M L P Hoogland
Biographic Data
| ID | 81729 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M L P Hoogland |
| GIVEN NAMES | M L P |
| FAMILY NAME | Hoogland |
| SIGNATURE | HOOGLAND M L P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Leiden University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6355-1278 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 44 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 295 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 44 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
The conveyance of animal commodities in pre-contact northern Hispaniola
A distant city
OBJECTIVES: To investigate the prevalence of respiratory disease in several populations from the Netherlands across different time periods and socioeconomic conditions. MATERIALS: We analyzed 695 adult individuals from six different Dutch contexts of urban and rural settlements dating to different time periods (i.e., early-medieval, late-medieval, post-medieval). METHODS: For each individual, the presence/absence of chronic maxillary sinusitis, o…
Pipe smoking and oral health in males from The Netherlands during the 18th–19th century
The impact of tobacco on health is undeniable. It is a significant risk factor for multiple conditions, including oral diseases. There has been little research on pipe smoking and oral disease in the past. We compare caries, calculus, tooth loss, periapical lesions, and periodontal disease between rural 13th–16th century pre-tobacco males from Klaaskinderkerke and 18th–19th century pipe-using males from Beemster (N = 64). Pipe-smokers were more a…
Technological persistence in ceramic production in the southeastern Hispaniola. The case study of El Cabo (600–1502 CE)
This research aims to provide a better understanding of the diffusion of ceramic morphological traits in the Greater Antilles and how communities experienced and integrated new ideas into their manufacturing traditions. The chaîne opératoire approach together with the communities of practice theory produce a holistic methodology to unveil social and temporal connections between artifacts, sites and communities. A detailed petrographic and macro-t…
It runs in the family
In bioarchaeology, the universal concept of "kinship" can be explored through the study of archaeological remains and as such offers a way to connect modern-day life to the life of past people. This study examines the social structure of post-medieval Dutch communities and their level of genetic homogeneity and inter-relatedness. The research aims were to identify probable genetic relatives within the Middenbeemster skeletal collection through de…
Diet and urbanisation in medieval Holland. Studying dietary change through carious lesions and stable isotope analysis
In the late medieval period, Holland experienced substantial socio-economic change. While the region was largely undeveloped prior to 1200 CE, the period after was characterised by extensive urbanisation and flourishing international trade, changes that would have impacted many aspects of life. This paper investigates the effect of these changes on diet by comparing skeletal collections from the early/central medieval rural village of Blokhuizen …
Reimagining Creolization
People from different areas of the insular Caribbean and the coastal zone of mainland South America moved in and out of the Lesser Antilles throughout the archipelago's history before the European invasion. Successive migrations, the development of networks of human mobility, and the exchange of goods and ideas, as well as constantly shifting inter-insular alliances, created diverse ethnic and cultural communities in these small islands. We argue…
Constructing from the Invisible
In recent years, thousands of posthole features have been located during open-area excavations of Indigenous archaeological sites in the Caribbean Islands. However, the reconstruction of village spatial organization and its changes over time is sometimes a challenging task, because Indigenous village occupation can span more than 500 years. This article presents archaeological data from rescue excavations at Argyle, an Indigenous village site dat…
Mangrove Archives
The site of Anse Trabaud on Martinique in the Windward Islands of the Lesser Antilles has yielded valuable information about human occupation from deep beneath its surface. The site is located in the southeastern part of the island, an area vulnerable to extreme wave events. The archaeological deposits are dated to 1290–780 cal BP (2σ). The earliest horizon is buried under thick layers of mangrove sediments. The deeply buried deposits have allowe…
Quantifying cortical bone in fragmentary archeological second metacarpals
Objectives Skeletal variation in cortical bone thickness is an indicator of bone quality and health in archeological populations. Second metacarpal radiogrammetry, which measures cortical thickness at the shaft midpoint, is traditionally used to evaluate bone loss in bioarcheological and some clinical contexts. However fragmentary elements are regularly omitted because the midpoint cannot be determined. This methodological limitation reduces samp…
Coming of age in the Netherlands
OBJECTIVES: The objective of this study is to apply pubertal stage estimation methods to a sample from a rural community: the post-medieval Dutch skeletal collection from Middenbeemster. Puberty is a key developmental period involving transition to physical adulthood with broad societal relevance through its impact on fertility, morbidity, and mortality. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Individuals (n = 55), including 27 of known sex and age-at-death, betw…
Urbanization and respiratory stress in the Northern Low Countries
The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between urbanization and upper respiratory health in two early modern populations from the Netherlands. For this purpose, we analyzed the prevalence of chronic maxillary sinusitis in the adult urban population of Arnhem (n = 83) and in the rural village of Middenbeemster (n = 74). A slightly higher prevalence of chronic maxillary sinusitis was observed in the Arnhem sample (55.4%) compared…
Island networks
The Caribbean Sea was a conduit for human mobility and the exchange of goods and ideas during the whole of its pre-colonial history. The period cal. AD 1000-1800, covering the Late Ceramic Age and early colonial era, represents an archaeologically understudied time during which the Lesser Antilles came under increasing influence from the Greater Antilles and coastal South America and participated in the last phase of indigenous resistance to colo…
Colonial Encounters in the Southern Lesser Antilles
During the colonization processes vast webs of social relationships emerged between Amerindians, Europeans, and Africans in the Lesser Antilles. The intercultural dynamics which materialized during this period were likely contingent on local and regional networks of peoples, goods, and ideas which had developed in the Caribbean over the previous 5000 years. This paper focusses on the impacts of colonial encounters on indigenous Carib societies by…
Slavery of Indigenous People in the Caribbean
The efficacy of whole human genome capture on ancient dental calculus and dentin
OBJECTIVES: Dental calculus is among the richest known sources of ancient DNA in the archaeological record. Although most DNA within calculus is microbial, it has been shown to contain sufficient human DNA for the targeted retrieval of whole mitochondrial genomes. Here, we explore whether calculus is also a viable substrate for whole human genome recovery using targeted enrichment techniques. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Total DNA extracted from 24 pai…
Micro‐CT assessment of dental mineralization defects indicative of vitamin D deficiency in two 17th–19th century Dutch communities
OBJECTIVES: This study investigates vitamin D deficiency patterns in individuals from birth to the beginning of adolescence. Microscopic computed tomography (micro-CT) evaluation of interglobular dentine (IGD) in teeth provides information on the age of disease onset and the number of deficient periods per individual, which will increase our understanding of factors influencing vitamin D deficiency prevalence, including sociocultural practices an…
How old are you now? A new ageing method for nonadults based on dental wear
The main aim of this study is to present a novel method of nonadult (ca. 1–19 years) age‐at‐death estimation using the dental wear of deciduous, mixed deciduous‐permanent, and permanent dentitions, including the incisors, canines, premolars, and first and second molars. The stage‐based method is derived from degrees of dental wear in known‐age ( n = 39) and estimated‐age ( n = 11) nonadults containing 951 teeth from the predominately 19th century…
The Role of Infant Feeding and Childhood Diet in Vitamin D Deficiency in a Nineteenth-Century Rural Dutch Community
Research on vitamin D deficiency in past and present populations shows the profound effect diet has on health. The rural Dutch community of Beemster, The Netherlands, revolved around cattle farming with access to enough sunlight to prevent vitamin D deficiency. However, analyses of a predominantly nineteenth-century cemetery revealed an unexpectedly high prevalence of rickets in non-adults (
Trabecular bone microarchitecture analysis, a way for an early detection of genetic dwarfism? Case study of a dwarf mother’s offspring
Columbus’ environmental impact in the New World
Columbus' arrival in the New World in AD 1492 on the northern coast of Hispaniola was followed by a suite of changes in land-use. We reconstruct environmental change from a 225-cm-long sediment core from site Los Indios from an abandoned and sediment-filled meander of the Yaque River, Cibao Valley, northeastern Dominican Republic. The sediment record starts ca. AD 195 (ca. 1755 cal. yr BP) and the history of the meander infill was monitored by ch…
Testing the Sternal Clavicle Ageing Method on a Post‐Medieval Dutch Skeletal Collection
When a new method is produced, it should be assessed for accuracy and reliability before widespread use. A new method by Falys and Prangle for estimating age from degeneration of the sternal end of the clavicle is tested in this paper on an 18th–19th‐century known‐age Dutch population (80 clavicles). Intra‐ and inter‐observer tests (Cohen's kappa) revealed slight to moderate agreement ( k = 0.100–0.425 and 0.106–0.534 respectively). However, owin…
The effect of population variation on the accuracy of sex estimates derived from basal occipital discriminant functions
Multiple discriminant functions that estimate sex from the dimensions of the basal occipital have been published. However, as there is limited exploration of basal dimension variation between groups, the accuracy of these functions when applied to archaeological material is unknown. This study compares basal dimensions between four known sex-at-death post-medieval European samples and explores how metric differences impact on the accuracy of sex …
Columbus' footprint in Hispaniola
Indigenous Caribbean perspectives
Spatial variation of biologically available strontium isotopes (87Sr/86Sr) in an archipelagic setting
Stage of encounters
The Caribbean Sea was centre stage in the earliest, sustained encounters between the New and Old Worlds, heralding the mass movement of people, goods and ideas between two previously unconnected parts of the world. The repercussions of this are woven into the fabric of modern multi-ethnic Caribbean society. However, our current understanding of this important chapter in world history is skewed due to large shortfalls in our knowledge of indigenou…
Attractive Ideas, Desirable Goods
This article aims to correct a number of archaeological misconceptions issuing from the Taíno-Carib dichotomy engrained within the discipline. We examine the evidence for Late Ceramic Age (AD 800–1500) interactions between communities of the Greater and Lesser Antilles. This article explores and nuances the alleged dichotomy between Taíno and Carib societies, details a number of contact lines between them, and advances hypotheses regarding the me…
Columbus' footprint in Hispaniola
Climate and pre‐Columbian settlement at Anse à la Gourde, Guadeloupe, Northeastern Caribbean
The authors present a reconstruction of precipitation, seasonality, and vegetation cover over the period from 200 cal yr B.C. to 1600 cal yr A.D. for the archaeological site of Anse à la Gourde, Guadeloupe, based on the oxygen and carbon isotope composition of accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) 14 C‐dated aragonitic shells of the landsnail Bulimulus guadaloupensis. The results show that the Late Cedrosan Saladoid population ( ̃400–800 cal yr A.D…
Remotely Local
The Movement and Exchange of Dogs in the Prehistoric Caribbean
This study explores the feasibility of using strontium isotope (87Sr/86Sr) analyses of enamel from domestic dogs (Canis familiaris) to investigate networks of exchange in the prehistoric Circum-Caribbean. Dog teeth were obtained from burial and domestic contexts from two prehistoric sites (Anse à la Gourde and Morel) on Grande-Terre, Guadeloupe (Lesser Antilles). Strontium isotope results were compared with local biosphere 87Sr/86Sr data at the s…
A Multi-Isotope Investigation of Human and Dog Mobility and Diet in the Pre-Colonial Antilles
The complex relationships between humans and dogs (Canis lupus familiaris) have a very deep and unique history. Dogs have accompanied humans as they colonised much of the world, and were introduced via human agency into the insular Caribbean where they became widespread throughout the Ceramic Age. It is likely that the dynamic interactions between humans, dogs, and their environments in the Caribbean were spatially, chronologically, and socially …
Rural Rickets
Rickets is caused by vitamin D deficiency as a result of limited exposure to sunlight and inadequate diet. In the 19thcentury, rickets was endemic in most northern European cities. In post-Medieval Netherlands, rickets is documented in low frequencies in a few urban samples, but has not been studied in contemporaneous rural populations. Beemster is a rural farming community in the Netherlands that was established in the 17thcentury upon drained l…
Columbus’ environmental impact in the New World
Columbus' arrival in the New World in AD 1492 on the northern coast of Hispaniola was followed by a suite of changes in land-use. We reconstruct environmental change from a 225-cm-long sediment core from site Los Indios from an abandoned and sediment-filled meander of the Yaque River, Cibao Valley, northeastern Dominican Republic. The sediment record starts ca. AD 195 (ca. 1755 cal. yr BP) and the history of the meander infill was monitored by ch…
Indigenous Caribbean perspectives
Archipelagic Resource Procurement and Mobility in the Northern Lesser Antilles
Archaic Age fisher-collector communities are known to have settled predominantly along coastlines in the islands of the northern Lesser Antilles beginning around 2300 cal BC. An Archaic Age campsite at Plum Piece on the island of Saba provides evidence for early populations exploiting inland tropical forest environments. Midden deposits have yielded a toolkit and faunal assemblage pointing to a seasonal occupation, possibly oriented towards a set…
Expansion of the Taino cacicazgos towards the Lesser Antilles
La expansion de los cacicazgos tainos hada las Pequeñas Antillas Investigaciones arqueológicas recientes en la isla de Saba (Pequeňas Antillas) han revelado la incorporación de este lugar en el sistema socio-politico de los cacicazgos de las Grandes Antillas. Se revisan varias hipótesis con el fin de comprender el proceso de la expansión Taino en las Pequeñas Antillas. Para interpretar los datos arqueológicos los autores del présente artículo acu…
Coming of age in the Netherlands
OBJECTIVES: The objective of this study is to apply pubertal stage estimation methods to a sample from a rural community: the post-medieval Dutch skeletal collection from Middenbeemster. Puberty is a key developmental period involving transition to physical adulthood with broad societal relevance through its impact on fertility, morbidity, and mortality. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Individuals (n = 55), including 27 of known sex and age-at-death, betw…
Indo-Hispanic Dynamics
Diet and urbanisation in medieval Holland. Studying dietary change through carious lesions and stable isotope analysis
In the late medieval period, Holland experienced substantial socio-economic change. While the region was largely undeveloped prior to 1200 CE, the period after was characterised by extensive urbanisation and flourishing international trade, changes that would have impacted many aspects of life. This paper investigates the effect of these changes on diet by comparing skeletal collections from the early/central medieval rural village of Blokhuizen …
Island networks
The Caribbean Sea was a conduit for human mobility and the exchange of goods and ideas during the whole of its pre-colonial history. The period cal. AD 1000-1800, covering the Late Ceramic Age and early colonial era, represents an archaeologically understudied time during which the Lesser Antilles came under increasing influence from the Greater Antilles and coastal South America and participated in the last phase of indigenous resistance to colo…
Urbanization and respiratory stress in the Northern Low Countries
The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between urbanization and upper respiratory health in two early modern populations from the Netherlands. For this purpose, we analyzed the prevalence of chronic maxillary sinusitis in the adult urban population of Arnhem (n = 83) and in the rural village of Middenbeemster (n = 74). A slightly higher prevalence of chronic maxillary sinusitis was observed in the Arnhem sample (55.4%) compared…
Human dietary assessment in the Pre-colonial Lesser Antilles
Resilience in Pre-Columbian Caribbean House-Building
Slavery of Indigenous People in the Caribbean
Micro‐CT assessment of dental mineralization defects indicative of vitamin D deficiency in two 17th–19th century Dutch communities
OBJECTIVES: This study investigates vitamin D deficiency patterns in individuals from birth to the beginning of adolescence. Microscopic computed tomography (micro-CT) evaluation of interglobular dentine (IGD) in teeth provides information on the age of disease onset and the number of deficient periods per individual, which will increase our understanding of factors influencing vitamin D deficiency prevalence, including sociocultural practices an…
Life and death at precolumbian Lavoutte, Saint Lucia, Lesser Antilles
n\tThe Caribbean archaeological record requires immediate attention and protection. Development and natural forces have impacted archaeological sites, destroying or severely damaging them. The precolumbian site of Lavoutte, located in northern Saint Lucia, has been known as a major Late Ceramic Age (A.D. 1000–1500) settlement since the 1960s, but it has been damaged over the past decades by both natural and human processes. Multidisciplinary fiel…
Pipe smoking and oral health in males from The Netherlands during the 18th–19th century
The impact of tobacco on health is undeniable. It is a significant risk factor for multiple conditions, including oral diseases. There has been little research on pipe smoking and oral disease in the past. We compare caries, calculus, tooth loss, periapical lesions, and periodontal disease between rural 13th–16th century pre-tobacco males from Klaaskinderkerke and 18th–19th century pipe-using males from Beemster (N = 64). Pipe-smokers were more a…
Reimagining Creolization
People from different areas of the insular Caribbean and the coastal zone of mainland South America moved in and out of the Lesser Antilles throughout the archipelago's history before the European invasion. Successive migrations, the development of networks of human mobility, and the exchange of goods and ideas, as well as constantly shifting inter-insular alliances, created diverse ethnic and cultural communities in these small islands. We argue…
Archéologie amérindienne en Guadeloupe
Archéologie amérindienne en Guadeloupe : recherches récentes et perspectives. Un article de la revue Bulletin de la Société d'Histoire de la Guadeloupe (Numéro 109, 3e trimestre 1996, p. 3-69) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit
Expansion of the Taino cacicazgos towards the Lesser Antilles
La expansion de los cacicazgos tainos hada las Pequeñas Antillas Investigaciones arqueológicas recientes en la isla de Saba (Pequeňas Antillas) han revelado la incorporación de este lugar en el sistema socio-politico de los cacicazgos de las Grandes Antillas. Se revisan varias hipótesis con el fin de comprender el proceso de la expansión Taino en las Pequeñas Antillas. Para interpretar los datos arqueológicos los autores del présente artículo acu…
Archipelagic Resource Procurement and Mobility in the Northern Lesser Antilles
Archaic Age fisher-collector communities are known to have settled predominantly along coastlines in the islands of the northern Lesser Antilles beginning around 2300 cal BC. An Archaic Age campsite at Plum Piece on the island of Saba provides evidence for early populations exploiting inland tropical forest environments. Midden deposits have yielded a toolkit and faunal assemblage pointing to a seasonal occupation, possibly oriented towards a set…
Climate and pre‐Columbian settlement at Anse à la Gourde, Guadeloupe, Northeastern Caribbean
The authors present a reconstruction of precipitation, seasonality, and vegetation cover over the period from 200 cal yr B.C. to 1600 cal yr A.D. for the archaeological site of Anse à la Gourde, Guadeloupe, based on the oxygen and carbon isotope composition of accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) 14 C‐dated aragonitic shells of the landsnail Bulimulus guadaloupensis. The results show that the Late Cedrosan Saladoid population ( ̃400–800 cal yr A.D…
Attractive Ideas, Desirable Goods
This article aims to correct a number of archaeological misconceptions issuing from the Taíno-Carib dichotomy engrained within the discipline. We examine the evidence for Late Ceramic Age (AD 800–1500) interactions between communities of the Greater and Lesser Antilles. This article explores and nuances the alleged dichotomy between Taíno and Carib societies, details a number of contact lines between them, and advances hypotheses regarding the me…
Spatial variation of biologically available strontium isotopes (87Sr/86Sr) in an archipelagic setting
Life and death at precolumbian Lavoutte, Saint Lucia, Lesser Antilles
n\tThe Caribbean archaeological record requires immediate attention and protection. Development and natural forces have impacted archaeological sites, destroying or severely damaging them. The precolumbian site of Lavoutte, located in northern Saint Lucia, has been known as a major Late Ceramic Age (A.D. 1000–1500) settlement since the 1960s, but it has been damaged over the past decades by both natural and human processes. Multidisciplinary fiel…
Osteological evidence of short-limbed dwarfism in a nineteenth century Dutch family
Indo-Hispanic Dynamics
Stage of encounters
The Caribbean Sea was centre stage in the earliest, sustained encounters between the New and Old Worlds, heralding the mass movement of people, goods and ideas between two previously unconnected parts of the world. The repercussions of this are woven into the fabric of modern multi-ethnic Caribbean society. However, our current understanding of this important chapter in world history is skewed due to large shortfalls in our knowledge of indigenou…
The Alkmaar Mass Graves
Human dietary assessment in the Pre-colonial Lesser Antilles
Remotely Local
The Movement and Exchange of Dogs in the Prehistoric Caribbean
This study explores the feasibility of using strontium isotope (87Sr/86Sr) analyses of enamel from domestic dogs (Canis familiaris) to investigate networks of exchange in the prehistoric Circum-Caribbean. Dog teeth were obtained from burial and domestic contexts from two prehistoric sites (Anse à la Gourde and Morel) on Grande-Terre, Guadeloupe (Lesser Antilles). Strontium isotope results were compared with local biosphere 87Sr/86Sr data at the s…
Rural Rickets
Rickets is caused by vitamin D deficiency as a result of limited exposure to sunlight and inadequate diet. In the 19thcentury, rickets was endemic in most northern European cities. In post-Medieval Netherlands, rickets is documented in low frequencies in a few urban samples, but has not been studied in contemporaneous rural populations. Beemster is a rural farming community in the Netherlands that was established in the 17thcentury upon drained l…
Resilience in Pre-Columbian Caribbean House-Building
Habitual Activity in Pre-industrial Rural and Urban Dutch Populations
This study combines historical data and the principles of bone functional adaptation to examine variation in terrestrial mobility in men and women from pre-industrial urban (Alkmaar 7M, 9F) and rural (Klaaskinderkerke 12M, 8F; Middenbeemster 21M, 22F) Dutch populations. Cross-sectional properties of the femoral and tibial midshaft are determined to investigate variation in lower limb mechanical loading. All populations had comparable age ranges. …
Osteochondritis Dissecans of skeletal elements of the foot in a 19th century rural farming community from The Netherlands
A Multi-Isotope Investigation of Human and Dog Mobility and Diet in the Pre-Colonial Antilles
The complex relationships between humans and dogs (Canis lupus familiaris) have a very deep and unique history. Dogs have accompanied humans as they colonised much of the world, and were introduced via human agency into the insular Caribbean where they became widespread throughout the Ceramic Age. It is likely that the dynamic interactions between humans, dogs, and their environments in the Caribbean were spatially, chronologically, and socially …
The Role of Infant Feeding and Childhood Diet in Vitamin D Deficiency in a Nineteenth-Century Rural Dutch Community
Research on vitamin D deficiency in past and present populations shows the profound effect diet has on health. The rural Dutch community of Beemster, The Netherlands, revolved around cattle farming with access to enough sunlight to prevent vitamin D deficiency. However, analyses of a predominantly nineteenth-century cemetery revealed an unexpectedly high prevalence of rickets in non-adults (
Trabecular bone microarchitecture analysis, a way for an early detection of genetic dwarfism? Case study of a dwarf mother’s offspring
Columbus’ environmental impact in the New World
Columbus' arrival in the New World in AD 1492 on the northern coast of Hispaniola was followed by a suite of changes in land-use. We reconstruct environmental change from a 225-cm-long sediment core from site Los Indios from an abandoned and sediment-filled meander of the Yaque River, Cibao Valley, northeastern Dominican Republic. The sediment record starts ca. AD 195 (ca. 1755 cal. yr BP) and the history of the meander infill was monitored by ch…
Testing the Sternal Clavicle Ageing Method on a Post‐Medieval Dutch Skeletal Collection
When a new method is produced, it should be assessed for accuracy and reliability before widespread use. A new method by Falys and Prangle for estimating age from degeneration of the sternal end of the clavicle is tested in this paper on an 18th–19th‐century known‐age Dutch population (80 clavicles). Intra‐ and inter‐observer tests (Cohen's kappa) revealed slight to moderate agreement ( k = 0.100–0.425 and 0.106–0.534 respectively). However, owin…
The effect of population variation on the accuracy of sex estimates derived from basal occipital discriminant functions
Multiple discriminant functions that estimate sex from the dimensions of the basal occipital have been published. However, as there is limited exploration of basal dimension variation between groups, the accuracy of these functions when applied to archaeological material is unknown. This study compares basal dimensions between four known sex-at-death post-medieval European samples and explores how metric differences impact on the accuracy of sex …
Columbus' footprint in Hispaniola
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