Alan G Morris
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3617691 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Alan G Morris |
| PRENOMES | Alan G |
| SOBRENOME | Morris |
| ASSINATURA | MORRIS A G |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Department of Human Biology; University of Cape Town; Observatory 7925; South Africa |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 24 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 128 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 24 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1987 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Reconstructing ancient Southern African mitochondrial genomes at Faraoskop
Twelve human skeletons, approximately 2000 years old, were recovered from the Faraoskop archaeological site in the Western Cape Province, South Africa (Manhire 1993). Several of the skeletons were well enough preserved to determine the osteological profiles (sex, age and stature etc.). Additionally, paleopathological and traumatic changes were observed on some of these skeletal remains. Given suggested context that these human remains were drawn …
UCT Human Skeletal Repository
The University of Cape Town (UCT) Human Skeletal Repository began in 1913 and its composition a century later reflects the history of biological anthropology at the University, in South Africa and internationally. It consists of 1059 skeletons from archaeological (472; 44%), cadaveric (372; 36%) and forensic contexts (160; 14%). They are used for educational and research purposes to provide engaged scholarship and experiential learning for underg…
Violence during the Later Stone Age of Southern Africa
In the 1960s African hunter-gatherers in the Kalahari Desert were described as gentle people who used dispute resolution to prevent violence between band members. This ideal was a good fit for those anthropologists on one side of a debate on the nature of human behaviour. The Kalahari San played a role in the debate not only because anthropologists had categorised them as ‘gentle’, but also because they were seen as frozen remnants of our prehist…
Neanderthal behaviour, diet, and disease inferred from ancient DNA in dental calculus
Phillip Valentine Tobias (1925-2012)
Biological Anthropology at the Southern Tip of Africa
One of the biggest surprises in the rise of apartheid in South Africa in the 1940s was that, unlike in prewar Germany, it was not rooted in the physical anthropology of the previous decades. The engineers of apartheid were, for the most part, Afrikaans-speaking ethnologists operating out of the Afrikaans-medium universities, where little or no physical anthropology was taught. The University of the Witwatersrand and the University of Cape Town, b…
Reconstruction of the late Pleistocene human skull from Hofmeyr, South Africa
A mid-Holocene AMS 14C date for the presumed upper Pleistocene human skeleton from Peers Cave, South Africa
Forum Respondents
Morphometric cranial identity of prehistoric Malawians in the light of sub‐Saharan African diversity
Little has been described of the Holocene populations of South‐Central Africa, despite the region demonstrating major subsistence shifts relating to dispersals of agriculturalists at least 2,000 years ago. Seven sites with associated human skeletal remains were selected. Hora, Chencherere, Fingura, and Mtuzi represent the Middle Holocene (2,000–5,000 years ago), and Phwadze, Mtemankhokwe, and Nkudzi Bay represent the Late Holocene and the arrival…
The Myth of the East African 'Bushmen
Recent genetic studies of living African peoples have suggested that the KhoiSan in particular are of very ancient stock and that they share some ancient genetic features with living East Africans. Archaeological and linguistic evidence for an ancient KhoiSan presence in East Africa has been used to support these arguments. A re-examination of the archaeological evidence does not support this stance. In particular, the bulk of the osteological ev…
Biomechanical beam analysis of long bones from a late 18th century slave cemetery in Cape Town, South Africa
This study aims to quantify the physical demands of a sample of late 18th century skeletons from an unmarked burial site on Cobern Street, Cape Town, South Africa. Historical studies suggest that these individuals were either slaves or “free black” people of low socioeconomic standing. Cortical cross-sectional areas of paired humeri and tibiae from the Cobern Street collection (N = 29), a modern cadaver collection (N = 31), and a hunter-gatherer …
Biomechanical beam analysis of long bones from a late 18th century slave cemetery in Cape Town, South Africa
This study aims to quantify the physical demands of a sample of late 18th century skeletons from an unmarked burial site on Cobern Street, Cape Town, South Africa. Historical studies suggest that these individuals were either slaves or "free black" people of low socioeconomic standing. Cortical cross-sectional areas of paired humeri and tibiae from the Cobern Street collection (N = 29), a modern cadaver collection (N = 31), and a hunter-gatherer …
Muscle marking morphology and labour intensity in prehistoric Khoisan foragers
As indicators of the intensity and frequency of muscle activity, the rugosity and size of muscle insertion areas in human skeletal remains may provide a record of average work effort in past populations. In this paper a diet breadth model derived from optimal foraging theory was used as a heuristic means of exploring the utility of musculoskeletal stress markers (MSM) for determining subsistence labour intensity in prehistoric populations. The mo…
Isotopic Evidence for Diets of Prehistoric Farmers in South Africa
A Dated Human Burial from the Namaqualand Coast
Antonieta M. Jerardino, Royden Yates, Alan G. Morris, Judith C. Sealy, A Dated Human Burial from the Namaqualand Coast: Observations on Culture, Biology and Diet, The South African Archaeological Bulletin, Vol. 47, No. 156 (Dec., 1992), pp. 75-81
Man's Place in Evolution
Prehistoric Cannibalism at Mancos 5MTUMR-2346
Cannibalism is one of the oldest and most emotionally charged topics in anthropological literature. This analysis of human bones from an Anasazi pueblo in southwestern Colorado, site 5MTUMR-2346, reveals that nearly 30 men, women and children were butchered and cooked there around 1100 AD. Their bones were fractured for marrow, and the remains discarded in several rooms of the pueblo. By comparing the human skeletal remains with those of animals …
A probable case of prehistoric kidney stone disease from the northern cape province, South Africa
During the excavation of isolated graves along the north shore of the Orange River in the Cape Province of South Africa, a skeleton was uncovered that showed two large calcareous deposits near the lumbar region of the vertebral column. The individual was an adult female of about 55 years of age at the time of death. The calcified residue did not in any way resemble the external or internal anatomical form of a kidney, but X‐ray powder diffraction…
Ancestors
The Origin and Antiquity of Syphilis
Discussing Race in a Racist Society
characterized by Professor Thomas A. Sebeok as the nineteenth century's consulting semiotician. I refer of course to Mr Sherlock Holmes1, and those who know 56 Queen Anne Street, W. 1 (which the RAI now leaves, after leasing premises for ten years from the Royal Asiatic Society), will not be surprised to hear that during these last ten years I have often seen him in the building, especially when the fog swirls in from the street. His friend Dr Wa…
The Reflection of the Collector
Late Holocene Human Skeletal Remains from Snuifklip, near Vleesbaai, Southern Cape
Alan G. Morris, Anne I. Thackeray, J. F. Thackeray, Late Holocene Human Skeletal Remains from Snuifklip, near Vleesbaai, Southern Cape, The South African Archaeological Bulletin, Vol. 42, No. 146 (Dec., 1987), pp. 153-160
The Origin and Antiquity of Syphilis
Reconstruction of the late Pleistocene human skull from Hofmeyr, South Africa
Biological Anthropology at the Southern Tip of Africa
One of the biggest surprises in the rise of apartheid in South Africa in the 1940s was that, unlike in prewar Germany, it was not rooted in the physical anthropology of the previous decades. The engineers of apartheid were, for the most part, Afrikaans-speaking ethnologists operating out of the Afrikaans-medium universities, where little or no physical anthropology was taught. The University of the Witwatersrand and the University of Cape Town, b…
A mid-Holocene AMS 14C date for the presumed upper Pleistocene human skeleton from Peers Cave, South Africa
The Myth of the East African 'Bushmen
Recent genetic studies of living African peoples have suggested that the KhoiSan in particular are of very ancient stock and that they share some ancient genetic features with living East Africans. Archaeological and linguistic evidence for an ancient KhoiSan presence in East Africa has been used to support these arguments. A re-examination of the archaeological evidence does not support this stance. In particular, the bulk of the osteological ev…
The Reflection of the Collector
Morphometric cranial identity of prehistoric Malawians in the light of sub‐Saharan African diversity
Little has been described of the Holocene populations of South‐Central Africa, despite the region demonstrating major subsistence shifts relating to dispersals of agriculturalists at least 2,000 years ago. Seven sites with associated human skeletal remains were selected. Hora, Chencherere, Fingura, and Mtuzi represent the Middle Holocene (2,000–5,000 years ago), and Phwadze, Mtemankhokwe, and Nkudzi Bay represent the Late Holocene and the arrival…
Late Holocene Human Skeletal Remains from Snuifklip, near Vleesbaai, Southern Cape
Alan G. Morris, Anne I. Thackeray, J. F. Thackeray, Late Holocene Human Skeletal Remains from Snuifklip, near Vleesbaai, Southern Cape, The South African Archaeological Bulletin, Vol. 42, No. 146 (Dec., 1987), pp. 153-160
A Dated Human Burial from the Namaqualand Coast
Antonieta M. Jerardino, Royden Yates, Alan G. Morris, Judith C. Sealy, A Dated Human Burial from the Namaqualand Coast: Observations on Culture, Biology and Diet, The South African Archaeological Bulletin, Vol. 47, No. 156 (Dec., 1992), pp. 75-81
Reconstructing ancient Southern African mitochondrial genomes at Faraoskop
Twelve human skeletons, approximately 2000 years old, were recovered from the Faraoskop archaeological site in the Western Cape Province, South Africa (Manhire 1993). Several of the skeletons were well enough preserved to determine the osteological profiles (sex, age and stature etc.). Additionally, paleopathological and traumatic changes were observed on some of these skeletal remains. Given suggested context that these human remains were drawn …
Discussing Race in a Racist Society
characterized by Professor Thomas A. Sebeok as the nineteenth century's consulting semiotician. I refer of course to Mr Sherlock Holmes1, and those who know 56 Queen Anne Street, W. 1 (which the RAI now leaves, after leasing premises for ten years from the Royal Asiatic Society), will not be surprised to hear that during these last ten years I have often seen him in the building, especially when the fog swirls in from the street. His friend Dr Wa…
A probable case of prehistoric kidney stone disease from the northern cape province, South Africa
During the excavation of isolated graves along the north shore of the Orange River in the Cape Province of South Africa, a skeleton was uncovered that showed two large calcareous deposits near the lumbar region of the vertebral column. The individual was an adult female of about 55 years of age at the time of death. The calcified residue did not in any way resemble the external or internal anatomical form of a kidney, but X‐ray powder diffraction…
The Reflection of the Collector
Late Holocene Human Skeletal Remains from Snuifklip, near Vleesbaai, Southern Cape
Alan G. Morris, Anne I. Thackeray, J. F. Thackeray, Late Holocene Human Skeletal Remains from Snuifklip, near Vleesbaai, Southern Cape, The South African Archaeological Bulletin, Vol. 42, No. 146 (Dec., 1987), pp. 153-160
Ancestors
The Origin and Antiquity of Syphilis
Discussing Race in a Racist Society
characterized by Professor Thomas A. Sebeok as the nineteenth century's consulting semiotician. I refer of course to Mr Sherlock Holmes1, and those who know 56 Queen Anne Street, W. 1 (which the RAI now leaves, after leasing premises for ten years from the Royal Asiatic Society), will not be surprised to hear that during these last ten years I have often seen him in the building, especially when the fog swirls in from the street. His friend Dr Wa…
A probable case of prehistoric kidney stone disease from the northern cape province, South Africa
During the excavation of isolated graves along the north shore of the Orange River in the Cape Province of South Africa, a skeleton was uncovered that showed two large calcareous deposits near the lumbar region of the vertebral column. The individual was an adult female of about 55 years of age at the time of death. The calcified residue did not in any way resemble the external or internal anatomical form of a kidney, but X‐ray powder diffraction…
A Dated Human Burial from the Namaqualand Coast
Antonieta M. Jerardino, Royden Yates, Alan G. Morris, Judith C. Sealy, A Dated Human Burial from the Namaqualand Coast: Observations on Culture, Biology and Diet, The South African Archaeological Bulletin, Vol. 47, No. 156 (Dec., 1992), pp. 75-81
Man's Place in Evolution
Prehistoric Cannibalism at Mancos 5MTUMR-2346
Cannibalism is one of the oldest and most emotionally charged topics in anthropological literature. This analysis of human bones from an Anasazi pueblo in southwestern Colorado, site 5MTUMR-2346, reveals that nearly 30 men, women and children were butchered and cooked there around 1100 AD. Their bones were fractured for marrow, and the remains discarded in several rooms of the pueblo. By comparing the human skeletal remains with those of animals …
Isotopic Evidence for Diets of Prehistoric Farmers in South Africa
Muscle marking morphology and labour intensity in prehistoric Khoisan foragers
As indicators of the intensity and frequency of muscle activity, the rugosity and size of muscle insertion areas in human skeletal remains may provide a record of average work effort in past populations. In this paper a diet breadth model derived from optimal foraging theory was used as a heuristic means of exploring the utility of musculoskeletal stress markers (MSM) for determining subsistence labour intensity in prehistoric populations. The mo…
Biomechanical beam analysis of long bones from a late 18th century slave cemetery in Cape Town, South Africa
This study aims to quantify the physical demands of a sample of late 18th century skeletons from an unmarked burial site on Cobern Street, Cape Town, South Africa. Historical studies suggest that these individuals were either slaves or “free black” people of low socioeconomic standing. Cortical cross-sectional areas of paired humeri and tibiae from the Cobern Street collection (N = 29), a modern cadaver collection (N = 31), and a hunter-gatherer …
Biomechanical beam analysis of long bones from a late 18th century slave cemetery in Cape Town, South Africa
This study aims to quantify the physical demands of a sample of late 18th century skeletons from an unmarked burial site on Cobern Street, Cape Town, South Africa. Historical studies suggest that these individuals were either slaves or "free black" people of low socioeconomic standing. Cortical cross-sectional areas of paired humeri and tibiae from the Cobern Street collection (N = 29), a modern cadaver collection (N = 31), and a hunter-gatherer …
The Myth of the East African 'Bushmen
Recent genetic studies of living African peoples have suggested that the KhoiSan in particular are of very ancient stock and that they share some ancient genetic features with living East Africans. Archaeological and linguistic evidence for an ancient KhoiSan presence in East Africa has been used to support these arguments. A re-examination of the archaeological evidence does not support this stance. In particular, the bulk of the osteological ev…
Morphometric cranial identity of prehistoric Malawians in the light of sub‐Saharan African diversity
Little has been described of the Holocene populations of South‐Central Africa, despite the region demonstrating major subsistence shifts relating to dispersals of agriculturalists at least 2,000 years ago. Seven sites with associated human skeletal remains were selected. Hora, Chencherere, Fingura, and Mtuzi represent the Middle Holocene (2,000–5,000 years ago), and Phwadze, Mtemankhokwe, and Nkudzi Bay represent the Late Holocene and the arrival…
A mid-Holocene AMS 14C date for the presumed upper Pleistocene human skeleton from Peers Cave, South Africa
Forum Respondents
Reconstruction of the late Pleistocene human skull from Hofmeyr, South Africa
Biological Anthropology at the Southern Tip of Africa
One of the biggest surprises in the rise of apartheid in South Africa in the 1940s was that, unlike in prewar Germany, it was not rooted in the physical anthropology of the previous decades. The engineers of apartheid were, for the most part, Afrikaans-speaking ethnologists operating out of the Afrikaans-medium universities, where little or no physical anthropology was taught. The University of the Witwatersrand and the University of Cape Town, b…
Phillip Valentine Tobias (1925-2012)
Neanderthal behaviour, diet, and disease inferred from ancient DNA in dental calculus
Violence during the Later Stone Age of Southern Africa
In the 1960s African hunter-gatherers in the Kalahari Desert were described as gentle people who used dispute resolution to prevent violence between band members. This ideal was a good fit for those anthropologists on one side of a debate on the nature of human behaviour. The Kalahari San played a role in the debate not only because anthropologists had categorised them as ‘gentle’, but also because they were seen as frozen remnants of our prehist…
UCT Human Skeletal Repository
The University of Cape Town (UCT) Human Skeletal Repository began in 1913 and its composition a century later reflects the history of biological anthropology at the University, in South Africa and internationally. It consists of 1059 skeletons from archaeological (472; 44%), cadaveric (372; 36%) and forensic contexts (160; 14%). They are used for educational and research purposes to provide engaged scholarship and experiential learning for underg…
Reconstructing ancient Southern African mitochondrial genomes at Faraoskop
Twelve human skeletons, approximately 2000 years old, were recovered from the Faraoskop archaeological site in the Western Cape Province, South Africa (Manhire 1993). Several of the skeletons were well enough preserved to determine the osteological profiles (sex, age and stature etc.). Additionally, paleopathological and traumatic changes were observed on some of these skeletal remains. Given suggested context that these human remains were drawn …
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