M Price
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 23122 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | M Price |
| NOMBRES | M |
| APELLIDO | Price |
| FIRMA | PRICE M |
| AFILIACIONES | Durham University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9562-6580 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 48 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 152 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 48 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1979 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
The Swine of Sumer (and Beyond)
This paper examines the role of pigs in Mesopotamian cultures from the Uruk to Old Babylonian periods through a synthesis of zooarchaeological, textual and iconographic data. Pigs constituted a major component of Mesopotamian foodways, particularly in cities, and this paper synthesises the different and complementary lines of evidence for suid–human relations written in bones, clay tablets and artistic representations. It summarises regional and …
Feasting in the Late Swahili
Feasting played key roles in Swahili society during the medieval (c. 800–1500 CE) and colonial (c. 1500–1963 CE) periods, contributing to sociopolitical transformation and Islamic practice. However, the zooarchaeological signatures of feasting in the Swahili context remain poorly studied. Here, we report faunal remains recovered from the Friday Congregation Mosque Complex at Mtwapa to examine feasting and commemorative practices during the 15th–s…
Cities are different animals
Livestock and the Transition to the Tributary Mode of Production
Panoramic accounts of long-term socio-political change tend to marginalize the role of animals. Taking a materialist stance, we re-evaluate the ways livestock shaped the emergence of the tributary mode of production out of a kinship-ordered mode of production. This explicitly Marxist analytical framework foregrounds the interplay between value, wealth, and labour, while attending to the economic specificities of livestock that make it particularl…
Geometric morphometric approach to dental health in an 18th‐ to 19th‐century English infirmary
This study evaluated correlations between poor dental health and craniomandibular morphology for the Radcliffe Infirmary population buried between 1770 and 1855. The Radcliffe Infirmary is situated in Oxford, 90 km northwest of London, in what used to be a rural area. The original report for this population observed high prevalence rates of dental caries, antemortem tooth loss (AMTL), and periodontal disease. Industrial societies are acknowledged…
Wool they, won’t they
An important facet in the study of complex societies involves documenting how the extraction of resources to support political structures (the political economy) impacted the subsistence economy of everyday life. Caprine production was a central feature of ancient Mesopotamian subsistence, while ancient texts reveal that wool was centrally important to the region’s political economies. It has long been thought that at some point in the Chalcolith…
Wealth in Livestock, Wealth-in-People, and Shifting Modes of Production in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic of Jordan – Corrigendum
Wealth in Livestock, Wealth in People, and the Pre-Pottery Neolithic of Jordan
Within archaeology, the value of livestock is usually presented in terms of use values, the calories and products animals provide humans. Yet domestic animals are also sources of wealth that accrue symbolic and social values, tying livestock production to the reproduction of human social relations. Taking a Marxist perspective that recognizes dialectical relations between forms of value, we develop a model based on ethnographic examples in which …
Towards an antifragility framework in past human–environment dynamics
Scholarship on human–environment interactions tends to fall under two headings: collapse or resilience. While both offer valid explanatory frameworks for human–environment dynamics, both view stress as a net negative that, if unchecked, disrupts systems in equilibrium. Societies either succumb to stress (and collapse) or overcome stress and persist (demonstrate resilience). We re-evaluate the role of stress and advocate for a non-equilibrium appr…
The Southern Levantine pig from domestication to Romanization
Zooarchaeological research has begun to expose the long and complex history of the pig in the southern Levant. In this paper, we present the first large-scale synthesis of biometrical data from pigs and wild boar in the southern Levant from sites dating from the Paleolithic through the Islamic period. We show broad morphological change over this multi-millennium period. We find the first evidence of morphological change associated with domesticat…
The Political Economy of Livestock in Early States
Animals were central elements in many early state political economies. Yet the roles of livestock in building and financing the state generally remain under-theorized, particularly in comparison with other major elements such as crop intensification and bureaucratic technologies. We compare the political economies of two highly centralized and expansive states—the Inca in the central Andes and Ur III in southern Mesopotamia—through a deliberately…
To err is human
We thank the respondents for their thoughtful replies to our debate article (Price & Jaffe 2023). Our main objective was to start a dialogue on failure and, in that, we have happily succeeded. The comments and critiques highlight the need for more discussion and thinking if we are to place failure in the archaeological interpretive toolbox. That said, the range of definitions, analytical perspectives, and unanswered questions will, we hope, provi…
Ending the war on error
Failure is a fundamental part of the human condition. While archaeologists readily identify large-scale failures, such as societal collapse and site abandonment, they less frequently consider the smaller failures of everyday life: the burning of a meal or planning errors during construction. Here, the authors argue that evidence for these smaller failures is abundant in the archaeological record but often ignored or omitted in interpretations. Cl…
Canine Economies of the Ancient Near East and Eastern Mediterranean
Archaeological assemblages, texts, and iconography indicate a multifaceted, yet often ignored, canine economy in the ancient eastern Mediterranean and Near East. This economy included not only dogs’ celebrated roles as hunting aids, guards, village scavengers, and companions, but also the regular processing, use, and consumption of dogs for foods, hides, and medicinal/ritual purposes. Drawing on ethnohistorical information and zooarchaeological d…
Animal Production and Secondary Products in the Fifth Millennium BC in northern Mesopotamia
Current anthropological and archaeological research posits a strong role for livestock in the development of economic specialization and social inequality in the ancient Near East. We examine animal production in the Ubaid through Late Chalcolithic 2 periods (c. 5200-3800 BC) in northern Mesopotamia, presenting new zooarchaeological data from Tell Surezha. Evidence for gradual and piecemeal intensification of livestock production and secondary pr…
Misrepresentation of research on academic promotions at the University of Cape Town
In this response, we address the misrepresentation of our article by Rene W Albertus on higher education decolonisation processes in South Africa. We respond to her claim, based on a misreading of our article, that at the University of Cape Town white academic staff are promoted faster than black staff and restate the major findings of our quantitative analysis of 11 years of promotion data. We used time to promotion as a proxy for fairness to ex…
Fodder, pasture, and the development of complex society in the Chalcolithic
The Archaeology of Pig Domestication in Eurasia
Narcissism, accountability and self-reported weight
Domestic animal production and consumption at Tall al-Handaquq South (Jordan) in the Early Bronze III
The Early Bronze Age (EBA) in the Southern Levant saw the emergence of socioeconomic inequality, fortified towns, and craft specialization. Livestock production was key to facilitating these socioeconomic changes, but the precise forms of animal husbandry and the economic contributions of domestic animal herding to EBA economies in the Southern Levant remain underexplored. Here, we investigate faunal remains recovered from Tall al-Handaquq South …
Psycho-oncology in Australia
Australia has a thriving Psycho-Oncology research and clinical community. In this article, the Australian health system in which Psycho-Oncology is embedded is described. Clinical Psycho-Oncology services are outlined, in terms of their composition, processes and reach. The development of the internationally ground-breaking Australian Psychosocial guidelines for the care of adults with cancer is described. Two large Psycho-Oncology organisations …
Pigs and the pastoral bias
A probabilistic model for distinguishing between sheep and goat postcranial remains
Long-term morphological changes and evolving human-pig relations in the northern Fertile Crescent from 11,000 to 2000 cal. bc
Gazelles, Liminality, and Chalcolithic Ritual
Endangered today, gazelles were both economically and symbolically important to the peoples of the ancient Near East. In various contexts, the gazelle has represented liminality, death, and rebirth. Gazelles held special significance in the southern Levant, where archaeologists have documented cases, spanning 20,000 years, of ritual behavior involving gazelle body parts. What roles did gazelles play during the Chalcolithic (ca. 4500–3600 B.C.), a…
The Archaeology of Pig Domestication in Eurasia
Health care as an instrument of Apartheid policy in South Africa
The paper focuses on five central features of health policy in South Africa. These are: (1) the differential expenditure on the health services for Whites, Coloureds, Indians and Africans; (2) the inequality between rural and urban African health services; (3) the structure and financing of rural health services for Africans; (4) the recent restructuring of the urban health services for Whites, Coloureds and Indians under the New Constitution; an…
Animal Management Strategies during the Chalcolithic in the Lower Galilee
Le Chalcolithique (4500-3600 cal. av. J.-C.) du Levant Sud est le foyer d’une différentiation sociale et d’une spécialisation économique accrue. Parmi les principales sources de spécialisation économique figurent les produits d’origine animale, particulièrement les produits dérivés des moutons, chèvres et bovins. Les suidés tiennent également une place importante, bien que négligée dans la littérature. Dans cet article, nous utilisons les informa…
Documenting the initial appearance of domestic cattle in the Eastern Fertile Crescent (northern Iraq and western Iran)
Fodder, pasture, and the development of complex society in the Chalcolithic
Long-term morphological changes and evolving human-pig relations in the northern Fertile Crescent from 11,000 to 2000 cal. bc
A probabilistic model for distinguishing between sheep and goat postcranial remains
The consequences of health service privatisation for equality and equity in health care in South Africa
Animal Production and Secondary Products in the Fifth Millennium BC in northern Mesopotamia
Current anthropological and archaeological research posits a strong role for livestock in the development of economic specialization and social inequality in the ancient Near East. We examine animal production in the Ubaid through Late Chalcolithic 2 periods (c. 5200-3800 BC) in northern Mesopotamia, presenting new zooarchaeological data from Tell Surezha. Evidence for gradual and piecemeal intensification of livestock production and secondary pr…
Confidence Intervals in the Analysis of Mortality and Survivorship Curves in Zooarchaeology
The analysis of age-at-death data, derived from epiphyseal fusion and dental eruption/wear patterns, is one of the most powerful tools at the disposal of zooarchaeologists studying past hunting and herd management practices. Zooarchaeologists typically analyze age-at-death data by constructing survivorship and mortality curves in order to allow insight into a variety of ecological and economic relationships between humans and animals. Since adopt…
Can a Theory-Laden Observation Test the Theory
Early Pig Management in the Zagros Flanks
In this paper, we present a reanalysis of pig (Sus scrofa) remains from the Neolithic site of Qalat Jarmo, originally excavated in the 1940s and 1950s. Employing modern zooarchaeological techniques, not available during the initial analyses, we explore the nature of swine exploitation strategies and demonstrate that pigs were most likely managed by the early 7th millennium (Pottery Neolithic) and perhaps earlier. Comparing biometric data with tho…
Is Poverty in Our Genes
We present a critique of a paper written by two economists, Quamrul Ashraf and Oded Galor, which is forthcoming in the American Economic Review and which was uncritically highlighted in Science magazine. Their paper claims there is a causal effect of genetic diversity on economic success, positing that too much or too little genetic diversity constrains development. In particular, they argue that "the high degree of diversity among African popula…
Health surveys in developing countries
Wealth in Livestock, Wealth in People, and the Pre-Pottery Neolithic of Jordan
Within archaeology, the value of livestock is usually presented in terms of use values, the calories and products animals provide humans. Yet domestic animals are also sources of wealth that accrue symbolic and social values, tying livestock production to the reproduction of human social relations. Taking a Marxist perspective that recognizes dialectical relations between forms of value, we develop a model based on ethnographic examples in which …
Domestic animal production and consumption at Tall al-Handaquq South (Jordan) in the Early Bronze III
The Early Bronze Age (EBA) in the Southern Levant saw the emergence of socioeconomic inequality, fortified towns, and craft specialization. Livestock production was key to facilitating these socioeconomic changes, but the precise forms of animal husbandry and the economic contributions of domestic animal herding to EBA economies in the Southern Levant remain underexplored. Here, we investigate faunal remains recovered from Tall al-Handaquq South …
What the pig ate
The Political Economy of Livestock in Early States
Animals were central elements in many early state political economies. Yet the roles of livestock in building and financing the state generally remain under-theorized, particularly in comparison with other major elements such as crop intensification and bureaucratic technologies. We compare the political economies of two highly centralized and expansive states—the Inca in the central Andes and Ur III in southern Mesopotamia—through a deliberately…
Ending the war on error
Failure is a fundamental part of the human condition. While archaeologists readily identify large-scale failures, such as societal collapse and site abandonment, they less frequently consider the smaller failures of everyday life: the burning of a meal or planning errors during construction. Here, the authors argue that evidence for these smaller failures is abundant in the archaeological record but often ignored or omitted in interpretations. Cl…
Canine Economies of the Ancient Near East and Eastern Mediterranean
Archaeological assemblages, texts, and iconography indicate a multifaceted, yet often ignored, canine economy in the ancient eastern Mediterranean and Near East. This economy included not only dogs’ celebrated roles as hunting aids, guards, village scavengers, and companions, but also the regular processing, use, and consumption of dogs for foods, hides, and medicinal/ritual purposes. Drawing on ethnohistorical information and zooarchaeological d…
Feasting at Marj Rabba, An Early Chalcolithic Site in the Galilee
Feasting is a common part of human culture in the present and past that can serve a variety of roles such as creating and maintaining social identities within and between social groups. In zooarchaeology, feasting evidence, rather than the accumulated and mixed refuse from long‐term consumption, often gives us some of the only data from individual events at a site. A cattle bone refuse pit at the site of Marj Rabba, Israel, provides evidence for …
The future of the urban university in South Africa
Cities are different animals
Wool they, won’t they
An important facet in the study of complex societies involves documenting how the extraction of resources to support political structures (the political economy) impacted the subsistence economy of everyday life. Caprine production was a central feature of ancient Mesopotamian subsistence, while ancient texts reveal that wool was centrally important to the region’s political economies. It has long been thought that at some point in the Chalcolith…
The Southern Levantine pig from domestication to Romanization
Zooarchaeological research has begun to expose the long and complex history of the pig in the southern Levant. In this paper, we present the first large-scale synthesis of biometrical data from pigs and wild boar in the southern Levant from sites dating from the Paleolithic through the Islamic period. We show broad morphological change over this multi-millennium period. We find the first evidence of morphological change associated with domesticat…
The future of the urban university in South Africa
Health care as an instrument of Apartheid policy in South Africa
The paper focuses on five central features of health policy in South Africa. These are: (1) the differential expenditure on the health services for Whites, Coloureds, Indians and Africans; (2) the inequality between rural and urban African health services; (3) the structure and financing of rural health services for Africans; (4) the recent restructuring of the urban health services for Whites, Coloureds and Indians under the New Constitution; an…
The resource allocation game
Journal Article The resource allocation game: a computer simulation model Get access Max Price Max Price Research Fellow, Evaluation and Planning Centre for Health Care, London School of Hygiene and Tropical MedicineUK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Health Policy and Planning, Volume 3, Issue 1, March 1988, Pages 91–92, https://doi.org/10.1093/heapol/3.1.91 Published: 01 March 1988
The consequences of health service privatisation for equality and equity in health care in South Africa
Health surveys in developing countries
Explaining trends in the privatization of health services in South Africa
This paper analyses the two major factors that have affected the trend towards privatization in the health sector in South Africa. The first is the shift in government policy in favour of greater private sector participation in hearth care. The second is the increase in medical aid scheme membership.
Can a Theory-Laden Observation Test the Theory
The impact of political transformation in South Africa on public/private mix policy debates
This paper documents the changing public/private mix in the South African health sector from 1980 to 1991, and offers some explanations for those trends in terms of developments in the macroeconomy and the dominance of particular political and ideological positions. The private sector has grown at the expense of the public sector over the last decade, to the point where, in 1991, despite providing for only a fifth of the population, the private h…
The Hydrogeology of the Chalk of North-West Europe
Shorter Notices
Journal Article SHORTER NOTICES Get access MUNRO PRICE MUNRO PRICE University of Bradford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXI, Issue 444, November 1996, Pages 1301–1302, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CXI.444.1301 Published: 01 November 1996
Using an Internal Reconciliation Commission to Facilitate Transformation at a Health Sciences Faculty in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Tanya Goodman, Max Price, Using an Internal Reconciliation Commission to Facilitate Transformation at a Health Sciences Faculty in Post-Apartheid South Africa: The Case of Witwatersrand Health Sciences Faculty, Health and Human Rights, Vol. 6, No. 1 (2002), pp. 211-227
A Companion to Eighteenth-Century Europe
Few periods of history have been the focus of as much research, writing and controversy in the last forty years as the eighteenth century. Historians are not even agreed on whether it can be treated as a unified period: some are partisans of a ‘short’ eighteenth century running from 1713 to the 1780s, others of a ‘long’ one stretching from either the Peace of Westphalia or the Glorious Revolution to 1815. Against this background, the appearance o…
A comparison of the Fact-G and the Supportive Care Needs Survey (SCNS) in women with ovarian cancer
When the French Tried to be British
This is an important, and neglected, topic. For thirty-four years of the early and mid-nineteenth century, French politics and culture tried more or less explicitly to model themselves on those that flourished across the Channel. This was partly a natural development; by 1814 Britain, along with Russia, had played the major role in defeating Napoleon, and its institutions enjoyed great prestige and had far more to offer France than those of Russi…
Napoleon and Metternich in 1813
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Impulsivity, eating behaviour and performance on a delay discounting task
Animal Management Strategies during the Chalcolithic in the Lower Galilee
Le Chalcolithique (4500-3600 cal. av. J.-C.) du Levant Sud est le foyer d’une différentiation sociale et d’une spécialisation économique accrue. Parmi les principales sources de spécialisation économique figurent les produits d’origine animale, particulièrement les produits dérivés des moutons, chèvres et bovins. Les suidés tiennent également une place importante, bien que négligée dans la littérature. Dans cet article, nous utilisons les informa…
Is Poverty in Our Genes
We present a critique of a paper written by two economists, Quamrul Ashraf and Oded Galor, which is forthcoming in the American Economic Review and which was uncritically highlighted in Science magazine. Their paper claims there is a causal effect of genetic diversity on economic success, positing that too much or too little genetic diversity constrains development. In particular, they argue that "the high degree of diversity among African popula…
What the pig ate
Early Pig Management in the Zagros Flanks
In this paper, we present a reanalysis of pig (Sus scrofa) remains from the Neolithic site of Qalat Jarmo, originally excavated in the 1940s and 1950s. Employing modern zooarchaeological techniques, not available during the initial analyses, we explore the nature of swine exploitation strategies and demonstrate that pigs were most likely managed by the early 7th millennium (Pottery Neolithic) and perhaps earlier. Comparing biometric data with tho…
Gazelles, Liminality, and Chalcolithic Ritual
Endangered today, gazelles were both economically and symbolically important to the peoples of the ancient Near East. In various contexts, the gazelle has represented liminality, death, and rebirth. Gazelles held special significance in the southern Levant, where archaeologists have documented cases, spanning 20,000 years, of ritual behavior involving gazelle body parts. What roles did gazelles play during the Chalcolithic (ca. 4500–3600 B.C.), a…
Documenting the initial appearance of domestic cattle in the Eastern Fertile Crescent (northern Iraq and western Iran)
Feasting at Marj Rabba, An Early Chalcolithic Site in the Galilee
Feasting is a common part of human culture in the present and past that can serve a variety of roles such as creating and maintaining social identities within and between social groups. In zooarchaeology, feasting evidence, rather than the accumulated and mixed refuse from long‐term consumption, often gives us some of the only data from individual events at a site. A cattle bone refuse pit at the site of Marj Rabba, Israel, provides evidence for …
Confidence Intervals in the Analysis of Mortality and Survivorship Curves in Zooarchaeology
The analysis of age-at-death data, derived from epiphyseal fusion and dental eruption/wear patterns, is one of the most powerful tools at the disposal of zooarchaeologists studying past hunting and herd management practices. Zooarchaeologists typically analyze age-at-death data by constructing survivorship and mortality curves in order to allow insight into a variety of ecological and economic relationships between humans and animals. Since adopt…
Psycho-oncology in Australia
Australia has a thriving Psycho-Oncology research and clinical community. In this article, the Australian health system in which Psycho-Oncology is embedded is described. Clinical Psycho-Oncology services are outlined, in terms of their composition, processes and reach. The development of the internationally ground-breaking Australian Psychosocial guidelines for the care of adults with cancer is described. Two large Psycho-Oncology organisations …
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