ua Huka and…
Geography (22 works) · Archaeology (20 works) · Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (17 works) · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies (17 works) · Bioarchaeology (11 works) · Medicine (10 works) · Demography (9 works) · Dentistry (8 works) · Prehistory (8 works) · Indigenous Studies and Ecology (7 works)