Robert L Blakely
Biographic Data
| ID | 131562 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert L Blakely |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert L |
| FAMILY NAME | Blakely |
| SIGNATURE | BLAKELY R L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Georgia State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 39 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Biocultural Implications of Mortuary Treatment and Paleopathology at the Isle La Motte Site
Little is known about biocultural adaptations during the terminal Late Archaic period (ca. 1,000–500 B.C.) in the northeastern United States. To shed light on population structure and social organization, I examined mortuary treatment and paleopathology of six skeletons recovered at the Isle La Motte site in Vermont “Typical” Glacial Kame artifacts accompanied the cremated and uncremated remains. Mortuary practices indicate status differences bas…
Columbian Consequences, Volume 2
First Encounters
The Anasazi in a Changing Environment
The King Site
Bioarchaeological Evidence for a Spanish-Native American Conflict in the Sixteenth-Century Southeast
As the state of Georgia marks the four hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the arrival of Hernando de Soto, we reflect on the other actors in the encounter. The King site, a Native American village in the sixteenth-century chiefdom of Coosa, yielded an unusually high crude death rate of 36 per 1,000. We attribute the elevated mortality to casualties from a clash with the Spaniards. Twenty percent of the King site skeletons exhibit injuries-deep g…
Bone strontium in pregnant and lactating females from archaeological samples
Because plants and animals consume or absorb different amounts of strontium and calcium, anthropologists are able to use strontium/calcium (Sr/Ca) ratios from archaeologically recovered human bone to estimate the relative contributions of meat and plants to paleodiets. Often females exhibit higher Sr/Ca ratios than males, a fact usually attributed to lower meat intake among women. However, in vivo and in vitro experiments with laboratory animals …
Biocultural adaptation as reflected in trace element distribution
Trace Elements, Nutritional Status, and Social Stratification at Etowah, Georgia
Sapienization and Speech [and Comments and Reply]
Middle Pleistocene erectus skulls differ from ours in fifteen discrete traits, primary among which are their smaller cranial capacities, flatter and more strongly constructed braincases, larger and more anteriorly projecting faces, and inflected mastoid processes. Back to 40,000 years ago all fossil hominids are of the sapiens desing, while all those clearly older show the erectus pattern. Except for their large brains, Neandertals are of the ere…
Archaeology
Comparison of the mortality profiles of Archaic, Middle Woodland, and Middle Mississippian skeletal populations
Mortality profiles were constructed for four American Indian skeletal populations for the purpose of comparing the frequencies of deaths at given ages between and within the populations. An interpretation of the differential mortality frequencies is then possible. Selected for study were the Archaic population from Indian Knoll, Kentucky, an Illinois Archaic series and a Middle Woodland Hopewellian population, both from the Klunk Mounds in southw…
Comparison of the mortality profiles of Archaic, Middle Woodland, and Middle Mississippian skeletal populations
Mortality profiles were constructed for four American Indian skeletal populations for the purpose of comparing the frequencies of deaths at given ages between and within the populations. An interpretation of the differential mortality frequencies is then possible. Selected for study were the Archaic population from Indian Knoll, Kentucky, an Illinois Archaic series and a Middle Woodland Hopewellian population, both from the Klunk Mounds in southw…
Sapienization and Speech [and Comments and Reply]
Middle Pleistocene erectus skulls differ from ours in fifteen discrete traits, primary among which are their smaller cranial capacities, flatter and more strongly constructed braincases, larger and more anteriorly projecting faces, and inflected mastoid processes. Back to 40,000 years ago all fossil hominids are of the sapiens desing, while all those clearly older show the erectus pattern. Except for their large brains, Neandertals are of the ere…
Bioarchaeological Evidence for a Spanish-Native American Conflict in the Sixteenth-Century Southeast
As the state of Georgia marks the four hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the arrival of Hernando de Soto, we reflect on the other actors in the encounter. The King site, a Native American village in the sixteenth-century chiefdom of Coosa, yielded an unusually high crude death rate of 36 per 1,000. We attribute the elevated mortality to casualties from a clash with the Spaniards. Twenty percent of the King site skeletons exhibit injuries-deep g…
Biocultural adaptation as reflected in trace element distribution
Biocultural Implications of Mortuary Treatment and Paleopathology at the Isle La Motte Site
Little is known about biocultural adaptations during the terminal Late Archaic period (ca. 1,000–500 B.C.) in the northeastern United States. To shed light on population structure and social organization, I examined mortuary treatment and paleopathology of six skeletons recovered at the Isle La Motte site in Vermont “Typical” Glacial Kame artifacts accompanied the cremated and uncremated remains. Mortuary practices indicate status differences bas…
Bone strontium in pregnant and lactating females from archaeological samples
Because plants and animals consume or absorb different amounts of strontium and calcium, anthropologists are able to use strontium/calcium (Sr/Ca) ratios from archaeologically recovered human bone to estimate the relative contributions of meat and plants to paleodiets. Often females exhibit higher Sr/Ca ratios than males, a fact usually attributed to lower meat intake among women. However, in vivo and in vitro experiments with laboratory animals …
Archaeology
Comparison of the mortality profiles of Archaic, Middle Woodland, and Middle Mississippian skeletal populations
Mortality profiles were constructed for four American Indian skeletal populations for the purpose of comparing the frequencies of deaths at given ages between and within the populations. An interpretation of the differential mortality frequencies is then possible. Selected for study were the Archaic population from Indian Knoll, Kentucky, an Illinois Archaic series and a Middle Woodland Hopewellian population, both from the Klunk Mounds in southw…
Archaeology
Sapienization and Speech [and Comments and Reply]
Middle Pleistocene erectus skulls differ from ours in fifteen discrete traits, primary among which are their smaller cranial capacities, flatter and more strongly constructed braincases, larger and more anteriorly projecting faces, and inflected mastoid processes. Back to 40,000 years ago all fossil hominids are of the sapiens desing, while all those clearly older show the erectus pattern. Except for their large brains, Neandertals are of the ere…
Trace Elements, Nutritional Status, and Social Stratification at Etowah, Georgia
Biocultural adaptation as reflected in trace element distribution
Bone strontium in pregnant and lactating females from archaeological samples
Because plants and animals consume or absorb different amounts of strontium and calcium, anthropologists are able to use strontium/calcium (Sr/Ca) ratios from archaeologically recovered human bone to estimate the relative contributions of meat and plants to paleodiets. Often females exhibit higher Sr/Ca ratios than males, a fact usually attributed to lower meat intake among women. However, in vivo and in vitro experiments with laboratory animals …
The Anasazi in a Changing Environment
The King Site
Bioarchaeological Evidence for a Spanish-Native American Conflict in the Sixteenth-Century Southeast
As the state of Georgia marks the four hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the arrival of Hernando de Soto, we reflect on the other actors in the encounter. The King site, a Native American village in the sixteenth-century chiefdom of Coosa, yielded an unusually high crude death rate of 36 per 1,000. We attribute the elevated mortality to casualties from a clash with the Spaniards. Twenty percent of the King site skeletons exhibit injuries-deep g…
First Encounters
Columbian Consequences, Volume 2
Biocultural Implications of Mortuary Treatment and Paleopathology at the Isle La Motte Site
Little is known about biocultural adaptations during the terminal Late Archaic period (ca. 1,000–500 B.C.) in the northeastern United States. To shed light on population structure and social organization, I examined mortuary treatment and paleopathology of six skeletons recovered at the Isle La Motte site in Vermont “Typical” Glacial Kame artifacts accompanied the cremated and uncremated remains. Mortuary practices indicate status differences bas…
Archaeology (10 works) · Geography (8 works) · History (7 works) · Demography (5 works) · Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (5 works) · History (5 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (4 works) · Biology (4 works) · Indigenous Studies and Ecology (4 works) · Population (4 works)