Joanna Sofaer
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3584810 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Joanna Sofaer |
| NOMBRES | Joanna |
| APELLIDO | Sofaer |
| FIRMA | SOFAER J |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Southampton |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6328-8636 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 25 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 156 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 24 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1997 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Wellbeing Through Heritage for NHS Staff. Heritage Engagement and Participant Choice in the HerWellNHS Project
Workforce burnout is the highest in the history of the National Health Service (NHS) and is recognised as a dangerous risk to its future functioning. The extent of the crisis means that there is an urgent need for innovative, sustainable solutions that can be delivered at scale. The Heritage and Wellbeing for NHS Staff (HerWellNHS) pilot and feasibility study investigates the potential for self-directed visits to heritage sites to promote the wel…
Perceived place qualities, restorative effects and self-reported wellbeing benefits of visits to heritage sites
Heritage sites are complex environments that cannot be easily be located within a nature – built space dichotomy. Although a small but growing body of evidence supports the potential of visits to heritage sites in generating wellbeing benefits, there is a gap in understanding how such benefits may be related to the perceived qualities or affordances of heritage sites. We present an exploratory survey instrument designed and tested to generate emp…
The mechanised testing and sequential wear‐analysis of replica Bronze Age palstave blades
There have been few attempts to conduct highly controlled laboratory experiments to isolate how wear propagates on metal artefacts with differing metallurgy during simulated use. This reflects a lack of appreciation for the underlying structure of materials within the production of reference datasets for metalwork wear analysis. Here, we present the use of a drop tower (Instron CEAST 9350) to reconstruct use on replica Bronze Age palstave axes wi…
The breakdown of knowledge
Heritage sites, value and wellbeing
The COVID-19 lockdown of society in 2020 deprived people of access to many heritage sites. This made the public uniquely aware of why they visited heritage sites and what they valued about the visits, once heritage sites reopened. In particular, regaining access framed visits in terms of personal agency and wellbeing. Notions of capability, social connections, ontological security, and trust–all important elements of wellbeing–were widely shared …
Creativity in the Bronze Age
Creativity is an integral part of human history, yet most studies focus on the modern era, leaving unresolved questions about the formative role that creativity has played in the past. This book explores the fundamental nature of creativity in the European Bronze Age. Considering developments in crafts that we take for granted today, such as pottery, textiles, and metalwork, the volume compares and contrasts various aspects of their development, …
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 …
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 Prevalence and Health Implications of Concha Bullosa in a Population from Mediaeval England
Concha bullosa is hypertrophy of the middle nasal concha attributable to its pneumatisation. It is considered to be the most common anatomical variant of the ostiomeatal complex, but it has been little studied in skeletal populations. It is uncertain whether the prevalence of concha bullosa varies in different world populations. Some have suggested that it predisposes to sinusitis, but this is controversial. The aim of the current work is to asse…
Craft Production
The Bronze Age can be characterised by an unprecedented increase in craft activity. One of these was the production of bone, ceramics, and textiles, three contrasting materials that became widespread in this period. This article discusses the production of these materials separately, starting with its various types. It then differentiates the kinds of ceramics, textiles, and worked bone that was produced in various European regions and during the…
Bioarchaeological Approaches to the Gendered Body
This chapter contains section titles: Research Trajectories in the Bioarchaeological Study of the Gendered Body Method and Theory in Bioarchaeological Approaches to Gender and the Body Bioarchaeological Investigations of Gender Prospects for the Future of Osteological Approaches to the Gendered Body in Prehistory References
Touching the Body
Osteoarchaeology and arts practice are two disciplines that work with the human skeleton. In both cases, this interest arises from curiosity regarding the materiality of the body. In the process of coming to understand that materiality, both disciplines create relationships between living and dead bodies through touch. This paper examines the interaction between different kinds of bodies – the living and the dead, the fleshed and the skeletal – i…
Human Ontogeny and Material Change at the Bronze Age Tell of Százhalombatta, Hungary
This article explores the relationship between human ontogeny - how people become who they are - and material change at the Bronze Age tell of Százhalombatta, Hungary. Shifts in domestic material culture and in the use of domestic space in houses imply altered developmental experiences for people living on the tell from the Early to Middle Bronze Age. These changes produced qualitatively different kinds of people at different points in time
Organizing Bronze Age Societies
The Bronze Age was a formative period in European history when the organisation of landscapes, settlements, and economy reached a new level of complexity. This book presents the first in-depth, comparative study of household economy and settlement in three micro-regions: the Mediterranean (Sicily), Central Europe (Hungary), and Northern Europe (South Scandinavia). The results are based on ten years of fieldwork in a similar method of documentatio…
Non-discursive Knowledge and the Construction of Identity Potters, Potting and Performance at the Bronze Age Tell of Százhalombatta, Hungary
This article explores the relationship between the making of things and the making of people at the Bronze Age tell at Százhalombatta, Hungary. Focusing on potters and potting, we explore how the performance of non-discursive knowledge was critical to the construction of social categories. Potters literally came into being as potters through repeated bodily enactment of potting skills. Potters also gained their identity in the social sphere throu…
Engendering children, engendering archaeology
Since the inception of gender archaeology in the 1970s, archaeologists have succeeded in highlighting a variety of methodological problems and prejudices within the discipline. Importantly they revealed the extent of androcentric bias in archaeological interpretation and in doing so pushed for recognition of the value of women’s contributions to ancient and modern societies (Gero 1988). An initial emphasis on the ‘finding of women’ gradually tran…
Material Identities
Characterization and textural analysis of Middle Bronze Age Transdanubian inlaid wares of the Encrusted Pottery Culture, Hungary
The Body as Material Culture
Bodies intrigue us. They promise windows into the past that other archaeological finds cannot by bringing us literally face to face with history. Yet 'the body' is also highly contested. Archaeological bodies are studied through two contrasting perspectives that sit on different sides of a disciplinary divide. On one hand lie science-based osteoarchaeological approaches. On the other lie understandings derived from recent developments in social t…
Pots, Houses and Metal
At the Bronze Age tell of Százhalombatta, Hungary, techniques used for making pottery echo those used in other media. Pottery and architecture have a close relationship. Not only were both made of clay, but methods of making pots echo those used for building. Similarly, pottery and metalwork share common themes and technologies for working with clay and bronze. Since choices made by potters are not solely confined to the environment, raw material…
Engendering context. Context as gendered practice in the early Bronze Age of the Upper Thames Valley, UK
This article explores the use of context in relation to the articulation and understanding of gender. Context can be regarded as gendered practice. Focusing on mortuary settings in the early Bronze Age of the Upper Thames Valley, it examines ways that people took gender into account in complex decisions involved in burial and the construction of difference. Here, men and women were conceptualized in distinct ways that were not necessarily equival…
Sex differences in activity-related osseous change in the spine and the gendered division of labor at Ensay and Wharram Percy, UK
Sex differences in the distribution of vertebral degenerative and plastic change were examined and compared within and between samples of 51 individuals from the historically and ethnographically documented 16th-19th century site of Ensay, the Outer Hebrides, and 59 individuals from the medieval site of Wharram Percy, the Yorkshire Wolds. Both populations have a known gendered division of labor between males and females and known activity-related…
Sex differences in activity-related osseous change in the spine and the gendered division of labor at Ensay and Wharram Percy, UK
Rings of life
This paper explores the changing role of early metalwork in mediating age-gender dimensions of social identity in the Copper Age of the Carpathian Basin. Taking a life course approach, it suggests that metal was used to convey difference within exceptionally complex and contrasting constructions of male and female life. Variation in the use of metal throughout the Copper Age was linked to shifts in the pattern of age-gender life course constructi…
Age and gender at the site of Tiszapolgár-Basatanya, Hungary
Two fundamentals for the place of the individual in society are age and gender; well-studied cemeteries can provide an good archaeological base for their study. This examination of the Copper Age site of Tiszapolgár-Basatanya, Hungary, explores the relationship between age and gender though the course of prehistoric lives and how it might be possible to distinguish sex from gender in archaeological contexts
Non-discursive Knowledge and the Construction of Identity Potters, Potting and Performance at the Bronze Age Tell of Százhalombatta, Hungary
This article explores the relationship between the making of things and the making of people at the Bronze Age tell at Százhalombatta, Hungary. Focusing on potters and potting, we explore how the performance of non-discursive knowledge was critical to the construction of social categories. Potters literally came into being as potters through repeated bodily enactment of potting skills. Potters also gained their identity in the social sphere throu…
Rings of life
This paper explores the changing role of early metalwork in mediating age-gender dimensions of social identity in the Copper Age of the Carpathian Basin. Taking a life course approach, it suggests that metal was used to convey difference within exceptionally complex and contrasting constructions of male and female life. Variation in the use of metal throughout the Copper Age was linked to shifts in the pattern of age-gender life course constructi…
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 …
Age and gender at the site of Tiszapolgár-Basatanya, Hungary
Two fundamentals for the place of the individual in society are age and gender; well-studied cemeteries can provide an good archaeological base for their study. This examination of the Copper Age site of Tiszapolgár-Basatanya, Hungary, explores the relationship between age and gender though the course of prehistoric lives and how it might be possible to distinguish sex from gender in archaeological contexts
Engendering context. Context as gendered practice in the early Bronze Age of the Upper Thames Valley, UK
This article explores the use of context in relation to the articulation and understanding of gender. Context can be regarded as gendered practice. Focusing on mortuary settings in the early Bronze Age of the Upper Thames Valley, it examines ways that people took gender into account in complex decisions involved in burial and the construction of difference. Here, men and women were conceptualized in distinct ways that were not necessarily equival…
Heritage sites, value and wellbeing
The COVID-19 lockdown of society in 2020 deprived people of access to many heritage sites. This made the public uniquely aware of why they visited heritage sites and what they valued about the visits, once heritage sites reopened. In particular, regaining access framed visits in terms of personal agency and wellbeing. Notions of capability, social connections, ontological security, and trust–all important elements of wellbeing–were widely shared …
Characterization and textural analysis of Middle Bronze Age Transdanubian inlaid wares of the Encrusted Pottery Culture, Hungary
Pots, Houses and Metal
At the Bronze Age tell of Százhalombatta, Hungary, techniques used for making pottery echo those used in other media. Pottery and architecture have a close relationship. Not only were both made of clay, but methods of making pots echo those used for building. Similarly, pottery and metalwork share common themes and technologies for working with clay and bronze. Since choices made by potters are not solely confined to the environment, raw material…
Human Ontogeny and Material Change at the Bronze Age Tell of Százhalombatta, Hungary
This article explores the relationship between human ontogeny - how people become who they are - and material change at the Bronze Age tell of Százhalombatta, Hungary. Shifts in domestic material culture and in the use of domestic space in houses imply altered developmental experiences for people living on the tell from the Early to Middle Bronze Age. These changes produced qualitatively different kinds of people at different points in time
Touching the Body
Osteoarchaeology and arts practice are two disciplines that work with the human skeleton. In both cases, this interest arises from curiosity regarding the materiality of the body. In the process of coming to understand that materiality, both disciplines create relationships between living and dead bodies through touch. This paper examines the interaction between different kinds of bodies – the living and the dead, the fleshed and the skeletal – i…
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 …
The Prevalence and Health Implications of Concha Bullosa in a Population from Mediaeval England
Concha bullosa is hypertrophy of the middle nasal concha attributable to its pneumatisation. It is considered to be the most common anatomical variant of the ostiomeatal complex, but it has been little studied in skeletal populations. It is uncertain whether the prevalence of concha bullosa varies in different world populations. Some have suggested that it predisposes to sinusitis, but this is controversial. The aim of the current work is to asse…
Age and gender at the site of Tiszapolgár-Basatanya, Hungary
Two fundamentals for the place of the individual in society are age and gender; well-studied cemeteries can provide an good archaeological base for their study. This examination of the Copper Age site of Tiszapolgár-Basatanya, Hungary, explores the relationship between age and gender though the course of prehistoric lives and how it might be possible to distinguish sex from gender in archaeological contexts
Sex differences in activity-related osseous change in the spine and the gendered division of labor at Ensay and Wharram Percy, UK
Sex differences in the distribution of vertebral degenerative and plastic change were examined and compared within and between samples of 51 individuals from the historically and ethnographically documented 16th-19th century site of Ensay, the Outer Hebrides, and 59 individuals from the medieval site of Wharram Percy, the Yorkshire Wolds. Both populations have a known gendered division of labor between males and females and known activity-related…
Sex differences in activity-related osseous change in the spine and the gendered division of labor at Ensay and Wharram Percy, UK
Rings of life
This paper explores the changing role of early metalwork in mediating age-gender dimensions of social identity in the Copper Age of the Carpathian Basin. Taking a life course approach, it suggests that metal was used to convey difference within exceptionally complex and contrasting constructions of male and female life. Variation in the use of metal throughout the Copper Age was linked to shifts in the pattern of age-gender life course constructi…
Engendering context. Context as gendered practice in the early Bronze Age of the Upper Thames Valley, UK
This article explores the use of context in relation to the articulation and understanding of gender. Context can be regarded as gendered practice. Focusing on mortuary settings in the early Bronze Age of the Upper Thames Valley, it examines ways that people took gender into account in complex decisions involved in burial and the construction of difference. Here, men and women were conceptualized in distinct ways that were not necessarily equival…
The Body as Material Culture
Bodies intrigue us. They promise windows into the past that other archaeological finds cannot by bringing us literally face to face with history. Yet 'the body' is also highly contested. Archaeological bodies are studied through two contrasting perspectives that sit on different sides of a disciplinary divide. On one hand lie science-based osteoarchaeological approaches. On the other lie understandings derived from recent developments in social t…
Pots, Houses and Metal
At the Bronze Age tell of Százhalombatta, Hungary, techniques used for making pottery echo those used in other media. Pottery and architecture have a close relationship. Not only were both made of clay, but methods of making pots echo those used for building. Similarly, pottery and metalwork share common themes and technologies for working with clay and bronze. Since choices made by potters are not solely confined to the environment, raw material…
Engendering children, engendering archaeology
Since the inception of gender archaeology in the 1970s, archaeologists have succeeded in highlighting a variety of methodological problems and prejudices within the discipline. Importantly they revealed the extent of androcentric bias in archaeological interpretation and in doing so pushed for recognition of the value of women’s contributions to ancient and modern societies (Gero 1988). An initial emphasis on the ‘finding of women’ gradually tran…
Material Identities
Characterization and textural analysis of Middle Bronze Age Transdanubian inlaid wares of the Encrusted Pottery Culture, Hungary
Non-discursive Knowledge and the Construction of Identity Potters, Potting and Performance at the Bronze Age Tell of Százhalombatta, Hungary
This article explores the relationship between the making of things and the making of people at the Bronze Age tell at Százhalombatta, Hungary. Focusing on potters and potting, we explore how the performance of non-discursive knowledge was critical to the construction of social categories. Potters literally came into being as potters through repeated bodily enactment of potting skills. Potters also gained their identity in the social sphere throu…
Organizing Bronze Age Societies
The Bronze Age was a formative period in European history when the organisation of landscapes, settlements, and economy reached a new level of complexity. This book presents the first in-depth, comparative study of household economy and settlement in three micro-regions: the Mediterranean (Sicily), Central Europe (Hungary), and Northern Europe (South Scandinavia). The results are based on ten years of fieldwork in a similar method of documentatio…
Human Ontogeny and Material Change at the Bronze Age Tell of Százhalombatta, Hungary
This article explores the relationship between human ontogeny - how people become who they are - and material change at the Bronze Age tell of Százhalombatta, Hungary. Shifts in domestic material culture and in the use of domestic space in houses imply altered developmental experiences for people living on the tell from the Early to Middle Bronze Age. These changes produced qualitatively different kinds of people at different points in time
Bioarchaeological Approaches to the Gendered Body
This chapter contains section titles: Research Trajectories in the Bioarchaeological Study of the Gendered Body Method and Theory in Bioarchaeological Approaches to Gender and the Body Bioarchaeological Investigations of Gender Prospects for the Future of Osteological Approaches to the Gendered Body in Prehistory References
Touching the Body
Osteoarchaeology and arts practice are two disciplines that work with the human skeleton. In both cases, this interest arises from curiosity regarding the materiality of the body. In the process of coming to understand that materiality, both disciplines create relationships between living and dead bodies through touch. This paper examines the interaction between different kinds of bodies – the living and the dead, the fleshed and the skeletal – i…
Craft Production
The Bronze Age can be characterised by an unprecedented increase in craft activity. One of these was the production of bone, ceramics, and textiles, three contrasting materials that became widespread in this period. This article discusses the production of these materials separately, starting with its various types. It then differentiates the kinds of ceramics, textiles, and worked bone that was produced in various European regions and during the…
The Prevalence and Health Implications of Concha Bullosa in a Population from Mediaeval England
Concha bullosa is hypertrophy of the middle nasal concha attributable to its pneumatisation. It is considered to be the most common anatomical variant of the ostiomeatal complex, but it has been little studied in skeletal populations. It is uncertain whether the prevalence of concha bullosa varies in different world populations. Some have suggested that it predisposes to sinusitis, but this is controversial. The aim of the current work is to asse…
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 …
Creativity in the Bronze Age
Creativity is an integral part of human history, yet most studies focus on the modern era, leaving unresolved questions about the formative role that creativity has played in the past. This book explores the fundamental nature of creativity in the European Bronze Age. Considering developments in crafts that we take for granted today, such as pottery, textiles, and metalwork, the volume compares and contrasts various aspects of their development, …
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 …
The breakdown of knowledge
Heritage sites, value and wellbeing
The COVID-19 lockdown of society in 2020 deprived people of access to many heritage sites. This made the public uniquely aware of why they visited heritage sites and what they valued about the visits, once heritage sites reopened. In particular, regaining access framed visits in terms of personal agency and wellbeing. Notions of capability, social connections, ontological security, and trust–all important elements of wellbeing–were widely shared …
Perceived place qualities, restorative effects and self-reported wellbeing benefits of visits to heritage sites
Heritage sites are complex environments that cannot be easily be located within a nature – built space dichotomy. Although a small but growing body of evidence supports the potential of visits to heritage sites in generating wellbeing benefits, there is a gap in understanding how such benefits may be related to the perceived qualities or affordances of heritage sites. We present an exploratory survey instrument designed and tested to generate emp…
The mechanised testing and sequential wear‐analysis of replica Bronze Age palstave blades
There have been few attempts to conduct highly controlled laboratory experiments to isolate how wear propagates on metal artefacts with differing metallurgy during simulated use. This reflects a lack of appreciation for the underlying structure of materials within the production of reference datasets for metalwork wear analysis. Here, we present the use of a drop tower (Instron CEAST 9350) to reconstruct use on replica Bronze Age palstave axes wi…
Wellbeing Through Heritage for NHS Staff. Heritage Engagement and Participant Choice in the HerWellNHS Project
Workforce burnout is the highest in the history of the National Health Service (NHS) and is recognised as a dangerous risk to its future functioning. The extent of the crisis means that there is an urgent need for innovative, sustainable solutions that can be delivered at scale. The Heritage and Wellbeing for NHS Staff (HerWellNHS) pilot and feasibility study investigates the potential for self-directed visits to heritage sites to promote the wel…
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