Maria Ostendorf Smith
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 625087 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Maria Ostendorf Smith |
| NOMBRES | Maria Ostendorf |
| APELLIDO | Smith |
| FIRMA | SMITH M O |
| AFILIACIONES | Illinois State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7296-0006 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 20 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 46 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1996 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2021 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Patterns of Antemortem Tooth Loss in Late Prehistoric West-central Tennessee
The later prehistoric subsistence-settlement pattern in the Kentucky Lake Reservoir (KLR) of northern west-central Tennessee is of interest as human occupation inexplicably terminates by AD 1450 as part of a larger regional depopulation. Antemortem tooth loss (ATL) collectively and by tooth type was identified in four site samples from the KLR. These are a Late Woodland (AD 600-900) sample (Hobbs) and three Middle Mississippian period (AD 1100- 1…
Tibiotalar and Metatarsophalangeal Squatting Facets in a Late Woodland Period Context in West-Central Illinois
Pressure facets of the ankle (tibiotalar joint) and foot (metatarsophalangeal joints) are circumscribed cortical surface concavities caused by habitual hyperdorsiflexion (e.g., squatting, kneeling, heel sitting). Many extant cultures engage in habitual squatting as a work/rest posture. In general, very little is known of habitual work/rest postures in pre-Columbian archaeological contexts. For west-central Illinois, the limited archaeological fra…
A singular case of advanced caries sicca in a pre-Columbian skull from East Tennessee
Caries as an archaeological problem-solving tool
The dentition from two Middle Mississippian period (~AD 1100-1350) site samples (Gray Farm [~AD 1150-1400], Link/Slayden [~AD 1200-1400]) from the Kentucky Lake Reservoir of west-central Tennessee area are examined for the presence of caries to assess whether a maize-intensive subsistence economy is evident or the retention of the cultivation of domesticated native seeds (i.e., the Eastern Agricultural Complex). Given the absence of archaeologica…
A rare probable chondroblastoma of the calcaneus in a pre-Columbian subadult from Illinois
Endemic treponemal disease in late pre-Columbian prehistory
Linear enamel hypoplasia in Schroeder Mounds (11HE177)
Subsistence and Settlement Correlates of Treponemal Disease
After ca 1000 BC, coinciding with the transition to sedentism, tertiary stage treponemal disease apparently becomes osteologically pervasive in pre-Columbian North America. However, varying interobserver treponemal disease diagnostic thresholds, sampling error and the possibly ecosensitive nature of the pre-Columbian nonvenereal treponemal disease variants (i.e. yaws and treponarid) prevents subsistence-settlement pattern from becoming a reliable…
Diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis (Dish) in pre-Columbian North America
Treponemal Disease, Tuberculosis and Subsistence‐settlement Pattern in the Late Woodland Period West‐central Illinois
In later pre‐Columbian prehistory (post AD 1000), the adaptation and intensification of maize agriculture and its correlate of aggregate village settlement (i.e. Mississippianization) is temporally and geographically variable. In the Midwest, consequential to the florescence of the major ceremonial centre of Cahokia (AD 1050–1300), the Mississippi River Valley alluvial plain in Illinois, known as the American Bottom, became a core area of this su…
Anomalous double-crowned primary teeth from Pre-Columbian Tennessee
Differential visibility of treponemal disease in pre‐Columbian stratified societies
Treponemal disease is known to be associated with the compromised community health of permanent village settlement. This association explains its high visibility in the village‐based, arguably chiefdom level, agriculturalist societies of late prehistoric (AD 1300–1600) North America. Within chiefdom‐level societies, health differences have often been demonstrated between mortuary‐defined “elite” and “nonelite” individuals. This theoretically shou…
Adding insult to injury
Although the taking of scalps is arguably a perimortem trophy-taking behaviour, cases of scalping survival are occasionally reported in the historical documents of the American Colonial Period and the 19th century westward expansion. Survival cases are also detected in pre-Columbian bioarchaeological contexts. Although scalp avulsion injuries can heal without complication, often the process is compromised by secondary osteomyelitis, usually attri…
Archaeology of the Middle Green River Region, Kentucky . William H. Marquardt , Patty Jo Watson
Treponemal disease in the middle Archaic to early Woodland periods of the western Tennessee River Valley
The high frequency of late prehistoric New World treponemal disease is attributable to the demographic changes concomitant with the adoption of agriculture. However, these demographic changes in group mobility and site density episodically preceded intensive plant domestication, suggesting possible staggered temporal change in observed treponemal disease case frequency. Thirteen convincing and an additional two probable (N = 581) cases of trepone…
Beyond palisades
Based on the presence of palisades and an iconography suggesting a warrior elite, warfare is presumed to be endemic in the Late Mississippian period (AD 1200–1600) of the southeastern United States. Warfare is theorized to play a vital role in the cycling of chiefdoms. However, apart from a few exemplary cases that display double‐digit frequencies, very little direct (i.e., skeletal) evidence of violent trauma has dovetailed with the archaeologic…
A probable case of metastatic carcinoma from the late prehistoric eastern Tennessee River Valley
There are few described cases of metastatic carcinoma from the prehistoric eastern United States and none primarily differentially diagnosed from the southeast. A mature adult female exhibiting several large lytic cranial lesions suggestive of neoplastic disease was identified in a late prehistoric Mississippian Period (AD 1200-1600) context. Burial 371 is from Ledford Island, a Mouse Creek phase (AD 1400-1500) site from the Chickamauga Reservoir…
The pattern of spondylosis deformans in prehistoric samples from west-central New Mexico
A Pre-Columbian skeletal sample (n=42) from two ancestral Pueblo sites in the Rio Grande valley of west-central New Mexico was examined for frequency and severity of spondylosis deformans (vertebral osteophytosis). No significant sex differences were detected. Degenerative changes in the collective sample are generally confined to no more than well-defined horizontal lipping at the joint margins. Advanced proliferative osteophytic change is infre…
Parry’ fractures and female-directed interpersonal violence
The recognition of a high frequency of ‘parry’ fractures in the females from the Late Archaic Period (2500–1000/500 BC) west Tennessee site of Eva prompted a more thorough examination of female-directed interpersonal violence in prehistoric Tennessee sites. The study examined forearm fractures in eight (N = 308) Late Archaic Period hunter-gatherer sites and five (N = 501) Mississippian Period (c. AD 1200–1600) agriculturalist sites. On the basis …
Regional Settlement Demography in Archaeology
Beyond palisades
Based on the presence of palisades and an iconography suggesting a warrior elite, warfare is presumed to be endemic in the Late Mississippian period (AD 1200–1600) of the southeastern United States. Warfare is theorized to play a vital role in the cycling of chiefdoms. However, apart from a few exemplary cases that display double‐digit frequencies, very little direct (i.e., skeletal) evidence of violent trauma has dovetailed with the archaeologic…
Treponemal disease in the middle Archaic to early Woodland periods of the western Tennessee River Valley
The high frequency of late prehistoric New World treponemal disease is attributable to the demographic changes concomitant with the adoption of agriculture. However, these demographic changes in group mobility and site density episodically preceded intensive plant domestication, suggesting possible staggered temporal change in observed treponemal disease case frequency. Thirteen convincing and an additional two probable (N = 581) cases of trepone…
A probable case of metastatic carcinoma from the late prehistoric eastern Tennessee River Valley
There are few described cases of metastatic carcinoma from the prehistoric eastern United States and none primarily differentially diagnosed from the southeast. A mature adult female exhibiting several large lytic cranial lesions suggestive of neoplastic disease was identified in a late prehistoric Mississippian Period (AD 1200-1600) context. Burial 371 is from Ledford Island, a Mouse Creek phase (AD 1400-1500) site from the Chickamauga Reservoir…
Treponemal Disease, Tuberculosis and Subsistence‐settlement Pattern in the Late Woodland Period West‐central Illinois
In later pre‐Columbian prehistory (post AD 1000), the adaptation and intensification of maize agriculture and its correlate of aggregate village settlement (i.e. Mississippianization) is temporally and geographically variable. In the Midwest, consequential to the florescence of the major ceremonial centre of Cahokia (AD 1050–1300), the Mississippi River Valley alluvial plain in Illinois, known as the American Bottom, became a core area of this su…
Caries as an archaeological problem-solving tool
The dentition from two Middle Mississippian period (~AD 1100-1350) site samples (Gray Farm [~AD 1150-1400], Link/Slayden [~AD 1200-1400]) from the Kentucky Lake Reservoir of west-central Tennessee area are examined for the presence of caries to assess whether a maize-intensive subsistence economy is evident or the retention of the cultivation of domesticated native seeds (i.e., the Eastern Agricultural Complex). Given the absence of archaeologica…
Endemic treponemal disease in late pre-Columbian prehistory
Subsistence and Settlement Correlates of Treponemal Disease
After ca 1000 BC, coinciding with the transition to sedentism, tertiary stage treponemal disease apparently becomes osteologically pervasive in pre-Columbian North America. However, varying interobserver treponemal disease diagnostic thresholds, sampling error and the possibly ecosensitive nature of the pre-Columbian nonvenereal treponemal disease variants (i.e. yaws and treponarid) prevents subsistence-settlement pattern from becoming a reliable…
Differential visibility of treponemal disease in pre‐Columbian stratified societies
Treponemal disease is known to be associated with the compromised community health of permanent village settlement. This association explains its high visibility in the village‐based, arguably chiefdom level, agriculturalist societies of late prehistoric (AD 1300–1600) North America. Within chiefdom‐level societies, health differences have often been demonstrated between mortuary‐defined “elite” and “nonelite” individuals. This theoretically shou…
Adding insult to injury
Although the taking of scalps is arguably a perimortem trophy-taking behaviour, cases of scalping survival are occasionally reported in the historical documents of the American Colonial Period and the 19th century westward expansion. Survival cases are also detected in pre-Columbian bioarchaeological contexts. Although scalp avulsion injuries can heal without complication, often the process is compromised by secondary osteomyelitis, usually attri…
Parry’ fractures and female-directed interpersonal violence
The recognition of a high frequency of ‘parry’ fractures in the females from the Late Archaic Period (2500–1000/500 BC) west Tennessee site of Eva prompted a more thorough examination of female-directed interpersonal violence in prehistoric Tennessee sites. The study examined forearm fractures in eight (N = 308) Late Archaic Period hunter-gatherer sites and five (N = 501) Mississippian Period (c. AD 1200–1600) agriculturalist sites. On the basis …
The pattern of spondylosis deformans in prehistoric samples from west-central New Mexico
A Pre-Columbian skeletal sample (n=42) from two ancestral Pueblo sites in the Rio Grande valley of west-central New Mexico was examined for frequency and severity of spondylosis deformans (vertebral osteophytosis). No significant sex differences were detected. Degenerative changes in the collective sample are generally confined to no more than well-defined horizontal lipping at the joint margins. Advanced proliferative osteophytic change is infre…
A probable case of metastatic carcinoma from the late prehistoric eastern Tennessee River Valley
There are few described cases of metastatic carcinoma from the prehistoric eastern United States and none primarily differentially diagnosed from the southeast. A mature adult female exhibiting several large lytic cranial lesions suggestive of neoplastic disease was identified in a late prehistoric Mississippian Period (AD 1200-1600) context. Burial 371 is from Ledford Island, a Mouse Creek phase (AD 1400-1500) site from the Chickamauga Reservoir…
Beyond palisades
Based on the presence of palisades and an iconography suggesting a warrior elite, warfare is presumed to be endemic in the Late Mississippian period (AD 1200–1600) of the southeastern United States. Warfare is theorized to play a vital role in the cycling of chiefdoms. However, apart from a few exemplary cases that display double‐digit frequencies, very little direct (i.e., skeletal) evidence of violent trauma has dovetailed with the archaeologic…
Treponemal disease in the middle Archaic to early Woodland periods of the western Tennessee River Valley
The high frequency of late prehistoric New World treponemal disease is attributable to the demographic changes concomitant with the adoption of agriculture. However, these demographic changes in group mobility and site density episodically preceded intensive plant domestication, suggesting possible staggered temporal change in observed treponemal disease case frequency. Thirteen convincing and an additional two probable (N = 581) cases of trepone…
Archaeology of the Middle Green River Region, Kentucky . William H. Marquardt , Patty Jo Watson
Adding insult to injury
Although the taking of scalps is arguably a perimortem trophy-taking behaviour, cases of scalping survival are occasionally reported in the historical documents of the American Colonial Period and the 19th century westward expansion. Survival cases are also detected in pre-Columbian bioarchaeological contexts. Although scalp avulsion injuries can heal without complication, often the process is compromised by secondary osteomyelitis, usually attri…
Anomalous double-crowned primary teeth from Pre-Columbian Tennessee
Differential visibility of treponemal disease in pre‐Columbian stratified societies
Treponemal disease is known to be associated with the compromised community health of permanent village settlement. This association explains its high visibility in the village‐based, arguably chiefdom level, agriculturalist societies of late prehistoric (AD 1300–1600) North America. Within chiefdom‐level societies, health differences have often been demonstrated between mortuary‐defined “elite” and “nonelite” individuals. This theoretically shou…
Diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis (Dish) in pre-Columbian North America
Treponemal Disease, Tuberculosis and Subsistence‐settlement Pattern in the Late Woodland Period West‐central Illinois
In later pre‐Columbian prehistory (post AD 1000), the adaptation and intensification of maize agriculture and its correlate of aggregate village settlement (i.e. Mississippianization) is temporally and geographically variable. In the Midwest, consequential to the florescence of the major ceremonial centre of Cahokia (AD 1050–1300), the Mississippi River Valley alluvial plain in Illinois, known as the American Bottom, became a core area of this su…
Subsistence and Settlement Correlates of Treponemal Disease
After ca 1000 BC, coinciding with the transition to sedentism, tertiary stage treponemal disease apparently becomes osteologically pervasive in pre-Columbian North America. However, varying interobserver treponemal disease diagnostic thresholds, sampling error and the possibly ecosensitive nature of the pre-Columbian nonvenereal treponemal disease variants (i.e. yaws and treponarid) prevents subsistence-settlement pattern from becoming a reliable…
Linear enamel hypoplasia in Schroeder Mounds (11HE177)
A rare probable chondroblastoma of the calcaneus in a pre-Columbian subadult from Illinois
Endemic treponemal disease in late pre-Columbian prehistory
A singular case of advanced caries sicca in a pre-Columbian skull from East Tennessee
Caries as an archaeological problem-solving tool
The dentition from two Middle Mississippian period (~AD 1100-1350) site samples (Gray Farm [~AD 1150-1400], Link/Slayden [~AD 1200-1400]) from the Kentucky Lake Reservoir of west-central Tennessee area are examined for the presence of caries to assess whether a maize-intensive subsistence economy is evident or the retention of the cultivation of domesticated native seeds (i.e., the Eastern Agricultural Complex). Given the absence of archaeologica…
Tibiotalar and Metatarsophalangeal Squatting Facets in a Late Woodland Period Context in West-Central Illinois
Pressure facets of the ankle (tibiotalar joint) and foot (metatarsophalangeal joints) are circumscribed cortical surface concavities caused by habitual hyperdorsiflexion (e.g., squatting, kneeling, heel sitting). Many extant cultures engage in habitual squatting as a work/rest posture. In general, very little is known of habitual work/rest postures in pre-Columbian archaeological contexts. For west-central Illinois, the limited archaeological fra…
Patterns of Antemortem Tooth Loss in Late Prehistoric West-central Tennessee
The later prehistoric subsistence-settlement pattern in the Kentucky Lake Reservoir (KLR) of northern west-central Tennessee is of interest as human occupation inexplicably terminates by AD 1450 as part of a larger regional depopulation. Antemortem tooth loss (ATL) collectively and by tooth type was identified in four site samples from the KLR. These are a Late Woodland (AD 600-900) sample (Hobbs) and three Middle Mississippian period (AD 1100- 1…
Regional Settlement Demography in Archaeology
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