F Donald Pate
Biographic Data
| ID | 3790833 |
|---|---|
| NAME | F Donald Pate |
| GIVEN NAMES | F Donald |
| FAMILY NAME | Pate |
| SIGNATURE | PATE F D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Flinders University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0238-0217 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 308 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Was it worth migrating to the new British industrial colony of South Australia? Evidence from skeletal pathologies and historic records of a sample of 19th-century settlers
‘Do dead men tell no tales?’ The geographic origin of a colonial period Anglican cemetery population in Adelaide, South Australia, determined by isotope analyses
Tooth enamel and dentine samples from 13 individuals buried in the unmarked ‘free ground’ colonial section of St Mary’s Anglican Cemetery in Adelaide were analysed for oxygen and strontium isotopic composition to assist with the determination of their geographic origin. As the life history of these individuals is not well-documented in the historical record, isotopic data provide important information about migration and mobility in a colonial So…
King Ariarathes Iv of Cappadocia (220–163 Bc)'s Impotence in the Light of Thyroid Disease
For a long time historical research dismissed the account about King Ariarathes IV of Cappadocia’s (reigned 220-163 BC) wife being unable to produce an offspring just as a defamatory explanation concocted by later writers to cover subtler political moves. Having palaeopathologically re-examined the biographical record of King Ariarathes IV in the light of a recently proposed diagnosis of thyroid goiter, by multidisciplinarily combining literary a…
Baseline bioavailable strontium and oxygen isotope mapping of the Adelaide Region, South Australia
Richard Allan Gould, 1939–2020
Dick was an unusual and amazing person (Figure 1). He had many interests and hobbies, but I’ll remember him most for his unquenchable curiosity, his courage to try things that hadn’t been done befo
These enchanted hills’
Tensions between constructions of nature and culture are increasingly relevant in the twenty-first century as natural environments near large population centres come under increasing pressure from developers. The western face of the Mount Lofty Ranges, South Australia, is a historically significant cultural landscape where, following European colonisation, landscape use transitioned between ‘cultural’ and ‘natural’ according to local economies an…
A preliminary redating of the Holocene Roonka burials, south‐eastern Australia
Roonka is one of the most complete excavations of an Aboriginal burial ground in south‐eastern Australia. The chronology of the site and the nature of its use have proven difficult to interpret. Previous dating and chronological interpretations of the site have emphasised a chronology of changing use and burial practices, but the nature of the site and the dates obtained do not clearly support these interpretations. We report on the direct dating…
Imaging ancient and mummified specimens
In mummified animals and humans, soft tissues like skin and muscle become more dense over time due to dehydration. At the same time, bone becomes less dense as marrow is replaced by air. This is a problem for the radiological examination of ancient specimens, as currently used methods such as single-energy CT and MRI rely on density and water content to produce tissue contrast in an image. Dual energy CT with effective atomic number imaging overc…
A Kaurna burial, Salisbury, South Australia
In 2011 a burial was disturbed during work in Salisbury, a northern suburb of Adelaide, South Australia (SA). Subsequent archaeological excavation revealed a male human interment in a deep alluvial context with a number of unusual characteristics, including a bone point and several ‘binding’ hearths. A sample of femoral bone was submitted for AMS radiocarbon dating and bone collagen stable carbon and nitrogen isotope analysis. Dating determined t…
Stable carbon and nitrogen isotopes as indicators of sedentism and territoriality in late Holocene South Australia
Previous research has presented hypotheses concerning the presence of widespread Aboriginal sedentism in coastal and riverine South Australia during the past 5000 years. These hypotheses were based on biological distance data (metric and non‐metric), isotopic analyses at the inland Roonka Flat site and the emergence of large, well‐defined cemeteries throughout the region. Stable carbon and nitrogen isotope data for a large burial population at th…
Retention of hunter–gatherer economies among maritime foragers from Caleta Vitor, northern Chile, during the late Holocene
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A Changed Landscape
Stable nitrogen isotope values in arid‐land kangaroos correlated with mean annual rainfall
Bone collagen stable nitrogen isotope values are reported for modern kangaroos ( Macropus spp.) from eight field sites along a 1160 km south–north transect from temperate coastal to arid interior South Australia, in order to investigate δ 15 N tissue variability in relation to rainfall and relative humidity. Mean annual rainfall along the transect ranges from 775 mm at Mount Gambier in the southeastern coast to 176 mm at Innamincka in the arid no…
Handbook of stable isotope analytical techniques, volume 1
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AMS radiocarbon dating of bone collagen
The Swanport Aboriginal skeletal population has played a significant role in physical anthropological research in Australia. This paper provides the first chronometric dates for this important burial population. AMS radiocarbon determinations on bone collagen from six individuals showed a calibrated 2a range from 1027 BC to 1521 AD. On the basis of this sample, the Swanport population appears to pre-date all European contact in Australia. These d…
Last Recorded Evidence For Megafauna At Wet Cave, Naracoorte, South Australia 45,000 Years Ago
Over 85 percent of Australian terrestrial vertebrate genera with a body mass greater than 44 kg became extinct during the late Pleistocene. These included all marsupials exceeding 100 kg (1 9 species) and 22 of the 38 species between 10 and 100 kg. Dwarfing occurred in many other species (Flannery 1990; Miller et al. 1999). The larger of these extinct animals have been categorised as megafauna
Stable isotopic analysis of prehistoric human diet in the Mariana Islands, western Pacific
Stable isotopic analyses of human and faunal bones provide a valuable means to differentiate marine and terrestrial food use in prehistoric tropical island environments (Keegan and DeNiro 1988; McGovern-Wilson and Quinn 1996; Ambrose et al. 1997). Because stable carbon and nitrogen isotope values in bone collagen are quantitatively related to the isotopic composition of ingested foods (Schoeninger and Moore 1992; Pate 1994), isotopic analyses of …
Bone chemistry and palaeodiet
The predominance of stone and bone in prehistoric archaeological deposits has resulted in the development of a range of methods to extract information from these important cultural resources. Since the development of radiocarbon dating in the late 1940s, a variety of analytical techniques derived from chemistry have been applied to archaeological research problems. Many of these methods have been employed in the analysis of archaeological skeleta…
Quaternary Environments
Late Holocene Climatic Changes Recorded In Macropod Bone Collagen Stable Carbon And Nitrogen Isotopes At Fromms Landing, South Australia
Late Holocene Climatic Changes Recorded In Macropod Bone Collagen Stable Carbon And Nitrogen Isotopes At Fromms Landing, South Australia." Australian Archaeology, 49(1), pp. 48–49
Bone collagen stable nitrogen and carbon isotopes as indicators of past human diet and landscape use in southeastern South Australia
Stable carbon isotope palaeodietary research at the Roonka Flat archaeological site, lower Murray River, South Australia (Pate and Schoeninger 1993; Pate 1995a, 1995b) suggested that there was minimal movement of people and/or food between the inland riverine area and the southeastern coastal and arid interior regions of South Australia during the late Holocene. Other archaeological and physical anthropological data, for example, cemetery and sit…
Bone Collagen Preservation at the Roonka Flat Aboriginal Burial Ground
A collagen extraction procedure was performed on cortical bone samples from 86 prehistoric human interments excavated from a sand dune at the Roonka Flat archaeological site near Blanchetown, South Australia. The interments date from the Early Holocene to the period of European contact, ca. A.C. 1840. Carbon and nitrogen concentrations in extracts were used to assess collagen preservation. Over 83% (15/18) of the Early Holocene sample and 34% (23…
New radiocarbon dates for the Roonka Flat Aboriginal burial ground, South Australia
New radiocarbon dates for the Roonka Flat Aboriginal burial ground, South Australia." Australian Archaeology, 46(1), pp. 36–37
Bone chemistry and paleodiet
The use of soil chemistry data to address post-mortem diagenesis in bone mineral
Stable Carbon and Nitrogen isotope evidence for prehistoric hunter‐gatherer diet in the lower Murray River basin, South Australia
Stable isotope data are making significant contributions to reconstructions of past lifeways by providing information about dietary variability, habitat use, and palaeoecology. Late Holocene hunter‐gatherers from the lower Murray River Basin of South Australia have bone collagen stable carbon and nitrogen isotope values similar to those for prehistoric lakeshore inhabitants of southern Ontario, Canada. While δ13C values indicate a C3‐based terres…
The stability of bone strontium in the geochemical environment
Retention of hunter–gatherer economies among maritime foragers from Caleta Vitor, northern Chile, during the late Holocene
Stable carbon isotope assessment of hunter—Gatherermobility in prehistoric South Australia
Bone collagen diagenesis at Roonka Flat, South Australia
A simple screening procedure to select archaeological bone samples for radiocarbon dating or stable isotope analysis is assessed at the Roonka Flat Dune, South Australia. Carbon and nitrogen concentrations in HCl insoluble bone extracts are employed to address variations in collagen preservation. Sandy sediments like those at Roonka provide one of the poorest environments for archaeological bone preservation. However, many prehistoric human inter…
New radiocarbon dates for the Roonka Flat Aboriginal burial ground, South Australia
New radiocarbon dates for the Roonka Flat Aboriginal burial ground, South Australia." Australian Archaeology, 46(1), pp. 36–37
Bone collagen stable nitrogen and carbon isotopes as indicators of past human diet and landscape use in southeastern South Australia
Stable carbon isotope palaeodietary research at the Roonka Flat archaeological site, lower Murray River, South Australia (Pate and Schoeninger 1993; Pate 1995a, 1995b) suggested that there was minimal movement of people and/or food between the inland riverine area and the southeastern coastal and arid interior regions of South Australia during the late Holocene. Other archaeological and physical anthropological data, for example, cemetery and sit…
Stable carbon and nitrogen isotopes as indicators of sedentism and territoriality in late Holocene South Australia
Previous research has presented hypotheses concerning the presence of widespread Aboriginal sedentism in coastal and riverine South Australia during the past 5000 years. These hypotheses were based on biological distance data (metric and non‐metric), isotopic analyses at the inland Roonka Flat site and the emergence of large, well‐defined cemeteries throughout the region. Stable carbon and nitrogen isotope data for a large burial population at th…
A preliminary redating of the Holocene Roonka burials, south‐eastern Australia
Roonka is one of the most complete excavations of an Aboriginal burial ground in south‐eastern Australia. The chronology of the site and the nature of its use have proven difficult to interpret. Previous dating and chronological interpretations of the site have emphasised a chronology of changing use and burial practices, but the nature of the site and the dates obtained do not clearly support these interpretations. We report on the direct dating…
Stable nitrogen isotope values in arid‐land kangaroos correlated with mean annual rainfall
Bone collagen stable nitrogen isotope values are reported for modern kangaroos ( Macropus spp.) from eight field sites along a 1160 km south–north transect from temperate coastal to arid interior South Australia, in order to investigate δ 15 N tissue variability in relation to rainfall and relative humidity. Mean annual rainfall along the transect ranges from 775 mm at Mount Gambier in the southeastern coast to 176 mm at Innamincka in the arid no…
Stable isotopic analysis of prehistoric human diet in the Mariana Islands, western Pacific
Stable isotopic analyses of human and faunal bones provide a valuable means to differentiate marine and terrestrial food use in prehistoric tropical island environments (Keegan and DeNiro 1988; McGovern-Wilson and Quinn 1996; Ambrose et al. 1997). Because stable carbon and nitrogen isotope values in bone collagen are quantitatively related to the isotopic composition of ingested foods (Schoeninger and Moore 1992; Pate 1994), isotopic analyses of …
Late Holocene Climatic Changes Recorded In Macropod Bone Collagen Stable Carbon And Nitrogen Isotopes At Fromms Landing, South Australia
Late Holocene Climatic Changes Recorded In Macropod Bone Collagen Stable Carbon And Nitrogen Isotopes At Fromms Landing, South Australia." Australian Archaeology, 49(1), pp. 48–49
Alterations of in vivo elemental dietary signatures in archaeological bone
Thermogravimetric and multi‐element analyses of archaeological human rib and modem mammal controls from the lower Murray River region of South Australia indicate that magnesium, strontium, and barium concentrations in the archaeological bone have been altered significantly by post‐mortem chemical reactions in the burial environment. Ionic exchanges between soil solution and buried bone resulted in lower bone magnesium concentrations and higher bo…
Bone chemistry and palaeodiet
The predominance of stone and bone in prehistoric archaeological deposits has resulted in the development of a range of methods to extract information from these important cultural resources. Since the development of radiocarbon dating in the late 1940s, a variety of analytical techniques derived from chemistry have been applied to archaeological research problems. Many of these methods have been employed in the analysis of archaeological skeleta…
AMS radiocarbon dating of bone collagen
The Swanport Aboriginal skeletal population has played a significant role in physical anthropological research in Australia. This paper provides the first chronometric dates for this important burial population. AMS radiocarbon determinations on bone collagen from six individuals showed a calibrated 2a range from 1027 BC to 1521 AD. On the basis of this sample, the Swanport population appears to pre-date all European contact in Australia. These d…
Palaeodietary inferences from bone collagen stable carbon isotopes at Roonka Flat, South Australia
Palaeodietary inferences from bone collagen stable carbon isotopes at Roonka Flat, South Australia." Australian Archaeology, 40(1), p. 57
Last Recorded Evidence For Megafauna At Wet Cave, Naracoorte, South Australia 45,000 Years Ago
Over 85 percent of Australian terrestrial vertebrate genera with a body mass greater than 44 kg became extinct during the late Pleistocene. These included all marsupials exceeding 100 kg (1 9 species) and 22 of the 38 species between 10 and 100 kg. Dwarfing occurred in many other species (Flannery 1990; Miller et al. 1999). The larger of these extinct animals have been categorised as megafauna
Bone Collagen Preservation at the Roonka Flat Aboriginal Burial Ground
A collagen extraction procedure was performed on cortical bone samples from 86 prehistoric human interments excavated from a sand dune at the Roonka Flat archaeological site near Blanchetown, South Australia. The interments date from the Early Holocene to the period of European contact, ca. A.C. 1840. Carbon and nitrogen concentrations in extracts were used to assess collagen preservation. Over 83% (15/18) of the Early Holocene sample and 34% (23…
Palaeopathology of Aboriginal Australians
The book offers a theoretical approach to Upper Pleistocene regional epidemiology and also presents empirical data of the health of late Pleistocene and Holocene populations. Major categories of disease described are: stress, osteoarthritis, fractures, certain congenital malformations, neoplasms, non-specific and treponemal infection as well as some surgical techniques used by Aboriginal people. Much of the book's discussion takes a regional appr…
Richard Allan Gould, 1939–2020
Dick was an unusual and amazing person (Figure 1). He had many interests and hobbies, but I’ll remember him most for his unquenchable curiosity, his courage to try things that hadn’t been done befo
A Kaurna burial, Salisbury, South Australia
In 2011 a burial was disturbed during work in Salisbury, a northern suburb of Adelaide, South Australia (SA). Subsequent archaeological excavation revealed a male human interment in a deep alluvial context with a number of unusual characteristics, including a bone point and several ‘binding’ hearths. A sample of femoral bone was submitted for AMS radiocarbon dating and bone collagen stable carbon and nitrogen isotope analysis. Dating determined t…
A Changed Landscape
Quaternary Environments
The stability of bone strontium in the geochemical environment
The effects of drought on Ngatatjara plant use
The use of soil chemistry data to address post-mortem diagenesis in bone mineral
Theses 1987-88
Alterations of in vivo elemental dietary signatures in archaeological bone
Thermogravimetric and multi‐element analyses of archaeological human rib and modem mammal controls from the lower Murray River region of South Australia indicate that magnesium, strontium, and barium concentrations in the archaeological bone have been altered significantly by post‐mortem chemical reactions in the burial environment. Ionic exchanges between soil solution and buried bone resulted in lower bone magnesium concentrations and higher bo…
Bone chemistry and paleodiet
Palaeodietary inferences from bone collagen stable carbon isotopes at Roonka Flat, South Australia
Palaeodietary inferences from bone collagen stable carbon isotopes at Roonka Flat, South Australia." Australian Archaeology, 40(1), p. 57
Stable carbon isotope assessment of hunter—Gatherermobility in prehistoric South Australia
Palaeopathology of Aboriginal Australians
The book offers a theoretical approach to Upper Pleistocene regional epidemiology and also presents empirical data of the health of late Pleistocene and Holocene populations. Major categories of disease described are: stress, osteoarthritis, fractures, certain congenital malformations, neoplasms, non-specific and treponemal infection as well as some surgical techniques used by Aboriginal people. Much of the book's discussion takes a regional appr…
Bone Chemistry and Paleodiet
Bone collagen diagenesis at Roonka Flat, South Australia
A simple screening procedure to select archaeological bone samples for radiocarbon dating or stable isotope analysis is assessed at the Roonka Flat Dune, South Australia. Carbon and nitrogen concentrations in HCl insoluble bone extracts are employed to address variations in collagen preservation. Sandy sediments like those at Roonka provide one of the poorest environments for archaeological bone preservation. However, many prehistoric human inter…
Bone collagen stable nitrogen and carbon isotopes as indicators of past human diet and landscape use in southeastern South Australia
Stable carbon isotope palaeodietary research at the Roonka Flat archaeological site, lower Murray River, South Australia (Pate and Schoeninger 1993; Pate 1995a, 1995b) suggested that there was minimal movement of people and/or food between the inland riverine area and the southeastern coastal and arid interior regions of South Australia during the late Holocene. Other archaeological and physical anthropological data, for example, cemetery and sit…
Bone Collagen Preservation at the Roonka Flat Aboriginal Burial Ground
A collagen extraction procedure was performed on cortical bone samples from 86 prehistoric human interments excavated from a sand dune at the Roonka Flat archaeological site near Blanchetown, South Australia. The interments date from the Early Holocene to the period of European contact, ca. A.C. 1840. Carbon and nitrogen concentrations in extracts were used to assess collagen preservation. Over 83% (15/18) of the Early Holocene sample and 34% (23…
New radiocarbon dates for the Roonka Flat Aboriginal burial ground, South Australia
New radiocarbon dates for the Roonka Flat Aboriginal burial ground, South Australia." Australian Archaeology, 46(1), pp. 36–37
Stable Carbon and Nitrogen isotope evidence for prehistoric hunter‐gatherer diet in the lower Murray River basin, South Australia
Stable isotope data are making significant contributions to reconstructions of past lifeways by providing information about dietary variability, habitat use, and palaeoecology. Late Holocene hunter‐gatherers from the lower Murray River Basin of South Australia have bone collagen stable carbon and nitrogen isotope values similar to those for prehistoric lakeshore inhabitants of southern Ontario, Canada. While δ13C values indicate a C3‐based terres…
Quaternary Environments
Late Holocene Climatic Changes Recorded In Macropod Bone Collagen Stable Carbon And Nitrogen Isotopes At Fromms Landing, South Australia
Late Holocene Climatic Changes Recorded In Macropod Bone Collagen Stable Carbon And Nitrogen Isotopes At Fromms Landing, South Australia." Australian Archaeology, 49(1), pp. 48–49
Bone chemistry and palaeodiet
The predominance of stone and bone in prehistoric archaeological deposits has resulted in the development of a range of methods to extract information from these important cultural resources. Since the development of radiocarbon dating in the late 1940s, a variety of analytical techniques derived from chemistry have been applied to archaeological research problems. Many of these methods have been employed in the analysis of archaeological skeleta…
Stable isotopic analysis of prehistoric human diet in the Mariana Islands, western Pacific
Stable isotopic analyses of human and faunal bones provide a valuable means to differentiate marine and terrestrial food use in prehistoric tropical island environments (Keegan and DeNiro 1988; McGovern-Wilson and Quinn 1996; Ambrose et al. 1997). Because stable carbon and nitrogen isotope values in bone collagen are quantitatively related to the isotopic composition of ingested foods (Schoeninger and Moore 1992; Pate 1994), isotopic analyses of …
Last Recorded Evidence For Megafauna At Wet Cave, Naracoorte, South Australia 45,000 Years Ago
Over 85 percent of Australian terrestrial vertebrate genera with a body mass greater than 44 kg became extinct during the late Pleistocene. These included all marsupials exceeding 100 kg (1 9 species) and 22 of the 38 species between 10 and 100 kg. Dwarfing occurred in many other species (Flannery 1990; Miller et al. 1999). The larger of these extinct animals have been categorised as megafauna
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AMS radiocarbon dating of bone collagen
The Swanport Aboriginal skeletal population has played a significant role in physical anthropological research in Australia. This paper provides the first chronometric dates for this important burial population. AMS radiocarbon determinations on bone collagen from six individuals showed a calibrated 2a range from 1027 BC to 1521 AD. On the basis of this sample, the Swanport population appears to pre-date all European contact in Australia. These d…
Handbook of stable isotope analytical techniques, volume 1
Stable nitrogen isotope values in arid‐land kangaroos correlated with mean annual rainfall
Bone collagen stable nitrogen isotope values are reported for modern kangaroos ( Macropus spp.) from eight field sites along a 1160 km south–north transect from temperate coastal to arid interior South Australia, in order to investigate δ 15 N tissue variability in relation to rainfall and relative humidity. Mean annual rainfall along the transect ranges from 775 mm at Mount Gambier in the southeastern coast to 176 mm at Innamincka in the arid no…
A Changed Landscape
Geography (29 works) · Archaeology (28 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (23 works) · Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (19 works) · Geology (17 works) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (16 works) · Biology (15 works) · Ecology (14 works) · Chemistry (11 works) · Isotope Analysis in Ecology (10 works)