Charles E Hilton
Biographic Data
| ID | 119202 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Charles E Hilton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Charles E |
| FAMILY NAME | Hilton |
| SIGNATURE | HILTON C E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Grinnell College |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4316-7591 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 159 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Biological Mechanisms for Allen's Rule: DNA Methylation as Mediator of the Association Between In Utero Exposure to Environmental Heat and Tibial Growth in Childhood
OBJECTIVES: Understanding human phenotypic plasticity in response to social, ecosystem, and climate interactions can be an important tool for designing social and public health strategies that increase climate change resilience. Sensitivity of the tibia to environmental perturbations is well established; moreover, Allen's rule predicts relatively longer tibial length in hotter climates. In this study, we hypothesized DNA methylation (DNAm) change…
Drought-compounded stress and immune function in Kenyan pastoralist boys and girls occupying contrasting climate zones
In spite of important differences between climate subregions, the common elements throughout the Samburu pastoralist leanscape include food and water insecurity and overall precarity exacerbated by drought and climate change. Community-driven interventions are needed to reduce precarity for young people pursuing pastoralist livelihoods
Body mass estimation from footprint size in hominins
Family socioeconomic status and child telomere length among the Samburu of Kenya
Low-intensity violence and the social determinants of adolescent health among three East African pastoralist communities
Violence and Warfare among Hunter-Gatherers
Nearly 60 years ago, the publication of Elizabeth Marshall Thomas's book, The Harmless People (1959), helped create an enduring image of living hunting and gathering peoples. Her book, along with t
Comparative nutritional indicators as markers for resilience: The impacts of low-intensity violence among three pastoralist communities of northern Kenya
We present results from a collaborative project on the consequences of endemic violence in the pastoralist zone of Northern Kenya. Drawing on our ethnographically driven epidemiological approach, we examine the differential cost of violence by examining household nutrition. The case/control approach we employ draws data from six sites that are culturally similar but differ in the degree of exposure to, or relative insulation from, violence. As on…
Dust people: Samburu perspectives on disaster, identity, and landscape
This paper discusses a Samburu pastoralist landscape idiom, ntoror, that encapsulates ideas about agentive pastoralist landscapes that inherently attract conflict; and passionate, place-based identities forged out of environmental and human-wrought disaster. The paper grows out of a project that experimentally integrated ethnographic self-scrutiny with a bio-archaeological excavation involving human remains, with the aim of encouraging reciprocal…
Suicide in Three East African Pastoralist Communities and the Role of Researcher Outsiders for Positive Transformation: A Case Study
It was maendeleo that removed them: Disturbing Burials and Reciprocal Knowledge Production in a Context of Collaborative Archaeology
Recent decades have witnessed a growth in approaches to research and writing across anthropology's four fields that emphasize the need to respect alternative narratives and constructions of history, and to engage with anthropology's 'publics'. These developments have generated more ethically responsible research and more inclusive writing practices. Nevertheless, the actual doing of cross-cultural collaboration and knowledge production remains a …
The Foragers of Point Hope: The Biology and Archaeology of Humans on the Edge of the Alaskan Arctic
On the edge of the Arctic Ocean, above the Arctic Circle, the prehistoric settlements at Point Hope, Alaska, represent a truly remarkable accomplishment in human biological and cultural adaptations. Presenting a set of anthropological analyses on the human skeletal remains and cultural material from the Ipiutak and Tigara archaeological sites, The Foragers of Point Hope sheds new light on the excavations from 1939–41, which provided one of the la…
Foragers of Point Hope: The Biology and Archaeology of Humans on the Edge of the Alaskan Arctic
Cross‐sectional geometry in the humeri of foragers and farmers from the prehispanic American Southwest: Exploring patterns in the sexual division of labor
The work effort of prehistoric males relative to females has long been of interest to anthropologists, particularly in foraging versus farming groups. This knowledge requires a clear understanding of the sexual division of labor, or the dichotomy in subsistence roles allocated to males and females. Such research in the Prehispanic American Southwest has been limited. As previous work has shown that bone is the osseous template that reflects in vi…
Body proportions of circumpolar peoples as evidenced from skeletal data: Ipiutak and Tigara (Point Hope) versus Kodiak Island Inuit
Given the well‐documented fact that human body proportions covary with climate (presumably due to the action of selection), one would expect that the Ipiutak and Tigara Inuit samples from Point Hope, Alaska, would be characterized by an extremely cold‐adapted body shape. Comparison of the Point Hope Inuit samples to a large ( n > 900) sample of European and European‐derived, African and African‐derived, and Native American skeletons (including Ko…
Documenting the health consequences of endemic warfare in three pastoralist communities of northern Kenya: A conceptual framework
Seasonality and Sex Differences in Travel Distance and Resource Transport in Venezuelan Foragers
The anthropological literature generally describes forager women as less mobile than men because of their child-care responsibilities and the energetic costs of reproduction. Examination of resource transport among the savanna Pumé of southwestern Venezuela reveals, in contrast, that for certain food resources travel distances and resource weights relative to body weights are greater for women than for men. Male foraging is often associated with …
Age, Sex, and Resource Transport in Venezuelan Foragers
Striders, Runners, and Transporters
From Biped to Strider: The Emergence of Modern Human Walking, Running, and Resource Transport
Ritualized violence in the prehistoric American Southwest
Ritualized violence in the prehistoric American Southwest
The disarticulated and commingled human remains of at least 13 individuals were recovered from an archaeological site during salvage operations for a natural gas pipeline project near Ram Mesa in northwestern New Mexico. The condition of the remains and the nature of their interment suggested that unusual circumstances surrounded their deposition. The skeletal remains exhibited peri-mortem modification in the form of breaking, cutting and burning…
Function, Phylogeny, and Fossils: Miocene Hominoid Evolution and Adaptations . David R. Begun , Carol V. Ward , Michael D. Rose
Lumbar anomalies in the Shanidar 3 Neandertal
Body proportions of circumpolar peoples as evidenced from skeletal data: Ipiutak and Tigara (Point Hope) versus Kodiak Island Inuit
Given the well‐documented fact that human body proportions covary with climate (presumably due to the action of selection), one would expect that the Ipiutak and Tigara Inuit samples from Point Hope, Alaska, would be characterized by an extremely cold‐adapted body shape. Comparison of the Point Hope Inuit samples to a large ( n > 900) sample of European and European‐derived, African and African‐derived, and Native American skeletons (including Ko…
Documenting the health consequences of endemic warfare in three pastoralist communities of northern Kenya: A conceptual framework
Dust people: Samburu perspectives on disaster, identity, and landscape
This paper discusses a Samburu pastoralist landscape idiom, ntoror, that encapsulates ideas about agentive pastoralist landscapes that inherently attract conflict; and passionate, place-based identities forged out of environmental and human-wrought disaster. The paper grows out of a project that experimentally integrated ethnographic self-scrutiny with a bio-archaeological excavation involving human remains, with the aim of encouraging reciprocal…
Lumbar anomalies in the Shanidar 3 Neandertal
Cross‐sectional geometry in the humeri of foragers and farmers from the prehispanic American Southwest: Exploring patterns in the sexual division of labor
The work effort of prehistoric males relative to females has long been of interest to anthropologists, particularly in foraging versus farming groups. This knowledge requires a clear understanding of the sexual division of labor, or the dichotomy in subsistence roles allocated to males and females. Such research in the Prehispanic American Southwest has been limited. As previous work has shown that bone is the osseous template that reflects in vi…
It was maendeleo that removed them: Disturbing Burials and Reciprocal Knowledge Production in a Context of Collaborative Archaeology
Recent decades have witnessed a growth in approaches to research and writing across anthropology's four fields that emphasize the need to respect alternative narratives and constructions of history, and to engage with anthropology's 'publics'. These developments have generated more ethically responsible research and more inclusive writing practices. Nevertheless, the actual doing of cross-cultural collaboration and knowledge production remains a …
Seasonality and Sex Differences in Travel Distance and Resource Transport in Venezuelan Foragers
The anthropological literature generally describes forager women as less mobile than men because of their child-care responsibilities and the energetic costs of reproduction. Examination of resource transport among the savanna Pumé of southwestern Venezuela reveals, in contrast, that for certain food resources travel distances and resource weights relative to body weights are greater for women than for men. Male foraging is often associated with …
Comparative nutritional indicators as markers for resilience: The impacts of low-intensity violence among three pastoralist communities of northern Kenya
We present results from a collaborative project on the consequences of endemic violence in the pastoralist zone of Northern Kenya. Drawing on our ethnographically driven epidemiological approach, we examine the differential cost of violence by examining household nutrition. The case/control approach we employ draws data from six sites that are culturally similar but differ in the degree of exposure to, or relative insulation from, violence. As on…
Body mass estimation from footprint size in hominins
From Biped to Strider: The Emergence of Modern Human Walking, Running, and Resource Transport
Drought-compounded stress and immune function in Kenyan pastoralist boys and girls occupying contrasting climate zones
In spite of important differences between climate subregions, the common elements throughout the Samburu pastoralist leanscape include food and water insecurity and overall precarity exacerbated by drought and climate change. Community-driven interventions are needed to reduce precarity for young people pursuing pastoralist livelihoods
Low-intensity violence and the social determinants of adolescent health among three East African pastoralist communities
Family socioeconomic status and child telomere length among the Samburu of Kenya
Lumbar anomalies in the Shanidar 3 Neandertal
Function, Phylogeny, and Fossils: Miocene Hominoid Evolution and Adaptations . David R. Begun , Carol V. Ward , Michael D. Rose
Ritualized violence in the prehistoric American Southwest
Ritualized violence in the prehistoric American Southwest
The disarticulated and commingled human remains of at least 13 individuals were recovered from an archaeological site during salvage operations for a natural gas pipeline project near Ram Mesa in northwestern New Mexico. The condition of the remains and the nature of their interment suggested that unusual circumstances surrounded their deposition. The skeletal remains exhibited peri-mortem modification in the form of breaking, cutting and burning…
Age, Sex, and Resource Transport in Venezuelan Foragers
Striders, Runners, and Transporters
From Biped to Strider: The Emergence of Modern Human Walking, Running, and Resource Transport
Seasonality and Sex Differences in Travel Distance and Resource Transport in Venezuelan Foragers
The anthropological literature generally describes forager women as less mobile than men because of their child-care responsibilities and the energetic costs of reproduction. Examination of resource transport among the savanna Pumé of southwestern Venezuela reveals, in contrast, that for certain food resources travel distances and resource weights relative to body weights are greater for women than for men. Male foraging is often associated with …
Body proportions of circumpolar peoples as evidenced from skeletal data: Ipiutak and Tigara (Point Hope) versus Kodiak Island Inuit
Given the well‐documented fact that human body proportions covary with climate (presumably due to the action of selection), one would expect that the Ipiutak and Tigara Inuit samples from Point Hope, Alaska, would be characterized by an extremely cold‐adapted body shape. Comparison of the Point Hope Inuit samples to a large ( n > 900) sample of European and European‐derived, African and African‐derived, and Native American skeletons (including Ko…
Documenting the health consequences of endemic warfare in three pastoralist communities of northern Kenya: A conceptual framework
Cross‐sectional geometry in the humeri of foragers and farmers from the prehispanic American Southwest: Exploring patterns in the sexual division of labor
The work effort of prehistoric males relative to females has long been of interest to anthropologists, particularly in foraging versus farming groups. This knowledge requires a clear understanding of the sexual division of labor, or the dichotomy in subsistence roles allocated to males and females. Such research in the Prehispanic American Southwest has been limited. As previous work has shown that bone is the osseous template that reflects in vi…
The Foragers of Point Hope: The Biology and Archaeology of Humans on the Edge of the Alaskan Arctic
On the edge of the Arctic Ocean, above the Arctic Circle, the prehistoric settlements at Point Hope, Alaska, represent a truly remarkable accomplishment in human biological and cultural adaptations. Presenting a set of anthropological analyses on the human skeletal remains and cultural material from the Ipiutak and Tigara archaeological sites, The Foragers of Point Hope sheds new light on the excavations from 1939–41, which provided one of the la…
Foragers of Point Hope: The Biology and Archaeology of Humans on the Edge of the Alaskan Arctic
Suicide in Three East African Pastoralist Communities and the Role of Researcher Outsiders for Positive Transformation: A Case Study
It was maendeleo that removed them: Disturbing Burials and Reciprocal Knowledge Production in a Context of Collaborative Archaeology
Recent decades have witnessed a growth in approaches to research and writing across anthropology's four fields that emphasize the need to respect alternative narratives and constructions of history, and to engage with anthropology's 'publics'. These developments have generated more ethically responsible research and more inclusive writing practices. Nevertheless, the actual doing of cross-cultural collaboration and knowledge production remains a …
Comparative nutritional indicators as markers for resilience: The impacts of low-intensity violence among three pastoralist communities of northern Kenya
We present results from a collaborative project on the consequences of endemic violence in the pastoralist zone of Northern Kenya. Drawing on our ethnographically driven epidemiological approach, we examine the differential cost of violence by examining household nutrition. The case/control approach we employ draws data from six sites that are culturally similar but differ in the degree of exposure to, or relative insulation from, violence. As on…
Dust people: Samburu perspectives on disaster, identity, and landscape
This paper discusses a Samburu pastoralist landscape idiom, ntoror, that encapsulates ideas about agentive pastoralist landscapes that inherently attract conflict; and passionate, place-based identities forged out of environmental and human-wrought disaster. The paper grows out of a project that experimentally integrated ethnographic self-scrutiny with a bio-archaeological excavation involving human remains, with the aim of encouraging reciprocal…
Violence and Warfare among Hunter-Gatherers
Nearly 60 years ago, the publication of Elizabeth Marshall Thomas's book, The Harmless People (1959), helped create an enduring image of living hunting and gathering peoples. Her book, along with t
Low-intensity violence and the social determinants of adolescent health among three East African pastoralist communities
Body mass estimation from footprint size in hominins
Family socioeconomic status and child telomere length among the Samburu of Kenya
Biological Mechanisms for Allen's Rule: DNA Methylation as Mediator of the Association Between In Utero Exposure to Environmental Heat and Tibial Growth in Childhood
OBJECTIVES: Understanding human phenotypic plasticity in response to social, ecosystem, and climate interactions can be an important tool for designing social and public health strategies that increase climate change resilience. Sensitivity of the tibia to environmental perturbations is well established; moreover, Allen's rule predicts relatively longer tibial length in hotter climates. In this study, we hypothesized DNA methylation (DNAm) change…
Drought-compounded stress and immune function in Kenyan pastoralist boys and girls occupying contrasting climate zones
In spite of important differences between climate subregions, the common elements throughout the Samburu pastoralist leanscape include food and water insecurity and overall precarity exacerbated by drought and climate change. Community-driven interventions are needed to reduce precarity for young people pursuing pastoralist livelihoods
Geography (15 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Biology (11 works) · Archaeology (10 works) · Ecology (8 works) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (8 works) · Pastoralism (7 works) · Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology (7 works) · Anthropology (6 works) · Demography (6 works)