A S Wilson
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3585069 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | A S Wilson |
| NOMBRES | A S |
| APELLIDO | Wilson |
| FIRMA | WILSON A S |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Bradford |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1346-937X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 33 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 113 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 33 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1969 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Place, Identity and Wellbeing
This paper presents ongoing collaborative, place-based research between the University of Bradford and partner organisations, exploring the importance of identity, and the role of heritage and culture, for wellbeing, cohesion and resilience. It discusses three 'parent' projects: Fragmented Heritage; Virtual Bradford; and Continuing Bonds, and seven interlinked subsidiary projects: Curious Travellers; Building Resilience through Heritage (BReaTHe)…
Digital Twins at the City and Town Scale
The last ten years have seen great strides in digital archaeological and heritage outputs, particularly with the use of three-dimensional (3D) digital documentation becoming increasingly commonplace. Methods that widen participation and increase access have led to valuable community-scale documentation, from artefacts to landscapes. As part of this workflow, the Visualising Heritage team at the University of Bradford, UK, and international collab…
Visualising Heritage
The University of Bradford has established wide-ranging skillsets and capabilities as Visualising Heritage that have been built around expertise with 3D imaging for human bioarchaeology and for contextual understanding of archaeological sites, landscapes, heritage structures and associated artefacts. This paper reflects upon how these have been put to use during enabling works for HS2 and also the potential of this work for analysis, public engag…
Digital Refit Analysis of Anthropogenically Fragmented Equine Bone from the Schöningen 13 II-4 Deposits, Germany
Using evidence from hair and other soft tissues to infer the need for and receipt of health-related care provision
The Bioarchaeology of Care approach developed by Tilley is usually applied to skeletalized human remains, given the usual constraints of preservation bias that are seen with archaeological assemblages. However, other tissues, such as hair are sometimes preserved and can provide a wealth of information that can supplement the skeletal data. Archaeological hair has been analysed for drug compounds for almost thirty years. This article integrates da…
Not All That Is White Is Lime’—White Substances from Archaeological Burial Contexts
Archaeological burial contexts may include a variety of white substances, but few analyses have been published. This study reports on the physico‐chemical characterization of such residues from seven archaeological sites. It is often assumed that white materials from burial contexts are lime. Our findings demonstrate that they can be gypsum, calcite (chalk), aragonite, brushite, degraded metal, natural (gum) resins or synthetic polymer–based prod…
Multidisciplinary investigations of the diets of two post-medieval populations from London using stable isotopes and microdebris analysis
Transcript of WAC 8 Digital Bioarchaeological Ethics Panel Discussion, 29 August 2016 and Resolution on Ethical Use of Digital Bioarchaeological Data
This is the transcript of the panel discussion held at the close of the WAC 8 Digital Bioarchaeological Ethics Panel. Given the rapid pace of emerging technology that allows for the creation of digital bioarchaeological data, including representations of 3d shapes, the panel was convened to discuss common issues and dilemmas that arise from the introduction of new ways of creating, visualizing, storing, and disseminating data derived from human r…
Hair and Sacrifice in the Andean World, as deduced by biomolecular approaches
An individual’s first haircut is considered to be a major milestone in many world cultures and religions even today. It is interesting to note therefore that children placed as Inca child sacrifices in shrines on a number of the principal mountains in the Andes were found with many offerings, including small bags made of animal intestines containing cut human hair. The exceptional preservation of these young individuals offers huge potential for …
Tracing the dynamic life story of a Bronze Age Female
Ancient human mobility at the individual level is conventionally studied by the diverse application of suitable techniques (e.g. aDNA, radiogenic strontium isotopes, as well as oxygen and lead isotopes) to either hard and/or soft tissues. However, the limited preservation of coexisting hard and soft human tissues hampers the possibilities of investigating high-resolution diachronic mobility periods in the life of a single individual. Here, we pre…
Interpreting lime burials. A discussion in light of lime burials at St. Rombout's cemetery in Mechelen, Belgium (10th–18th centuries)
Patterns of family conflict and their impact on substance use and psychosocial outcomes in a sample of young people in treatment
The influence of family environment on adolescent substance use is well established, but little is known about its impact on outcomes for young people in treatment for substance use disorders. This study aimed to investigate the impact of family conflict and its resolution on substance use and measures of well-being among adolescents in treatment. Eighty young people (aged 16–21 years) were recruited from youth-specific alcohol and drug community…
Victims and survivors
Historical evidence documents mass migration from Ireland to London during the period of the Great Irish Famine of 1845–52. The rural Irish were reliant on a restricted diet based on potatoes but maize, a C 4 plant, was imported from the United States of America in 1846–47 to mitigate against Famine. In London, Irish migrants joined a population with a more varied diet. To investigate and characterize their diet, carbon and nitrogen isotope ratio…
Diet and death in times of war
Verdi and the Germans
The relationship of art works to the formation of national identities has become a key area of musicological investigation in recent years. Within this area of study there is now a growing shift towards the implications of transnational cultural exchange, a trend encapsulated by Gundula Kreuzer's fine new book, Verdi and the Germans: From Unification to the Third Reich. Kreuzer sidesteps the now well-trodden ground of Verdi's politicization in ni…
Exceptional preservation of a prehistoric human brain from Heslington, Yorkshire, UK
Ancient human genome sequence of an extinct Palaeo-Eskimo
We report here the genome sequence of an ancient human. Obtained from ∼4,000-year-old permafrost-preserved hair, the genome represents a male individual from the first known culture to settle in Greenland. Sequenced to an average depth of 20×, we recover 79% of the diploid genome, an amount close to the practical limit of current sequencing technologies. We identify 353,151 high-confidence single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), of which 6.8% hav…
The Identity of the St Bees Lady, Cumbria
Using an Osteobiographical approach, this contribution considers the identity of the woman found alongside the St Bees Man, one of the best-preserved archaeological bodies ever discovered. Osteological, isotopic and radiocarbon analyses, combined with the archaeological context of the burial and documented social history, provide the basis for the identification of a late 14th-century heiress whose activities were at the heart of medieval norther…
Evaluating Histological Methods for Assessing Hair Fibre Degradation
The hair shaft has increasing importance in bioarchaeology, since it is now possible to retrieve detailed biomolecular information on recent life history using individual fibres (e.g., on diet, drug use and DNA). Data on hair condition is an important cornerstone to ensuring that reliable information is obtained. The following study defines morphological features of degradative change in human terminal scalp hair using different microscopy techni…
Gristhorpe Man
A log-coffin excavated in the early nineteenth century proved to be well enough preserved in the early twenty-first century for the full armoury of modern scientific investigation to give its occupants and contents new identity, new origins and a new date. In many ways the interpretation is much the same as before: a local big man buried looking out to sea. Modern analytical techniques can create a person more real, more human and more securely a…
Fashionable Acts
The contemporary British media delight in portraying opera as an ‘elitist’ form of art, a pursuit reserved for the rich, who supposedly dress up to listen to fat ladies singing in foreign languages in opulent surroundings. Such clichés not only misrepresent today's diverse audience for opera and the varied spaces in which it is performed, but oversimplify a complex historical situation, for opera's social signification in Britain has been far fro…
Probable human hair found in a fossil hyaena coprolite from Gladysvale cave, South Africa
Below the Salt
We describe the finding of five male bodies from the salt mine of Chehr Abad, Zanjan province, Iran. Radiocarbon determinations suggests that two of the bodies date to the late Sassanian period, while the other three died sometime between 410 B.C. and 350 B.C. We speculate that these deaths may have been the result of an earthquake between 405–380 B.C. We have also obtained new isotopic data on skin and hair, and conclude that they may not have c…
Leoncavallo
Journal Article Leoncavallo: Life and Works. By Konrad Dryden. Get access Leoncavallo: Life and Works. By Konrad Dryden. pp. xvi + 351. ( Scarecrow Press, Langham, Md. and Oxford, 2007, £49. ISBN 0-8108-5880-0.) Alexandra Wilson Alexandra Wilson Oxford Brookes University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Music and Letters, Volume 89, Issue 4, November 2008, Pages 659–661, https://doi.org/10.1093/ml/gcn044 Pu…
Stable isotope and DNA evidence for ritual sequences in Inca child sacrifice
Four recently discovered frozen child mummies from two of the highest peaks in the south central Andes now yield tantalizing evidence of the preparatory stages leading to Inca ritual killing as represented by the unique capacocha rite. Our interdisciplinary study examined hair from the mummies to obtain detailed genetic and diachronic isotopic information. This approach has allowed us to reconstruct aspects of individual identity and diet, make i…
Victims and survivors
Historical evidence documents mass migration from Ireland to London during the period of the Great Irish Famine of 1845–52. The rural Irish were reliant on a restricted diet based on potatoes but maize, a C 4 plant, was imported from the United States of America in 1846–47 to mitigate against Famine. In London, Irish migrants joined a population with a more varied diet. To investigate and characterize their diet, carbon and nitrogen isotope ratio…
Probable human hair found in a fossil hyaena coprolite from Gladysvale cave, South Africa
Diet and death in times of war
Exceptional preservation of a prehistoric human brain from Heslington, Yorkshire, UK
Multidisciplinary investigations of the diets of two post-medieval populations from London using stable isotopes and microdebris analysis
Gristhorpe Man
A log-coffin excavated in the early nineteenth century proved to be well enough preserved in the early twenty-first century for the full armoury of modern scientific investigation to give its occupants and contents new identity, new origins and a new date. In many ways the interpretation is much the same as before: a local big man buried looking out to sea. Modern analytical techniques can create a person more real, more human and more securely a…
MtDNA from hair and nail clarifies the genetic relationship of the 15th century Qilakitsoq Inuit mummies
The 15th century Inuit mummies excavated at Qilakitsoq in Greenland in 1978 were exceptionally well preserved and represent the largest find of naturally mummified specimens from the Arctic. The estimated ages of the individuals, their distribution between two adjacent graves, the results of tissue typing, and incomplete STR results led researchers to conclude that the eight mummies formed two distinct family groups: A grandmother (I/5), two daug…
The Identity of the St Bees Lady, Cumbria
Using an Osteobiographical approach, this contribution considers the identity of the woman found alongside the St Bees Man, one of the best-preserved archaeological bodies ever discovered. Osteological, isotopic and radiocarbon analyses, combined with the archaeological context of the burial and documented social history, provide the basis for the identification of a late 14th-century heiress whose activities were at the heart of medieval norther…
Evaluating Histological Methods for Assessing Hair Fibre Degradation
The hair shaft has increasing importance in bioarchaeology, since it is now possible to retrieve detailed biomolecular information on recent life history using individual fibres (e.g., on diet, drug use and DNA). Data on hair condition is an important cornerstone to ensuring that reliable information is obtained. The following study defines morphological features of degradative change in human terminal scalp hair using different microscopy techni…
A Later Bronze Age shield from South Cadbury, Somerset, England
A shield of beaten bronze from South Cadbury, Somerset, England is the first shield to be discovered by excavation on an archaeological site. The shield lay in a silt-filled Bronze Age ditch on a spur of land below Cadbury Castle. A stake was thrust through the shield. The paper considers the recovery and conservation of the shield, the technology of metal shields and the evidence for the ritual deposition of shields in the Later Bronze Age of we…
Below the Salt
We describe the finding of five male bodies from the salt mine of Chehr Abad, Zanjan province, Iran. Radiocarbon determinations suggests that two of the bodies date to the late Sassanian period, while the other three died sometime between 410 B.C. and 350 B.C. We speculate that these deaths may have been the result of an earthquake between 405–380 B.C. We have also obtained new isotopic data on skin and hair, and conclude that they may not have c…
Visualising Heritage
The University of Bradford has established wide-ranging skillsets and capabilities as Visualising Heritage that have been built around expertise with 3D imaging for human bioarchaeology and for contextual understanding of archaeological sites, landscapes, heritage structures and associated artefacts. This paper reflects upon how these have been put to use during enabling works for HS2 and also the potential of this work for analysis, public engag…
Not All That Is White Is Lime’—White Substances from Archaeological Burial Contexts
Archaeological burial contexts may include a variety of white substances, but few analyses have been published. This study reports on the physico‐chemical characterization of such residues from seven archaeological sites. It is often assumed that white materials from burial contexts are lime. Our findings demonstrate that they can be gypsum, calcite (chalk), aragonite, brushite, degraded metal, natural (gum) resins or synthetic polymer–based prod…
Transcript of WAC 8 Digital Bioarchaeological Ethics Panel Discussion, 29 August 2016 and Resolution on Ethical Use of Digital Bioarchaeological Data
This is the transcript of the panel discussion held at the close of the WAC 8 Digital Bioarchaeological Ethics Panel. Given the rapid pace of emerging technology that allows for the creation of digital bioarchaeological data, including representations of 3d shapes, the panel was convened to discuss common issues and dilemmas that arise from the introduction of new ways of creating, visualizing, storing, and disseminating data derived from human r…
Patterns of family conflict and their impact on substance use and psychosocial outcomes in a sample of young people in treatment
The influence of family environment on adolescent substance use is well established, but little is known about its impact on outcomes for young people in treatment for substance use disorders. This study aimed to investigate the impact of family conflict and its resolution on substance use and measures of well-being among adolescents in treatment. Eighty young people (aged 16–21 years) were recruited from youth-specific alcohol and drug community…
Husserl and the 'Idealists
This paper is concerned with the influences of Fichte, Hegel, and Schopenhauer (to be collectively referred to as the “Idealists”), in phenomenology, primarily as it was conceived and developed by Edmund Husserl. The influences of Kierkegaard and Nietzsche in Existentialism, a fellow traveler and to some degree an offshoot of phenomenology, have long been recognized. Largely passed over or denied, however, are the influences of the German Idealis…
Church Music
A Later Bronze Age shield from South Cadbury, Somerset, England
A shield of beaten bronze from South Cadbury, Somerset, England is the first shield to be discovered by excavation on an archaeological site. The shield lay in a silt-filled Bronze Age ditch on a spur of land below Cadbury Castle. A stake was thrust through the shield. The paper considers the recovery and conservation of the shield, the technology of metal shields and the evidence for the ritual deposition of shields in the Later Bronze Age of we…
Towards an Understanding of the Interaction of Hair With the Depositional Environment
There is developing interest in the analytical use of human hair from archaeological contexts in key research areas such as DNA, trace elemental and isotopic analyses. Other human tissues, especially bone, that have been used for trace element, isotopic and DNA analyses have had extensive study concerning their diagenesis, but this has not been done for hair. Consideration must be given to the complex interaction of hair with its buried environme…
Assessing the influence of agrochemicals on the rate of copper corrosion in the vadose zone of arable land Part 1
Part of a project that has attempted to answer the question ‘does the application of agrochemicals accelerate the corrosion of metals in the top 50cm of the soil? ’ is reported. We have approached the question by a combination of field-based experiments (on two sites), establishing laboratory microcosms (one involving simple aqueous systems and the other a series of simulated burial experiments) and by using geochemical modelling techniques to un…
Assessing the influence of agrochemicals on the rate of copper corrosion in the vadose zone of arable land Part 2
This is the second in a series of three papers from a project that has attempted to answer the question ‘does the application of agrochemicals accelerate the corrosion of archaeological metals in the top 50cm of the soil?’. We have approached it through a combination of field-based experiments, by establishing laboratory microcosms and by using geochemical modelling techniques to understand the processes involved. This paper reports on two differ…
Assessing the influence of agrochemicals on the nature of copper corrosion in the vadose zone of arable land Part 3
(2006). Assessing the influence of agrochemicals on the nature of copper corrosion in the vadose zone of arable land Part 3: Geochemical modelling. Conservation and Management of Archaeological Sites: Vol. 7, No. 4, pp. 241-260
Stable isotope and DNA evidence for ritual sequences in Inca child sacrifice
Four recently discovered frozen child mummies from two of the highest peaks in the south central Andes now yield tantalizing evidence of the preparatory stages leading to Inca ritual killing as represented by the unique capacocha rite. Our interdisciplinary study examined hair from the mummies to obtain detailed genetic and diachronic isotopic information. This approach has allowed us to reconstruct aspects of individual identity and diet, make i…
MtDNA from hair and nail clarifies the genetic relationship of the 15th century Qilakitsoq Inuit mummies
The 15th century Inuit mummies excavated at Qilakitsoq in Greenland in 1978 were exceptionally well preserved and represent the largest find of naturally mummified specimens from the Arctic. The estimated ages of the individuals, their distribution between two adjacent graves, the results of tissue typing, and incomplete STR results led researchers to conclude that the eight mummies formed two distinct family groups: A grandmother (I/5), two daug…
Below the Salt
We describe the finding of five male bodies from the salt mine of Chehr Abad, Zanjan province, Iran. Radiocarbon determinations suggests that two of the bodies date to the late Sassanian period, while the other three died sometime between 410 B.C. and 350 B.C. We speculate that these deaths may have been the result of an earthquake between 405–380 B.C. We have also obtained new isotopic data on skin and hair, and conclude that they may not have c…
Leoncavallo
Journal Article Leoncavallo: Life and Works. By Konrad Dryden. Get access Leoncavallo: Life and Works. By Konrad Dryden. pp. xvi + 351. ( Scarecrow Press, Langham, Md. and Oxford, 2007, £49. ISBN 0-8108-5880-0.) Alexandra Wilson Alexandra Wilson Oxford Brookes University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Music and Letters, Volume 89, Issue 4, November 2008, Pages 659–661, https://doi.org/10.1093/ml/gcn044 Pu…
Fashionable Acts
The contemporary British media delight in portraying opera as an ‘elitist’ form of art, a pursuit reserved for the rich, who supposedly dress up to listen to fat ladies singing in foreign languages in opulent surroundings. Such clichés not only misrepresent today's diverse audience for opera and the varied spaces in which it is performed, but oversimplify a complex historical situation, for opera's social signification in Britain has been far fro…
Probable human hair found in a fossil hyaena coprolite from Gladysvale cave, South Africa
Ancient human genome sequence of an extinct Palaeo-Eskimo
We report here the genome sequence of an ancient human. Obtained from ∼4,000-year-old permafrost-preserved hair, the genome represents a male individual from the first known culture to settle in Greenland. Sequenced to an average depth of 20×, we recover 79% of the diploid genome, an amount close to the practical limit of current sequencing technologies. We identify 353,151 high-confidence single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), of which 6.8% hav…
The Identity of the St Bees Lady, Cumbria
Using an Osteobiographical approach, this contribution considers the identity of the woman found alongside the St Bees Man, one of the best-preserved archaeological bodies ever discovered. Osteological, isotopic and radiocarbon analyses, combined with the archaeological context of the burial and documented social history, provide the basis for the identification of a late 14th-century heiress whose activities were at the heart of medieval norther…
Evaluating Histological Methods for Assessing Hair Fibre Degradation
The hair shaft has increasing importance in bioarchaeology, since it is now possible to retrieve detailed biomolecular information on recent life history using individual fibres (e.g., on diet, drug use and DNA). Data on hair condition is an important cornerstone to ensuring that reliable information is obtained. The following study defines morphological features of degradative change in human terminal scalp hair using different microscopy techni…
Gristhorpe Man
A log-coffin excavated in the early nineteenth century proved to be well enough preserved in the early twenty-first century for the full armoury of modern scientific investigation to give its occupants and contents new identity, new origins and a new date. In many ways the interpretation is much the same as before: a local big man buried looking out to sea. Modern analytical techniques can create a person more real, more human and more securely a…
Exceptional preservation of a prehistoric human brain from Heslington, Yorkshire, UK
Diet and death in times of war
Verdi and the Germans
The relationship of art works to the formation of national identities has become a key area of musicological investigation in recent years. Within this area of study there is now a growing shift towards the implications of transnational cultural exchange, a trend encapsulated by Gundula Kreuzer's fine new book, Verdi and the Germans: From Unification to the Third Reich. Kreuzer sidesteps the now well-trodden ground of Verdi's politicization in ni…
Patterns of family conflict and their impact on substance use and psychosocial outcomes in a sample of young people in treatment
The influence of family environment on adolescent substance use is well established, but little is known about its impact on outcomes for young people in treatment for substance use disorders. This study aimed to investigate the impact of family conflict and its resolution on substance use and measures of well-being among adolescents in treatment. Eighty young people (aged 16–21 years) were recruited from youth-specific alcohol and drug community…
Victims and survivors
Historical evidence documents mass migration from Ireland to London during the period of the Great Irish Famine of 1845–52. The rural Irish were reliant on a restricted diet based on potatoes but maize, a C 4 plant, was imported from the United States of America in 1846–47 to mitigate against Famine. In London, Irish migrants joined a population with a more varied diet. To investigate and characterize their diet, carbon and nitrogen isotope ratio…
Tracing the dynamic life story of a Bronze Age Female
Ancient human mobility at the individual level is conventionally studied by the diverse application of suitable techniques (e.g. aDNA, radiogenic strontium isotopes, as well as oxygen and lead isotopes) to either hard and/or soft tissues. However, the limited preservation of coexisting hard and soft human tissues hampers the possibilities of investigating high-resolution diachronic mobility periods in the life of a single individual. Here, we pre…
Interpreting lime burials. A discussion in light of lime burials at St. Rombout's cemetery in Mechelen, Belgium (10th–18th centuries)
Hair and Sacrifice in the Andean World, as deduced by biomolecular approaches
An individual’s first haircut is considered to be a major milestone in many world cultures and religions even today. It is interesting to note therefore that children placed as Inca child sacrifices in shrines on a number of the principal mountains in the Andes were found with many offerings, including small bags made of animal intestines containing cut human hair. The exceptional preservation of these young individuals offers huge potential for …
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