Daniel Antoine
Biographic Data
| ID | 138766 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel Antoine |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel |
| FAMILY NAME | Antoine |
| SIGNATURE | ANTOINE D |
| AFFILIATIONS | British Museum |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7262-8812 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Desert Dust and City Smoke
This study investigates the impact of urbanization and aridification on prevalence rates of lower respiratory tract disease in archaeological populations from the Middle Nile Valley. Evidence for pulmonary/pleural inflammation, in the form of inflammatory periosteal reaction (IPR) on the visceral surfaces of the ribs, was recorded in humanskeletal remains (452 adult/adolescent individuals, 17+ years) recovered from 12 Middle Nile Valley sites, da…
Dental insights into the biological affinities of the inhabitants of Gabati over a period of cultural transition
Time to be nosy
Rediscovering Nestawedjat
Long held museum collections can sometimes lack a clear provenance or context. Here, an ancient Egyptian mummified individual in the British Museum collection was reconnected with a set of three coffins in an interdisciplinary study using bioarchaeological, scientific and Egyptological analyses. Previously assigned as male, based on earlier X-rays due to the presence of radiopaque internal packing, CT scanning was used to re-establish her sex. Fo…
Ancient anomalies
During the analysis of a skeletal assemblage from a medieval cemetery in Nubia (c. AD 500-1550), a young adult female with abnormally developed maxillary incisors was discovered. The possible causes of the two dental anomalies found in this individual and their archaeological context are discussed. The remains are from a medieval assemblage from the Fourth Cataract region of Nubia, which forms part of the Nubian collection curated at the British …
Le cimetière de Jebel Sahaba (site 117, Nubie)
The debate on the traces of prehistoric interpersonal violence is heavily reliant on the early 1960s excavations of the Late Pleistocene cemetery of Jebel Sahaba (Nubia) by F. Wendorf. The publication of his work remains a key reference on the subject. However, no integrative study of the traces of violence left on the human remains was undertaken to better understand the extent of the phenomenon identified at this prehis-toric site. Founded by s…
Inflammatory periosteal reaction on ribs associated with lower respiratory tract disease
OBJECTIVES: Inflammatory periosteal reaction (IPR) on the visceral surfaces of the ribs has been used in bioarchaeology as an indicator of lower respiratory tract disease. This article presents a detailed method for recording IPR on the ribs, even those in severely fragmented states, with the objectives of increasing the consistency of recording and producing true prevalence rates for skeletons so as to improve data comparability between future b…
Periodontal disease and ‘oral health’ in the past
As one of today’s major oral health issues, periodontal disease affects populations worldwide. Here, methods used to record its past prevalence are reviewed, including the problems associated with the use of measurements to record bone loss. Clinical and bioarchaeological research offers strong support for the Kerr method that records interdental septum morphological changes as a means of identifying gingivitis and periodontal disease. Using Kerr…
Natural mummies from Predynastic Egypt reveal the world's earliest figural tattoos
Analysis of Cementum Layers in Archaeological Material
The aim of this study was to assess the utility of cementum layers for estimating age at death of remains from an archaeological site. Variability in cementum layer counts due to interobserver error and variation among dental regions were analyzed. Interobserver error was later incorporated into age ranges based on counts of cementum layers and compared with age estimates derived from the skeleton. The layers were counted, using 9 teeth from 3 in…
A Late Iron Age Helmet Burial from Bridge, near Canterbury, Kent
A rare find was made in 2012 when a metal-detectorist on land near Bridge, a few miles south of Canterbury, Kent, recovered a copper alloy brooch, other metal items, and a quantity of burnt bone contained in a near complete, probably imported Gallic, helmet of Iron Age type. Excavation was undertaken to ascertain the immediate context of the helmet, confirm that it represented a cremation burial, and determine if it formed part of a larger funera…
Application of the B ang and R amm age at death estimation method to two known‐age archaeological assemblages
The Bang and Ramm method uses root dentine translucency (RDT) length in sectioned or unsectioned teeth as a sole indicator of chronological age at death in adult human remains. The formulae have been tested on modern remains of known age and on modern and archaeological remains of unknown age. This is the first published study of the method on known‐age archaeological specimens and tests whether RDT is a good indicator of chronological age in bur…
Famine, the Black Death, and health in fourteenth-century London
In the first half of the fourteenth century two catastrophes struck the population of Europe: the Great Famine and the Black Death. The latter has been extensively studied, but much less is known about the biological effects of the Great Famine. A large assemblage of skeletal remains from one of the Black Death burial grounds, the Royal Mint cemetery in London, provides a unique opportunity to investigate these effects by analyzing the teeth of i…
Famine, the Black Death, and health in fourteenth-century London
Tortuosity or aneurysm? The palaeopathology of some abnormalities of the vertebral artery
The anatomy of the vertebral artery (VA) and two pathological conditions which affect it-tortuosity and aneurysm-are described. The changes which these lesions produce in the cervical vertebrae are also described and we present two cases in which these changes have been found. One case is of a female aged at least 45 years at the time of death from a 15th century medieval cemetery site in Britain with what we consider to be tortuosity of the VA. …
Natural mummies from Predynastic Egypt reveal the world's earliest figural tattoos
Inflammatory periosteal reaction on ribs associated with lower respiratory tract disease
OBJECTIVES: Inflammatory periosteal reaction (IPR) on the visceral surfaces of the ribs has been used in bioarchaeology as an indicator of lower respiratory tract disease. This article presents a detailed method for recording IPR on the ribs, even those in severely fragmented states, with the objectives of increasing the consistency of recording and producing true prevalence rates for skeletons so as to improve data comparability between future b…
Analysis of Cementum Layers in Archaeological Material
The aim of this study was to assess the utility of cementum layers for estimating age at death of remains from an archaeological site. Variability in cementum layer counts due to interobserver error and variation among dental regions were analyzed. Interobserver error was later incorporated into age ranges based on counts of cementum layers and compared with age estimates derived from the skeleton. The layers were counted, using 9 teeth from 3 in…
Rediscovering Nestawedjat
Long held museum collections can sometimes lack a clear provenance or context. Here, an ancient Egyptian mummified individual in the British Museum collection was reconnected with a set of three coffins in an interdisciplinary study using bioarchaeological, scientific and Egyptological analyses. Previously assigned as male, based on earlier X-rays due to the presence of radiopaque internal packing, CT scanning was used to re-establish her sex. Fo…
Ancient anomalies
During the analysis of a skeletal assemblage from a medieval cemetery in Nubia (c. AD 500-1550), a young adult female with abnormally developed maxillary incisors was discovered. The possible causes of the two dental anomalies found in this individual and their archaeological context are discussed. The remains are from a medieval assemblage from the Fourth Cataract region of Nubia, which forms part of the Nubian collection curated at the British …
A Late Iron Age Helmet Burial from Bridge, near Canterbury, Kent
A rare find was made in 2012 when a metal-detectorist on land near Bridge, a few miles south of Canterbury, Kent, recovered a copper alloy brooch, other metal items, and a quantity of burnt bone contained in a near complete, probably imported Gallic, helmet of Iron Age type. Excavation was undertaken to ascertain the immediate context of the helmet, confirm that it represented a cremation burial, and determine if it formed part of a larger funera…
Application of the B ang and R amm age at death estimation method to two known‐age archaeological assemblages
The Bang and Ramm method uses root dentine translucency (RDT) length in sectioned or unsectioned teeth as a sole indicator of chronological age at death in adult human remains. The formulae have been tested on modern remains of known age and on modern and archaeological remains of unknown age. This is the first published study of the method on known‐age archaeological specimens and tests whether RDT is a good indicator of chronological age in bur…
Tortuosity or aneurysm? The palaeopathology of some abnormalities of the vertebral artery
The anatomy of the vertebral artery (VA) and two pathological conditions which affect it-tortuosity and aneurysm-are described. The changes which these lesions produce in the cervical vertebrae are also described and we present two cases in which these changes have been found. One case is of a female aged at least 45 years at the time of death from a 15th century medieval cemetery site in Britain with what we consider to be tortuosity of the VA. …
Tortuosity or aneurysm? The palaeopathology of some abnormalities of the vertebral artery
The anatomy of the vertebral artery (VA) and two pathological conditions which affect it-tortuosity and aneurysm-are described. The changes which these lesions produce in the cervical vertebrae are also described and we present two cases in which these changes have been found. One case is of a female aged at least 45 years at the time of death from a 15th century medieval cemetery site in Britain with what we consider to be tortuosity of the VA. …
Famine, the Black Death, and health in fourteenth-century London
Famine, the Black Death, and health in fourteenth-century London
In the first half of the fourteenth century two catastrophes struck the population of Europe: the Great Famine and the Black Death. The latter has been extensively studied, but much less is known about the biological effects of the Great Famine. A large assemblage of skeletal remains from one of the Black Death burial grounds, the Royal Mint cemetery in London, provides a unique opportunity to investigate these effects by analyzing the teeth of i…
A Late Iron Age Helmet Burial from Bridge, near Canterbury, Kent
A rare find was made in 2012 when a metal-detectorist on land near Bridge, a few miles south of Canterbury, Kent, recovered a copper alloy brooch, other metal items, and a quantity of burnt bone contained in a near complete, probably imported Gallic, helmet of Iron Age type. Excavation was undertaken to ascertain the immediate context of the helmet, confirm that it represented a cremation burial, and determine if it formed part of a larger funera…
Application of the B ang and R amm age at death estimation method to two known‐age archaeological assemblages
The Bang and Ramm method uses root dentine translucency (RDT) length in sectioned or unsectioned teeth as a sole indicator of chronological age at death in adult human remains. The formulae have been tested on modern remains of known age and on modern and archaeological remains of unknown age. This is the first published study of the method on known‐age archaeological specimens and tests whether RDT is a good indicator of chronological age in bur…
Natural mummies from Predynastic Egypt reveal the world's earliest figural tattoos
Analysis of Cementum Layers in Archaeological Material
The aim of this study was to assess the utility of cementum layers for estimating age at death of remains from an archaeological site. Variability in cementum layer counts due to interobserver error and variation among dental regions were analyzed. Interobserver error was later incorporated into age ranges based on counts of cementum layers and compared with age estimates derived from the skeleton. The layers were counted, using 9 teeth from 3 in…
Inflammatory periosteal reaction on ribs associated with lower respiratory tract disease
OBJECTIVES: Inflammatory periosteal reaction (IPR) on the visceral surfaces of the ribs has been used in bioarchaeology as an indicator of lower respiratory tract disease. This article presents a detailed method for recording IPR on the ribs, even those in severely fragmented states, with the objectives of increasing the consistency of recording and producing true prevalence rates for skeletons so as to improve data comparability between future b…
Periodontal disease and ‘oral health’ in the past
As one of today’s major oral health issues, periodontal disease affects populations worldwide. Here, methods used to record its past prevalence are reviewed, including the problems associated with the use of measurements to record bone loss. Clinical and bioarchaeological research offers strong support for the Kerr method that records interdental septum morphological changes as a means of identifying gingivitis and periodontal disease. Using Kerr…
Le cimetière de Jebel Sahaba (site 117, Nubie)
The debate on the traces of prehistoric interpersonal violence is heavily reliant on the early 1960s excavations of the Late Pleistocene cemetery of Jebel Sahaba (Nubia) by F. Wendorf. The publication of his work remains a key reference on the subject. However, no integrative study of the traces of violence left on the human remains was undertaken to better understand the extent of the phenomenon identified at this prehis-toric site. Founded by s…
Dental insights into the biological affinities of the inhabitants of Gabati over a period of cultural transition
Time to be nosy
Rediscovering Nestawedjat
Long held museum collections can sometimes lack a clear provenance or context. Here, an ancient Egyptian mummified individual in the British Museum collection was reconnected with a set of three coffins in an interdisciplinary study using bioarchaeological, scientific and Egyptological analyses. Previously assigned as male, based on earlier X-rays due to the presence of radiopaque internal packing, CT scanning was used to re-establish her sex. Fo…
Ancient anomalies
During the analysis of a skeletal assemblage from a medieval cemetery in Nubia (c. AD 500-1550), a young adult female with abnormally developed maxillary incisors was discovered. The possible causes of the two dental anomalies found in this individual and their archaeological context are discussed. The remains are from a medieval assemblage from the Fourth Cataract region of Nubia, which forms part of the Nubian collection curated at the British …
Desert Dust and City Smoke
This study investigates the impact of urbanization and aridification on prevalence rates of lower respiratory tract disease in archaeological populations from the Middle Nile Valley. Evidence for pulmonary/pleural inflammation, in the form of inflammatory periosteal reaction (IPR) on the visceral surfaces of the ribs, was recorded in humanskeletal remains (452 adult/adolescent individuals, 17+ years) recovered from 12 Middle Nile Valley sites, da…
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