Laura Shackelford
Biographic Data
| ID | 128616 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laura Shackelford |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laura |
| FAMILY NAME | Shackelford |
| SIGNATURE | SHACKELFORD L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0934-2360 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 173 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 20 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Gathering Stories
Digital storytelling prioritizes real-time connections, story creation, contextual adaptability, multi-media expression, and accessibility. This article discusses the unrecognized affordances and value of digital storytelling practices for teens living in precarious (neo)colonial lifeworlds. We review the workshop methods developed as designers and leaders of “Gathering Stories: A Digital Storytelling Workshop for Young Women” in July 2021 to enl…
Trophic ecology of a Late Pleistocene early modern human from tropical Southeast Asia inferred from zinc isotopes
The prehistoric peopling of Southeast Asia
Ancient migrations in Southeast Asia The past movements and peopling of Southeast Asia have been poorly represented in ancient DNA studies (see the Perspective by Bellwood). Lipson et al. generated sequences from people inhabiting Southeast Asia from about 1700 to 4100 years ago. Screening of more than a hundred individuals from five sites yielded ancient DNA from 18 individuals. Comparisons with present-day populations suggest two waves of mixin…
Additional evidence for early modern human morphological diversity in Southeast Asia at Tam Pa Ling, Laos
Dental phenotypic shape variation supports a multiple dispersal model for anatomically modern humans in Southeast Asia
Early Modern Humans from Tam Pà Ling, Laos
Despite the importance of its geographical position for early modern human migration through Australasia, the Indochinese Peninsula has produced relatively few fossils or well-documented archaeological sites, resulting in a poor chronology for early occupation. Tam Pà Ling (TPL), a cave in northern Laos, is one of the rare sites yielding fossils contemporaneous with the earliest migrants into Australasia within a securely established chronology. …
Incisor ablation among the late upper paleolithic people of Tam Hang (Northern Laos)
OBJECTIVES: A detailed assessment of intentional incisor ablation among the Late Upper Paleolithic people of Tam Hang (northern Laos) was undertaken to understand how this cultural practice, in addition to age and sex, influenced an individual's inclusion in the mortuary context. The covariation of ablation status with occlusal variation and anterior dental pathology was addressed to study the implications of this cultural practice on oral health…
Surviving Codespace
As theorists, activists, artists, and writers begin to speculatively-if also wishfully-anticipate what comes after or lies biopolitics,1 it is worth considering whether the very topographies of survival have not already shifted significantly Computational processes and architectures, as I will suggest, unwittingly open new perspectives on spatial practices and the performativity of prompting our appreciation of a range of spatiotemporal material …
Evolution of the Hoabinhian Techno-Complex of Tam Hang Rock Shelter in Northeastern Laos
Tam Hang rock shelter was excavated in 1934 by the French geologist Jacques Fromaget who discovered 13 skeletons and a lot of stone tools. But after the second War World, the lithic assemblages were lost. Then the site was forgotten since 2003, when the department of archaeology of the Lao Ministry of Culture relocated it and made with a French team a new prospection. In 2007 and after seven campaigns of excavations, a lot of archaeological mater…
Variation in Mobility and Anatomical Responses in the Late Pleistocene
Migrating Modes
In Birds Singing Other Birds' Songs and Another Kind of Language , María Mencía's poetics of transposition diagnoses the technological, medial, and poetic processes catalyzing multimodal signifying practices in digital writing and comparatively registers the impact of digital interface relations, as transformative material sites, on language and intersemiotic and intersubjective meaning
Identifying donkey domestication through changes in cross-sectional geometry of long bones
Anatomically modern human in Southeast Asia (Laos) by 46 ka
Uncertainties surround the timing of modern human emergence and occupation in East and Southeast Asia. Although genetic and archeological data indicate a rapid migration out of Africa and into Southeast Asia by at least 60 ka, mainland Southeast Asia is notable for its absence of fossil evidence for early modern human occupation. Here we report on a modern human cranium from Tam Pa Ling, Laos, which was recovered from a secure stratigraphic conte…
Estimating the distribution of probable age‐at‐death from dental remains of immature human fossils
In two historic longitudinal growth studies, Moorrees et al. (Am J Phys Anthropol 21 (1963) 99‐108; J Dent Res 42 (1963) 1490‐1502) presented the “mean attainment age” for stages of tooth development for 10 permanent tooth types and three deciduous tooth types. These findings were presented graphically to assess the rate of tooth formation in living children and to age immature skeletal remains. Despite being widely cited, these graphical data ar…
The Middle Pleistocene mammalian fauna from Tam Hang karstic deposit, northern Laos
Regional variation in the postcranial robusticity of late upper paleolithic humans
Early modern humans from the European Upper Paleolithic (UP) demonstrate trends in postcranial biomechanical features that coincide with the last glacial maximum (LGM). These features have been interpreted as evidence that ecological changes of the LGM played a critical role in cultural and biological adaptation in European UP populations. In areas outside of Europe, similar environmental changes occurred with the LGM. This analysis introduces po…
Counter-Networks in a Network Society
Counter-Networks in a Network Society: Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of the Dead Laura Shackelford Abstract This essay calls into question the opposition between global capitalist economic, cultural, and social networks and modernity’s industrial capitalist social spaces, an opposition between the “space of flows” and the “space of places,” as it is developed in Manuel Castells’sthoroughgoing analysis of the information economy. Putting Castells’…
Subject to Change
Laura Shackelford is a visiting lecturer of English at Indiana University, Bloomington. She has just completed a manuscript, “Tracking the Human out of Print,” which examines feminist, queer, and subaltern engagements with new media/global capitalist networks in recent American fiction
Morphological variation and airflow dynamics in the human nose
Airflow dynamics are recognized as being important to the functioning of the human nose in conditioning and filtering inspired air, yet these dynamics are poorly understood. Despite considerable research on airflow dynamics by otolaryngologists, respiratory physiologists, and toxicologists, major disagreements remain about the nature of airflow in the human nose. Specifically, there is little consensus about the character of nasal airflow regimes…
Late Pleistocene human femoral diaphyseal curvature
Anterior femoral curvature is a consistent characteristic of Pleistocene and recent humans, although variation exists in the degree of curvature among individuals and across populations. In particular, one group, the Neandertals, has been characterized for a century as having marked femoral curvature. To evaluate the degree of anterior femoral curvature in both Neandertals and other Late Pleistocene humans, their curvature subtenses and proximodi…
Regional variation in the postcranial robusticity of late upper paleolithic humans
Early modern humans from the European Upper Paleolithic (UP) demonstrate trends in postcranial biomechanical features that coincide with the last glacial maximum (LGM). These features have been interpreted as evidence that ecological changes of the LGM played a critical role in cultural and biological adaptation in European UP populations. In areas outside of Europe, similar environmental changes occurred with the LGM. This analysis introduces po…
Additional evidence for early modern human morphological diversity in Southeast Asia at Tam Pa Ling, Laos
Estimating the distribution of probable age‐at‐death from dental remains of immature human fossils
In two historic longitudinal growth studies, Moorrees et al. (Am J Phys Anthropol 21 (1963) 99‐108; J Dent Res 42 (1963) 1490‐1502) presented the “mean attainment age” for stages of tooth development for 10 permanent tooth types and three deciduous tooth types. These findings were presented graphically to assess the rate of tooth formation in living children and to age immature skeletal remains. Despite being widely cited, these graphical data ar…
Early Modern Humans from Tam Pà Ling, Laos
Despite the importance of its geographical position for early modern human migration through Australasia, the Indochinese Peninsula has produced relatively few fossils or well-documented archaeological sites, resulting in a poor chronology for early occupation. Tam Pà Ling (TPL), a cave in northern Laos, is one of the rare sites yielding fossils contemporaneous with the earliest migrants into Australasia within a securely established chronology. …
Evolution of the Hoabinhian Techno-Complex of Tam Hang Rock Shelter in Northeastern Laos
Tam Hang rock shelter was excavated in 1934 by the French geologist Jacques Fromaget who discovered 13 skeletons and a lot of stone tools. But after the second War World, the lithic assemblages were lost. Then the site was forgotten since 2003, when the department of archaeology of the Lao Ministry of Culture relocated it and made with a French team a new prospection. In 2007 and after seven campaigns of excavations, a lot of archaeological mater…
Late Pleistocene human femoral diaphyseal curvature
Anterior femoral curvature is a consistent characteristic of Pleistocene and recent humans, although variation exists in the degree of curvature among individuals and across populations. In particular, one group, the Neandertals, has been characterized for a century as having marked femoral curvature. To evaluate the degree of anterior femoral curvature in both Neandertals and other Late Pleistocene humans, their curvature subtenses and proximodi…
Identifying donkey domestication through changes in cross-sectional geometry of long bones
Incisor ablation among the late upper paleolithic people of Tam Hang (Northern Laos)
OBJECTIVES: A detailed assessment of intentional incisor ablation among the Late Upper Paleolithic people of Tam Hang (northern Laos) was undertaken to understand how this cultural practice, in addition to age and sex, influenced an individual's inclusion in the mortuary context. The covariation of ablation status with occlusal variation and anterior dental pathology was addressed to study the implications of this cultural practice on oral health…
Trophic ecology of a Late Pleistocene early modern human from tropical Southeast Asia inferred from zinc isotopes
Dental phenotypic shape variation supports a multiple dispersal model for anatomically modern humans in Southeast Asia
Subject to Change
Laura Shackelford is a visiting lecturer of English at Indiana University, Bloomington. She has just completed a manuscript, “Tracking the Human out of Print,” which examines feminist, queer, and subaltern engagements with new media/global capitalist networks in recent American fiction
Late Pleistocene human femoral diaphyseal curvature
Anterior femoral curvature is a consistent characteristic of Pleistocene and recent humans, although variation exists in the degree of curvature among individuals and across populations. In particular, one group, the Neandertals, has been characterized for a century as having marked femoral curvature. To evaluate the degree of anterior femoral curvature in both Neandertals and other Late Pleistocene humans, their curvature subtenses and proximodi…
Morphological variation and airflow dynamics in the human nose
Airflow dynamics are recognized as being important to the functioning of the human nose in conditioning and filtering inspired air, yet these dynamics are poorly understood. Despite considerable research on airflow dynamics by otolaryngologists, respiratory physiologists, and toxicologists, major disagreements remain about the nature of airflow in the human nose. Specifically, there is little consensus about the character of nasal airflow regimes…
Counter-Networks in a Network Society
Counter-Networks in a Network Society: Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of the Dead Laura Shackelford Abstract This essay calls into question the opposition between global capitalist economic, cultural, and social networks and modernity’s industrial capitalist social spaces, an opposition between the “space of flows” and the “space of places,” as it is developed in Manuel Castells’sthoroughgoing analysis of the information economy. Putting Castells’…
Subject to Change
Laura Shackelford is a visiting lecturer of English at Indiana University, Bloomington. She has just completed a manuscript, “Tracking the Human out of Print,” which examines feminist, queer, and subaltern engagements with new media/global capitalist networks in recent American fiction
Regional variation in the postcranial robusticity of late upper paleolithic humans
Early modern humans from the European Upper Paleolithic (UP) demonstrate trends in postcranial biomechanical features that coincide with the last glacial maximum (LGM). These features have been interpreted as evidence that ecological changes of the LGM played a critical role in cultural and biological adaptation in European UP populations. In areas outside of Europe, similar environmental changes occurred with the LGM. This analysis introduces po…
The Middle Pleistocene mammalian fauna from Tam Hang karstic deposit, northern Laos
Anatomically modern human in Southeast Asia (Laos) by 46 ka
Uncertainties surround the timing of modern human emergence and occupation in East and Southeast Asia. Although genetic and archeological data indicate a rapid migration out of Africa and into Southeast Asia by at least 60 ka, mainland Southeast Asia is notable for its absence of fossil evidence for early modern human occupation. Here we report on a modern human cranium from Tam Pa Ling, Laos, which was recovered from a secure stratigraphic conte…
Estimating the distribution of probable age‐at‐death from dental remains of immature human fossils
In two historic longitudinal growth studies, Moorrees et al. (Am J Phys Anthropol 21 (1963) 99‐108; J Dent Res 42 (1963) 1490‐1502) presented the “mean attainment age” for stages of tooth development for 10 permanent tooth types and three deciduous tooth types. These findings were presented graphically to assess the rate of tooth formation in living children and to age immature skeletal remains. Despite being widely cited, these graphical data ar…
Identifying donkey domestication through changes in cross-sectional geometry of long bones
Variation in Mobility and Anatomical Responses in the Late Pleistocene
Migrating Modes
In Birds Singing Other Birds' Songs and Another Kind of Language , María Mencía's poetics of transposition diagnoses the technological, medial, and poetic processes catalyzing multimodal signifying practices in digital writing and comparatively registers the impact of digital interface relations, as transformative material sites, on language and intersemiotic and intersubjective meaning
Evolution of the Hoabinhian Techno-Complex of Tam Hang Rock Shelter in Northeastern Laos
Tam Hang rock shelter was excavated in 1934 by the French geologist Jacques Fromaget who discovered 13 skeletons and a lot of stone tools. But after the second War World, the lithic assemblages were lost. Then the site was forgotten since 2003, when the department of archaeology of the Lao Ministry of Culture relocated it and made with a French team a new prospection. In 2007 and after seven campaigns of excavations, a lot of archaeological mater…
Incisor ablation among the late upper paleolithic people of Tam Hang (Northern Laos)
OBJECTIVES: A detailed assessment of intentional incisor ablation among the Late Upper Paleolithic people of Tam Hang (northern Laos) was undertaken to understand how this cultural practice, in addition to age and sex, influenced an individual's inclusion in the mortuary context. The covariation of ablation status with occlusal variation and anterior dental pathology was addressed to study the implications of this cultural practice on oral health…
Surviving Codespace
As theorists, activists, artists, and writers begin to speculatively-if also wishfully-anticipate what comes after or lies biopolitics,1 it is worth considering whether the very topographies of survival have not already shifted significantly Computational processes and architectures, as I will suggest, unwittingly open new perspectives on spatial practices and the performativity of prompting our appreciation of a range of spatiotemporal material …
Additional evidence for early modern human morphological diversity in Southeast Asia at Tam Pa Ling, Laos
Dental phenotypic shape variation supports a multiple dispersal model for anatomically modern humans in Southeast Asia
Early Modern Humans from Tam Pà Ling, Laos
Despite the importance of its geographical position for early modern human migration through Australasia, the Indochinese Peninsula has produced relatively few fossils or well-documented archaeological sites, resulting in a poor chronology for early occupation. Tam Pà Ling (TPL), a cave in northern Laos, is one of the rare sites yielding fossils contemporaneous with the earliest migrants into Australasia within a securely established chronology. …
The prehistoric peopling of Southeast Asia
Ancient migrations in Southeast Asia The past movements and peopling of Southeast Asia have been poorly represented in ancient DNA studies (see the Perspective by Bellwood). Lipson et al. generated sequences from people inhabiting Southeast Asia from about 1700 to 4100 years ago. Screening of more than a hundred individuals from five sites yielded ancient DNA from 18 individuals. Comparisons with present-day populations suggest two waves of mixin…
Trophic ecology of a Late Pleistocene early modern human from tropical Southeast Asia inferred from zinc isotopes
Gathering Stories
Digital storytelling prioritizes real-time connections, story creation, contextual adaptability, multi-media expression, and accessibility. This article discusses the unrecognized affordances and value of digital storytelling practices for teens living in precarious (neo)colonial lifeworlds. We review the workshop methods developed as designers and leaders of “Gathering Stories: A Digital Storytelling Workshop for Young Women” in July 2021 to enl…
Geography (12 works) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (11 works) · Archaeology (9 works) · Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (9 works) · Paleontology (9 works) · Biology (8 works) · Geology (8 works) · Pleistocene (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Art (5 works)