David K Wright
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 125911 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | David K Wright |
| NOMBRES | David K |
| APELLIDO | Wright |
| FIRMA | WRIGHT D K |
| AFILIACIONES | Seoul National University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1704-0423 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 61 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 231 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 60 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1981 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
The Khovaling Loess Plateau as a window into Early Paleolithic human–environment interactions in Central Asia
Loess–paleosol sequences in southern Tajikistan offer a valuable yet underexplored archive for reconstructing early human–environment interactions across Central Asia. Building on our previous investigations of geochemical and sedimentary proxies, here we make an overview based on lipid biomarkers, bulk stable isotopes, and archaeological data from multiple localities of the Khovaling loess plateau on understanding ecological and anthropogenic si…
Stereotyped accent judgements in forensic contexts
This paper reports the findings from a multidisciplinary and cross-institutional Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) funded project called ‘Improving Voice Identification Procedures’ (IVIP). People harbour stereotypes about particular accents, and those judgements may be brought with them into the legal domain. Considering the potential consequences of accent judgements by witnesses and jurors, this study examines the relationship between…
Episodic settlement and mound formation context at Cubalel and Siwré sites, Middle Senegal River
Recent analysis of sediments recovered in 1991 at the sites of Cubalel and Siwré in the Middle Senegal River Valley have revealed new insights into the context of mound formation beginning ca. 1900 cal BP. In this study, we utilized stable isotopes ( δ 13 C, δ 15 N) from Soil Organic Matter (SOM) and applied a Bayesian deposition model to radiocarbon dates to understand differences in the duration and nature of settlement between the two sites co…
Pit without finds = worthless pit? Investigating a Roman military camp from Caesar’s Gallic Wars (58 – 51 BC) near Hermeskeil (Germany)
Palaeoenvironmental data indicate late quaternary anthropogenic impacts on vegetation and landscapes in Mzimba, northern Malawi
Landscapes are formed by long-term interactions between the underlying geology and climatic, edaphic and biotic factors, including human activity. The Kasitu Valley in the Mzimba District of northern Malawi includes the Kasitu River and its adjacent floodplains and uplands, and it has been a location of sustained human occupation since at least 16 thousand years ago (ka) based on archaeological excavations from rockshelters. We trace the changing…
Walking commodities
Carbon (δ13C), nitrogen (δ15N), and strontium (87/86Sr) isotope analyses have been applied widely over the past four decades to reconstruct human and animal dietary and mobility patterns. Sulfur (δ34S) has recently shown great promise to further enhance isotope analyses of the geologic and hydrologic contexts in which organic material formed. For this case study we applied this suite of multi-isotopic analyses to a dataset of 45 animal bones and …
Music in Twentieth-Century Oxford
Journal Article Music in Twentieth-Century Oxford: New Directions. Robin Darwall-Smith and Susan Wollenberg Get access Music in Twentieth-Century Oxford: New Directions. Ed. by Robin Darwall-Smith and Susan Wollenberg. Pp. 278. ( Boydell Press, Woodbridge and Rochester, NY, 2023. ISBN 978-1-78327-724-7, £70.) David C H Wright David C H Wright Royal College of Music, London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar M…
Late Quaternary human occupation of the Kilwa coast (Tanzania)
Occurrence and distribution of biomarkers in loess-paleosol sequences of Tajikistan (Central Asia)
Digital Kitambo
The Swahili word ‘kitambo’, which refers to occurrences in the past that are understood to be at least indirectly connected to the speaker, can be used to describe experimental museology through digital cultural heritage. There is a need to improve access and enhance conservation goals within African cultural heritage institutions, and the National Museums of Kenya (NMK) has been developing innovative technologies and communication tools with the…
Introduction
Handbook of Pleistocene Archaeology of Africa
This handbook showcases an Africa-wide compendium of Stone Age archaeological sites and associated methodological advances and debates
Impact of farming on African landscapes
As the continent with the deepest record of human history, the relationship between landscape formation and human subsistence practices is inseparable. The activities that constitute 'farming' are open for some matter of discussion, but essentially speak to the co-evolution of human, plant and animal reproductive systems along a continuum of interdependence. This process is ever evolving, but has resulted in the formation of landscapes in which a…
Specifying Challenges in Transcribing Covert Recordings
Covert audio recordings feature in the criminal justice system in a variety of guises, either on their own or accompanied by video. If legally obtained, such recordings can provide important forensic evidence. However, the quality of these potentially valuable evidential recordings is often very poor and their content indistinct, to the extent that a jury requires an accompanying transcript. At present, in many international jurisdictions, these …
The emergence and intensification of early hunter‐gatherer niche construction
Hunter‐gatherers, especially Pleistocene examples, are not well‐represented in archeological studies of niche construction. However, as the role of humans in shaping environments over long time scales becomes increasingly apparent, it is critical to develop archeological proxies and testable hypotheses about early hunter‐gatherer impacts. Modern foragers engage in niche constructive behaviors aimed at maintaining or increasing the productivity of…
East and Southern African Neolithic
Spatial modeling of archaeological site locations based on summed probability distributions and hot-spot analyses
A new local scale prediction model of Amazonian landscape domestication sites
Iron Age landscape changes in the Benoué River Valley, Cameroon
The introduction of agriculture is known to have profoundly affected the ecological complexion of landscapes. In this study, a rapid transition from C 3 to C 4 vegetation is inferred from a shift to higher stable carbon ( 13 C/ 12 C) isotope ratios of soils and sediments in the Benoué River Valley and upland Fali Mountains in northern Cameroon. Landscape change is viewed from the perspective of two settlement mounds and adjacent floodplains, as w…
Late Middle Stone Age Behavior and Environments at Chaminade I (Karonga, Malawi)
The old wood effect revisited
Long-term dynamics of pastoral ecology in northern Kenya
East and Southern African Neolithic
Quaternary Environmental Change in Southern Africa
British Humour and the Second World War
Approaches to Middle Stone Age landscape archaeology in tropical Africa
The Southern Montane Forest-Grassland mosaic ecosystem in the humid subtropics southern Rift Valley of Africa comprised the environmental context for a large area in which modern human evolution and dispersal occurred. Variable climatic conditions during the Late Pleistocene have ranged between humid and hyperarid, changing the character of the ecosystem and transforming it at different points in time into a barrier, a refuge, and a corridor betw…
The old wood effect revisited
A severe centennial-scale drought in midcontinental North America 4200 years ago and apparent global linkages
We present evidence from a variety of physical and biological proxies for a severe drought that affected the mid-continent of North America between 4.1 and 4.3 ka. Rapid climate changes associated with the event had large and widespread ecological effects, including dune reactivation, forest fires and long-term changes in forest composition, highlighting a clear ecological vulnerability to similar future changes. Drought is also documented in the…
Renewed Geoarchaeological Investigations of Mwanganda's Village (Elephant Butchery Site), Karonga, Malawi
The site of Mwanganda's Village, located along a paleochannel in northern Malawi, is one of only a few sites that have characterized the Middle Stone Age (MSA) of Malawi for decades (Clark & Haynes, ; Clark et al., ; Kaufulu, ). The Malawi Earlier‐Middle Stone Age Project has re‐examined the site using new mapping and chronometric tools in order to reinterpret the site's significance within the context of current debates surrounding human origins…
New Perspectives on Early Regional Interaction Networks of East African Trade
The Development and Collapse of Precolonial Ethnic Mosaics in Tsavo, Kenya
Archaeologists and historians have long believed that little interaction existed between Iron Age cities of the Kenya Coast and their rural hinterlands. Ongoing archaeological and anthropological research in Tsavo, Southeast Kenya, shows that Tsavo has been continuously inhabited at least since the early Holocene. Tsavo peoples made a living by foraging, herding, farming, and producing pottery and iron, and in the Iron Age were linked to global m…
Accuracy vs. Precision
The application of radiocarbon dating to determine the geochronology of archaeological sites is ubiquitous across the African continent. Accelerator mass spectrometry has made radiocarbon dating the most precise method to determine the death of living organisms that occurred within the last 50,000 years. However, the method is not without limitations and this review article provides Africanist archaeologists with cautionary insights as to when, w…
Renewed investigations into the Middle Stone Age of northern Malawi
Lakeside View
Throughout the Holocene, Lake Turkana has been subject to drastic changes in lake levels and the subsistence strategies people employ to survive in this hot and arid region. In this paper, we reconstruct the position of the lake during the Holocene within a paleoclimatic context. Atmospheric forcing mechanisms are discussed in order to contextualize the broader landscape changes occurring in eastern Africa over the last 12,000 years. The Holocene…
Handbook of Pleistocene Archaeology of Africa
This handbook showcases an Africa-wide compendium of Stone Age archaeological sites and associated methodological advances and debates
Spatial modeling of archaeological site locations based on summed probability distributions and hot-spot analyses
Long-term dynamics of pastoral ecology in northern Kenya
Examination of Tattoos on Mummified Tissue using Infra-red Reflectography
Late Middle Stone Age Behavior and Environments at Chaminade I (Karonga, Malawi)
Frontier Animal Husbandry in the Northeast and East African Neolithic
Domesticated animals spread from their ancestral heartland in northern Africa and southwestern Asia into eastern and southern Africa after 4000 BP. Three theories account for the relatively slow spread of domesticated animals into the southern latitudes between 4000 and 3000 BP. The first theory posits that arid climates hindered the dispersal of domesticated animals beyond the Lake Turkana basin until pluvial conditions set in after 3000 BP. The…
Stratigraphic and geochronological context of human habitation along the Galana River, Kenya
Geoarchaeological investigations along the Galana River, eastern Kenya, document a pattern of channel aggradation and then degradation from the Middle to Late Holocene. Archaeological occupations at six sites in fluvial terraces along a ̃100 km stretch of the Galana River in Tsavo East National Park correspond with fluvial aggradation beginning ca. 6000 years ago. Artifact analyses indicate that the inhabitants of these sites utilized ceramics an…
Stone Cairns and Material Culture of the Middle to Late Holocene, Lake Turkana
A recent archival research project in the National Museums of Kenya (NMK) identified artifacts and human remains associated with the 1980 excavation of stone cairns and habitation areas on the west side of Lake Turkana. The presence of stone grave cairns across eastern Africa is common, but their cultural origins and construction times are enigmatic. This article presents the results of the archival project and contextualizes both the artifacts f…
Application of remote sensing technologies in detecting prehistoric canals of the Hohokam Period (a.d. 450–1450) in the Middle Gila River Valley, Arizona
Tethered mobility and riparian resource exploitation among Neolithic hunters and herders in the Galana River basin, Kenyan coastal lowlands
Human activity along the Galana River inside Tsavo National Park, Kenya extends from 6000 years BP until at least 1300 years BP. This time period in East Africa predates and includes the Pastoral Neolithic – geographically and temporally linked early cattle-herding cultures comprised of autonomous communities with loose cultural connections to one another. Data from some sites located in the Great Rift Valley, Lake Victoria Basin and Central Keny…
AMS Dates from Two Archaeological Sites of Korea
In interpreting radiocarbon dating results, it is important that archaeologists distinguish uncertainties derived from random errors and those from systematic errors, because the two must be dealt with in different ways. One of the problems that archaeologists face in practice, however, is that when receiving dating results from laboratories, they are rarely able to critically assess whether differences between multiple 14 C dates of materials ar…
Late Archaic wells on the Gila River Indian Community, Arizona
Impact of farming on African landscapes
As the continent with the deepest record of human history, the relationship between landscape formation and human subsistence practices is inseparable. The activities that constitute 'farming' are open for some matter of discussion, but essentially speak to the co-evolution of human, plant and animal reproductive systems along a continuum of interdependence. This process is ever evolving, but has resulted in the formation of landscapes in which a…
A new local scale prediction model of Amazonian landscape domestication sites
Iron Age Landscapes of the Benue River Valley, Cameroon
The Iron Age settlements of northern Cameroon were dispersed across the landscape, taking advantage of different eco-climatic zones to exploit a variety of natural resources. Situated at the interface of the upper and lower terraces of the Benue River, mound sites in the area around Garoua have occupation histories spanning multiple centuries. The site of Langui-Tchéboua displays evidence for rapid accumulation of sediments approximately 700 year…
Change in Settlement Distribution and the Emergence of an Early State
Archaeologists have long examined how the emergence of core polities prompts changes in the settlement patterns of peripheral regions through various processes like warfare, patronage claims, control of ritual rites, and unequal balances of trade. According to historical records, there were 54 small Mahan polities in southwestern Korea, and one of these polities, Baekje, grew to become an ancient state by unifying other polities in the 4th centur…
Competition and Location Strategy in Branch Banking
John Woolrich
Songs from 'The Occasions' for Tenor and Chamber Ensemble
Earthiness
Villa-Lobos
Charles Ives
John Corigliano
Opening Windows
Sorabji
Music of the Russian Avant Garde, 1910-1930
Sonata No.2
Forgotten lives
Mountain Fortress Defence
Examination of Tattoos on Mummified Tissue using Infra-red Reflectography
Archaeological investigations of three Pastoral Neolithic sites in Tsavo National Park, Kenya
A severe centennial-scale drought in midcontinental North America 4200 years ago and apparent global linkages
We present evidence from a variety of physical and biological proxies for a severe drought that affected the mid-continent of North America between 4.1 and 4.3 ka. Rapid climate changes associated with the event had large and widespread ecological effects, including dune reactivation, forest fires and long-term changes in forest composition, highlighting a clear ecological vulnerability to similar future changes. Drought is also documented in the…
New Perspectives on Early Regional Interaction Networks of East African Trade
The Development and Collapse of Precolonial Ethnic Mosaics in Tsavo, Kenya
Archaeologists and historians have long believed that little interaction existed between Iron Age cities of the Kenya Coast and their rural hinterlands. Ongoing archaeological and anthropological research in Tsavo, Southeast Kenya, shows that Tsavo has been continuously inhabited at least since the early Holocene. Tsavo peoples made a living by foraging, herding, farming, and producing pottery and iron, and in the Iron Age were linked to global m…
Tethered mobility and riparian resource exploitation among Neolithic hunters and herders in the Galana River basin, Kenyan coastal lowlands
Human activity along the Galana River inside Tsavo National Park, Kenya extends from 6000 years BP until at least 1300 years BP. This time period in East Africa predates and includes the Pastoral Neolithic – geographically and temporally linked early cattle-herding cultures comprised of autonomous communities with loose cultural connections to one another. Data from some sites located in the Great Rift Valley, Lake Victoria Basin and Central Keny…
Stratigraphic and geochronological context of human habitation along the Galana River, Kenya
Geoarchaeological investigations along the Galana River, eastern Kenya, document a pattern of channel aggradation and then degradation from the Middle to Late Holocene. Archaeological occupations at six sites in fluvial terraces along a ̃100 km stretch of the Galana River in Tsavo East National Park correspond with fluvial aggradation beginning ca. 6000 years ago. Artifact analyses indicate that the inhabitants of these sites utilized ceramics an…
Holocene eolian activation as a proxy for broad-scale landscape change on the Gila River Indian Community, Arizona
Eolian sediments are common within the middle Gila River Valley, southern Arizona, and reflect variability in eolian and fluvial processes during the late Holocene. This study focuses on deciphering the stratigraphic record of eolian deposition and associated luminescence dating of quartz extracts by single aliquot regeneration (SAR) protocols. Stratigraphic assessment coupled with luminescence ages indicates that there are four broad eolian depo…
Renewed investigations into the Middle Stone Age of northern Malawi
Frontier Animal Husbandry in the Northeast and East African Neolithic
Domesticated animals spread from their ancestral heartland in northern Africa and southwestern Asia into eastern and southern Africa after 4000 BP. Three theories account for the relatively slow spread of domesticated animals into the southern latitudes between 4000 and 3000 BP. The first theory posits that arid climates hindered the dispersal of domesticated animals beyond the Lake Turkana basin until pluvial conditions set in after 3000 BP. The…
Late Archaic wells on the Gila River Indian Community, Arizona
The Anthropology of Dust
Geography (40 obras) · Archaeology (37 obras) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (23 obras) · Geology (21 obras) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (19 obras) · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies (17 obras) · Ecology (17 obras) · History (16 obras) · Paleontology (14 obras) · Art (13 obras)