Keri A Brown
Biographic Data
| ID | 158254 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Keri A Brown |
| GIVEN NAMES | Keri A |
| FAMILY NAME | Brown |
| SIGNATURE | BROWN K A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Manchester |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8093-844X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 159 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
New scientific evidence for the history and occupants of Tomb I (“Tomb of Persephone”) in the Great Tumulus at Vergina
The Great Tumulus of Vergina (Aegae) is considered to be the royal burial complex of the Macedonian kings. Beneath it four tombs were discovered, labeled Tomb I, II, III and IV. Several hypotheses have been proposed for the identities of the occupants of the “royal tombs”, but without scientific backing. We present new data from Tomb I (“The Tomb of Persephone”), which contained inhumed (unburnt), in situ and commingled adult skeletal remains, as…
The Peak Dwellers Revisited
Parental Engagement of a Prototype Electronic Diary in an Ambulatory Setting Following Adenotonsillectomy in Children: A Prospective Cohort Study
Adenotonsillectomy is performed in children on an outpatient basis, and pain is managed by parents. A pain diary would facilitate pain management in the ambulatory setting. Our objective was to evaluate the parental response rate and the compliance of a prototype electronic pain diary (e-diary) with cloud storage in children aged 2-12 years recovering from adenotonsillectomy and to compare the e-diary with a paper diary (p-diary). Parents recorde…
Genetic affiliations within a 19th century burial ground at Darwen, Lancashire, UK
Obsidian in the Tavoliere, Southeastern Italy — A regional study
Ritual complexity in a past community revealed by ancient DNA analysis of pre-colonial terracotta items from Northern Ghana
Ancient DNA study of the remains of putative infanticide victims from the Yewden Roman villa site at Hambleden, England
Biomolecular Archaeology
Ancient biomolecules including DNA, proteins, and lipids are often preserved in archaeological skeletons or artifacts such as potsherds from cooking vessels. Techniques for analyzing these molecules have improved dramatically in recent years, though challenges remain in ensuring that results are authentic and not confused by the presence of contaminating modern biomolecules. Ancient DNA (aDNA) can be used to identify the sex, kinship relationship…
Sex identification of ancient DNA samples using a microfluidic device
Ancient DNA typing shows that a Bronze Age mummy is a composite of different skeletons
Exceptional preservation of a prehistoric human brain from Heslington, Yorkshire, UK
Genetic analysis of wheat landraces enables the location of the first agricultural sites in Italy to be identified
Kinship in Aegean Prehistory? Ancient DNA in Human Bones from Mainland Greece and Crete
Attempts were made to detect ancient DNA (aDNA) in samples of 89 human skeletons from Neolithic and Bronze Age sites in Greece and Crete. Ancient DNA was absent in specimens from Nea Nicomedia, Lerna, Kato Zakro: Karaviádena, and Mycenae Grave Circle A. For each of three skeletons sampled from Antron Grave Circle B, polymerase chain reactions (PCRs) gave products for nuclear but not mitochondrial DNA, but the yield of DNA was low and inconsistent…
Ruth D. Whitehouse
Introducing Ruth It is traditional for honorary volumes to offer a summary of the career and the academic works of the person celebrated on the occasion of their retirement. This article is self-evidently placed in the current issue of the Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology with that function, but it concerns a person who, although retiring as Professor in Mediterranean Studies, is clearly not at the end of her academic career: she has research…
Ancient DNA in human bones from Neolithic and Bronze Age sites in Greece and Crete
Kinship between burials from Grave Circle B at Mycenae revealed by ancient DNA typing
Introduction: Livestock Diseases and Veterinary Science in Southern Africa
Broadly speaking, the conference presentations dealt (though not exclusively) with three major themes: (a) the institutionalisation and professionalisation of veterinary medicine and its practitioners; (b) the function and impact of state policy, regulation and intervention upon the practice of animal husbandry, especially in the colonial context; and (c) the relationship between certain environments and certain diseases. In southern Africa, the …
Brief communication: Identification of the authentic ancient DNA sequence in a human bone contaminated with modern DNA
We present a method to distinguish authentic ancient DNA from contaminating DNA in a human bone. This is achieved by taking account of the spatial distribution of the various sequence families within the bone and the extent of degradation of the template DNAs, as revealed by the error content of the sequences. To demonstrate the veracity of the method, we handled two ancient human tibiae in order to contaminate them with modern DNA, and then subj…
Phenomenology in practice: Towards a Methodology for a ‘Subjective’ Approach
The article deals with the practice of phenomenological archaeological fieldwork, which is concerned with sensory experience of landscapes and locales. Phenomenological approaches in archaeology have cast light on aspects of past human experience not addressed by traditional archaeological methods. So far, however, they have neither developed explicit methodologies nor a discussion of methodological practice and have laid themselves open to accus…
Archaeogenetics: DNA and the Population Prehistory of Europe . By Colin Renfrew and Katie Boyle
Archaeology and human genetics: Lessons for Both
New research fields and areas of scientific specialization often bring division and disciplinary divides. Here Brown & Pluciennik discuss the impact of genetic research on archaeology
DNA analysis of bones from Grave Circle B at Mycenae: A first report
Following the successful identification of at least two different family groups in Grave Circle B using facial reconstruction ( BSA 90 [1995], 107–36), a pilot project was carried out at Manchester to identify, analyse and match 22 DNA samples from burials in the Grave Circle. The first step was to determine whether ancient DNA has survived, as proved to be the case; the next was to use this information to sex the individual by polymerase chain r…
DNA in cremated bones from an early bronze age cemetery cairn
The discovery of polymeric DNA in charred wheat grains and other burnt plant remains prompted us to examine a set of cremated bones for the presence of ancient DNA. Extracts of cremated bones from an early Bronze Age cemetery cairn were analysed by hybridization probing and the polymerase chain reaction. Hybridization with two probes targeting human DNA resulted in strong positive signals. Polymerase chain reactions directed at a multicopy sequen…
Biomolecular archaeology of wheat: Past, present and future
The study of ancient biomolecules in preserved wheat remains could provide information on both the initial development of agriculture and its subsequent trajectories and spread in relation to changing human society. We have detected ancient DNA in extracts prepared from charred, waterlogged and mineralized wheat seeds, and have used the polymerase chain reaction to study specific genetic regions of the ancient DNA preserved in Triticum spelta fro…
Ancient DNA and the archaeologist
Out of molecular biology - the revolution of past decades in biological science - there now begins to come molecular archaeology, the study of DNA in ancient plants, animals and people to address questions of history as well as biology. Here is set out what molecular archaeology is about, how it works and what it has begun to do
Phenomenology in practice: Towards a Methodology for a ‘Subjective’ Approach
The article deals with the practice of phenomenological archaeological fieldwork, which is concerned with sensory experience of landscapes and locales. Phenomenological approaches in archaeology have cast light on aspects of past human experience not addressed by traditional archaeological methods. So far, however, they have neither developed explicit methodologies nor a discussion of methodological practice and have laid themselves open to accus…
Kinship between burials from Grave Circle B at Mycenae revealed by ancient DNA typing
Ancient DNA and the archaeologist
Out of molecular biology - the revolution of past decades in biological science - there now begins to come molecular archaeology, the study of DNA in ancient plants, animals and people to address questions of history as well as biology. Here is set out what molecular archaeology is about, how it works and what it has begun to do
Biomolecular Archaeology
Ancient biomolecules including DNA, proteins, and lipids are often preserved in archaeological skeletons or artifacts such as potsherds from cooking vessels. Techniques for analyzing these molecules have improved dramatically in recent years, though challenges remain in ensuring that results are authentic and not confused by the presence of contaminating modern biomolecules. Ancient DNA (aDNA) can be used to identify the sex, kinship relationship…
Exceptional preservation of a prehistoric human brain from Heslington, Yorkshire, UK
Biomolecular archaeology of wheat: Past, present and future
The study of ancient biomolecules in preserved wheat remains could provide information on both the initial development of agriculture and its subsequent trajectories and spread in relation to changing human society. We have detected ancient DNA in extracts prepared from charred, waterlogged and mineralized wheat seeds, and have used the polymerase chain reaction to study specific genetic regions of the ancient DNA preserved in Triticum spelta fro…
Ancient DNA study of the remains of putative infanticide victims from the Yewden Roman villa site at Hambleden, England
Ancient DNA in human bones from Neolithic and Bronze Age sites in Greece and Crete
Brief communication: Identification of the authentic ancient DNA sequence in a human bone contaminated with modern DNA
We present a method to distinguish authentic ancient DNA from contaminating DNA in a human bone. This is achieved by taking account of the spatial distribution of the various sequence families within the bone and the extent of degradation of the template DNAs, as revealed by the error content of the sequences. To demonstrate the veracity of the method, we handled two ancient human tibiae in order to contaminate them with modern DNA, and then subj…
Archaeology and human genetics: Lessons for Both
New research fields and areas of scientific specialization often bring division and disciplinary divides. Here Brown & Pluciennik discuss the impact of genetic research on archaeology
Ancient DNA typing shows that a Bronze Age mummy is a composite of different skeletons
Genetic analysis of wheat landraces enables the location of the first agricultural sites in Italy to be identified
Sex identification of ancient DNA samples using a microfluidic device
Ritual complexity in a past community revealed by ancient DNA analysis of pre-colonial terracotta items from Northern Ghana
Excavations at Copse Farm, Oving, West Sussex
Two farmsteads, one of late Iron Age (second-first centuries BC) date and the other dating to the early Romano-British period (first-second centuries AD), were excavated at Copse Farm, Oving. The site is situated within the Chichester dykes on the Sussex/Hampshire Coastal Plain. The Iron Age farmstead produced pottery spanning ‘saucepan’ and ‘Aylesford-Swarling’ traditions, a transition in ceramic production which is poorly understood in Sussex. …
Kinship in Aegean Prehistory? Ancient DNA in Human Bones from Mainland Greece and Crete
Attempts were made to detect ancient DNA (aDNA) in samples of 89 human skeletons from Neolithic and Bronze Age sites in Greece and Crete. Ancient DNA was absent in specimens from Nea Nicomedia, Lerna, Kato Zakro: Karaviádena, and Mycenae Grave Circle A. For each of three skeletons sampled from Antron Grave Circle B, polymerase chain reactions (PCRs) gave products for nuclear but not mitochondrial DNA, but the yield of DNA was low and inconsistent…
DNA in cremated bones from an early bronze age cemetery cairn
The discovery of polymeric DNA in charred wheat grains and other burnt plant remains prompted us to examine a set of cremated bones for the presence of ancient DNA. Extracts of cremated bones from an early Bronze Age cemetery cairn were analysed by hybridization probing and the polymerase chain reaction. Hybridization with two probes targeting human DNA resulted in strong positive signals. Polymerase chain reactions directed at a multicopy sequen…
Simy Folds: An Early Medieval Settlement Site in Upper Teesdale, Co. Durham
EXCAVATIONS took place on the early medieval settlement of Simy Folds in Upper Teesdale, Co. Durham in 1976, 1979 and 1981 when three sites were examined. An adjacent peat bog was sampled and a radiocarbon-dated pollen diagram constructed. Each site consisted of the stone foundations of a single long narrow rectangular building with one or two small subrectangular buildings at right angles to it, arranged to enclose a yard. The sites lie within a…
Simy Folds: An Early Medieval Settlement Site in Upper Teesdale, Co. Durham
EXCAVATIONS took place on the early medieval settlement of Simy Folds in Upper Teesdale, Co. Durham in 1976, 1979 and 1981 when three sites were examined. An adjacent peat bog was sampled and a radiocarbon-dated pollen diagram constructed. Each site consisted of the stone foundations of a single long narrow rectangular building with one or two small subrectangular buildings at right angles to it, arranged to enclose a yard. The sites lie within a…
Excavations at Copse Farm, Oving, West Sussex
Two farmsteads, one of late Iron Age (second-first centuries BC) date and the other dating to the early Romano-British period (first-second centuries AD), were excavated at Copse Farm, Oving. The site is situated within the Chichester dykes on the Sussex/Hampshire Coastal Plain. The Iron Age farmstead produced pottery spanning ‘saucepan’ and ‘Aylesford-Swarling’ traditions, a transition in ceramic production which is poorly understood in Sussex. …
Ancient DNA and the archaeologist
Out of molecular biology - the revolution of past decades in biological science - there now begins to come molecular archaeology, the study of DNA in ancient plants, animals and people to address questions of history as well as biology. Here is set out what molecular archaeology is about, how it works and what it has begun to do
Biomolecular archaeology of wheat: Past, present and future
The study of ancient biomolecules in preserved wheat remains could provide information on both the initial development of agriculture and its subsequent trajectories and spread in relation to changing human society. We have detected ancient DNA in extracts prepared from charred, waterlogged and mineralized wheat seeds, and have used the polymerase chain reaction to study specific genetic regions of the ancient DNA preserved in Triticum spelta fro…
DNA in cremated bones from an early bronze age cemetery cairn
The discovery of polymeric DNA in charred wheat grains and other burnt plant remains prompted us to examine a set of cremated bones for the presence of ancient DNA. Extracts of cremated bones from an early Bronze Age cemetery cairn were analysed by hybridization probing and the polymerase chain reaction. Hybridization with two probes targeting human DNA resulted in strong positive signals. Polymerase chain reactions directed at a multicopy sequen…
DNA analysis of bones from Grave Circle B at Mycenae: A first report
Following the successful identification of at least two different family groups in Grave Circle B using facial reconstruction ( BSA 90 [1995], 107–36), a pilot project was carried out at Manchester to identify, analyse and match 22 DNA samples from burials in the Grave Circle. The first step was to determine whether ancient DNA has survived, as proved to be the case; the next was to use this information to sex the individual by polymerase chain r…
Archaeology and human genetics: Lessons for Both
New research fields and areas of scientific specialization often bring division and disciplinary divides. Here Brown & Pluciennik discuss the impact of genetic research on archaeology
Archaeogenetics: DNA and the Population Prehistory of Europe . By Colin Renfrew and Katie Boyle
Brief communication: Identification of the authentic ancient DNA sequence in a human bone contaminated with modern DNA
We present a method to distinguish authentic ancient DNA from contaminating DNA in a human bone. This is achieved by taking account of the spatial distribution of the various sequence families within the bone and the extent of degradation of the template DNAs, as revealed by the error content of the sequences. To demonstrate the veracity of the method, we handled two ancient human tibiae in order to contaminate them with modern DNA, and then subj…
Phenomenology in practice: Towards a Methodology for a ‘Subjective’ Approach
The article deals with the practice of phenomenological archaeological fieldwork, which is concerned with sensory experience of landscapes and locales. Phenomenological approaches in archaeology have cast light on aspects of past human experience not addressed by traditional archaeological methods. So far, however, they have neither developed explicit methodologies nor a discussion of methodological practice and have laid themselves open to accus…
Introduction: Livestock Diseases and Veterinary Science in Southern Africa
Broadly speaking, the conference presentations dealt (though not exclusively) with three major themes: (a) the institutionalisation and professionalisation of veterinary medicine and its practitioners; (b) the function and impact of state policy, regulation and intervention upon the practice of animal husbandry, especially in the colonial context; and (c) the relationship between certain environments and certain diseases. In southern Africa, the …
Ruth D. Whitehouse
Introducing Ruth It is traditional for honorary volumes to offer a summary of the career and the academic works of the person celebrated on the occasion of their retirement. This article is self-evidently placed in the current issue of the Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology with that function, but it concerns a person who, although retiring as Professor in Mediterranean Studies, is clearly not at the end of her academic career: she has research…
Ancient DNA in human bones from Neolithic and Bronze Age sites in Greece and Crete
Kinship between burials from Grave Circle B at Mycenae revealed by ancient DNA typing
Genetic analysis of wheat landraces enables the location of the first agricultural sites in Italy to be identified
Kinship in Aegean Prehistory? Ancient DNA in Human Bones from Mainland Greece and Crete
Attempts were made to detect ancient DNA (aDNA) in samples of 89 human skeletons from Neolithic and Bronze Age sites in Greece and Crete. Ancient DNA was absent in specimens from Nea Nicomedia, Lerna, Kato Zakro: Karaviádena, and Mycenae Grave Circle A. For each of three skeletons sampled from Antron Grave Circle B, polymerase chain reactions (PCRs) gave products for nuclear but not mitochondrial DNA, but the yield of DNA was low and inconsistent…
Exceptional preservation of a prehistoric human brain from Heslington, Yorkshire, UK
Sex identification of ancient DNA samples using a microfluidic device
Ancient DNA typing shows that a Bronze Age mummy is a composite of different skeletons
Biomolecular Archaeology
Ancient biomolecules including DNA, proteins, and lipids are often preserved in archaeological skeletons or artifacts such as potsherds from cooking vessels. Techniques for analyzing these molecules have improved dramatically in recent years, though challenges remain in ensuring that results are authentic and not confused by the presence of contaminating modern biomolecules. Ancient DNA (aDNA) can be used to identify the sex, kinship relationship…
Ancient DNA study of the remains of putative infanticide victims from the Yewden Roman villa site at Hambleden, England
Ritual complexity in a past community revealed by ancient DNA analysis of pre-colonial terracotta items from Northern Ghana
Obsidian in the Tavoliere, Southeastern Italy — A regional study
Genetic affiliations within a 19th century burial ground at Darwen, Lancashire, UK
Parental Engagement of a Prototype Electronic Diary in an Ambulatory Setting Following Adenotonsillectomy in Children: A Prospective Cohort Study
Adenotonsillectomy is performed in children on an outpatient basis, and pain is managed by parents. A pain diary would facilitate pain management in the ambulatory setting. Our objective was to evaluate the parental response rate and the compliance of a prototype electronic pain diary (e-diary) with cloud storage in children aged 2-12 years recovering from adenotonsillectomy and to compare the e-diary with a paper diary (p-diary). Parents recorde…
Archaeology (20 works) · History (17 works) · Biology (16 works) · Forensic and Genetic Research (16 works) · Geography (16 works) · History (14 works) · Ancient DNA (13 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (12 works) · Genetics (11 works) · Sociology (11 works)