D A Scott

Biographic Data

ID3831666
NAMED A Scott
GIVEN NAMESD A
FAMILY NAMEScott
SIGNATURESCOTT D A
AFFILIATIONSJohn Radcliffe Hospital
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS11
WORKS AS AUTHOR10
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1983
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2015
H-INDEX3

  • Humanities for the Environment—A Manifesto for Research and Action

    Open AccessPoul Holm, Joni Adamson et al.ARTICLEHumanities2015

    Human preferences, practices and actions are the main drivers of global environmental change in the 21st century. It is crucial, therefore, to promote pro-environmental behavior. In order to accomplish this, we need to move beyond rational choice and behavioral decision theories, which do not capture the full range of commitments, assumptions, imaginaries, and belief systems that drive those preferences and actions. Humanities disciplines, such a…

  • Eliciting public preferences for healthcare

    Open AccessM Ryan, D A Scott et al.ARTICLEHealth Technology Assessment2001

  • Technical Study of a Ceremonial Sican Tumi Figurine

    Open AccessDavid Scott, D A ScottARTICLEArchaeometry1996Cited by: 3References: 1

    Examination of a Sican ceremonial tumi, dated to the Middle Sican, c. AD 850–1050, showed that it was made in a silver‐copper alloy of approximate composition 93% silver, 6% copper. Many separate pieces are used in the construction, joined together by both mechanical methods and by solder. The principal figure has been made from 18 separate silver sheets, with 169 separate parts identified in the head‐dress, totalling 187 design elements. Metallo…

  • Blood as a Binding Medium in a Chumash Indian Pigment Cake

    Open AccessDavid Scott, D A Scott et al.ARTICLEArchaeometry1996Cited by: 5References: 14

    As part of a study of Chumash Indian pigments, some black pigment cakes have been examined. One pigment cake was characterized as soot by polarized light microscopy, and Fourier transform infrared microscopy showed that the binder was proteinaceous. Protein determination was followed by examination using gas chromatography‐mass spectrometry analysis which showed a characteristic suite of amino acids to be present, proportionally similar to blood.…

  • A Useful Mineral Data Base for the Museum Laboratory

    Open AccessDavid Scott, D A ScottARTICLEArchaeometry1994

  • Soldering With Gold Alloys in Ancient South America

    Open AccessDavid Scott, D A Scott et al.ARTICLEArchaeometry1990Cited by: 3References: 1

    This paper presents the results of electron microprobe analysis of two gold studs, and their associated gold alloy solders. from La Tolita in Ecuador. Metallographic and compositional data are presented and the types of solders used are discussed

  • Manichaean Responses to Zoroastrianism. (Politico-Religious Controversies in Iran, Past to Present

    Open AccessDavid Scott, D A ScottARTICLEReligious Studies1989

    Justice will once (more) take the place which the Magians are keeping now, for it is they who lord it over the world. (Manichaean Homily , fourth century)

  • Medieval Christian Responses to Buddhism

    Open AccessDavid Scott, D A ScottARTICLEJournal of Religious History1988

  • Zoroastrian traces along the upper Amu Darya (Oxus)

    Open AccessDavid Scott, D A ScottARTICLEJournal of the Royal Asiatic…1984References: 3

    The aim of this study is to show how Zoroastrian elements have survived into the 19th and 20th centuries around the higher reaches of the Amu Darya (ancient Oxus), a river now forming the boundary between Afghanistan and the U.S.S.R, whose basin is mostly inhabited by East Iranian Tajiks and related Pamiri groups – that is, approximately Bactria of old. Although Islam reached Balkh as early as the 7th century, such Zoroastrian survivals should no…

  • The examination of a pre-hispanic gold chisel from Colombia

    Open AccessDavid Scott, D A Scott et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science1983