David R Hunt

Biographic Data

ID84223
NAMEDavid R Hunt
GIVEN NAMESDavid R
FAMILY NAMEHunt
SIGNATUREHUNT D R
AFFILIATIONSSmithsonian Institution
ORCID0000-0003-1316-3418
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS55
TOTAL CITATIONS144
AUTHOR COUNT55
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1969
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX5

  • Twins found in a Late Dynastic/Coptic Egyptian mummy

    Open AccessFrancine Margolis, David R HuntARTICLEInternational Journal of…2024Cited by: 1References: 10

    During research conducted in 2019 regarding pelvic shape in population groups and its effects on successful delivery, one of the individuals studied was a Late Dynastic/Coptic Egyptian female mummy approximately 14-17 years old (USNM catalogue number 258601). She had an associated fetus that was wrapped and placed between her legs during mummification (USNM 258602). In 1908, the mother and child were excavated and autopsied for analysis. Field no…

  • Insights into the diagnostic efficacy and macroscopic appearance of endocranial bony changes indicative of tuberculous meningitis

    Open AccessO Spekker, David R Hunt et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2022Cited by: 2References: 36

    Recently, the combined macroscopic and statistical evaluation of 427 identified pre-antibiotic era skeletons from the Terry Collection (Washington, DC, USA) revealed that there is a positive association between tuberculous meningitis (TBM) and four endocranial alteration types, namely, granular impressions (GIs), abnormal blood vessel impressions (ABVIs), periosteal appositions (PAs), and abnormally pronounced digital impressions (APDIs). Althoug…

  • Do computed tomography findings agree with traditional osteological examination? The case of porous cranial lesions

    Open AccessAmber S Anderson, M Linda Sutherland et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2021

  • Evaluating life history trade‐offs through the presence of linear enamel hypoplasia at Pueblo Bonito and Hawikku

    Open AccessAllison C Ham, D H Temple et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Human Biology2021

    OBJECTIVES: Due to the indelible nature of enamel, bioarchaeologists use linear enamel hypoplasia (LEH) to detect early investments in surviving stress and have identified an association between LEH presence and constraints in growth and maintenance as well as an increased susceptibility to future stress events. This study evaluates heterogenous frailty and susceptibility to death in relation to episodes of early life stress, as reflected by LEH …

  • Adapting in the Arctic

    Open AccessD H Temple, Emily R Rosa et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Physical…2021Cited by: 1References: 65

    OBJECTIVES: This study compares lower limb diaphyseal robusticity between Native Alaskan hunter-gatherers to reconstruct patterns of mobility and engagement with terrain. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Ancestral remains included in this study date between 600 and 1800 C.E. and were divided into three regions: Coastal Bay, Far North Coastal, and Inland/Riverine. Cross-sectional properties were determined at femoral and tibial midshafts and standardized by…

  • The Taunton Stop Line and Its Camouflage

    Open AccessDavid R Hunt, David Hunt et al.ARTICLEThe Antiquaries Journal2020References: 2

    The Taunton Stop Line was a defensive work built in the second half of 1940 to contain a possible German invasion of the south-west peninsula of Britain. The line ran across the ‘waist of the South West’ from the mouth of the river Parrett (in Somerset) to the mouth of the River Axe at Seaton (in Devon). This was a massive feat of construction involving both military and civilian personnel working under the threat of an imminent German invasion. …

  • Did Neandertals have large brains? Factors affecting endocranial volume comparisons

    Open AccessCaroline Vansickle, Z Cofran et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Physical…2020Cited by: 5References: 32

    Our results demonstrate that Neandertals do not have uniquely large brains when compared with recent humans. Their brain size falls in the large end of the recent human range of variation, but does not exceed it. These results have implications for future research on Neandertal encephalization

  • A palaeopathological analysis of skeletal remains from Bronze Age Mongolia

    Open AccessSarah Karstens, J Littleton et al.ARTICLEHOMO2018

  • Rare manifestations of spinal tuberculosis in the Robert J. Terry Anatomical Skeletal Collection (National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA)

    Open AccessO Spekker, David R Hunt et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2018

    Today, osteoarticular tuberculosis (TB) is a rare extrapulmonary manifestation of TB, developing in about 1–3% of patients. Although any part of the skeleton can be affected by tuberculosis, the spine represents the most common site of involvement (~50%). Spinal TB or tuberculous spondylitis typically affects 2 or more contiguous vertebrae, predominantly in the lower thoracic (40–50%) and upper lumbar (35–40%) regions. In the minority of patients…

  • Five Cases of Dental Anomalies Attributable to Congenital Syphilis from Early 20th Century American Anatomical Collections

    Open AccessStella Ioannou, David R Hunt et al.ARTICLEDental Anthropology Journal2018Cited by: 1References: 1

    Specific dental abnormalities are considered pathognomonic of congenital syphilis (CS); however, European physicians recognized their variation during the late 19th to mid 20th centuries. Observations of syphi-lis-related dental abnormalities in American individuals from similar time periods are made to determine types of variation among the American population.From a survey of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History anat…

  • Strains in gesso on painted wood panels during humidity changes and cupping

    Open AccessDavid R Hunt, David Hunt et al.ARTICLEJournal of Cultural Heritage2017Cited by: 5References: 7

  • Rapid development of secondary hyperparathyroidism and fibrous osteodystrophy in a juvenile orangutan

    Open AccessStephanie L Canington, David R HuntARTICLEInternational Journal of…2016

  • Propaganda and the Public

    David R Hunt, David HuntARTICLEJournal of Social Issues in…2016

    In the Mekong Delta province of Mỹ Tho, village populations paid attention to print and electronic media controlled by the Government of Vietnam in Saigon and by the National Liberation Front during the early 1960s. They also relied for news on rumours and on information circulating on the grapevine. At first, NLF militants benefited from their dialogue with an ascendant rural public. But after 1965 mounting violence complicated Front efforts to …

  • Forensic Anthropology at the Smithsonian Institution

    David R Hunt, David HuntARTICLEAnthroNotes Museum of Natural…2014

  • Temporal trends in femoral diaphyseal torsional asymmetry among the Arikara associated with postural behavior

    Open AccessDaniel J Wescott, Deborah L Cunningham et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Physical…2014References: 39

    Average femoral torsion has been reported to differ among populations, and several studies have observed a relatively high prevalence of femoral anteversion asymmetry in Native Americans, especially females. This study investigates sexual dimorphism and temporal trends in femoral torsional asymmetry among the Arikara from the seventeenth to the early nineteenth century. To establish if there are population differences, femoral torsion was first m…

  • Diet and death in times of war

    Open AccessBethany L Turner, M K Zuckerman et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science2012Cited by: 10References: 13

  • Properties of wood in the conservation of historical wooden artifacts

    Open AccessDavid R Hunt, David HuntARTICLEJournal of Cultural Heritage2012Cited by: 1References: 3

  • Vietnam at war

    David R Hunt, David HuntARTICLECold War History2011

    Mark Philip Bradley, Oxford and New York, Oxford University Press, 2009, xiii+233 pp. For many years, I made a point of reading the latest survey textbooks on the Vietnam War, of the sort that migh

  • A Time for Peace

    Open AccessDavid R Hunt, David HuntARTICLEPeace & Change2011

  • Racial Disparities in the Frequency of Patient Safety Events

    Mark L Metersky, David R Hunt et al.ARTICLEMedical Care2011

    BACKGROUND: Although there is extensive evidence of racial disparities in processes and outcomes of medical care, there has been limited investigation of disparities in patient safety. OBJECTIVE: To determine whether there are racial disparities in the frequency of adverse events studied in the Medicare Patient Safety Monitoring System. DESIGN AND SUBJECTS: Abstraction of 102,623 randomly selected charts from hospital discharges of non-Hispanic w…

  • Inequalities in cardiovascular disease mortality

    Alison Beauchamp, Alexis Peeters et al.ARTICLEJournal of Epidemiology and…2010Cited by: 4References: 33

    BACKGROUND: While the relationship between socio-economic disadvantage and cardiovascular disease (CVD) is well established, the role that traditional cardiovascular risk factors play in this association remains unclear. The authors examined the association between education attainment and CVD mortality and the extent to which behavioural, social and physiological factors explained this relationship. METHODS: Adults (n=38,355) aged 40-69 years li…

  • Dirty Wars

    Open AccessDavid R Hunt, David HuntARTICLELatin American Politics and Society2010Cited by: 6

    Counterinsurgency doctrine emerged in the early 1960s as the Kennedy administration sought a politically progressive alternative to 'pacification' campaigns waged by the French against the Vietnamese revolution. But its architects could not come up with a substitute for the conventional military reliance on massive firepower, which brought devastation to the Vietnamese people and failed to crush the 'Viet Cong.' The Americans were again unsuccess…

  • Identification of Hospital-Acquired Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections From Medicare Claims

    Chunliu Zhan, Anne Elixhauser et al.ARTICLEMedical Care2009References: 16

    BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Hospital-acquired catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI) is one of the first 6 conditions Medicare is targeting to reduce payment associated with hospital-acquired conditions under Congressional mandate. This study was to determine the positive predictive value (PPV) and sensitivity in identifying patients in Medicare claims who had urinary catheterization and who had hospital-acquired CAUTIs. RESEARCH DESIG…

  • The Face of the Wolf is Blessed, or is It? Diverging Perceptions of the Wolf

    David R Hunt, David HuntARTICLEFolklore2008Cited by: 4

    Evidence shows divergent perceptions of the wolf in different parts of the world. The populations of Asia, the Near East and the indigenous peoples of North America see the wolf positively, as an ideal hunter, warrior and survivor in the wilderness, although shepherds and animal-herders in these regions seem to have an ambivalent attitude towards the animal. Among many of the peoples mentioned above, there appears to be a desire to emulate the wo…

  • The frequency of os acromiale in the Robert J. Terry Collection

    Open AccessDavid R Hunt, Lindsey BullenARTICLEInternational Journal of…2007Cited by: 4References: 12

    Normal fusion of the acromion process in humans begins at about age 15 and should complete ossification by age 22-25. Os acromiale occurs when fusion of the acromial epiphysis does not follow its normal ossification pattern, resulting in the retention of a separate epiphyseal end to the acromial process. Depending on how the metaphyseal junctures fuse, differential size and shape of the unattached acromial segment is produced. As a result of shou…