David S Weaver
Biographic Data
| ID | 147659 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David S Weaver |
| GIVEN NAMES | David S |
| FAMILY NAME | Weaver |
| SIGNATURE | WEAVER D S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wake Forest University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 84 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Thomas Green, Gunmaker, and Persecuted Popish Recusant
Thomas Green came from the small northern market town of Kirkby Stephen in Westmorland, served his apprenticeship in the Gunmaker’s Company under Edward Nicholson 1686 − 1693, and established an active gunmaking business in the Minories, close to the Tower of London. His business was commercially successful despite his being persecuted as a Popish Recusant and being forced into exile for allegedly supplying arms to the Jacobite rising of 1715 and…
John Cookson, gunmaker
The name John Cookson is associated with Lorenzoni-type magazine repeating flintlocks of high quality, assumed to have been made in London during the last decade or so of the 17th century. Nothing is known of this gunmaker. A John Cookson is known to have been a gunsmith in Boston during the first half of the 18th century and, while he is given credit in the US for inventing the magazine repeater, there is no evidence that he ever made such a gun…
The English blunderbuss and its ballistics
Few firearms have attracted as much attention, curiosity, and mythical attributes as the blunderbuss. Indeed, it often seems that fiction has overwhelmed the facts. To add to the mystery, the literature is conflicting with regard to defining exactly what a blunderbuss is, what it was used for, and how it performed. What is the difference between a blunderbuss and a musketoon? Is the blunderbuss really designed as a weapon of defence using whateve…
Skeletal tissue mechanics
Skeletal tissue mechanics
Two cases of facial involvement in probable treponemal infection from late prehistoric coastal North Carolina
This paper describes two late prehistoric burials from coastal North Carolina with cranial and postcranial lesions characteristic of treponemal infection. Each case exhibits facial lesions consistent with clinical reports of treponemal infection, but which have not previously been documented in these populations. The suite of facial lesions in one case and a mandibular lesion in the other serve to illustrate the variability inherent in treponemal…
Biological Anthropology
The Shanidar Neandertals
Evolution of man
The making of mankind
The use of the coefficient of agreement and likelihood ratio test to examine the development of the tympanic plate using a known‐age sample of fetal and infant skeletons
Previous attempts to use the development of the tympanic plate as an aging standard for fetal and infant cranial remains have either produced only a developmental sequence (Anderson, 1960), or a sequence for which age has been estimated using another independent aging standard (Weaver, 1979). Following an evaluation of the first three stages of development of the tympanic plate using a known‐age sample of fetal and infant skeletal remains, a simp…
An Osteological Test of Changes in Subsistence and Settlement Patterns at Casas Grandes, Chihuahua, Mexico
Infant and child skeletal remains from the site of Casas Grandes, Chihuahua, Mexico, were examined for particular skeletal pathologies. The observed frequencies of those pathologies do not support a hypothesis of a temporal shift in subsistence patterns. A hypothesized change in settlement pattern is supported by the increase of a particular class of skeletal lesions
Sex differences in the Ilia of a known sex and age sample of fetal and infant Skeletons
Ilia from a known sex, race, and age sample of fetal and infant skeletons from the collections of the Smithsonian Institution were evaluated for six metric and one nonmetric characters. Three indices calculated from the measurements were analyzed. The nonmetric trait was examined for fit with known sex. The three indices failed to show significant sex differences. The nonmetric trait, Auricular Surface Elevation, proved dependable (91% accurate) …
Catastrophe Theory and Human Evolution
Thom's Theory of Catastrophes (1975) provides models for the potential resolution of several issues in the study of hominid evolution. This paper examines the problems of australopithecine divergence and of Neanderthal differentiation in terms of Thom's cusp catastrophe model. The cusp model provides for a resolution of the differences between theories of gradual or "instantaneous" evolutionary change and can account for apparent discontinuities …
Application of the likelihood ratio test to age estimation using the infant and child temporal bone
Several developmental changes in the skull of infants and children are well documented and have been used in the estimation of age at death of infants and children. This paper will present a feature of the infant and child temporal bone, the development of the tympanic plate (floor) of the external auditory meatus, which has recently proven useful in age estimation. Through the use of the Likelihood Ratio Test (Sprott, '73), a six‐stage developme…
Are the Biological Differences Between North American Indians and Eskimos Truly Profound? [and Comments and Reply]
A prevailing view in North American anthropology is that Eskimos are descendants of the most recent migrants from Siberia and are more closely related to Asiatic Mongoloids than to Indians. The assumption of Eskimo-Indian biological distinctiveness is challenged by genetic-marker and cranial data, analyzed separately and then compared, for populations from the Arctic, Subarctic, Northwest Coast, and Great Plains. Genetic distances and cluster ana…
Sex differences in the Ilia of a known sex and age sample of fetal and infant Skeletons
Ilia from a known sex, race, and age sample of fetal and infant skeletons from the collections of the Smithsonian Institution were evaluated for six metric and one nonmetric characters. Three indices calculated from the measurements were analyzed. The nonmetric trait was examined for fit with known sex. The three indices failed to show significant sex differences. The nonmetric trait, Auricular Surface Elevation, proved dependable (91% accurate) …
Are the Biological Differences Between North American Indians and Eskimos Truly Profound? [and Comments and Reply]
A prevailing view in North American anthropology is that Eskimos are descendants of the most recent migrants from Siberia and are more closely related to Asiatic Mongoloids than to Indians. The assumption of Eskimo-Indian biological distinctiveness is challenged by genetic-marker and cranial data, analyzed separately and then compared, for populations from the Arctic, Subarctic, Northwest Coast, and Great Plains. Genetic distances and cluster ana…
Application of the likelihood ratio test to age estimation using the infant and child temporal bone
Several developmental changes in the skull of infants and children are well documented and have been used in the estimation of age at death of infants and children. This paper will present a feature of the infant and child temporal bone, the development of the tympanic plate (floor) of the external auditory meatus, which has recently proven useful in age estimation. Through the use of the Likelihood Ratio Test (Sprott, '73), a six‐stage developme…
The use of the coefficient of agreement and likelihood ratio test to examine the development of the tympanic plate using a known‐age sample of fetal and infant skeletons
Previous attempts to use the development of the tympanic plate as an aging standard for fetal and infant cranial remains have either produced only a developmental sequence (Anderson, 1960), or a sequence for which age has been estimated using another independent aging standard (Weaver, 1979). Following an evaluation of the first three stages of development of the tympanic plate using a known‐age sample of fetal and infant skeletal remains, a simp…
Catastrophe Theory and Human Evolution
Thom's Theory of Catastrophes (1975) provides models for the potential resolution of several issues in the study of hominid evolution. This paper examines the problems of australopithecine divergence and of Neanderthal differentiation in terms of Thom's cusp catastrophe model. The cusp model provides for a resolution of the differences between theories of gradual or "instantaneous" evolutionary change and can account for apparent discontinuities …
An Osteological Test of Changes in Subsistence and Settlement Patterns at Casas Grandes, Chihuahua, Mexico
Infant and child skeletal remains from the site of Casas Grandes, Chihuahua, Mexico, were examined for particular skeletal pathologies. The observed frequencies of those pathologies do not support a hypothesis of a temporal shift in subsistence patterns. A hypothesized change in settlement pattern is supported by the increase of a particular class of skeletal lesions
Are the Biological Differences Between North American Indians and Eskimos Truly Profound? [and Comments and Reply]
A prevailing view in North American anthropology is that Eskimos are descendants of the most recent migrants from Siberia and are more closely related to Asiatic Mongoloids than to Indians. The assumption of Eskimo-Indian biological distinctiveness is challenged by genetic-marker and cranial data, analyzed separately and then compared, for populations from the Arctic, Subarctic, Northwest Coast, and Great Plains. Genetic distances and cluster ana…
Application of the likelihood ratio test to age estimation using the infant and child temporal bone
Several developmental changes in the skull of infants and children are well documented and have been used in the estimation of age at death of infants and children. This paper will present a feature of the infant and child temporal bone, the development of the tympanic plate (floor) of the external auditory meatus, which has recently proven useful in age estimation. Through the use of the Likelihood Ratio Test (Sprott, '73), a six‐stage developme…
Sex differences in the Ilia of a known sex and age sample of fetal and infant Skeletons
Ilia from a known sex, race, and age sample of fetal and infant skeletons from the collections of the Smithsonian Institution were evaluated for six metric and one nonmetric characters. Three indices calculated from the measurements were analyzed. The nonmetric trait was examined for fit with known sex. The three indices failed to show significant sex differences. The nonmetric trait, Auricular Surface Elevation, proved dependable (91% accurate) …
Catastrophe Theory and Human Evolution
Thom's Theory of Catastrophes (1975) provides models for the potential resolution of several issues in the study of hominid evolution. This paper examines the problems of australopithecine divergence and of Neanderthal differentiation in terms of Thom's cusp catastrophe model. The cusp model provides for a resolution of the differences between theories of gradual or "instantaneous" evolutionary change and can account for apparent discontinuities …
An Osteological Test of Changes in Subsistence and Settlement Patterns at Casas Grandes, Chihuahua, Mexico
Infant and child skeletal remains from the site of Casas Grandes, Chihuahua, Mexico, were examined for particular skeletal pathologies. The observed frequencies of those pathologies do not support a hypothesis of a temporal shift in subsistence patterns. A hypothesized change in settlement pattern is supported by the increase of a particular class of skeletal lesions
The use of the coefficient of agreement and likelihood ratio test to examine the development of the tympanic plate using a known‐age sample of fetal and infant skeletons
Previous attempts to use the development of the tympanic plate as an aging standard for fetal and infant cranial remains have either produced only a developmental sequence (Anderson, 1960), or a sequence for which age has been estimated using another independent aging standard (Weaver, 1979). Following an evaluation of the first three stages of development of the tympanic plate using a known‐age sample of fetal and infant skeletal remains, a simp…
The making of mankind
The Shanidar Neandertals
Evolution of man
Biological Anthropology
Two cases of facial involvement in probable treponemal infection from late prehistoric coastal North Carolina
This paper describes two late prehistoric burials from coastal North Carolina with cranial and postcranial lesions characteristic of treponemal infection. Each case exhibits facial lesions consistent with clinical reports of treponemal infection, but which have not previously been documented in these populations. The suite of facial lesions in one case and a mandibular lesion in the other serve to illustrate the variability inherent in treponemal…
Skeletal tissue mechanics
Skeletal tissue mechanics
The English blunderbuss and its ballistics
Few firearms have attracted as much attention, curiosity, and mythical attributes as the blunderbuss. Indeed, it often seems that fiction has overwhelmed the facts. To add to the mystery, the literature is conflicting with regard to defining exactly what a blunderbuss is, what it was used for, and how it performed. What is the difference between a blunderbuss and a musketoon? Is the blunderbuss really designed as a weapon of defence using whateve…
John Cookson, gunmaker
The name John Cookson is associated with Lorenzoni-type magazine repeating flintlocks of high quality, assumed to have been made in London during the last decade or so of the 17th century. Nothing is known of this gunmaker. A John Cookson is known to have been a gunsmith in Boston during the first half of the 18th century and, while he is given credit in the US for inventing the magazine repeater, there is no evidence that he ever made such a gun…
Thomas Green, Gunmaker, and Persecuted Popish Recusant
Thomas Green came from the small northern market town of Kirkby Stephen in Westmorland, served his apprenticeship in the Gunmaker’s Company under Edward Nicholson 1686 − 1693, and established an active gunmaking business in the Minories, close to the Tower of London. His business was commercially successful despite his being persecuted as a Popish Recusant and being forced into exile for allegedly supplying arms to the Jacobite rising of 1715 and…
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