Simon Davis
Biographic Data
| ID | 3642461 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Simon Davis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Simon |
| FAMILY NAME | Davis |
| SIGNATURE | DAVIS S |
| AFFILIATIONS | City University of New York |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3124-1638 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 48 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 640 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 48 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1967 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 13 |
Modern History and Politics
Policy of Deceit Britain and Palestine, 1914–1939 , by Peter Shambrook. London: Oneworld Publications, 2023. 404 pages. ?35 cloth, ?24.50 e-book
A multidisciplinary study of Iberian Chalcolithic dogs
Eckweek, Peasedown St John, Somerset
This volume presents the results of archaeological survey and excavation at Eckweek, Somerset, which yielded one of the most important medieval rural settlement sequences yet excavated from south-west England. At the centre of the narrative is a succession of well-preserved buildings spanning the late 10th to the 14th centuries A.D. forming the nucleus of a Domesday manor and its Late Saxon precursor. Detailed analysis of the structural sequence …
The curious case of the Mesolithic Iberian dogs
Animal remains from Neolithic Lameiras, Sintra
The fauna of Neolithic Lameiras includes abundant sheep. Many could be secure- ly identified by applying criteria described by the late Joachim Boessneck as well as metrical methods. Sheep bones from Early Neolithic contexts, several dated directly via 14C, pinpoint the arrival here, 5450 cal BC, of this exotic animal three thousand years after its domestication 5000 km to the east. Thus sheep were transported at a rate of 1,6 km per year – consi…
Irish & Roman Catholic Which Upsets All the People Here’
In 1927 Michael McDonnell, a diasporic Irish Catholic, was appointed Mandatory Palestine's Chief Justice, being directed to institute firm British-style legal-judicial foundations for future self-governance. This entailed common, equal status for Arab and Jewish Palestinians, implicitly de-privileging the Jewish National Home. McDonnell was resisted in this by the British Mandate's Anglo-Jewish, pro-Zionist Attorney General, Norman Bentwich. McDo…
The Archaeology of Animals
Ever since the discovery of fossil remains of extinct animals associated with flint implements, bones and other animal remains have been providing invaluable information to the archaeologist. In the last 20 years many archaeologists and zoologists have taken to studying such "archaeofaunal" remains, and the science of "zoo-archaeology" has come into being. What was the nature of the environment in which our ancestors lived? In which season were s…
Molecular and osteometric sexing of cattle metacarpals
 A Bloody Unpleasant Meetingâ
Often fretful Anglo-American relations in the Middle East attract continuing historical attention, advancing each decade or so in step with the release of official papers, amplifying and providing correctives to first-phase memoirs, journalistic, and political science accounts.1 Tore Petersen and Taylor Fain have moved us into the 1960s, extending recent pioneering works by Jeremy Fielding, Jeffrey Pickering, and Saki Dockrill on Britain's genera…
The Persian Gulf in the 1940s and the Question of an Anglo‐American Middle East
Using archival materials dating from the early 1940s before most conventional analyses of the cold war begin, this article reappraises current views on Anglo‐American cooperation in the Middle East. It proposes that antagonism between American ‘new deal internationalism’ and British ‘guided development’ created a dysfunctional rather than a ‘special’ relationship. Two different versions of western overseas capitalism were competing for primacy, w…
Empires of Intelligence
Did the Romans bring fallow deer to Portugal
We describe six cervid bones — a distal humerus, three distal tibiae, and two astragali — from two Roman sites, São Pedro Fronteira and Torre de Palma, in the Alentejo of Portugal. They are identified on morphological and osteometric grounds as fallow deer, Dama dama. They represent the earliest Holocene evidence for this species in Portugal, and it is suggested that, like the camel, the Romans were responsible for its spread within their Empire.…
Notes from the Minefield
Law and Identity in Mandate Palestine By Assaf Likhovsky
Zooarchaeological evidence for Moslem and Christian improvements of sheep and cattle in Portugal
Western Imperialism in the Middle East 1914–1958 By D. K. Fieldhouse
Cross on the Star of David
A Projected New Trusteeship”? American Internationalism, British Imperialism, and the Reconstruction of Iran, 1938–1947
Diplomatic histories identify an early cold war “paradigm shift” as restoring the troubled Anglo–American “special relationship.” However, an integrated analysis of Second World War and post-war Iran suggests continuity in ideologically based Anglo–American differences on the reconstruction of the postwar world economic periphery, and that this was the defining context for crucially elusive relations during successive crises to come. The American…
Why domesticate food animals? Some zoo-archaeological evidence from the Levant
Freedom to do What you are Told
Arguably, the government's aim of using the reward of ‘earned autonomy’ and Foundation Trust status as an incentive to improve performance in the NHS will only be effective if Trust managers view greater autonomy as both desirable and realistic. This article examines this issue by investigating the extent to which members of an NHS Trust's senior management team perceive themselves as autonomous, the factors most likely to hinder their ability to…
Modos De Tratar Un Erizo Muerto
Traducción de Mariana Mondini
British Agriculture
This article provides a compendium of quotations from early British writers on agriculture which may be of interest to the zoo-archaeology of late Medieval and post-Medieval periods
British Agriculture
This article provides a compendium of quotations from early British writers on agriculture which may be of interest to the zoo-archaeology of late Medieval and post-Medieval periods
Brief Report
Historical Dictionary of the Cold War
Joseph Smith and Simon Davis have captured the essence and madness of the balance of terror of the Cold War in the Historical Dictionary of the Cold War. Covering an extensive period and much of the globe, this dictionary presents a year-by-year chronology and alphabetical entries on civilian and military leaders, crucial countries and peripheral conflicts, the increasingly lethal weapons systems, and the various political and military strategies…
The Archaeology of Animals
Ever since the discovery of fossil remains of extinct animals associated with flint implements, bones and other animal remains have been providing invaluable information to the archaeologist. In the last 20 years many archaeologists and zoologists have taken to studying such "archaeofaunal" remains, and the science of "zoo-archaeology" has come into being. What was the nature of the environment in which our ancestors lived? In which season were s…
Measurements of a Group of Adult Female Shetland Sheep Skeletons from a Single Flock
The Age profiles of Gazelles predated by ancient man in Israel
This paper presents age profile data for gazelle teeth and bones from a sequence of prehistoric sites in Israel which date from the Mousterian (50-40,000 BP) to Natufian (12-10,000 BP) periods. Within this sequence a small increase in the proportion of juveniles is observed in the Natufian. There are several possible factors which may affect the age profile of a prey species culled by ancient man. It is argued that the increase in the Natufian wa…
Climatic Change and the Advent of Domestication
En Israël, au cours du Pléistocène supérieur et de l'Holocène, deux changements ont pu être observés dans la faune 1) la disparition partielle ou totale du daim dans trois des quatre sites (12.000-11.000 av. J.-C.) correspondrait à une aridité plus grande au Naloujien, alors que l'homme exploite de plus en plus, semble-t-il, les céréales sauvages: 2) au Néolithique, un ou deux millénaires plus tard, un deuxième changement apparaît qui implique l'…
The Effect of Castration and Age on the Development of the Shetland Sheep Skeleton and a Metric Comparison Between Bones of Males, Females and Castrates
Men as success objects and women as sex objects
Quaternary Extinctions and Population Increase in Western Asia
Cet article présente une description de la faune en provenance de Biq'at Quneitra, site moustérien de plein air, sur le plateau du Golan. Ces restes appartiennent pour la plupart à des espèces de grande taille, essentiellement des équidés et de grands bovidés, peut-être des aurochs. La comparaison avec des restes plus récents en provenance du site de Ein Gev indique une évolution (constante) dans le temps : si on trouve couramment des espèces de …
Zooarchaeological evidence for Moslem and Christian improvements of sheep and cattle in Portugal
Why domesticate food animals? Some zoo-archaeological evidence from the Levant
Les premiers pas de la domestication animale à l'Ouest de l'Euphrate
Les auteurs exposent les résultats des analyses encore en cours sur deux sites, l'un à Chypre (Shillourokambos), l'autre en Anatolie centrale (Asikh Höyük). Ces sites illustrent tous deux, pour des régions pareillement situées à l'Ouest du foyer de domestication de l'Anatolie orientale, les premiers pas de l'élevage au Néolithique précéramique, entre la fin du 9e et le milieu du 8e millénaire av. J.-C. (dates calibrées). À Chypre, il s'agit clair…
Incised bones from the Mousterian of Kebara cave (Mount Carmel) and the Aurignacian of Ha-Yonim cave (Western Gallilee), Israel
Davis Simon. Incised bones from the Mousterian of Kebara cave (Mount Carmel) and the Aurignacian of Ha-Yonim cave (Western Gallilee), Israel. In: Paléorient, 1974, vol. 2, n°1. pp. 181-182
Freedom to do What you are Told
Arguably, the government's aim of using the reward of ‘earned autonomy’ and Foundation Trust status as an incentive to improve performance in the NHS will only be effective if Trust managers view greater autonomy as both desirable and realistic. This article examines this issue by investigating the extent to which members of an NHS Trust's senior management team perceive themselves as autonomous, the factors most likely to hinder their ability to…
Animal remains from the Kebaran Site of Ein Gev I, Jordan Valley, Israel
Le site Kébarien d'Ein Gev I est actuellement le seul site de plein air en Israël de cette période à avoir livré une faune abondante. La gazelle et le daim sont bien représentés. Capra aegagrus, ancêtre supposé de la chèvre domestique, est attestée. Deux oiseaux migrateurs suggèrent l'occupation du site pendant l'hiver
Molecular and osteometric sexing of cattle metacarpals
The excavation of hayonim terrace
Animal Husbandry and Agricultural Improvement
Agricultural historians have long been aware that a major increase in productivity and output characterised the so-called ‘agricultural revolution’. Usually, however, this has been measured by indirect means: the fact, for example, that English farmers were able to feed some 3 million more people in 1700 than in 1540, and almost 20 million more in 1880 than in 1750. Since mouths were fed without recourse to massive imports -which would have had s…
Sheep bones from the Negev Epipalaeolithic
Several unmistakable sheep bones are identified from Epipalaeolithic sites in the central Negev, Israel. They probably derive from wild sheep. This finding represents a southern extension of the prehistoric distribution of sheep
Brief Report
A barrow full of cattle skulls
A bone deposit found in a round barrow overlying a rich Beaker-period burial in Northamptonshire (England) contained at least 184 domestic cattle skulls and one aurochs skull, but very few other cattle bones or bones of other animals. Most of the cattle were young adults. The relative scarcity of premolars suggests that they were deposited on the cairn some time after death. The paper discusses archaeological and ethnographic parallels for this u…
Animal remains from Neolithic Lameiras, Sintra
The fauna of Neolithic Lameiras includes abundant sheep. Many could be secure- ly identified by applying criteria described by the late Joachim Boessneck as well as metrical methods. Sheep bones from Early Neolithic contexts, several dated directly via 14C, pinpoint the arrival here, 5450 cal BC, of this exotic animal three thousand years after its domestication 5000 km to the east. Thus sheep were transported at a rate of 1,6 km per year – consi…
The curious case of the Mesolithic Iberian dogs
Did the Romans bring fallow deer to Portugal
We describe six cervid bones — a distal humerus, three distal tibiae, and two astragali — from two Roman sites, São Pedro Fronteira and Torre de Palma, in the Alentejo of Portugal. They are identified on morphological and osteometric grounds as fallow deer, Dama dama. They represent the earliest Holocene evidence for this species in Portugal, and it is suggested that, like the camel, the Romans were responsible for its spread within their Empire.…
Mammal bones from the Early Bronze Age City of Arad, northern Negev, Israel
A Projected New Trusteeship”? American Internationalism, British Imperialism, and the Reconstruction of Iran, 1938–1947
Diplomatic histories identify an early cold war “paradigm shift” as restoring the troubled Anglo–American “special relationship.” However, an integrated analysis of Second World War and post-war Iran suggests continuity in ideologically based Anglo–American differences on the reconstruction of the postwar world economic periphery, and that this was the defining context for crucially elusive relations during successive crises to come. The American…
Keeping the Americans in line? Britain, the United States and Saudi Arabia, 1939–45
(1997). Keeping the Americans in line? Britain, the United States and Saudi Arabia, 1939–45: Inter‐Allied rivalry in the Middle East revisited. Diplomacy & Statecraft: Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 96-136
The Decipherment of the Minoan Linear A and Pictographic Scripts
The Decipherment of the Minoan Linear a and Pictographic Scripts
Animal remains from the Kebaran Site of Ein Gev I, Jordan Valley, Israel
Le site Kébarien d'Ein Gev I est actuellement le seul site de plein air en Israël de cette période à avoir livré une faune abondante. La gazelle et le daim sont bien représentés. Capra aegagrus, ancêtre supposé de la chèvre domestique, est attestée. Deux oiseaux migrateurs suggèrent l'occupation du site pendant l'hiver
The 1974 excavation of Hayonim terrace (Israel)
Henry Don O., Davis Simon. The 1974 excavation of Hayonim terrace (Israel) : A brief report. In: Paléorient, 1974, vol. 2, n°1. pp. 195-197
Incised bones from the Mousterian of Kebara cave (Mount Carmel) and the Aurignacian of Ha-Yonim cave (Western Gallilee), Israel
Davis Simon. Incised bones from the Mousterian of Kebara cave (Mount Carmel) and the Aurignacian of Ha-Yonim cave (Western Gallilee), Israel. In: Paléorient, 1974, vol. 2, n°1. pp. 181-182
Mammal bones from the Early Bronze Age City of Arad, northern Negev, Israel
Evidence for domestication of the dog 12,000 years ago in the Natufian of Israel
The effects of temperature change and domestication on the body size of Late Pleistocene to Holocene mammals of Israel
Size variation among several species of large mammals is examined both throughout a wide geographical range today and within the Late Pleistocene-Holocene archaeo-faunal sequence of Israel. A regression of log dental size on environmental temperature produces similar negative slopes for recent Palaearctic foxes, wolves and boars as well as for Nearctic foxes. These species, and others which also exhibit an inverse correlation between size and tem…
The excavation of hayonim terrace
Climatic Change and the Advent of Domestication
En Israël, au cours du Pléistocène supérieur et de l'Holocène, deux changements ont pu être observés dans la faune 1) la disparition partielle ou totale du daim dans trois des quatre sites (12.000-11.000 av. J.-C.) correspondrait à une aridité plus grande au Naloujien, alors que l'homme exploite de plus en plus, semble-t-il, les céréales sauvages: 2) au Néolithique, un ou deux millénaires plus tard, un deuxième changement apparaît qui implique l'…
Sheep bones from the Negev Epipalaeolithic
Several unmistakable sheep bones are identified from Epipalaeolithic sites in the central Negev, Israel. They probably derive from wild sheep. This finding represents a southern extension of the prehistoric distribution of sheep
The Age profiles of Gazelles predated by ancient man in Israel
This paper presents age profile data for gazelle teeth and bones from a sequence of prehistoric sites in Israel which date from the Mousterian (50-40,000 BP) to Natufian (12-10,000 BP) periods. Within this sequence a small increase in the proportion of juveniles is observed in the Natufian. There are several possible factors which may affect the age profile of a prey species culled by ancient man. It is argued that the increase in the Natufian wa…
The Archaeology of Animals
Quaternary Extinctions and Population Increase in Western Asia
Cet article présente une description de la faune en provenance de Biq'at Quneitra, site moustérien de plein air, sur le plateau du Golan. Ces restes appartiennent pour la plupart à des espèces de grande taille, essentiellement des équidés et de grands bovidés, peut-être des aurochs. La comparaison avec des restes plus récents en provenance du site de Ein Gev indique une évolution (constante) dans le temps : si on trouve couramment des espèces de …
Men as success objects and women as sex objects
The Anatomy and Biology of the Human Skeleton
A barrow full of cattle skulls
A bone deposit found in a round barrow overlying a rich Beaker-period burial in Northamptonshire (England) contained at least 184 domestic cattle skulls and one aurochs skull, but very few other cattle bones or bones of other animals. Most of the cattle were young adults. The relative scarcity of premolars suggests that they were deposited on the cairn some time after death. The paper discusses archaeological and ethnographic parallels for this u…
Measurements of a Group of Adult Female Shetland Sheep Skeletons from a Single Flock
Keeping the Americans in line? Britain, the United States and Saudi Arabia, 1939–45
(1997). Keeping the Americans in line? Britain, the United States and Saudi Arabia, 1939–45: Inter‐Allied rivalry in the Middle East revisited. Diplomacy & Statecraft: Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 96-136
The Organisation of a Zoo-archaeological Reference Collection of Bird Bones
This note describes how we have organised part of our reference collection of bird bones in a series of drawers. The layout takes into consideration a) part of the skeleton (all humeri, for example, are housed together), b) size (smallest species are in the first drawer, larger in the second and so on), and c) taxonomic position (within each drawer specimens within orders, whose labels are colour-coded, are grouped together). Empty cells, reserve…
Animal Husbandry and Agricultural Improvement
Agricultural historians have long been aware that a major increase in productivity and output characterised the so-called ‘agricultural revolution’. Usually, however, this has been measured by indirect means: the fact, for example, that English farmers were able to feed some 3 million more people in 1700 than in 1540, and almost 20 million more in 1880 than in 1750. Since mouths were fed without recourse to massive imports -which would have had s…
Les premiers pas de la domestication animale à l'Ouest de l'Euphrate
Les auteurs exposent les résultats des analyses encore en cours sur deux sites, l'un à Chypre (Shillourokambos), l'autre en Anatolie centrale (Asikh Höyük). Ces sites illustrent tous deux, pour des régions pareillement situées à l'Ouest du foyer de domestication de l'Anatolie orientale, les premiers pas de l'élevage au Néolithique précéramique, entre la fin du 9e et le milieu du 8e millénaire av. J.-C. (dates calibrées). À Chypre, il s'agit clair…
The Effect of Castration and Age on the Development of the Shetland Sheep Skeleton and a Metric Comparison Between Bones of Males, Females and Castrates
Historical Dictionary of the Cold War
Joseph Smith and Simon Davis have captured the essence and madness of the balance of terror of the Cold War in the Historical Dictionary of the Cold War. Covering an extensive period and much of the globe, this dictionary presents a year-by-year chronology and alphabetical entries on civilian and military leaders, crucial countries and peripheral conflicts, the increasingly lethal weapons systems, and the various political and military strategies…
British Agriculture
This article provides a compendium of quotations from early British writers on agriculture which may be of interest to the zoo-archaeology of late Medieval and post-Medieval periods
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