Arthur C Durband
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 84798 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Arthur C Durband |
| NOMBRES | Arthur C |
| APELLIDO | Durband |
| FIRMA | DURBAND A C |
| AFILIACIONES | Texas Tech University |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 24 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 127 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 24 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2004 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2020 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
An examination of the cross‐sectional geometrical properties of the long bone diaphyses of Holocene foragers from Roonka, South Australia
OBJECTIVES: This study examines long bone diaphyseal rigidity and shape of hunter-gatherers at Roonka to make inferences about subsistence strategies and mobility of inhabitants of semi-arid southeastern Australia. Roonka is a cemetery site adjacent to the Lower Murray River, which contains over 200 individuals buried throughout the Holocene. Archaeological evidence indicates that populations living near this river corridor employed mobile, risk …
Does upper limb robusticity and bilateral asymmetry support subsistence intensification at Roonka, South Australia
During the Holocene, what is now the state of South Australia experienced a shift to a drier climate with more frequent droughts c. 4 ka. The ‘intensification model’ in Australian archaeology proposes that Aboriginal people adopted subsistence strategies that exploited resources with high processing costs, while the ‘risk minimization’ model posits that people adopted more flexible foraging strategies. The purpose of this study is to determine wh…
Prehistoric Human Art
Paleoanthropology
Olduvai Gorge, The
Human Tool Making
Archaeological Records
Revised stature estimations for individuals from Roonka, South Australia
Stature is estimated for skeletal remains that were recovered from the site of Roonka on the River Murray between 1968 and 1977. These 93 individuals span the Holocene, dating between 8000 years BP and European contact. A subset of ten individuals from this sample is complete enough for the calculation of stature using the Revised Fully technique. The data from this subset is used to calculate ratios for the maximum lengths of the humerus, femur,…
Risk Minimization and a Late Holocene Increase in Mobility at Roonka Flat, South Australia
These data are consistent with the risk minimization model, indicating that South Australians became more mobile post-ENSO to better exploit a less productive environment by expanding their foraging radii. The temporal shift toward more elliptical diaphyses is more notable in females than males, which is consistent with Aboriginal ethnographies that show both sexes being intensely involved in hunting and capturing game animals. Am J Phys Anthropo…
Patterns in ritual tooth avulsion at Roonka
Tooth avulsion is the intentional removal of one or more teeth for ritual or aesthetic reasons, or to denote group affiliation. Typically the maxillary incisors are the teeth most often selected for removal. Previous authors have discussed the presence of tooth avulsions in several individuals recovered from Roonka, but those papers did not examine any patterns in those removals that might be present. Analysis of the tooth avulsions at Roonka rev…
Brief communication
The crania from Kow Swamp and Cohuna have been important for a number of debates in Australian paleoanthropology. These crania typically have long, flat foreheads that many workers have cited as evidence of genetic continuity with archaic Indonesian populations, particularly the Ngandong sample. Other scientists have alleged that at least some of the crania from Kow Swamp and the Cohuna skull have been altered through artificial modification, and…
Mobility and subsistence at the Willandra Lakes
Interproximal grooving of lower second molars in WLH 4
Interproximal grooving of the teeth is a form of non-masticatory wear commonly found in precontemporary human populations. While its cause is debated, it is thought to be due to the repeated abrasion of fibrous materials across the distal surfaces of teeth during processing. This report describes the presence of interproximal grooves on the distal surfaces of the lower second molars of the WLH 4 individual from the Willandra Lakes in New South Wa…
Is there Evidence for Artificial Cranial Deformation at the Willandra Lakes
Webb (1989) contends that the morphology of the WLH 67 cranium suggests that this individual had been artificially deformed. A reanalysis of this cranium shows that WLH 67 was reconstructed improperly. The unusual cranial contours of this individual result from the inaccurate reconstruction, not from any cultural practice. As this individual was the only purported example of this practice at the Willandra Lakes, there is currently no evidence to …
A reanalysis of the early Holocene frontal bone from Aitape, New Guinea
The Aitape frontal bone is compared to 13 late Pleistocene/early Holocene Australian crania as well as two modern samples comprised of 101 modern Australian and 126 modern New Guinea crania. These crania are compared using canonical variates analysis and Mahalanobis distances, the latter of which is examined for statistical significance using random expectation statistics. The results show that Aitape shares shape characteristics of a longer, fla…
Years of World Heritage status for Willandra Lakes
A new test of the sex of the Lake Mungo 3 skeleton
The Lake Mungo 3 skeleton has been the subject of controversy since its discovery in 1974. Brown (2000) has alleged that the sex of this individual cannot be determined from the available evidence, since the skeleton lacks the most diagnostic areas of the skull and pelvis. In an effort to reexamine the sex diagnosis of Lake Mungo 3 our team collected an exhaustive battery of postcranial measurements from the skeleton. These measurements are compa…
Artificial cranial deformation in Kow Swamp 1 and 5
The enigma of the Sangiran 4 palate revisited
Artificial cranial deformation in Pleistocene Australians
Craniometric Variation within the Pleistocene of Java
A multivariate examination of the Hexian calvaria
The Homo erectus calvaria from Hexian, Anhui province, China is an important component of the fossil sample from East Asia. This specimen is the most complete Chinese H. erectus cranium found outside Zhoukoudian. Previous work has shown that the fossil crania from Zhoukoudian exhibit a unique metric pattern not seen in specimens from Africa or Indonesia. Multivariate statistics that assess the statistical significance of distances have not been u…
The first hominid fossil recovered from West Java, Indonesia
A re-evaluation of the metric diversity within Homo erectus
A re-evaluation of the metric diversity within Homo erectus
A multivariate examination of the Hexian calvaria
The Homo erectus calvaria from Hexian, Anhui province, China is an important component of the fossil sample from East Asia. This specimen is the most complete Chinese H. erectus cranium found outside Zhoukoudian. Previous work has shown that the fossil crania from Zhoukoudian exhibit a unique metric pattern not seen in specimens from Africa or Indonesia. Multivariate statistics that assess the statistical significance of distances have not been u…
Risk Minimization and a Late Holocene Increase in Mobility at Roonka Flat, South Australia
These data are consistent with the risk minimization model, indicating that South Australians became more mobile post-ENSO to better exploit a less productive environment by expanding their foraging radii. The temporal shift toward more elliptical diaphyses is more notable in females than males, which is consistent with Aboriginal ethnographies that show both sexes being intensely involved in hunting and capturing game animals. Am J Phys Anthropo…
Artificial cranial deformation in Pleistocene Australians
The first hominid fossil recovered from West Java, Indonesia
An examination of the cross‐sectional geometrical properties of the long bone diaphyses of Holocene foragers from Roonka, South Australia
OBJECTIVES: This study examines long bone diaphyseal rigidity and shape of hunter-gatherers at Roonka to make inferences about subsistence strategies and mobility of inhabitants of semi-arid southeastern Australia. Roonka is a cemetery site adjacent to the Lower Murray River, which contains over 200 individuals buried throughout the Holocene. Archaeological evidence indicates that populations living near this river corridor employed mobile, risk …
Patterns in ritual tooth avulsion at Roonka
Tooth avulsion is the intentional removal of one or more teeth for ritual or aesthetic reasons, or to denote group affiliation. Typically the maxillary incisors are the teeth most often selected for removal. Previous authors have discussed the presence of tooth avulsions in several individuals recovered from Roonka, but those papers did not examine any patterns in those removals that might be present. Analysis of the tooth avulsions at Roonka rev…
A new test of the sex of the Lake Mungo 3 skeleton
The Lake Mungo 3 skeleton has been the subject of controversy since its discovery in 1974. Brown (2000) has alleged that the sex of this individual cannot be determined from the available evidence, since the skeleton lacks the most diagnostic areas of the skull and pelvis. In an effort to reexamine the sex diagnosis of Lake Mungo 3 our team collected an exhaustive battery of postcranial measurements from the skeleton. These measurements are compa…
Craniometric Variation within the Pleistocene of Java
Brief communication
The crania from Kow Swamp and Cohuna have been important for a number of debates in Australian paleoanthropology. These crania typically have long, flat foreheads that many workers have cited as evidence of genetic continuity with archaic Indonesian populations, particularly the Ngandong sample. Other scientists have alleged that at least some of the crania from Kow Swamp and the Cohuna skull have been altered through artificial modification, and…
Does upper limb robusticity and bilateral asymmetry support subsistence intensification at Roonka, South Australia
During the Holocene, what is now the state of South Australia experienced a shift to a drier climate with more frequent droughts c. 4 ka. The ‘intensification model’ in Australian archaeology proposes that Aboriginal people adopted subsistence strategies that exploited resources with high processing costs, while the ‘risk minimization’ model posits that people adopted more flexible foraging strategies. The purpose of this study is to determine wh…
Revised stature estimations for individuals from Roonka, South Australia
Stature is estimated for skeletal remains that were recovered from the site of Roonka on the River Murray between 1968 and 1977. These 93 individuals span the Holocene, dating between 8000 years BP and European contact. A subset of ten individuals from this sample is complete enough for the calculation of stature using the Revised Fully technique. The data from this subset is used to calculate ratios for the maximum lengths of the humerus, femur,…
Mobility and subsistence at the Willandra Lakes
A reanalysis of the early Holocene frontal bone from Aitape, New Guinea
The Aitape frontal bone is compared to 13 late Pleistocene/early Holocene Australian crania as well as two modern samples comprised of 101 modern Australian and 126 modern New Guinea crania. These crania are compared using canonical variates analysis and Mahalanobis distances, the latter of which is examined for statistical significance using random expectation statistics. The results show that Aitape shares shape characteristics of a longer, fla…
Is there Evidence for Artificial Cranial Deformation at the Willandra Lakes
Webb (1989) contends that the morphology of the WLH 67 cranium suggests that this individual had been artificially deformed. A reanalysis of this cranium shows that WLH 67 was reconstructed improperly. The unusual cranial contours of this individual result from the inaccurate reconstruction, not from any cultural practice. As this individual was the only purported example of this practice at the Willandra Lakes, there is currently no evidence to …
The enigma of the Sangiran 4 palate revisited
A re-evaluation of the metric diversity within Homo erectus
A multivariate examination of the Hexian calvaria
The Homo erectus calvaria from Hexian, Anhui province, China is an important component of the fossil sample from East Asia. This specimen is the most complete Chinese H. erectus cranium found outside Zhoukoudian. Previous work has shown that the fossil crania from Zhoukoudian exhibit a unique metric pattern not seen in specimens from Africa or Indonesia. Multivariate statistics that assess the statistical significance of distances have not been u…
The first hominid fossil recovered from West Java, Indonesia
Craniometric Variation within the Pleistocene of Java
Artificial cranial deformation in Kow Swamp 1 and 5
The enigma of the Sangiran 4 palate revisited
Artificial cranial deformation in Pleistocene Australians
Years of World Heritage status for Willandra Lakes
A new test of the sex of the Lake Mungo 3 skeleton
The Lake Mungo 3 skeleton has been the subject of controversy since its discovery in 1974. Brown (2000) has alleged that the sex of this individual cannot be determined from the available evidence, since the skeleton lacks the most diagnostic areas of the skull and pelvis. In an effort to reexamine the sex diagnosis of Lake Mungo 3 our team collected an exhaustive battery of postcranial measurements from the skeleton. These measurements are compa…
Is there Evidence for Artificial Cranial Deformation at the Willandra Lakes
Webb (1989) contends that the morphology of the WLH 67 cranium suggests that this individual had been artificially deformed. A reanalysis of this cranium shows that WLH 67 was reconstructed improperly. The unusual cranial contours of this individual result from the inaccurate reconstruction, not from any cultural practice. As this individual was the only purported example of this practice at the Willandra Lakes, there is currently no evidence to …
A reanalysis of the early Holocene frontal bone from Aitape, New Guinea
The Aitape frontal bone is compared to 13 late Pleistocene/early Holocene Australian crania as well as two modern samples comprised of 101 modern Australian and 126 modern New Guinea crania. These crania are compared using canonical variates analysis and Mahalanobis distances, the latter of which is examined for statistical significance using random expectation statistics. The results show that Aitape shares shape characteristics of a longer, fla…
Interproximal grooving of lower second molars in WLH 4
Interproximal grooving of the teeth is a form of non-masticatory wear commonly found in precontemporary human populations. While its cause is debated, it is thought to be due to the repeated abrasion of fibrous materials across the distal surfaces of teeth during processing. This report describes the presence of interproximal grooves on the distal surfaces of the lower second molars of the WLH 4 individual from the Willandra Lakes in New South Wa…
Patterns in ritual tooth avulsion at Roonka
Tooth avulsion is the intentional removal of one or more teeth for ritual or aesthetic reasons, or to denote group affiliation. Typically the maxillary incisors are the teeth most often selected for removal. Previous authors have discussed the presence of tooth avulsions in several individuals recovered from Roonka, but those papers did not examine any patterns in those removals that might be present. Analysis of the tooth avulsions at Roonka rev…
Brief communication
The crania from Kow Swamp and Cohuna have been important for a number of debates in Australian paleoanthropology. These crania typically have long, flat foreheads that many workers have cited as evidence of genetic continuity with archaic Indonesian populations, particularly the Ngandong sample. Other scientists have alleged that at least some of the crania from Kow Swamp and the Cohuna skull have been altered through artificial modification, and…
Mobility and subsistence at the Willandra Lakes
Prehistoric Human Art
Paleoanthropology
Olduvai Gorge, The
Human Tool Making
Archaeological Records
Revised stature estimations for individuals from Roonka, South Australia
Stature is estimated for skeletal remains that were recovered from the site of Roonka on the River Murray between 1968 and 1977. These 93 individuals span the Holocene, dating between 8000 years BP and European contact. A subset of ten individuals from this sample is complete enough for the calculation of stature using the Revised Fully technique. The data from this subset is used to calculate ratios for the maximum lengths of the humerus, femur,…
Risk Minimization and a Late Holocene Increase in Mobility at Roonka Flat, South Australia
These data are consistent with the risk minimization model, indicating that South Australians became more mobile post-ENSO to better exploit a less productive environment by expanding their foraging radii. The temporal shift toward more elliptical diaphyses is more notable in females than males, which is consistent with Aboriginal ethnographies that show both sexes being intensely involved in hunting and capturing game animals. Am J Phys Anthropo…
Does upper limb robusticity and bilateral asymmetry support subsistence intensification at Roonka, South Australia
During the Holocene, what is now the state of South Australia experienced a shift to a drier climate with more frequent droughts c. 4 ka. The ‘intensification model’ in Australian archaeology proposes that Aboriginal people adopted subsistence strategies that exploited resources with high processing costs, while the ‘risk minimization’ model posits that people adopted more flexible foraging strategies. The purpose of this study is to determine wh…
An examination of the cross‐sectional geometrical properties of the long bone diaphyses of Holocene foragers from Roonka, South Australia
OBJECTIVES: This study examines long bone diaphyseal rigidity and shape of hunter-gatherers at Roonka to make inferences about subsistence strategies and mobility of inhabitants of semi-arid southeastern Australia. Roonka is a cemetery site adjacent to the Lower Murray River, which contains over 200 individuals buried throughout the Holocene. Archaeological evidence indicates that populations living near this river corridor employed mobile, risk …
Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (20 obras) · Archaeology (16 obras) · Geography (16 obras) · Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (14 obras) · Biology (10 obras) · Geology (9 obras) · Paleontology (9 obras) · Crania (7 obras) · Morphological variations and asymmetry (7 obras) · Evolution and Paleontology Studies (6 obras)