Ursula Wittwer‐Backofen
Biographic Data
| ID | 5093162 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ursula Wittwer‐Backofen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ursula |
| FAMILY NAME | Wittwer‐Backofen |
| SIGNATURE | BACKOFEN U W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Freiburg |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 48 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 22 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Stressful times for women - Reply to Edinborough et al. (2021)
Stressful times for women - Increased physiological stress in Neolithic females detected in tooth cementum
We used the tooth cementum annulation method (TCA) to investigate physiological stress before and during the Neolithic demographic transition in Europe. Episodes of physiological stress are reflected as "stress layers" in the tooth cementum at an almost annual resolution. We used the TCA method to detect and count the number of the stress events for a sample of 21 Mesolithic and 25 Neolithic individuals from the Central Balkans from the period be…
Measuring incremental line width and appearance in the tooth cementum of recent and archaeological human teeth to identify irregularities
Quantifying prehistoric physiological stress using the TCA method
The Neolithic way of life was accompanied by an increase in various forms of physiological stress (e.g. disease, malnutrition). Here we use the method of tooth cementum annulation (TCA) analysis in order to detect physiological stress that is probably related to calcium metabolism. The TCA method is applied to a sample of teeth from three Mesolithic and five Neolithic individuals from the Central Balkans. The average number of physiological stres…
Maternal body mass index and smoking during pregnancy do not affect the proportional sexual dimorphism for birth weight– an analysis of the German Perinatal Survey
Smoking during pregnancy is related to lower birth weight, and high BMI is related to higher birth weight with no change in PSD.
External skeletal robusticity of children and adolescents – European references from birth to adulthood and international comparisons
Background: In our modern world, the way of life in nutritional and activity behaviour has changed. As a consequence, parallel trends of an epidemic of overweight and a decline in external skeletal robusticity are observed in children and adolescents. Aim: We aim to develop reference centiles for external skeletal robusticity of European girls and boys aged 0 to 18 years using the Frame Index as an indicator and identify population specific age-r…
The Pan-University Network for Global Health
In the current United Nations efforts to plan for post 2015-Millennium Development Goals, global partnership to address non-communicable diseases (NCDs) has become a critical goal to effectively respond to the complex global challenges of which inequity in health remains a persistent challenge. Building capacity in terms of well-equipped local researchers and service providers is a key to bridging the inequity in global health. Launched by Penn S…
Ambiguous provenance? Experience with provenance analysis of human remains from Namibia in the Alexander Ecker Collection
The project's aim is to verify the existence of Herero and Nama skulls among the roughly 1370 skulls in the Alexander Ecker collection (AEC). Methods include historical research, which was mainly concerned with the AEC and especially Eugen Fischer during his time as curator, as well as the methods of acquisition of human remains and scientific methods to verify the identity of the relevant skulls. Scientific methods include morphological sex and …
Anthropologie
Diversity in auxology
Auxology has developed from mere describing child and adolescent growth into a vivid and interdisciplinary research area encompassing human biologists, physicians, social scientists, economists and biostatisticians. The meeting illustrated the diversity in auxology, with the various social, medical, biological and biostatistical aspects in studies on child growth and development.
Schwertgrab = Mehrfachbestattung? Zur archäo-anthropologischen Auswertung der Schwertgräber von Zuchering-Ost (Stadt Ingolstadt)
Der Beitrag behandelt die Schwertgräber aus dem Gräberfeld von Zuchering-Ost (Stadt Ingolstadt), die sich alle in den Beginn der Belegung dieses Bestattungsplatzes (Phase Bz D) datieren lassen. Ein Teil der Leichenbrände (Grab 1–302) wurde in den 1990er Jahren anthropologisch ausgewertet. Mit Ausnahme von Grab 144 waren bei allen Gräbern mit Schwertbeigabe Hinweise auf jeweils zwei Personen (Mann und Kind) festgestellt worden. Aufgrund der Verdac…
Morbid obesity
Basics in paleodemography
Recent advances in the methods of skeletal age estimation have rekindled interest in their applicability to paleodemography. The current study contributes to the discussion by applying several long established as well as recently developed or refined aging methods to a subsample of 121 adult skeletons from the early medieval cemetery of Lauchheim. The skeletal remains were analyzed by 13 independent observers using a variety of aging techniques (…
Tooth cementum annulation for age estimation
Recent research indicates that tooth‐cementum annulations (TCA) may be used more reliably than other morphological or histological traits of the adult skeleton to estimate age. Until now, however, confidence intervals for age estimated by this method have not been available for paleodemographic and forensic applications. The present study addresses this problem. Based on a large known‐age sample, age estimates by TCA were conducted in a blind stu…
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Anthropological investigation of a Kurdish village population from south-eastern Turkey. II. Internal differentiation of morphological features
A small scale village society from southern Turkey has been investigated by demographic, social and anthropological criteria. An internal differentiation of the population on the basis of demographic and social data could be verified for morphological features, too. This is shown clearly by a differentiation of the population into two family complexes. The consequences for the interpretation of metrical random sample surveys in typological invest…
Basics in paleodemography
Recent advances in the methods of skeletal age estimation have rekindled interest in their applicability to paleodemography. The current study contributes to the discussion by applying several long established as well as recently developed or refined aging methods to a subsample of 121 adult skeletons from the early medieval cemetery of Lauchheim. The skeletal remains were analyzed by 13 independent observers using a variety of aging techniques (…
Tooth cementum annulation for age estimation
Recent research indicates that tooth‐cementum annulations (TCA) may be used more reliably than other morphological or histological traits of the adult skeleton to estimate age. Until now, however, confidence intervals for age estimated by this method have not been available for paleodemographic and forensic applications. The present study addresses this problem. Based on a large known‐age sample, age estimates by TCA were conducted in a blind stu…
External skeletal robusticity of children and adolescents – European references from birth to adulthood and international comparisons
Background: In our modern world, the way of life in nutritional and activity behaviour has changed. As a consequence, parallel trends of an epidemic of overweight and a decline in external skeletal robusticity are observed in children and adolescents. Aim: We aim to develop reference centiles for external skeletal robusticity of European girls and boys aged 0 to 18 years using the Frame Index as an indicator and identify population specific age-r…
Stressful times for women - Increased physiological stress in Neolithic females detected in tooth cementum
We used the tooth cementum annulation method (TCA) to investigate physiological stress before and during the Neolithic demographic transition in Europe. Episodes of physiological stress are reflected as "stress layers" in the tooth cementum at an almost annual resolution. We used the TCA method to detect and count the number of the stress events for a sample of 21 Mesolithic and 25 Neolithic individuals from the Central Balkans from the period be…
Ambiguous provenance? Experience with provenance analysis of human remains from Namibia in the Alexander Ecker Collection
The project's aim is to verify the existence of Herero and Nama skulls among the roughly 1370 skulls in the Alexander Ecker collection (AEC). Methods include historical research, which was mainly concerned with the AEC and especially Eugen Fischer during his time as curator, as well as the methods of acquisition of human remains and scientific methods to verify the identity of the relevant skulls. Scientific methods include morphological sex and …
Anthropological investigation of a Kurdish village population from south-eastern Turkey. II. Internal differentiation of morphological features
A small scale village society from southern Turkey has been investigated by demographic, social and anthropological criteria. An internal differentiation of the population on the basis of demographic and social data could be verified for morphological features, too. This is shown clearly by a differentiation of the population into two family complexes. The consequences for the interpretation of metrical random sample surveys in typological invest…
Reports and Information
Referate
Referate
Referate
Berichte
Berichte
Berichte
Tooth cementum annulation for age estimation
Recent research indicates that tooth‐cementum annulations (TCA) may be used more reliably than other morphological or histological traits of the adult skeleton to estimate age. Until now, however, confidence intervals for age estimated by this method have not been available for paleodemographic and forensic applications. The present study addresses this problem. Based on a large known‐age sample, age estimates by TCA were conducted in a blind stu…
Basics in paleodemography
Recent advances in the methods of skeletal age estimation have rekindled interest in their applicability to paleodemography. The current study contributes to the discussion by applying several long established as well as recently developed or refined aging methods to a subsample of 121 adult skeletons from the early medieval cemetery of Lauchheim. The skeletal remains were analyzed by 13 independent observers using a variety of aging techniques (…
Morbid obesity
Schwertgrab = Mehrfachbestattung? Zur archäo-anthropologischen Auswertung der Schwertgräber von Zuchering-Ost (Stadt Ingolstadt)
Der Beitrag behandelt die Schwertgräber aus dem Gräberfeld von Zuchering-Ost (Stadt Ingolstadt), die sich alle in den Beginn der Belegung dieses Bestattungsplatzes (Phase Bz D) datieren lassen. Ein Teil der Leichenbrände (Grab 1–302) wurde in den 1990er Jahren anthropologisch ausgewertet. Mit Ausnahme von Grab 144 waren bei allen Gräbern mit Schwertbeigabe Hinweise auf jeweils zwei Personen (Mann und Kind) festgestellt worden. Aufgrund der Verdac…
Anthropologie
Diversity in auxology
Auxology has developed from mere describing child and adolescent growth into a vivid and interdisciplinary research area encompassing human biologists, physicians, social scientists, economists and biostatisticians. The meeting illustrated the diversity in auxology, with the various social, medical, biological and biostatistical aspects in studies on child growth and development.
Ambiguous provenance? Experience with provenance analysis of human remains from Namibia in the Alexander Ecker Collection
The project's aim is to verify the existence of Herero and Nama skulls among the roughly 1370 skulls in the Alexander Ecker collection (AEC). Methods include historical research, which was mainly concerned with the AEC and especially Eugen Fischer during his time as curator, as well as the methods of acquisition of human remains and scientific methods to verify the identity of the relevant skulls. Scientific methods include morphological sex and …
The Pan-University Network for Global Health
In the current United Nations efforts to plan for post 2015-Millennium Development Goals, global partnership to address non-communicable diseases (NCDs) has become a critical goal to effectively respond to the complex global challenges of which inequity in health remains a persistent challenge. Building capacity in terms of well-equipped local researchers and service providers is a key to bridging the inequity in global health. Launched by Penn S…
External skeletal robusticity of children and adolescents – European references from birth to adulthood and international comparisons
Background: In our modern world, the way of life in nutritional and activity behaviour has changed. As a consequence, parallel trends of an epidemic of overweight and a decline in external skeletal robusticity are observed in children and adolescents. Aim: We aim to develop reference centiles for external skeletal robusticity of European girls and boys aged 0 to 18 years using the Frame Index as an indicator and identify population specific age-r…
Measuring incremental line width and appearance in the tooth cementum of recent and archaeological human teeth to identify irregularities
Quantifying prehistoric physiological stress using the TCA method
The Neolithic way of life was accompanied by an increase in various forms of physiological stress (e.g. disease, malnutrition). Here we use the method of tooth cementum annulation (TCA) analysis in order to detect physiological stress that is probably related to calcium metabolism. The TCA method is applied to a sample of teeth from three Mesolithic and five Neolithic individuals from the Central Balkans. The average number of physiological stres…
Maternal body mass index and smoking during pregnancy do not affect the proportional sexual dimorphism for birth weight– an analysis of the German Perinatal Survey
Smoking during pregnancy is related to lower birth weight, and high BMI is related to higher birth weight with no change in PSD.
Stressful times for women - Increased physiological stress in Neolithic females detected in tooth cementum
We used the tooth cementum annulation method (TCA) to investigate physiological stress before and during the Neolithic demographic transition in Europe. Episodes of physiological stress are reflected as "stress layers" in the tooth cementum at an almost annual resolution. We used the TCA method to detect and count the number of the stress events for a sample of 21 Mesolithic and 25 Neolithic individuals from the Central Balkans from the period be…
Stressful times for women - Reply to Edinborough et al. (2021)
Medicine (12 works) · Demography (7 works) · Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (7 works) · Dentistry (6 works) · Geography (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Biology (5 works) · Cementum (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Dentin (4 works)