Neil A Duncan
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 264716 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Neil A Duncan |
| NOMBRES | Neil A |
| APELLIDO | Duncan |
| FIRMA | DUNCAN N A |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Central Florida |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3178-7454 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 19 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 80 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 19 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2003 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
South American Maize and Political Economy of the Middle and Late Formative Soconusco Region of Guatemala
We present macrobotanical, starch, and phytolith data from artifacts and sediments from Middle Formative La Blanca (1000-600 cal BC) and Late Formative El Ujuxte (600 cal BC-cal AD 115 ) in the Soconusco region in Guatemala. Potential economic plants identified included palm (cf. Arecaceae), two varieties of maize (Zea mays), guava (Psidium guajava), bean (Phaseolus), chili peppers (Capsicum), squash (Cucurbitaceae), custard apple (Annonaceae), c…
Starch grain analysis of ceramic residue from forest islands associated with raised fields in west central Mojos, Bolivia
Early Maize ( Zea mays ) in the North American Central Plains
Artifacts, including ceramics, ground stone, and soil samples, as well as dental calculus, recovered from sites in the eastern North American central Plains were submitted to multiple laboratories for analysis of microbotanical remains. Direct accelerator mass spectrometer (AMS) dates of 361–197 cal BC provide evidence for the earliest use of maize ( Zea mays ssp. mays ) in this region. Squash ( Cucurbita sp.), wild rice (cf. Zizania spp.), and p…
Insights into past land-use and vegetation change in the Llanos de Moxos (Bolivia) using fungal non-pollen palynomorphs
Here we document a 1000-year fungal record from the raised-field region of the Llanos de Moxos, a seasonally inundated forest-savanna mosaic in the Bolivian Amazon. Fungi are extremely sensitive to changes in vegetation due to their close relationship with the local environment, providing a useful proxy for past local vegetation and land-use change. Here the remains of fungal non-pollen palynomorphs (NPPs) are identified from a sediment core take…
Food and Society at Real Alto, an Early Formative Community in Southwest Coastal Ecuador
We investigated foodways at Real Alto, an early Formative (4400-1800 BC) Valdivia site in coastal Ecuador, using starch and phytoliths recovered from 50 stone tools from three residential and two ceremonial structures, as well as 46 human dental calculus samples, to explore how food reflects the social relationships and economy of the community. Maize was important in daily meals and ceremonial foods by the Middle Valdivia (2800-2400 BC), but it …
Exploitation of job's tears in Paleolithic and Neolithic China
A method to identify Job's tears, Coix lacryma-jobi L., phytoliths in northern China
Personal sacrifice and corporate cultures
Disabled people are under-represented in higher education (HE), especially in senior posts. This article reports research on the perspectives of career progression into leadership held by disabled staff in one post-1992 university. Findings indicated that some participants were already engaged in leadership or aspired to such roles, and reported positive experiences. However, participants also experienced barriers to progression, including a lack…
Changing patterns of plant-based food production during the Neolithic and early Bronze Age in central-south Inner Mongolia, China
Plant-based subsistence strategies and development of complex societies in Neolithic Northeast China
Human–environment interactions during the early mid-Holocene in coastal Ecuador as revealed by mangrove coring in Santa Elena Province
Coastal environments of the early mid-Holocene provided challenges and opportunities for agriculturalists living in the Santa Elena Peninsula, Ecuador (Santa Elena Province, formerly southwestern Guayas Province). Cores extracted from swamps in three river outflows, namely, the Río Verde/Río Zapotal drainage (Chanduy estuary), the Río Grande (Punta Carnero locality), and the Río Valdivia, provided pollen, phytolith, sedimentary, and elemental seq…
Phytoliths as a tool for investigations of agricultural origins and dispersals around the world
The method of shared concern
Back in the late 1980s, I applied to Manchester University for a master’s degree in education, with a research topic on bullying in schools. I was delayed in my start, as the supervisory team expla
Human Occupation and the Environment During the Holocene in the River Cauca Valley, Colombia
This paper summarises the results of on-going research on the valley floor by a multidisciplinary team of archaeologists and specialists in soils, pollen and phytoliths. The research project is designed to chart the history of human occupation of this complex and frequently flooded area during the Holocene and the interaction between this environment and the human population. In the mountains surrounding much of the upper and central Cauca valley…
Bullying, Social Power and Heteronormativity
Literature on girls’ popularity posits a strong association between popularity, social power and bullying behaviours, some of which conflate the concepts ‘bully’ and ‘popular’. This study explores that association through links to concepts of popularity among girls in two demographically different high schools. Data are presented that were derived from the application of Q methodology to the problem of comparing girls’ attributions of popularity.…
‘Feed‐forward’
A small‐scale action research project was carried out on students' feedback histories on one undergraduate module. Old grades and comment sheets were collected and analysed by staff for recurring advice to individual students on the target module. This advice was then synthesized to create simple individual learning plans for the students' forthcoming assignments, in other words old feedback was applied to a new task. A number of additional teach…
La tradición religioso-astronómica en Buena Vista
Desde hace mucho tiempo, diversos investigadores han postulado un carácter marítimo, en vez de agrícola, para los orígenes de la civilización en la costa central del Perú. Este modelo ha sido subsecuentemente modificado a la luz del hallazgo de nuevas evidencias para incluir el intercambio con comunidades agrícolas establecidas en los valles medios. Una pregunta clave en relación con este tema concierne a la causa de la súbita aparición de sitios…
It's important to be nice, but it's nicer to be important
A multi‐method project was conducted in a Local Education Authority (LEA) in the north of England. The relationships between girls' friendships, bullying, school attendance and transfer were explored through documentary analysis, LEA school admission statistics, group interviews and q‐sort technique. This paper reports selectively on those elements of the study that focussed on girls' popularity in high school. The qualitative data indicated that…
Awkward Customers? Parents and Provision for Special Educational Needs
This article selectively reports on a small-scale qualitative exploration of the experiences of families who had undergone recent conflict with special educational needs (SEN) professionals. The data were collected over the spring and summer terms of 2001 from 10 families in two local education authorities (LEAs) in the English midlands. The research aimed to examine the parents' perspectives on points of conflict or dissatisfaction between thems…
Phytoliths as a tool for investigations of agricultural origins and dispersals around the world
Food and Society at Real Alto, an Early Formative Community in Southwest Coastal Ecuador
We investigated foodways at Real Alto, an early Formative (4400-1800 BC) Valdivia site in coastal Ecuador, using starch and phytoliths recovered from 50 stone tools from three residential and two ceremonial structures, as well as 46 human dental calculus samples, to explore how food reflects the social relationships and economy of the community. Maize was important in daily meals and ceremonial foods by the Middle Valdivia (2800-2400 BC), but it …
Personal sacrifice and corporate cultures
Disabled people are under-represented in higher education (HE), especially in senior posts. This article reports research on the perspectives of career progression into leadership held by disabled staff in one post-1992 university. Findings indicated that some participants were already engaged in leadership or aspired to such roles, and reported positive experiences. However, participants also experienced barriers to progression, including a lack…
Plant-based subsistence strategies and development of complex societies in Neolithic Northeast China
La tradición religioso-astronómica en Buena Vista
Desde hace mucho tiempo, diversos investigadores han postulado un carácter marítimo, en vez de agrícola, para los orígenes de la civilización en la costa central del Perú. Este modelo ha sido subsecuentemente modificado a la luz del hallazgo de nuevas evidencias para incluir el intercambio con comunidades agrícolas establecidas en los valles medios. Una pregunta clave en relación con este tema concierne a la causa de la súbita aparición de sitios…
Insights into past land-use and vegetation change in the Llanos de Moxos (Bolivia) using fungal non-pollen palynomorphs
Here we document a 1000-year fungal record from the raised-field region of the Llanos de Moxos, a seasonally inundated forest-savanna mosaic in the Bolivian Amazon. Fungi are extremely sensitive to changes in vegetation due to their close relationship with the local environment, providing a useful proxy for past local vegetation and land-use change. Here the remains of fungal non-pollen palynomorphs (NPPs) are identified from a sediment core take…
Awkward Customers? Parents and Provision for Special Educational Needs
This article selectively reports on a small-scale qualitative exploration of the experiences of families who had undergone recent conflict with special educational needs (SEN) professionals. The data were collected over the spring and summer terms of 2001 from 10 families in two local education authorities (LEAs) in the English midlands. The research aimed to examine the parents' perspectives on points of conflict or dissatisfaction between thems…
Early Maize ( Zea mays ) in the North American Central Plains
Artifacts, including ceramics, ground stone, and soil samples, as well as dental calculus, recovered from sites in the eastern North American central Plains were submitted to multiple laboratories for analysis of microbotanical remains. Direct accelerator mass spectrometer (AMS) dates of 361–197 cal BC provide evidence for the earliest use of maize ( Zea mays ssp. mays ) in this region. Squash ( Cucurbita sp.), wild rice (cf. Zizania spp.), and p…
Human–environment interactions during the early mid-Holocene in coastal Ecuador as revealed by mangrove coring in Santa Elena Province
Coastal environments of the early mid-Holocene provided challenges and opportunities for agriculturalists living in the Santa Elena Peninsula, Ecuador (Santa Elena Province, formerly southwestern Guayas Province). Cores extracted from swamps in three river outflows, namely, the Río Verde/Río Zapotal drainage (Chanduy estuary), the Río Grande (Punta Carnero locality), and the Río Valdivia, provided pollen, phytolith, sedimentary, and elemental seq…
Awkward Customers? Parents and Provision for Special Educational Needs
This article selectively reports on a small-scale qualitative exploration of the experiences of families who had undergone recent conflict with special educational needs (SEN) professionals. The data were collected over the spring and summer terms of 2001 from 10 families in two local education authorities (LEAs) in the English midlands. The research aimed to examine the parents' perspectives on points of conflict or dissatisfaction between thems…
It's important to be nice, but it's nicer to be important
A multi‐method project was conducted in a Local Education Authority (LEA) in the north of England. The relationships between girls' friendships, bullying, school attendance and transfer were explored through documentary analysis, LEA school admission statistics, group interviews and q‐sort technique. This paper reports selectively on those elements of the study that focussed on girls' popularity in high school. The qualitative data indicated that…
‘Feed‐forward’
A small‐scale action research project was carried out on students' feedback histories on one undergraduate module. Old grades and comment sheets were collected and analysed by staff for recurring advice to individual students on the target module. This advice was then synthesized to create simple individual learning plans for the students' forthcoming assignments, in other words old feedback was applied to a new task. A number of additional teach…
La tradición religioso-astronómica en Buena Vista
Desde hace mucho tiempo, diversos investigadores han postulado un carácter marítimo, en vez de agrícola, para los orígenes de la civilización en la costa central del Perú. Este modelo ha sido subsecuentemente modificado a la luz del hallazgo de nuevas evidencias para incluir el intercambio con comunidades agrícolas establecidas en los valles medios. Una pregunta clave en relación con este tema concierne a la causa de la súbita aparición de sitios…
Bullying, Social Power and Heteronormativity
Literature on girls’ popularity posits a strong association between popularity, social power and bullying behaviours, some of which conflate the concepts ‘bully’ and ‘popular’. This study explores that association through links to concepts of popularity among girls in two demographically different high schools. Data are presented that were derived from the application of Q methodology to the problem of comparing girls’ attributions of popularity.…
The method of shared concern
Back in the late 1980s, I applied to Manchester University for a master’s degree in education, with a research topic on bullying in schools. I was delayed in my start, as the supervisory team expla
Human Occupation and the Environment During the Holocene in the River Cauca Valley, Colombia
This paper summarises the results of on-going research on the valley floor by a multidisciplinary team of archaeologists and specialists in soils, pollen and phytoliths. The research project is designed to chart the history of human occupation of this complex and frequently flooded area during the Holocene and the interaction between this environment and the human population. In the mountains surrounding much of the upper and central Cauca valley…
Phytoliths as a tool for investigations of agricultural origins and dispersals around the world
Changing patterns of plant-based food production during the Neolithic and early Bronze Age in central-south Inner Mongolia, China
Plant-based subsistence strategies and development of complex societies in Neolithic Northeast China
Human–environment interactions during the early mid-Holocene in coastal Ecuador as revealed by mangrove coring in Santa Elena Province
Coastal environments of the early mid-Holocene provided challenges and opportunities for agriculturalists living in the Santa Elena Peninsula, Ecuador (Santa Elena Province, formerly southwestern Guayas Province). Cores extracted from swamps in three river outflows, namely, the Río Verde/Río Zapotal drainage (Chanduy estuary), the Río Grande (Punta Carnero locality), and the Río Valdivia, provided pollen, phytolith, sedimentary, and elemental seq…
Personal sacrifice and corporate cultures
Disabled people are under-represented in higher education (HE), especially in senior posts. This article reports research on the perspectives of career progression into leadership held by disabled staff in one post-1992 university. Findings indicated that some participants were already engaged in leadership or aspired to such roles, and reported positive experiences. However, participants also experienced barriers to progression, including a lack…
Exploitation of job's tears in Paleolithic and Neolithic China
A method to identify Job's tears, Coix lacryma-jobi L., phytoliths in northern China
Food and Society at Real Alto, an Early Formative Community in Southwest Coastal Ecuador
We investigated foodways at Real Alto, an early Formative (4400-1800 BC) Valdivia site in coastal Ecuador, using starch and phytoliths recovered from 50 stone tools from three residential and two ceremonial structures, as well as 46 human dental calculus samples, to explore how food reflects the social relationships and economy of the community. Maize was important in daily meals and ceremonial foods by the Middle Valdivia (2800-2400 BC), but it …
Insights into past land-use and vegetation change in the Llanos de Moxos (Bolivia) using fungal non-pollen palynomorphs
Here we document a 1000-year fungal record from the raised-field region of the Llanos de Moxos, a seasonally inundated forest-savanna mosaic in the Bolivian Amazon. Fungi are extremely sensitive to changes in vegetation due to their close relationship with the local environment, providing a useful proxy for past local vegetation and land-use change. Here the remains of fungal non-pollen palynomorphs (NPPs) are identified from a sediment core take…
Starch grain analysis of ceramic residue from forest islands associated with raised fields in west central Mojos, Bolivia
Early Maize ( Zea mays ) in the North American Central Plains
Artifacts, including ceramics, ground stone, and soil samples, as well as dental calculus, recovered from sites in the eastern North American central Plains were submitted to multiple laboratories for analysis of microbotanical remains. Direct accelerator mass spectrometer (AMS) dates of 361–197 cal BC provide evidence for the earliest use of maize ( Zea mays ssp. mays ) in this region. Squash ( Cucurbita sp.), wild rice (cf. Zizania spp.), and p…
South American Maize and Political Economy of the Middle and Late Formative Soconusco Region of Guatemala
We present macrobotanical, starch, and phytolith data from artifacts and sediments from Middle Formative La Blanca (1000-600 cal BC) and Late Formative El Ujuxte (600 cal BC-cal AD 115 ) in the Soconusco region in Guatemala. Potential economic plants identified included palm (cf. Arecaceae), two varieties of maize (Zea mays), guava (Psidium guajava), bean (Phaseolus), chili peppers (Capsicum), squash (Cucurbitaceae), custard apple (Annonaceae), c…
Geography (15 obras) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (12 obras) · Biology (11 obras) · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies (11 obras) · Archaeology (10 obras) · Ecology (9 obras) · Pollen (7 obras) · Phytolith (6 obras) · Psychology (6 obras) · Domestication (5 obras)