Christopher J Knüsel
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 902145 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Christopher J Knüsel |
| NOMBRES | Christopher J |
| APELLIDO | Knüsel |
| FIRMA | KNÜSEL C J |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Bradford |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2506-3652 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 83 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 659 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 83 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1992 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 13 |
Parasite infection at the early farming community of Çatalhöyük
Micro-computed tomography of teeth as an alternative way to detect and analyse vitamin D deficiency
Population density and developmental stress in the Neolithic
OBJECTIVES: The transition from foraging to farming is usually associated with unprecedented population densities coupled with an increase in fertility and population growth. However, little is known about the biological effects of such demographic changes during the Neolithic. In the present work, we test the relationship between diachronic changes in population size, relative exposure to developmental stressors, and patterns of dental fluctuati…
Skull Retrieval and Secondary Burial Practices in the Neolithic Near East
The retrieval and re-deposition of elements of the human skeleton, especially the skull (i.e., cranium and mandible), is a common feature of Neolithic Near Eastern funerary practices. A complicated sequence of subfloor inhumations involving both primary and secondary burial treatments at Çatalhöyük demonstrates the range of funerary practices encountered at the site and elsewhere in the Neolithic Near East. This particular sequence of burials cul…
The relationship between loading history and proximal femoral diaphysis cross‐sectional geometry
OBJECTIVES: We investigated the relationship between loading history and bone biomechanical properties used in physical activity reconstructions. These bone properties included bone bending and torsional strength (J), cortical area (CA), the direction of the major axis (theta angle), and element shape ratios determined from cross sections of standardized bone length. In addition, we explored the applicability of anatomically determined cross sect…
Çatalhöyük, Archaeology, Violence
Research Article| May 01 2017 Çatalhöyük, Archaeology, Violence Christopher J. Knüsel; Christopher J. Knüsel CHRISTOPHER J. KNÜSEL is professor of biological anthropology in UMR 5199, De la Préhistoire à l’Actuel: Culture, Environnement, et Anthropologie (PACEA) at the Université de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France. He serves as co-head, with Prof. Clark Spencer Larsen (The Ohio State University, USA), of the Human Remains Team at the neolithic site of…
Aging Well
Over the (slightly more than) two decades that the European Journal of Archaeology (formerly the Journal of European Archaeology ) has been in print, we have published a number of excellent and high profile articles. Among these, Paul Treherne's seminal meditation on Bronze Age male identity and warriorhood stands out as both the highest cited and the most regularly downloaded paper in our archive. Speaking informally with friends and colleagues …
The cross-sectional area of the gluteus maximus muscle varies according to habitual exercise loading
A Tale of Two Platforms
A Neolithic case of fibrous dysplasia from Çatalhöyük (Turkey)
A bioarchaeological and forensic re-assessment of vulture defleshing and mortuary practices at Neolithic Çatalhöyük
Funerary taphonomy
Réévaluation du sexe et de l'âge au décès du sujet azilien Le Peyrat 5, Saint-Rabier (Dordogne, France)
Cette note propose une réévaluation de la diagnose sexuelle et de la détermination de l'âge au décès de l'individu azilien Le Peyrat 5 (LP5) [Dordogne, France] daté directement à 11430 ± 150 BP (GifA-99117 ; 13566-13017 cal. BP) à partir de méthodes fiables appliquées à l'os coxal. Cette étude confirme que le squelette LP5 est celui d'un homme adulte vraisemblablement décédé entre 30 et 49 ans. La détermination fiable du sexe de vestiges du Paléo…
The Osteology of Conflict
Courteous Knights and Cruel Avengers
External auditory exostoses and prehistoric aquatic resource procurement
Bioarchaeology of Neolithic Çatalhöyük
Cleaning the dead
Stable carbon and nitrogen isotope analysis and dietary reconstruction through the life course at Neolithic Çatalhöyük, Turkey
Food has long served as a mechanism for identifying and reinforcing social structures, but while carbon and nitrogen isotope analysis has provided important identity-based evidence of past diets, the cyclical and stable/fluid nature of food consumption practices across the life course has been relatively neglected. In this paper, the large human assemblage at Çatalhöyük with all age groups present has enabled diet reconstruction of the rarely rep…
“I sing of arms and of a man…”
Crouching in fear
At present, there is no accepted standardised lexicon in English to describe burials and the position of buried human remains. Terms have tended to vary with the investigator and rely on loose, but often ill-defined systems of previous use. As a consequence, there are myriad terms used to describe the same phenomena or, as the case may be, no single well-defined term to do so. This means that new terms are continually invented – and sometimes re-…
Understanding Entheseal Changes
Over the past two decades, many articles have been published on entheseal changes (usually called 'Musculoskeletal Stress Markers') as activity markers in past societies. Over-simplified methods and over-interpretation of past activities have generated strong critiques of research results in this area of enquiry. While some significant improvements regarding the recording systems for entheseal changes have been applied more recently, many bioarch…
Baastrup's sign (kissing spines)
Death, Decapitation and Display? The Bronze and Iron Age Human Remains from the Sculptor's Cave, Covesea, North-east Scotland
Excavations at the Sculptor's Cave (north-east Scotland) during the 1930s and 1970s yielded evidence for activity in the Late Bronze Age, Late Iron Age, and early medieval periods, including a substantial human skeletal assemblage with apparent evidence for the removal, curation, and display of human heads. The present project, combining osteological analysis and a programme of AMS dating, aimed to place the surviving human remains from the site …
Probable carpometacarpal and tarsal coalition from Baousso da Torre Cave (Italy)
Le barrage de Tolerme, mis en eau en mars 1990, cree un plan d'eau touristique de 40 ha. Il est constitue d'une digue principale de 17,5 m et d'une digue de col haute de 11 m. Le cout a ete optimise par le choix de barrages en enrochements avec etancheite centrale par paroi moulee. Les crues sont evacuees grace a un deversoir de surface, le vide d'emprunt de la carriere etant utilise comme fosse de reception.(A) (Titres en anglais et en allemand:…
Enthesopathies as occupational stress markers
Enthesopathies—that is, “musculo‐skeletal stress markers”—are frequently used to reconstruct past lifestyles and activity patterns. Relatively little attention has been paid in physical anthropology to methodological gaps implicit in this approach: almost all methods previously employed neglect current medical insights into enthesopathies and the distinction between healthy and pathological aspects has been arbitrary. This study presents a new vi…
Understanding Entheseal Changes
Over the past two decades, many articles have been published on entheseal changes (usually called 'Musculoskeletal Stress Markers') as activity markers in past societies. Over-simplified methods and over-interpretation of past activities have generated strong critiques of research results in this area of enquiry. While some significant improvements regarding the recording systems for entheseal changes have been applied more recently, many bioarch…
Iron Age breastfeeding practices in Britain
We present here the results of carbon and nitrogen isotopic analysis of bone collagen undertaken on all skeletal remains of infants and young children below the age of 6 years ( n = 34) from the internationally important British cemetery site at Wetwang Slack in East Yorkshire (middle Iron Age, ca . 4th to 2nd centuries BC). The aim of the study is to investigate infant diet, with particular reference to breastfeeding and weaning practices, and t…
Activity‐related skeletal change in medieval humeri
This paper examines humeral cross‐sectional properties in two different samples of later medieval date: a group of blade‐injured males from the sites of Towton, North Yorkshire, and Fishergate in the City of York, England, and a comparative group of nonblade‐injured males also from the site of Fishergate in York. CT image slices were taken of the humeral shaft at 20%, 35%, 50%, 65%, and 80% from the distal end to investigate population difference…
Funerary taphonomy
Understanding complex fragmented assemblages of human and animal remains
Fragmentation
Scattered and commingled human and animal remains are commonly encountered on archaeological sites, and this contextual relationship begs the question of whether human and animals were treated in a similar manner before burial. The recording system presented here provides a means by which to confront problems of equifinality – that is, when taphonomic alterations create apparently similar patterns and, therefore, confuse behavioural inferences dr…
Paleodemographic comparison of a catastrophic and an attritional death assemblage
The aim of this contribution is to examine the effect of an indiscriminate epidemic on a population to assess whether or not a catastrophic event can be identified from examination of paleodemographic data. Using paleodemographic techniques, the death assemblage from the Royal Mint site, London, a Black Death cemetery dated 1349 AD, is compared with that from St. Helen‐on‐the‐Walls, York, which dates from the twelfth to the sixteenth centuries AD…
Bioarchaeology of Neolithic Çatalhöyük
Twenty-first century bioarchaeology
This article presents outcomes from a Workshop entitled "Bioarchaeology: Taking Stock and Moving Forward," which was held at Arizona State University (ASU) on March 6-8, 2020. Funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the School of Human Evolution and Social Change (ASU), and the Center for Bioarchaeological Research (CBR, ASU), the Workshop's overall goal was to explore reasons why research proposals submitted by bioarchaeologists, both g…
Hand Dominance and Bilateral Asymmetry of the Epicondylar Breadth of the Humerus
For this consideration of bilateral asymmetry of the epicondylar breadth of the distal humerus and its relationship to hand dominance, metric analysis of the humerus was conducted on a living population from Ontario, Canada, and on the late AngloSaxon skeletal population (tenth to eleventh century AD) from Raunds Furnells, Northamptonshire (UK). Examination of trends in adult asymmetry reveals that while certain variables, such as age and sex, ca…
Cleaning the dead
Crouching in fear
At present, there is no accepted standardised lexicon in English to describe burials and the position of buried human remains. Terms have tended to vary with the investigator and rely on loose, but often ill-defined systems of previous use. As a consequence, there are myriad terms used to describe the same phenomena or, as the case may be, no single well-defined term to do so. This means that new terms are continually invented – and sometimes re-…
Bioarchaeology
When one reads archaeological publications on funerary remains, one might think that the deceased was sacrificed to accompany the burial of a pot [34]. One could easily blame archaeologists for this predicament, but it also has its roots in a research tradition within biological anthropology that tends to provide biological data to the archaeologist who provides the social and cultural meaning. Due to empirical divergence this approach encourages…
Aging Well
Over the (slightly more than) two decades that the European Journal of Archaeology (formerly the Journal of European Archaeology ) has been in print, we have published a number of excellent and high profile articles. Among these, Paul Treherne's seminal meditation on Bronze Age male identity and warriorhood stands out as both the highest cited and the most regularly downloaded paper in our archive. Speaking informally with friends and colleagues …
Death, Decapitation and Display? The Bronze and Iron Age Human Remains from the Sculptor's Cave, Covesea, North-east Scotland
Excavations at the Sculptor's Cave (north-east Scotland) during the 1930s and 1970s yielded evidence for activity in the Late Bronze Age, Late Iron Age, and early medieval periods, including a substantial human skeletal assemblage with apparent evidence for the removal, curation, and display of human heads. The present project, combining osteological analysis and a programme of AMS dating, aimed to place the surviving human remains from the site …
More Circe than Cassandra
Ritual and ritual specialists have often been dissociated from power in the writings of prehistorians and archaeologists. From ethnographic and ethnohistoric accounts, however, ritual specialists often exert disproportionate control over the maintenance, manipulation, and elaboration of social codes and practices. Their roles in ritual practice (orthopraxy in non-literate societies) and its effect on decision-making accord them considerable socia…
External auditory exostoses and prehistoric aquatic resource procurement
On the biomechanical and osteoarthritic differences between hunter‐gatherers and agriculturalists
A bioarchaeological and forensic re-assessment of vulture defleshing and mortuary practices at Neolithic Çatalhöyük
Probable carpometacarpal and tarsal coalition from Baousso da Torre Cave (Italy)
Le barrage de Tolerme, mis en eau en mars 1990, cree un plan d'eau touristique de 40 ha. Il est constitue d'une digue principale de 17,5 m et d'une digue de col haute de 11 m. Le cout a ete optimise par le choix de barrages en enrochements avec etancheite centrale par paroi moulee. Les crues sont evacuees grace a un deversoir de surface, le vide d'emprunt de la carriere etant utilise comme fosse de reception.(A) (Titres en anglais et en allemand:…
Gristhorpe Man
A log-coffin excavated in the early nineteenth century proved to be well enough preserved in the early twenty-first century for the full armoury of modern scientific investigation to give its occupants and contents new identity, new origins and a new date. In many ways the interpretation is much the same as before: a local big man buried looking out to sea. Modern analytical techniques can create a person more real, more human and more securely a…
On the significance of the crania from the River Thames and its tributaries
Bradley & Gordon, writing in ANTIQUITY in 1988, reported a distinct pattern in the distribution and dates of the many human crania that have been found in the River Thames. Issue is taken with that view, and the insight it promised in relating human remains to the prehistoric British interest in watery places
Scratching the surface? A histotaphonomic study of human remains at Neolithic Çatalhöyük
Stable carbon and nitrogen isotope analysis and dietary reconstruction through the life course at Neolithic Çatalhöyük, Turkey
Food has long served as a mechanism for identifying and reinforcing social structures, but while carbon and nitrogen isotope analysis has provided important identity-based evidence of past diets, the cyclical and stable/fluid nature of food consumption practices across the life course has been relatively neglected. In this paper, the large human assemblage at Çatalhöyük with all age groups present has enabled diet reconstruction of the rarely rep…
The throwing hypothesis and hominid origins
Variable views of Middle Palaeolithic adaptation, behaviour and variability
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Shared principles
It was to be expected that the pioneering concordat between archaeologists and Native Americans (Shared principles': a cooperation agreement between a Native North American group and archaeologists, ANTIQUITY 65: 917–20) would evoke a response from physical anthropologists
Slipped proximal femoral epiphysis in a priest from the medieval period
During the course of a routine analysis of a cemetery burial population associated with the medieval hospital of St Giles, Brough, North Yorkshire, the partially excavated burial (No. 1423) of a priest, as identified through the associated chalice and paten dating to the medieval period, was observed to exhibit osseous changes commensurate with those of an untreated slipped proximal femoral epiphysis. Secondary osseous changes were noted that may…
On the biomechanical and osteoarthritic differences between hunter‐gatherers and agriculturalists
A cripple from the medieval hospital of Sts James and Mary Magdalen, Chichester
The skeletal remains of a medieval leper from the hospital of Sts James and Mary Magdalene, Chichester, demonstrate osseous alterations in possible response to altered posture and crutch-aided locomotion. This individual provides further insight into the possible identification of osseous changes commensurate with maintained abnormal posture and strenuous use of one limb to aid locomotion. In this regard, it allows an appreciation and assessment …
Evidence for Remedial Medical Treatment of a Severe Knee Injury from the Fishergate Gilbertine Monastery in the City of York
Short Reviews
On the significance of the crania from the River Thames and its tributaries
Bradley & Gordon, writing in ANTIQUITY in 1988, reported a distinct pattern in the distribution and dates of the many human crania that have been found in the River Thames. Issue is taken with that view, and the insight it promised in relating human remains to the prehistoric British interest in watery places
Death, Decay, and Ritual Reconstruction
Archaeologists often joke that patterning which cannot be explained in socio‐economic terms is likely to be of ritual significance. This view has contributed to both reticence about and a rather impressionistic approach to potential ritual patterning in the archaeological record. The application of interpretations derived from the forensic sciences to such contexts may help to exclude natural or taphonomic processes that can mimic these patterns …
Brief communication
A rare, activity-related lesion, the clay-shoveller's fracture, was identified during osteological analysis in three human populations dating from the Roman to the later Medieval period in England, circa fourth to 14th centuries A.D. The prevalence of this fracture in these populations suggests an osteological indicator for several possible manual activities, but also one that may be the result of a long-standing human subsistence adaptation requ…
Variations in hunter-gatherer skeletal health in prehistoric Australia
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Brief communication
A rare, activity-related lesion, the clay-shoveller's fracture, was identified during osteological analysis in three human populations dating from the Roman to the later Medieval period in England, circa fourth to 14th centuries A.D. The prevalence of this fracture in these populations suggests an osteological indicator for several possible manual activities, but also one that may be the result of a long-standing human subsistence adaptation requ…
Comment on Mallegni and Valassina's secondary bone changes to a cranium trepanation in a Neolithic man discovered at Trasano, south Italy
Comment on Mallegni and Valassina's secondary bone changes to a cranium trepanation in a Neolithic man discovered at Trasano, south Italy
Comparative degenerative joint disease of the vertebral column in the medieval monastic cemetery of the Gilbertine Priory of St. Andrew, Fishergate, York, England
The pattern of degenerative joint disease (DJD) of the intervertebral and apophyseal joints of the vertebral column of 81 skeletons from the thirteenth to fourteenth century medieval priory cemetery of St. Andrew, Fishergate, York, was recorded in relation to their location of interment: eastern cemetery, southern cemetery, and intramurally (within the priory buildings). Archaeological context and ethnohistorical accounts support the interpretati…
Paleodemographic comparison of a catastrophic and an attritional death assemblage
The aim of this contribution is to examine the effect of an indiscriminate epidemic on a population to assess whether or not a catastrophic event can be identified from examination of paleodemographic data. Using paleodemographic techniques, the death assemblage from the Royal Mint site, London, a Black Death cemetery dated 1349 AD, is compared with that from St. Helen‐on‐the‐Walls, York, which dates from the twelfth to the sixteenth centuries AD…
More Circe than Cassandra
Ritual and ritual specialists have often been dissociated from power in the writings of prehistorians and archaeologists. From ethnographic and ethnohistoric accounts, however, ritual specialists often exert disproportionate control over the maintenance, manipulation, and elaboration of social codes and practices. Their roles in ritual practice (orthopraxy in non-literate societies) and its effect on decision-making accord them considerable socia…
Bio-cultural effects in medieval populations
Fragmentation
Scattered and commingled human and animal remains are commonly encountered on archaeological sites, and this contextual relationship begs the question of whether human and animals were treated in a similar manner before burial. The recording system presented here provides a means by which to confront problems of equifinality – that is, when taphonomic alterations create apparently similar patterns and, therefore, confuse behavioural inferences dr…
Fragmentation
Scattered and commingled human and animal remains are commonly encountered on archaeological sites, and this contextual relationship begs the question of whether human and animals were treated in a similar manner before burial. The recording system presented here provides a means by which to confront problems of equifinality – that is, when taphonomic alterations create apparently similar patterns and, therefore, confuse behavioural inferences dr…
A foot deformity from a Romano-British cemetery at Gloucester, England, and the current evidence fortalipesin palaeopathology
A male skeleton from the Romano-British site at Kingsholm, Gloucester, is described with abnormalities in the humerus, femur, tibia, fibula and foot. Computed tomography of the femora to enable cross-sectional analysis suggested altered normal gait to compensate for the deformity. Differential diagnoses are considered and a diagnosis of clubfoot deformity is suggested. Palaeopathological evidence for clubfoot is rare in the literature but the cas…
Understanding complex fragmented assemblages of human and animal remains
Activity‐related skeletal change in medieval humeri
This paper examines humeral cross‐sectional properties in two different samples of later medieval date: a group of blade‐injured males from the sites of Towton, North Yorkshire, and Fishergate in the City of York, England, and a comparative group of nonblade‐injured males also from the site of Fishergate in York. CT image slices were taken of the humeral shaft at 20%, 35%, 50%, 65%, and 80% from the distal end to investigate population difference…
Hand Dominance and Bilateral Asymmetry of the Epicondylar Breadth of the Humerus
For this consideration of bilateral asymmetry of the epicondylar breadth of the distal humerus and its relationship to hand dominance, metric analysis of the humerus was conducted on a living population from Ontario, Canada, and on the late AngloSaxon skeletal population (tenth to eleventh century AD) from Raunds Furnells, Northamptonshire (UK). Examination of trends in adult asymmetry reveals that while certain variables, such as age and sex, ca…
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