Michael Cannon
Biographic Data
| ID | 222264 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Cannon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Cannon |
| SIGNATURE | CANNON M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Washington |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1954-5727 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 220 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1967 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Children’s production of place and (third) space during Covid 19: Den building, filmmaking and the postdigital in the Play Observatory
The Play Observatory was a COVID-19 rapid response project funded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) exploring children’s play experiences during the pandemic through an online survey, case studies and a filmmaking workshop. With access to many of the usual spaces and places of play curtailed during the lockdowns of the pandemic, in this article, we focus on children’s resourceful and playful placemaking during the restrictions, as well as thei…
Existential risk from AI and orthogonality: Can we have it both ways
The standard argument to the conclusion that artificial intelligence (AI) constitutes an existential risk for the human species uses two premises: (1) AI may reach superintelligent levels, at which point we humans lose control (the ‘singularity claim’); (2) Any level of intelligence can go along with any goal (the ‘orthogonality thesis’). We find that the singularity claim requires a notion of ‘general intelligence’, while the orthogonality thesi…
Media literacy, curriculum and the rights of the child
Engaging with digital media is part of everyday living for the majority of children, yet opportunities to learn about, through and with media are denied many pupils in compulsory schooling. Whilst Media Studies in the UK is internationally reputed to be well established, changes made to the primary and secondary national curriculum in 2014 included removal of existing media study elements. We demonstrate what is lost by these actions in relation …
Forager mobility, landscape learning and the peopling of Late Pleistocene North America
The process(es) by which hunter-gatherers learned novel food resources as they dispersed across previously unknown landscapes, such as Late Pleistocene North America, are not known. A key trade-off in the process must have involved the decision, once high-ranked resources in a patch declined, to stay in place and learn about untried food resources or move to another patch to exploit familiar resources. Modelling the process suggests that learning…
Dynamic, Playful and Productive Literacies
This paper reflects on recent projects in a variety of media forms, in both formal and informal educational settings, discussing ways of expanding our notions of literacy practices which reflect their place in the wider lived experience of digital culture. We have collected these reflections under three headings. The first of these, Dynamic Literacies, presents an overarching view of literacy as both ideological, following the ‘new literacy studi…
The Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies: 50 Years On (CCCS50) Conference, Birmingham University, June 2014 – ‘A pop-up occupation?’
Apart from the two large screens behind the panel's table, it could have been 1964: the unreconstructed lecture theatre, the assortment of assembled academics and the old school modes of address of
Nisp, Bone Fragmentation, and the Measurement of Taxonomic Abundance
Prey Body Size and Ranking in Zooarchaeology: Theory, Empirical Evidence, and Applications from the Northern Great Basin
The use of body size as an index of prey rank in zooarchaeology has fostered a widely applied approach to understanding variability in foraging efficiency. This approach has, however, been critiqued-most recently by the suggestion that large prey have high probabilities of failed pursuits. Here, we clarify the logic and history of using body size as a measure of prey rank and summarize empirical data on the body size-return rate relationship. Wit…
Evolutionary Ecology, Resource Depression, and Niche Construction Theory: Applications to Central California Hunter-Gatherers and Mimbres-Mogollon Agriculturalists
When Should We Expect to See Hunting as Mating Effort
Some have noted that hunting by males may represent a strategy of "showing off" rather than a strategy of "maximizing efficiency." Others have observed that this insight is limited by insufficient theory for predicting when men should pursue one strategy instead of the other. This article attempts to foster development of such theory by more explicitly casting the issue in terms of the trade-off between mating effort and parenting effort and by d…
Explaining variability in Early Paleoindian foraging
Early Paleoindian foraging: Examining the faunal evidence for large mammal specialization and regional variability in prey choice
A model of central place forager prey choice and an application to faunal remains from the Mimbres Valley, New Mexico
Terminal Pleistocene/Early Holocene Environmental Change at the Sunshine Locality, North-Central Nevada, U.S.A.
Sedimentological, faunal, and archaeological investigations at the Sunshine Locality, Long Valley, Nevada reveal a history of human adaptation and environmental change at the last glacial–interglacial transition in North America's north-central Great Basin. The locality contains a suite of lacustrine, alluvial, and eolian deposits associated with fluvially reworked faunal remains and Paleoindian artifacts. Radiocarbon-dated stratigraphy indicates…
Archaeofaunal Relative Abundance, Sample Size, and Statistical Methods
Large Mammal Relative Abundance in Pithouse and Pueblo Period Archaeofaunas from Southwestern New Mexico: Resource Depression among the Mimbres-Mogollon
Fitness and Reproductive Trade-Offs in Uncertain Environments: Explaining the Evolution of Cultural Elaboration
A Mathematical Model of the Effects of Screen Size on Zooarchaeological Relative Abundance Measures
Who's Master? Who's Man? Australia in the Victorian Age
Book Notes
WHO'S MASTER? WHO'S MAN?: Australia in the Victorian Age. By Michael Cannon. THE FIRST GENERATION: School and Society in Early Australia. By John F. Cleverly. THE AUSTRALASIAN SKETCHER WITH PEN AND PENCIL 1880. Edited by Michael BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE VICTORIAN ABORIGINES: from the earliest manuscripts to 31 December 1970. By Aldo Massola. THE AUSTRALIAN THUNDERER: The Age after the Gold Rush 1854–1859. Edited by A COLONIAL AUTOCRACY: New South Wale…
The Vagabond Papers
The Land Boomers
The Land Boomers
The Land Boomers
Evolutionary Ecology, Resource Depression, and Niche Construction Theory: Applications to Central California Hunter-Gatherers and Mimbres-Mogollon Agriculturalists
Prey Body Size and Ranking in Zooarchaeology: Theory, Empirical Evidence, and Applications from the Northern Great Basin
The use of body size as an index of prey rank in zooarchaeology has fostered a widely applied approach to understanding variability in foraging efficiency. This approach has, however, been critiqued-most recently by the suggestion that large prey have high probabilities of failed pursuits. Here, we clarify the logic and history of using body size as a measure of prey rank and summarize empirical data on the body size-return rate relationship. Wit…
Explaining variability in Early Paleoindian foraging
Archaeofaunal Relative Abundance, Sample Size, and Statistical Methods
Nisp, Bone Fragmentation, and the Measurement of Taxonomic Abundance
A Mathematical Model of the Effects of Screen Size on Zooarchaeological Relative Abundance Measures
Forager mobility, landscape learning and the peopling of Late Pleistocene North America
The process(es) by which hunter-gatherers learned novel food resources as they dispersed across previously unknown landscapes, such as Late Pleistocene North America, are not known. A key trade-off in the process must have involved the decision, once high-ranked resources in a patch declined, to stay in place and learn about untried food resources or move to another patch to exploit familiar resources. Modelling the process suggests that learning…
Media literacy, curriculum and the rights of the child
Engaging with digital media is part of everyday living for the majority of children, yet opportunities to learn about, through and with media are denied many pupils in compulsory schooling. Whilst Media Studies in the UK is internationally reputed to be well established, changes made to the primary and secondary national curriculum in 2014 included removal of existing media study elements. We demonstrate what is lost by these actions in relation …
When Should We Expect to See Hunting as Mating Effort
Some have noted that hunting by males may represent a strategy of "showing off" rather than a strategy of "maximizing efficiency." Others have observed that this insight is limited by insufficient theory for predicting when men should pursue one strategy instead of the other. This article attempts to foster development of such theory by more explicitly casting the issue in terms of the trade-off between mating effort and parenting effort and by d…
Children’s production of place and (third) space during Covid 19: Den building, filmmaking and the postdigital in the Play Observatory
The Play Observatory was a COVID-19 rapid response project funded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) exploring children’s play experiences during the pandemic through an online survey, case studies and a filmmaking workshop. With access to many of the usual spaces and places of play curtailed during the lockdowns of the pandemic, in this article, we focus on children’s resourceful and playful placemaking during the restrictions, as well as thei…
The Land Boomers
The Land Boomers
The Land Boomers
The Vagabond Papers
Book Notes
WHO'S MASTER? WHO'S MAN?: Australia in the Victorian Age. By Michael Cannon. THE FIRST GENERATION: School and Society in Early Australia. By John F. Cleverly. THE AUSTRALASIAN SKETCHER WITH PEN AND PENCIL 1880. Edited by Michael BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE VICTORIAN ABORIGINES: from the earliest manuscripts to 31 December 1970. By Aldo Massola. THE AUSTRALIAN THUNDERER: The Age after the Gold Rush 1854–1859. Edited by A COLONIAL AUTOCRACY: New South Wale…
Who's Master? Who's Man? Australia in the Victorian Age
Fitness and Reproductive Trade-Offs in Uncertain Environments: Explaining the Evolution of Cultural Elaboration
A Mathematical Model of the Effects of Screen Size on Zooarchaeological Relative Abundance Measures
Large Mammal Relative Abundance in Pithouse and Pueblo Period Archaeofaunas from Southwestern New Mexico: Resource Depression among the Mimbres-Mogollon
Terminal Pleistocene/Early Holocene Environmental Change at the Sunshine Locality, North-Central Nevada, U.S.A.
Sedimentological, faunal, and archaeological investigations at the Sunshine Locality, Long Valley, Nevada reveal a history of human adaptation and environmental change at the last glacial–interglacial transition in North America's north-central Great Basin. The locality contains a suite of lacustrine, alluvial, and eolian deposits associated with fluvially reworked faunal remains and Paleoindian artifacts. Radiocarbon-dated stratigraphy indicates…
Archaeofaunal Relative Abundance, Sample Size, and Statistical Methods
A model of central place forager prey choice and an application to faunal remains from the Mimbres Valley, New Mexico
Early Paleoindian foraging: Examining the faunal evidence for large mammal specialization and regional variability in prey choice
Explaining variability in Early Paleoindian foraging
When Should We Expect to See Hunting as Mating Effort
Some have noted that hunting by males may represent a strategy of "showing off" rather than a strategy of "maximizing efficiency." Others have observed that this insight is limited by insufficient theory for predicting when men should pursue one strategy instead of the other. This article attempts to foster development of such theory by more explicitly casting the issue in terms of the trade-off between mating effort and parenting effort and by d…
Evolutionary Ecology, Resource Depression, and Niche Construction Theory: Applications to Central California Hunter-Gatherers and Mimbres-Mogollon Agriculturalists
Prey Body Size and Ranking in Zooarchaeology: Theory, Empirical Evidence, and Applications from the Northern Great Basin
The use of body size as an index of prey rank in zooarchaeology has fostered a widely applied approach to understanding variability in foraging efficiency. This approach has, however, been critiqued-most recently by the suggestion that large prey have high probabilities of failed pursuits. Here, we clarify the logic and history of using body size as a measure of prey rank and summarize empirical data on the body size-return rate relationship. Wit…
Nisp, Bone Fragmentation, and the Measurement of Taxonomic Abundance
The Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies: 50 Years On (CCCS50) Conference, Birmingham University, June 2014 – ‘A pop-up occupation?’
Apart from the two large screens behind the panel's table, it could have been 1964: the unreconstructed lecture theatre, the assortment of assembled academics and the old school modes of address of
Dynamic, Playful and Productive Literacies
This paper reflects on recent projects in a variety of media forms, in both formal and informal educational settings, discussing ways of expanding our notions of literacy practices which reflect their place in the wider lived experience of digital culture. We have collected these reflections under three headings. The first of these, Dynamic Literacies, presents an overarching view of literacy as both ideological, following the ‘new literacy studi…
Existential risk from AI and orthogonality: Can we have it both ways
The standard argument to the conclusion that artificial intelligence (AI) constitutes an existential risk for the human species uses two premises: (1) AI may reach superintelligent levels, at which point we humans lose control (the ‘singularity claim’); (2) Any level of intelligence can go along with any goal (the ‘orthogonality thesis’). We find that the singularity claim requires a notion of ‘general intelligence’, while the orthogonality thesi…
Media literacy, curriculum and the rights of the child
Engaging with digital media is part of everyday living for the majority of children, yet opportunities to learn about, through and with media are denied many pupils in compulsory schooling. Whilst Media Studies in the UK is internationally reputed to be well established, changes made to the primary and secondary national curriculum in 2014 included removal of existing media study elements. We demonstrate what is lost by these actions in relation …
Forager mobility, landscape learning and the peopling of Late Pleistocene North America
The process(es) by which hunter-gatherers learned novel food resources as they dispersed across previously unknown landscapes, such as Late Pleistocene North America, are not known. A key trade-off in the process must have involved the decision, once high-ranked resources in a patch declined, to stay in place and learn about untried food resources or move to another patch to exploit familiar resources. Modelling the process suggests that learning…
Children’s production of place and (third) space during Covid 19: Den building, filmmaking and the postdigital in the Play Observatory
The Play Observatory was a COVID-19 rapid response project funded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) exploring children’s play experiences during the pandemic through an online survey, case studies and a filmmaking workshop. With access to many of the usual spaces and places of play curtailed during the lockdowns of the pandemic, in this article, we focus on children’s resourceful and playful placemaking during the restrictions, as well as thei…
Biology (12 works) · Geography (12 works) · Ecology (11 works) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Archaeology (9 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (8 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (8 works) · Political science (6 works)