A Chamberlain
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 147687 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | A Chamberlain |
| NOMBRES | A |
| APELLIDO | Chamberlain |
| FIRMA | CHAMBERLAIN A |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Sheffield |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1517-6538 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 58 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 756 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 58 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1985 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2021 |
| ÍNDICE H | 15 |
Stonelands Cave, Littondale, North Yorkshire
A worked bone artefact from Stonelands Cave has been radiocarbon dated to the Roman period. This is the first published record of any archaeological material from the site and increases the number of cave sites in the southern Yorkshire Dales known to have been utilised during such times
Re-examining stone circles in Dorset
The Kingston Russell stone circle on Tenants Hill is the largest preserved stone circle in Dorset. Since the Piggotts’ summary of the stone and earth circles in Dorset, a great deal has changed in our perceptions and dating of these types of monuments in Britain, but there has been little further research into the stone circles of Dorset. The community archaeology company Past Participate has been working on Tenants Hill since 2018, and this pape…
Degenerative variance on age-related traits from pelvic bone articulations and its implication for age estimation
Age at death estimation methods, when applied to skeletal remains of adults, have provided inaccurate results. These aging methods often depend on observations of the degenerative changes occurring at specific articulations, however, the effects of the aging process on the human skeleton are only partially known. Therefore a need exists to increase our understanding about the age related metamorphosis process to improve aging methods. The aim of …
"Pars Pro Toto" and Personhood in Roman Cremation Ritual
Os resectum, or “cut bone,” is an obscure Roman funerary rite known primarily from literary sources. To date, archaeological examples have been recovered from Rome, Ostia, Herculaneum, and Pithekoussai, but no cases have been positively identified in the western provinces of the Roman Empire. This article presents bioarchaeological evidence concerning an unusual pattern of preservation for the bones of a single finger in a burial from a cemetery …
Interpreting the historical terrestrial vertebrate biodiversity of Cayman Brac (Greater Antilles, Caribbean) through collagen fingerprinting
Cayman Brac (Cayman Islands) lies within the Caribbean Islands Biodiversity Hotspot, an epicenter of high biodiversity and endemism. However, all endemic terrestrial mammals on the Cayman Islands are now extinct, following post-1500 AD human colonization of the islands. Introduced rodents and domesticated mammals now exclusively represent this facet of terrestrial fauna on the Cayman Islands, and are a likely cause of endemic species loss on the …
Postnatal maturation of the sternum in a Portuguese skeletal sample
The timing of skeletal maturation is one of the common indicators used to estimate age at death of juvenile skeletal remains. Skeletal maturation of the sternum has received less attention than other anatomical locations, and there is a general lack of detailed information about the fusion timing in the dry sternum that can be used for the estimation of age. The objective of this study is to document the age variation in the fusion of the body st…
Pastoralist strategies and human mobility
Dietary seasonal variations in the Medieval Nubian population of Kulubnarti as indicated by the stable isotope composition of hair
Species identification of voles and lemmings from Late Pleistocene deposits in Pin Hole Cave (Creswell Crags, UK) using collagen fingerprinting
A volumetric technique for fossil body mass estimation applied to Australopithecus afarensis
Fossil body mass estimation is a well established practice within the field of physical anthropology. Previous studies have relied upon traditional allometric approaches, in which the relationship between one/several skeletal dimensions and body mass in a range of modern taxa is used in a predictive capacity. The lack of relatively complete skeletons has thus far limited the potential application of alternative mass estimation techniques, such as…
Dying Embers
We examine the known examples of strike-a-light kits within prehistoric mortuary contexts in mainland Britain. Building on the seminal work of Clarke in the 1970s, and Needham’s recent work on Beaker grave groups, many further examples of this burial practice are documented from both historic and recent excavations. It is evident that strike-a-light kits have a considerable longevity in prehistoric mortuary practice, with all but one dating to be…
Beaker people in Britain
Diet reconstruction through stable isotope analysis of ancient mummified soft tissues from Kulubnarti (Sudanese Nubia)
Application of clinical imaging and 3D printing to the identification of anomalies in an ancient Egyptian animal mummy
Mummification in Bronze Age Britain
A Time-Series Analysis of External Efficacy
Journal Article A Time-Series Analysis of External Efficacy Get access Adam Chamberlain Adam Chamberlain * ADAM CHAMBERLAIN is an Assistant Professor of Politics in the Department of Politics & Geography at Coastal Carolina University, Conway, SC, USA. He would like to thank James Stimson and Thomas Carsey for their insightful comments on earlier drafts of this research note *Address correspondence to Adam Chamberlain, Coastal Carolina University…
A demographic analysis of Maiden Castle hillfort
The application of histomorphometry and Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy to the analysis of early Anglo-Saxon burned bone
A methodological investigation of hominoid craniodental morphology and phylogenetics
Predestination
intelligible and relevant to contemporary (youth) audiences, put the meaning of the text at risk of being swallowed up in the cultural "meanings" of the accompanying format?Several essays take up what was perhaps the preeminent concern of the era, the rationalizing effect of science upon religion.Edward Davis, for example, assesses the use of cartoons by both sides in the controversy over evolution.Both modernists and fundamentalists sought to sw…
Age estimation of archaeological remains using amino acid racemization in dental enamel
The poor accuracy of most current methods for estimating age‐at‐death in adult human skeletal remains is among the key problems facing palaeodemography. In forensic science, this problem has been solved for unburnt remains by the development of a chemical method for age estimation, using amino acid racemization in collagen extracted from dentine. Previous application of racemization methods to archaeological material has proven problematic. This …
Archaeological Demography
Archaeological demography investigates the structure and dynamics of past human populations using evidence from traces of human activities and remnants of material culture in the archaeological record. Research in this field is interdisciplinary, incorporating findings from anthropology, paleogenetics, and human ecology but with a remit that extends beyond the primarily biological focus of paleodemography. Important questions addressed by archaeo…
Who was buried at Stonehenge
Stonehenge continues to surprise us. In this new study of the twentieth-century excavations, together with the precise radiocarbon dating that is now possible, the authors propose that the site started life in the early third millennium cal BC as a cremation cemetery within a circle of upright bluestones. Britain's most famous monument may therefore have been founded as the burial place of a leading family, possibly from Wales
The energetic costs of load-carrying and the evolution of bipedalism
Cave Archaeology and Palaeontology in the Creswell Region
The aim of this chapter is to situate the unique discoveries of cave art at the Creswell Crags caves in the context of what is known of the cave archaeology and palaeontology of the caves of the southern Magnesian Limestone outcrop. The long history of archaeological research at Creswell Crags and the spectacular discoveries that continue to be made in the Creswell caves have tended to overshadow the widespread though less prominent distribution …
Age estimation from the auricular surface of the ilium
A revised method for estimating adult age at death using the auricular surface of the ilium has been developed. It is based on the existing auricular surface aging method of Lovejoy et al. ([1985] Am. J. Phys. Anthropol. 68: 15–28), but the revised technique is easier to apply, and has low levels of inter‐ and intraobserver error. The new method records age‐related stages for different features of the auricular surface, which are then combined to…
Phylogenetic Analysis of Early Hominids [and Comments and Reply]
The proposal of the new australopithecine species Australopithecus afarensis has led to a multiplicity of hypotheses concerning the evolutionary relationships between the known Pliocene and Pleistocene hominid species. We use phylogenetic analysis to gain a new perspective on the subject. Using 69 traits, we construct a series of 12 complexes, each with a defining polarized morphocline. Four mutually exclusive cladograms are derived from these co…
Early hominid phylogeny
A reappraisal of variation in hominid mandibular corpus dimensions
The relationship between breadth and height of the mandibular corpus has been investigated in a sample of 77 hominid mandibles. An interspecific allometric increase in robusticity with size occurs between four taxonomic subgroups of Australopithecus , but subgroups of Homo vary in robusticity while differing little in size. Within taxonomic subgroups, variation in breadth is not significantly related to variation in height among the “gracile” aus…
The age of Stonehenge
Stonehenge is the icon of British prehistory, and continues to inspire ingenious investigations and interpretations. A current campaign of research, being waged by probably the strongest archaeological team ever assembled, is focused not just on the monument, but on its landscape, its hinterland and the monuments within it. The campaign is still in progress, but the story so far is well worth reporting. Revisiting records of 100 years ago the aut…
A Time-Series Analysis of External Efficacy
Journal Article A Time-Series Analysis of External Efficacy Get access Adam Chamberlain Adam Chamberlain * ADAM CHAMBERLAIN is an Assistant Professor of Politics in the Department of Politics & Geography at Coastal Carolina University, Conway, SC, USA. He would like to thank James Stimson and Thomas Carsey for their insightful comments on earlier drafts of this research note *Address correspondence to Adam Chamberlain, Coastal Carolina University…
A Bayesian Approach to Ageing Perinatal Skeletal Material from Archaeological Sites
Speciation, morphological change and the status of African Homo erectus
The application of histomorphometry and Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy to the analysis of early Anglo-Saxon burned bone
Who was buried at Stonehenge
Stonehenge continues to surprise us. In this new study of the twentieth-century excavations, together with the precise radiocarbon dating that is now possible, the authors propose that the site started life in the early third millennium cal BC as a cremation cemetery within a circle of upright bluestones. Britain's most famous monument may therefore have been founded as the burial place of a leading family, possibly from Wales
The scientific study of mummies
Evidence for mummification in Bronze Age Britain
Ancient Egyptians are thought to have been the only people in the Old World who were practising mummification in the Bronze Age (c. 2200-700 BC). But now a remarkable series of finds from a remote Scottish island indicates that Ancient Britons were performing similar, if less elaborate, practices of bodily preservation. Evidence of mummification is usually limited to a narrow range of arid or frozen environments which are conducive to soft tissue…
The primate pelvis
Beaker people in Britain
Detecting plague
The archaeological definition of a plague should be possible from skeletal populations, because the age profile of a population afflicted by a catastrophe will be different to that of a community exposed to a more normal mortality. The authors show how this can be done using a Bayesian statistical analysis
A volumetric technique for fossil body mass estimation applied to Australopithecus afarensis
Fossil body mass estimation is a well established practice within the field of physical anthropology. Previous studies have relied upon traditional allometric approaches, in which the relationship between one/several skeletal dimensions and body mass in a range of modern taxa is used in a predictive capacity. The lack of relatively complete skeletons has thus far limited the potential application of alternative mass estimation techniques, such as…
The thermal history of human fossils and the likelihood of successful DNA amplification
Mummification in Bronze Age Britain
Piltdown
The energetic costs of load-carrying and the evolution of bipedalism
More dating evidence for human remains in British caves
ANTIQUITY's recent report on direct radiocarbon dates for human bone from Welsh caves had them concentrated in two distinct Postglacial periods. The larger pattern for Britain as a whole is also striking
Species identification of voles and lemmings from Late Pleistocene deposits in Pin Hole Cave (Creswell Crags, UK) using collagen fingerprinting
Non-metric trait evidence for modern human affinities and the distinctiveness of Neanderthals
A methodological investigation of hominoid craniodental morphology and phylogenetics
The Survey and Excavation of a Bronze Age Timber Circle at Holme-next-the-Sea, Norfolk, 1998–9
In 1998 a circle of timber posts within the intertidal zone on the north Norfolk coast was brought to the attention of the Norfolk County Council Archaeological Service. A subsequent programme of archaeological recording and dating revealed that the structure was constructed in the spring or early summer of 2049 BC, during the Early Bronze Age. Because of the perceived threat of damage and erosion from the sea a rescue excavation was undertaken d…
A reappraisal of variation in hominid mandibular corpus dimensions
The relationship between breadth and height of the mandibular corpus has been investigated in a sample of 77 hominid mandibles. An interspecific allometric increase in robusticity with size occurs between four taxonomic subgroups of Australopithecus , but subgroups of Homo vary in robusticity while differing little in size. Within taxonomic subgroups, variation in breadth is not significantly related to variation in height among the “gracile” aus…
Phylogenetic Analysis of Early Hominids [and Comments and Reply]
The proposal of the new australopithecine species Australopithecus afarensis has led to a multiplicity of hypotheses concerning the evolutionary relationships between the known Pliocene and Pleistocene hominid species. We use phylogenetic analysis to gain a new perspective on the subject. Using 69 traits, we construct a series of 12 complexes, each with a defining polarized morphocline. Four mutually exclusive cladograms are derived from these co…
The primate pelvis
The nature and affinities of the “robust” Australopithecines
Peat depth variability at Machrie North, Arran, and its implications for archaeological survey and conservation in British uplands
The results of a series of surveys of an area of peat moorland on the Isle of Arran, Scotland, have been analysed to determine the relationship between surface indications and subsurface cultural features. The study reveals that variation in the depth of peat accounts for much of the apparent areal density of surf ace features. The paper further demonstrates how the conservation strategy enacted at the survey area, based as it was largely on surf…
Early hominid phylogeny
The Working People
“The Working People.” Patrick J. Mogan Cultural Center, 40 French St., Lowell, MA 01852 Get access Bruce Laurie Bruce Laurie University of Massachusetts, Amherst Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 3, December 1989, Pages 874–879, https://doi.org/10.2307/2936430 Published: 01 December 1989
Speciation, morphological change and the status of African Homo erectus
Skeletal Studies
A chronological framework for human origins
1991). A chronological framework for human origins. World Archaeology: Vol. 23, Chronologies, pp. 137-146
Piltdown
Left-side cradling
Robert Foley. Humans before humanity. x+238 pages, 45 illustrations, 1 table. 1995. Oxford
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More dating evidence for human remains in British caves
ANTIQUITY's recent report on direct radiocarbon dates for human bone from Welsh caves had them concentrated in two distinct Postglacial periods. The larger pattern for Britain as a whole is also striking
The incidence of dorsal sulci of the scapula in a modern human population from Ensay, Scotland
Detecting Ancient Tuberculosis
Some diseases have played a more significant role in human development than others. Here we describe the results of a trial to diagnose ancient tuberculosis using chemical methods. Palaeo-epidemiological studies of the disease are compromised, but it has become apparent that tuberculosis (TB) is a 'population-density dependent' disease. From modern studies, it is also apparent that the prevalence of TB can be used as an indicator of the level of …
Ultrasonic Cave Mapping
Non-metric trait evidence for modern human affinities and the distinctiveness of Neanderthals
The nature and timing of faunal change in the British Isles across the Pleistocene/Holocene transition
The abrupt change in climate during the last deglaciation is reflected in the British Isles by a transition from periglacial to temperate faunas. In contrast to the coleopteran record, terrestrial mammals characteristic of the Lateglacial persist for several hundred years in southern Britain after the end of the Younger Dryas (Loch Lomond Stadial, end-Pleistocene). This lag in the vertebrate faunal transition could reflect a delay in the Holocene…
Demographie der Bronzezeit
Cave Detection in Limestone using Ground Penetrating Radar
Genetic evidence for Near-Eastern origins of European cattle
A Bayesian Approach to Ageing Perinatal Skeletal Material from Archaeological Sites
Age estimation from the auricular surface of the ilium
A revised method for estimating adult age at death using the auricular surface of the ilium has been developed. It is based on the existing auricular surface aging method of Lovejoy et al. ([1985] Am. J. Phys. Anthropol. 68: 15–28), but the revised technique is easier to apply, and has low levels of inter‐ and intraobserver error. The new method records age‐related stages for different features of the auricular surface, which are then combined to…
The scientific study of mummies
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