Matthew J Cooper
Biographic Data
| ID | 3584820 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matthew J Cooper |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matthew J |
| FAMILY NAME | Cooper |
| SIGNATURE | COOPER M J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southampton |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2130-2759 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 56 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Mobility patterning during the Neolithic and the Bronze Age in north-central Myanmar
Reindeer prey mobility and seasonal hunting strategies in the late Gravettian mammoth steppe
Reindeer are part of the faunal suite that dominated central Europe during the last glacial cycle. Their importance to Late Gravettian hunters as prey and a source of raw materials (hide, bone, antler) is well attested, however the context of Late Gravettian reindeer predation is lesser understood. This paper presents an investigation of human and reindeer predator-prey interactions at the Late Gravettian kill-butchery site of Lubná VI, Czech Rep…
Mapping Strontium Isotope Geographical Variability as a Basis for Multi-regional Human Mobility: The Sybaris Region (S Italy) in the Early 1st Millennium BC
Archaeological findings from the 8th c. BC settlement at Francavilla Marittima (CS) and its necropolis on the nearby Macchiabate plateau point to multi-regional interactions and the emergence of new identities in connection with the establishment of the Greek colony Sybaris. Strontium isotope analysis (87Sr/86Sr) is an efficient method to reconstruct human mobility and provides new insights into the Iron Age and Archaic period in the Calabria reg…
The return of forced labour in the workfare state: Enforced work for benefits in the UK in the 1930s and since 2010
Support for the unemployed in the UK has become increasingly conditional. This included enforced unpaid work, Mandatory Work Activity (MWA). This was sold as an innovative feature of ‘twenty-first century welfare’ by the 2010–15 government; however, it actually represented the restoration of older techniques of government. This article, compares MWA with enforced work regimes from the last days of the Poor Law in the 1930s. It highlights similari…
Blind alley’ to ‘steppingstone’? Insecure transitions and policy responses in the downturns of the 1930s and post 2008 in the UK
Even before the crisis of 2008, the growing insecurity of young people’s transitions from school into work had been of concern to many observers in the UK. During the crisis itself, young people were disproportionately unemployed and concentrated in insecure employment sectors. Policy makers refrained from any labour market intervention insisting that the flexible nature of this work prevented higher unemployment. In unemployment, benefits entitl…
St Century Welfare' in Historical Perspective: Disciplinary Welfare in the Depression of the 1930s and Its Implications for Today
Since 2010, UK governments have intensified conditionality as part of a programme of 'welfare reform'. Social scientists have undertaken much critical analysis but less attention has been paid to possible historical parallels. This article sheds new light on welfare reform through comparison with the depression of the 1930s. It undertakes a documentary analysis of policy in the 1930s informed by a governmentality perspective. In both periods, gov…
Inferring ground-level nitrogen dioxide concentrations at fine spatial resolution applied to the TROPOMI satellite instrument
Satellite-based estimates of ground-level nitrogen dioxide (NO 2 ) concentrations are useful for understanding links between air quality and health. A longstanding question has been why prior satellite-derived surface NO 2 concentrations are biased low with respect to ground-based measurements. In this work we demonstrate that these biases are due to both the coarse resolution of previous satellite NO 2 products and inaccuracies in vertical mixin…
Different in death: Different in life? Diet and mobility correlates of irregular burials in a Roman necropolis from Bologna (Northern Italy, 1st–4th century CE)
A multidisciplinary study of a burnt and mutilated assemblage of human remains from a deserted Mediaeval village in England
This work is a study of an assemblage of disarticulated human skeletal remains from a pit on the Mediaeval village site of Wharram Percy, England. The remains show evidence of perimortal breakage, burning and tool marks. The purpose of the study is to attempt to shed light on the human activity that might have produced the assemblage. The remains are subject to radiocarbon dating, strontium isotope analysis, and gross and microscopic osteological…
Intrinsic or extrinsic population growth in Iron Age northeast Thailand? The evidence from isotopic analysis
Community Diversity at Ban Lum Khao, Thailand: Isotopic Evidence from the Skeletons
Isotopes of strontium, carbon, and oxygen were analyzed in human tooth enamel from the Bronze Age site of Ban Lum Khao (c. 1400 B.C. -500 B.C. ) in Thailand. The strontium and oxygen isotopes, which generally reflect place of origin, delimit discrete groups among the individuals. Among the females, different groups determined through isotopic signatures were buried with distinctive pottery types. This suggests that social identity, drawn from vil…
The German Army, 1933-1945
The German Army, 1933-1945: Its Political and Military Failure
Community Diversity at Ban Lum Khao, Thailand: Isotopic Evidence from the Skeletons
Isotopes of strontium, carbon, and oxygen were analyzed in human tooth enamel from the Bronze Age site of Ban Lum Khao (c. 1400 B.C. -500 B.C. ) in Thailand. The strontium and oxygen isotopes, which generally reflect place of origin, delimit discrete groups among the individuals. Among the females, different groups determined through isotopic signatures were buried with distinctive pottery types. This suggests that social identity, drawn from vil…
Intrinsic or extrinsic population growth in Iron Age northeast Thailand? The evidence from isotopic analysis
Reindeer prey mobility and seasonal hunting strategies in the late Gravettian mammoth steppe
Reindeer are part of the faunal suite that dominated central Europe during the last glacial cycle. Their importance to Late Gravettian hunters as prey and a source of raw materials (hide, bone, antler) is well attested, however the context of Late Gravettian reindeer predation is lesser understood. This paper presents an investigation of human and reindeer predator-prey interactions at the Late Gravettian kill-butchery site of Lubná VI, Czech Rep…
Different in death: Different in life? Diet and mobility correlates of irregular burials in a Roman necropolis from Bologna (Northern Italy, 1st–4th century CE)
St Century Welfare' in Historical Perspective: Disciplinary Welfare in the Depression of the 1930s and Its Implications for Today
Since 2010, UK governments have intensified conditionality as part of a programme of 'welfare reform'. Social scientists have undertaken much critical analysis but less attention has been paid to possible historical parallels. This article sheds new light on welfare reform through comparison with the depression of the 1930s. It undertakes a documentary analysis of policy in the 1930s informed by a governmentality perspective. In both periods, gov…
Mapping Strontium Isotope Geographical Variability as a Basis for Multi-regional Human Mobility: The Sybaris Region (S Italy) in the Early 1st Millennium BC
Archaeological findings from the 8th c. BC settlement at Francavilla Marittima (CS) and its necropolis on the nearby Macchiabate plateau point to multi-regional interactions and the emergence of new identities in connection with the establishment of the Greek colony Sybaris. Strontium isotope analysis (87Sr/86Sr) is an efficient method to reconstruct human mobility and provides new insights into the Iron Age and Archaic period in the Calabria reg…
A multidisciplinary study of a burnt and mutilated assemblage of human remains from a deserted Mediaeval village in England
This work is a study of an assemblage of disarticulated human skeletal remains from a pit on the Mediaeval village site of Wharram Percy, England. The remains show evidence of perimortal breakage, burning and tool marks. The purpose of the study is to attempt to shed light on the human activity that might have produced the assemblage. The remains are subject to radiocarbon dating, strontium isotope analysis, and gross and microscopic osteological…
The German Army, 1933-1945: Its Political and Military Failure
The German Army, 1933-1945
Community Diversity at Ban Lum Khao, Thailand: Isotopic Evidence from the Skeletons
Isotopes of strontium, carbon, and oxygen were analyzed in human tooth enamel from the Bronze Age site of Ban Lum Khao (c. 1400 B.C. -500 B.C. ) in Thailand. The strontium and oxygen isotopes, which generally reflect place of origin, delimit discrete groups among the individuals. Among the females, different groups determined through isotopic signatures were buried with distinctive pottery types. This suggests that social identity, drawn from vil…
Intrinsic or extrinsic population growth in Iron Age northeast Thailand? The evidence from isotopic analysis
A multidisciplinary study of a burnt and mutilated assemblage of human remains from a deserted Mediaeval village in England
This work is a study of an assemblage of disarticulated human skeletal remains from a pit on the Mediaeval village site of Wharram Percy, England. The remains show evidence of perimortal breakage, burning and tool marks. The purpose of the study is to attempt to shed light on the human activity that might have produced the assemblage. The remains are subject to radiocarbon dating, strontium isotope analysis, and gross and microscopic osteological…
Different in death: Different in life? Diet and mobility correlates of irregular burials in a Roman necropolis from Bologna (Northern Italy, 1st–4th century CE)
Inferring ground-level nitrogen dioxide concentrations at fine spatial resolution applied to the TROPOMI satellite instrument
Satellite-based estimates of ground-level nitrogen dioxide (NO 2 ) concentrations are useful for understanding links between air quality and health. A longstanding question has been why prior satellite-derived surface NO 2 concentrations are biased low with respect to ground-based measurements. In this work we demonstrate that these biases are due to both the coarse resolution of previous satellite NO 2 products and inaccuracies in vertical mixin…
Blind alley’ to ‘steppingstone’? Insecure transitions and policy responses in the downturns of the 1930s and post 2008 in the UK
Even before the crisis of 2008, the growing insecurity of young people’s transitions from school into work had been of concern to many observers in the UK. During the crisis itself, young people were disproportionately unemployed and concentrated in insecure employment sectors. Policy makers refrained from any labour market intervention insisting that the flexible nature of this work prevented higher unemployment. In unemployment, benefits entitl…
St Century Welfare' in Historical Perspective: Disciplinary Welfare in the Depression of the 1930s and Its Implications for Today
Since 2010, UK governments have intensified conditionality as part of a programme of 'welfare reform'. Social scientists have undertaken much critical analysis but less attention has been paid to possible historical parallels. This article sheds new light on welfare reform through comparison with the depression of the 1930s. It undertakes a documentary analysis of policy in the 1930s informed by a governmentality perspective. In both periods, gov…
The return of forced labour in the workfare state: Enforced work for benefits in the UK in the 1930s and since 2010
Support for the unemployed in the UK has become increasingly conditional. This included enforced unpaid work, Mandatory Work Activity (MWA). This was sold as an innovative feature of ‘twenty-first century welfare’ by the 2010–15 government; however, it actually represented the restoration of older techniques of government. This article, compares MWA with enforced work regimes from the last days of the Poor Law in the 1930s. It highlights similari…
Mapping Strontium Isotope Geographical Variability as a Basis for Multi-regional Human Mobility: The Sybaris Region (S Italy) in the Early 1st Millennium BC
Archaeological findings from the 8th c. BC settlement at Francavilla Marittima (CS) and its necropolis on the nearby Macchiabate plateau point to multi-regional interactions and the emergence of new identities in connection with the establishment of the Greek colony Sybaris. Strontium isotope analysis (87Sr/86Sr) is an efficient method to reconstruct human mobility and provides new insights into the Iron Age and Archaic period in the Calabria reg…
Reindeer prey mobility and seasonal hunting strategies in the late Gravettian mammoth steppe
Reindeer are part of the faunal suite that dominated central Europe during the last glacial cycle. Their importance to Late Gravettian hunters as prey and a source of raw materials (hide, bone, antler) is well attested, however the context of Late Gravettian reindeer predation is lesser understood. This paper presents an investigation of human and reindeer predator-prey interactions at the Late Gravettian kill-butchery site of Lubná VI, Czech Rep…
Mobility patterning during the Neolithic and the Bronze Age in north-central Myanmar
Archaeology (7 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (7 works) · Geography (7 works) · Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Biology (3 works) · Bronze Age (3 works)