Peter Jordan
Biographic Data
| ID | 3643267 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Jordan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Jordan |
| SIGNATURE | JORDAN P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0514-6477 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 49 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 121 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 47 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
There’s Never Just One Type’
Life story work is a way of supporting children who spend time in out-of-home care to make sense of their experiences. It is highly valued yet poorly evidenced and inconsistently implemented with adolescents aged 12–18 years old. We sought to improve our understandings of the ways in which carers are already supporting what we describe as adolescent-focused low-intensity life story work (AF-LI-LSW) to improve the quality, consistency and availabi…
Tracing the early dispersal of reindeer in southern Sweden
After the wider deglaciation of Northern Europe, pioneer reindeer populations started to move into southern Scandinavia; however, this process is poorly understood. In this paper we aim to reconstruct dispersal processes of reindeer into southern and western Sweden from the Late Palaeolithic through to the Early Mesolithic, when reindeer disappear from the record. Has presence of reindeer in southern Sweden changed over time, were there changes i…
Dialectal name forms in official names - a view from Austria
The article highlights at first the system of place-name standardization at the global, national and subnational levels with all its benefits and problems and a focus on respecting standard language versus dialect names, where preferring dialect forms would mean standardizing to the benefit of the local or regional, not the national or global community. It then plunges into the Austrian situation with its federal, subsidiary political system and …
Science, Religion, and the Protestant Tradition
From Soul Science to Spiritual Information
John Templeton's philanthropic organisations provide funding for research at the frontiers of the natural and human sciences. That funding is consistent with Templeton's longstanding personal interest in science. This article examines why Templeton, a world-renowned investor, was so interested in science. Templeton's writings indicate that science mattered primarily because of its profound religious and theological potential. By promoting a varie…
The Philosophical Foundations of Social Work—Second Edition, Frederic G. Reamer
Journal Article The Philosophical Foundations of Social Work—Second Edition, Frederic G. Reamer Get access The Philosophical Foundations of Social Work — Second Edition Frederic G. ReamerNew York City, USA, Columbia University Press, 2022, pp. xiii + 264, ISBN 978-0-23120-397-5, £25.00 (pbk) Peter Jordan Peter Jordan Associate Lecturer, Department of Social Work, University of East Anglia, UK E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by t…
The Theological Significance of the History of Science
This article examines the rationale behind philanthropist John Templeton’s investment in the field of science and religion. His support stems in part from the conviction that historical developments in science are finally leading us to the right understanding of God’s relationship to the created order. The older, mechanical picture of nature that science purportedly gave us implies that God is distant from nature, whereas more recent discoveries …
Integrating cultural and biological perspectives on long-term human-walrus ( Odobenus rosmarus rosmarus ) interactions across the North Atlantic
The hunting of marine mammals as a source of subsistence, trade, and commercial revenue has formed an important part of human cultures across the North Atlantic. One important prey species has been the Atlantic walrus ( Odobenus rosmarus rosmarus ), sought after for meat, skin, blubber, ivory, and bone. Unfortunately, biological studies of current walrus populations and studies across the humanities and social sciences into past use and hunting o…
Naturalism in the Christian Imagination
Science today is often seen as providing the definitive frame of reference for understanding what goes on in nature. Furthermore, the history of science has frequently been portrayed as the story of steady progress in overturning religious explanation in favour of scientific truth. This narrative has been challenged by those who – like the author of this book – recognise that a naturalistic way of looking at the world, which lies at the heart of …
Some principal thoughts on place names and place naming
The article addresses in the manner of an opening speech basics of toponomastics like the symbolic and identity-shaping power of place names, the place-naming process with its implications not the least on the endonym/exonym divide, as well as major roles of place names in mediating between humans and geographical space. It adds some remarks on place-name standardization as it is exerted on the global level by the United Nations Group of Experts …
Providence and the Affective Benefits of Natural Causality
Stories of science as an engine of secularization generally assume that scientific ideas and traditional religion are incompatible with each other, such that the advance of the former necessarily means the retreat of the latter. In certain versions of these stories, fear heightens the tension in the plot by accounting for why religion exists in the first place. This article looks at a range of early modern English thinkers, including Walter Charl…
Croatian external relations as reflected by the use of exonyms
Departing from the assumption that exonyms, in the sense of »names used in a specific language for a geographical feature situated outside the area where that language is spoken and differing in its form from the name used in an official or well-established language of the area where the geographical feature is situated« (UN Glossary definition 2007), are indicators of external historical as well as current political, cultural, and economic relat…
Place names as ‘condensed narratives’ about the geographical feature denoted and the name-giving community
Geographische Namen können als ‘verdichtete Erzählungen’ überdas geographische Objekt, das sie bezeichnen, sowie über die namengebendeGemeinschaft betrachtet werden. In Richtung des Objekts gilt dies jedoch nurfür deskriptive Namen, nicht für Gedenknamen wie Namen nach Personenoder Ereignissen oder für neutrale Namen wie Namen nach Blumen oder Tieren. Die Zuschreibung der Qualität ‘verdichteter Erzählungen’ beruht auf derAnnahme, dass jeder Name …
The crucial and contested concept of the endonym/exonym divide
Paul Woodman has called it the “great toponymic divide”, but the endonym/exonym distinction is not a concept confined solely to toponymy, it can be transferred to all name categories, where the name used by insiders may differ from the name used by outsiders, e.g., to ethnonyms, anthro ponyms, names of institutions, where we frequently meet, for instance nicknames and derogative designa- tions used by outsiders. But there is no doubt that this di…
Species-specific reservoir effect estimates
Due to the marine reservoir effect, radiocarbon dates of marine samples require a correction. Marine reservoir effects, however, may vary among different marine species within a given body of water. Factors such as diet, feeding depth and migratory behaviour all affect the 14 C date of a marine organism. Moreover, there is often significant variation within single marine species. Whilst the careful consideration of the Δ R values of a single mari…
Neolithic farmers or Neolithic foragers? Organic residue analysis of early pottery from Rakushechny Yar on the Lower Don (Russia)
The emergence of pottery in Europe is associated with two distinct traditions: hunter-gatherers in the east of the continent during the early 6th millennium BC and early agricultural communities in the south-west in the late 7th millennium BC. Here we investigate the function of pottery from the site of Rakushechny Yar, located at the Southern fringe of Eastern Europe, in this putative contact zone between these two economic 'worlds'. To investig…
Fruits, fish and the introduction of pottery in the Eastern European plain
Dealing with the Dead
This 'On the Front Line' article explores the necessary and yet undesirable work undertaken by a third-generation, independent funeral director. Peter's narrative account of the realities of funeral directing and his journey into the family business offers a poignant insight into the dirty work of death work. Reflecting on his own exposure, experiences and practices Peter offers us an opportunity to see behind the scenes, to hear how he has learn…
Social Media, Social Capital and Adolescents Living in State Care
Social media applications are used daily by billions to communicate. Adolescents living in state care are no different, yet the potential implications of their social media use are. Despite the global use of social media and evidence highlighting their role in social capital cultivation, how adolescents living in state care make use of social media remains unknown, with discussions tending to focus exclusively on risk. Using data from a four-year…
Changing Clays
This paper provides a contextual summary of a diachronic analysis of ceramic vessels and hunter-gatherer societies from the final Pleistocene to the later Holocene in a remote corner of the Vitim Basin in Eastern Siberia. An integrated programme of ceramic analysis, raw materials survey, and archaeological investigation is drawn into new models of group mobility and social behaviour. The results challenge widespread assumptions about the relation…
Ancient lipids document continuity in the use of early hunter–gatherer pottery through 9,000 years of Japanese prehistory
Significance Pottery has had a central role in human society for many millennia, but the reasons for the emergence and spread of this technology are poorly understood. First invented by groups of hunter–gatherers living in East Asia during the last glacial period, production only began to flourish with rising global temperatures in the Holocene, but the reasons for its uptake and spread are unknown. Through chemical analysis of their contents, we…
Ceramics Before Farming
A long-overdue advancement in ceramic studies, this volume sheds new light on the adoption and dispersal of pottery by non-agricultural societies of prehistoric Eurasia. Major contributions from Western Europe, Eastern Europe and Asia make this a truly international work that brings together different theories and material for the first time. Researchers and scholars studying the origins and dispersal of pottery, the prehistoric peoples or Eurasi…
Persistent foragers
A comparative perspective on the ‘western’ and ‘eastern’ Neolithics of Eurasia
Modelling the diffusion of pottery technologies across Afro-Eurasia
You've got to trust her and she's got to trust you’
Participation by children in child protection remains a complex area of practice. This paper presents findings from a qualitative study exploring the views of 26 children, aged 6–17 years, about their participation in the child protection system in E ngland. All of the children were subject to a child protection plan and were living at home at the time of interview. The children's understanding of the child protection process was categorized, and…
Neolithic farmers or Neolithic foragers? Organic residue analysis of early pottery from Rakushechny Yar on the Lower Don (Russia)
The emergence of pottery in Europe is associated with two distinct traditions: hunter-gatherers in the east of the continent during the early 6th millennium BC and early agricultural communities in the south-west in the late 7th millennium BC. Here we investigate the function of pottery from the site of Rakushechny Yar, located at the Southern fringe of Eastern Europe, in this putative contact zone between these two economic 'worlds'. To investig…
Dealing with the Dead
This 'On the Front Line' article explores the necessary and yet undesirable work undertaken by a third-generation, independent funeral director. Peter's narrative account of the realities of funeral directing and his journey into the family business offers a poignant insight into the dirty work of death work. Reflecting on his own exposure, experiences and practices Peter offers us an opportunity to see behind the scenes, to hear how he has learn…
Investigating Neolithization of Cultural Landscapes in East Asia
Modelling the diffusion of pottery technologies across Afro-Eurasia
Bridging the Boreal Forest
This article examines Siberia's increasingly important role in the study of the emergence of pottery across northern Eurasia. The world's earliest pottery comes from Late Pleistocene hunter-gatherer sites in East Asia. This material is typically seen as disconnected from later pottery traditions in Europe, which are generally associated with sedentary farmers. However, new evidence suggests that Asian and European pottery traditions may be linked…
Social Media, Social Capital and Adolescents Living in State Care
Social media applications are used daily by billions to communicate. Adolescents living in state care are no different, yet the potential implications of their social media use are. Despite the global use of social media and evidence highlighting their role in social capital cultivation, how adolescents living in state care make use of social media remains unknown, with discussions tending to focus exclusively on risk. Using data from a four-year…
Prehistoric Hunter-gatherer Innovations
For a number of reasons, hunter-gatherers have generally been regarded as rather timeless and unchanging societies, lacking an inherent capacity for innovation and transformation. Consequently, cultural developments impacting on foraging societies have often been traced back to external sources, and not linked to the internal dynamics of hunter-gatherer societies. This section draws on a wide range of archaeological case-studies in order to under…
Evaluating Crime Prevention Scheme Success
Research demonstrates that certain crime prevention techniques work. Accordingly, current evaluations focus on what works and where. One of the key elements in assessing crime prevention success is determining the number of crimes prevented. This allows the cost-effectiveness of schemes to be assessed and different schemes to be meaningfully compared. Evaluation studies of what works include a variety of different approaches, some more robust tha…
Species-specific reservoir effect estimates
Due to the marine reservoir effect, radiocarbon dates of marine samples require a correction. Marine reservoir effects, however, may vary among different marine species within a given body of water. Factors such as diet, feeding depth and migratory behaviour all affect the 14 C date of a marine organism. Moreover, there is often significant variation within single marine species. Whilst the careful consideration of the Δ R values of a single mari…
Changing Clays
This paper provides a contextual summary of a diachronic analysis of ceramic vessels and hunter-gatherer societies from the final Pleistocene to the later Holocene in a remote corner of the Vitim Basin in Eastern Siberia. An integrated programme of ceramic analysis, raw materials survey, and archaeological investigation is drawn into new models of group mobility and social behaviour. The results challenge widespread assumptions about the relation…
Modeling Spatial Innovation Diffusion from Radiocarbon Dates and Regression Residuals
This article introduces a method of exploratory analysis of the geographical factors influencing large-scale innovation diffusion, and illustrates its application to the case of early pottery dispersal in the Old World. Regression techniques are used to identify broad-scale spatiotemporal trends in the innovation's first occurrence, and regression residuals are then analyzed to identify geographical variation (climate, biomes) that may have influ…
Hunter-Gatherers in the Post-Glacial World
Transcarpathia—Bridgehead or Periphery
This paper surveys the economic and political prospects of multiethnic Transcarpathia Oblast, a borderland region that historically has frequently changed political affiliations and which in 2004 will form a part of Ukraine's border with the European Union. More specifically, the analysis focuses on factors that have shaped the region's identity, the extent to which its current economic potential has been effectively utilized, whether its relativ…
The Theological Significance of the History of Science
This article examines the rationale behind philanthropist John Templeton’s investment in the field of science and religion. His support stems in part from the conviction that historical developments in science are finally leading us to the right understanding of God’s relationship to the created order. The older, mechanical picture of nature that science purportedly gave us implies that God is distant from nature, whereas more recent discoveries …
Evaluation of a domestic violence intervention in the maternity and sexual health services of a UK hospital
This paper reports on an evaluation of a domestic violence intervention in the maternity and sexual health services of a UK hospital. The intervention encompassed guidelines, staff training, inclusion of routine enquiry for domestic violence with all patients, and referral of women disclosing violence to an on-site advocacy service. An “assumption querying” approach was applied to evaluate the intervention. Programmatic assumptions were identifie…
EU Enlargement, the New Central European Member States, and Austria
A noted Austrian-based geographer examines impacts of the EU accession of Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Slovenia on these four countries as well as on the neighboring state of Austria. The paper examines broad macro-economic and regional development issues (including, more specifically, spatial disparities, cross-border relations, migration, and the political landscape) as well as attendant or projected changes in transportation infr…
Ethnic Survival and the Siberian Khanty
This paper is about the Siberian Khanty, their land and culture, and the long-term potentials for their ethnic survival. The Khanty — along with other mobile indigenous peoples of Western Siberia — have long been under intense assimilation pressures, which have included centuries of direct political subjugation, forceful inclusion into state economic structures, imposition of Russian language boarding schools and repeated assaults on traditional …
Sacred landscapes of Siberia
Cultural transmission, language, and basketry traditions amongst the California Indians
Transcarpathia—Bridgehead or Periphery
This paper surveys the economic and political prospects of multiethnic Transcarpathia Oblast, a borderland region that historically has frequently changed political affiliations and which in 2004 will form a part of Ukraine's border with the European Union. More specifically, the analysis focuses on factors that have shaped the region's identity, the extent to which its current economic potential has been effectively utilized, whether its relativ…
Evaluating Crime Prevention Scheme Success
Research demonstrates that certain crime prevention techniques work. Accordingly, current evaluations focus on what works and where. One of the key elements in assessing crime prevention success is determining the number of crimes prevented. This allows the cost-effectiveness of schemes to be assessed and different schemes to be meaningfully compared. Evaluation studies of what works include a variety of different approaches, some more robust tha…
Ethnic Survival and the Siberian Khanty
This paper is about the Siberian Khanty, their land and culture, and the long-term potentials for their ethnic survival. The Khanty — along with other mobile indigenous peoples of Western Siberia — have long been under intense assimilation pressures, which have included centuries of direct political subjugation, forceful inclusion into state economic structures, imposition of Russian language boarding schools and repeated assaults on traditional …
Hunting, Fishing and Reindeer Herding Peoples of Siberia
EU Enlargement, the New Central European Member States, and Austria
A noted Austrian-based geographer examines impacts of the EU accession of Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Slovenia on these four countries as well as on the neighboring state of Austria. The paper examines broad macro-economic and regional development issues (including, more specifically, spatial disparities, cross-border relations, migration, and the political landscape) as well as attendant or projected changes in transportation infr…
Diversity in hunter–gatherer technological traditions
Evaluation of a domestic violence intervention in the maternity and sexual health services of a UK hospital
This paper reports on an evaluation of a domestic violence intervention in the maternity and sexual health services of a UK hospital. The intervention encompassed guidelines, staff training, inclusion of routine enquiry for domestic violence with all patients, and referral of women disclosing violence to an on-site advocacy service. An “assumption querying” approach was applied to evaluate the intervention. Programmatic assumptions were identifie…
Sacred landscapes of Siberia
There have been few studies of how hunter–gatherers venerate topographic features and transform them into cultural landscapes by building structures and depositing artefacts. Ethnographic investigation of the material culture of the Khanty of western Siberia has documented this process, which has important implications for archaeologists studying past hunter–gatherer communities
Evolution of Overdeepened Valleys in Northern Switzerland
Environmental change and cultural dynamics of Holocene hunter–gatherers in Northeast Asia
Bridging the Boreal Forest
This article examines Siberia's increasingly important role in the study of the emergence of pottery across northern Eurasia. The world's earliest pottery comes from Late Pleistocene hunter-gatherer sites in East Asia. This material is typically seen as disconnected from later pottery traditions in Europe, which are generally associated with sedentary farmers. However, new evidence suggests that Asian and European pottery traditions may be linked…
Stone Tool Technology
Stone artefacts comprise the most abundant and most ubiquitous sources of evidence for the evolution of hominin behaviour during the Pleistocene. Changes in the ways stone artefacts were made and used over the past 2.5 million years document a number of trends in the evolution of behaviour and behavioural capacities, ranging from scales of land use to cognition. Time-lags between the earliest appearance of a particular method or technique and its…
New Approaches in the Study of Hunter-Gatherers
Archaeogenetics of Africa and of the African Hunter-Gatherers
The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology and Anthropology of Hunter-Gatherers
For more than a century, the study of hunting and gathering societies has been central to the development of both archaeology and anthropology as academic disciplines, and has also generated widespread public interest and debate. The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology and Anthropology of Hunter-Gatherers provides a comprehensive review of hunter-gatherer studies to date, including critical engagements with older debates, new theoretical perspecti…
Technology as Human Social Tradition
This book outlines a new approach to studying variability and cumulative change in human technology, a definitive research theme spanning archaeology and anthropology. The central argument is that human material culture is best understood as an expression of social tradition, with each artifact the outcome of a distinctive operational sequence, and with specific choices made at each stage in its production. The main focus is on exploring how diff…
You've got to trust her and she's got to trust you’
Participation by children in child protection remains a complex area of practice. This paper presents findings from a qualitative study exploring the views of 26 children, aged 6–17 years, about their participation in the child protection system in E ngland. All of the children were subject to a child protection plan and were living at home at the time of interview. The children's understanding of the child protection process was categorized, and…
Prehistoric Hunter-gatherer Innovations
For a number of reasons, hunter-gatherers have generally been regarded as rather timeless and unchanging societies, lacking an inherent capacity for innovation and transformation. Consequently, cultural developments impacting on foraging societies have often been traced back to external sources, and not linked to the internal dynamics of hunter-gatherer societies. This section draws on a wide range of archaeological case-studies in order to under…
Modeling Spatial Innovation Diffusion from Radiocarbon Dates and Regression Residuals
This article introduces a method of exploratory analysis of the geographical factors influencing large-scale innovation diffusion, and illustrates its application to the case of early pottery dispersal in the Old World. Regression techniques are used to identify broad-scale spatiotemporal trends in the innovation's first occurrence, and regression residuals are then analyzed to identify geographical variation (climate, biomes) that may have influ…
Hunter-Gatherers in the Post-Glacial World
Investigating Neolithization of Cultural Landscapes in East Asia
KatherineCalloway
Ancient lipids document continuity in the use of early hunter–gatherer pottery through 9,000 years of Japanese prehistory
Significance Pottery has had a central role in human society for many millennia, but the reasons for the emergence and spread of this technology are poorly understood. First invented by groups of hunter–gatherers living in East Asia during the last glacial period, production only began to flourish with rising global temperatures in the Holocene, but the reasons for its uptake and spread are unknown. Through chemical analysis of their contents, we…
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