J M Davidson
Biographic Data
| ID | 5632469 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J M Davidson |
| GIVEN NAMES | J M |
| FAMILY NAME | Davidson |
| SIGNATURE | DAVIDSON J M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Florida |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4349-2140 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 150 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1935 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
The Estimation of Live Fish Size from ArchaeologicalCranial Bones of the New Zealand Tarakihi,Nemadactylus macropterus
We present a detailed biometric and nutrient analysis of a species of fish in New Zealand known as tarakihi (Nemadactylus macropterus of the Cheilodactylidae family). This fish is primarily caught in deeper waters, and when found in archaeological sites points to offshore fishing. Modern specimens were measured when just caught and bones extracted and measured. Live fish characteristics were reconstructed using power curve fit equations. Bones fr…
The Estimation of Live Fish Size from ArchaeologicalCranial Bones of the New Zealand Tarakihi,Nemadactylus macropterus
We present a detailed biometric and nutrient analysis of a species of fish in New Zealand known as tarakihi (Nemadactylus macropterus of the Cheilodactylidae family). This fish is primarily caught in deeper waters, and when found in archaeological sites points to offshore fishing. Modern specimens were measured when just caught and bones extracted and measured. Live fish characteristics were reconstructed using power curve fit equations. Bones fr…
Slaves with Guns in the American South
The Droke Family Burial Ground (3BE655)
Padlocks as Supernatural Objects in the African Diaspora
John L. Cotter Award in Historical Archaeology
Padlocks as Negotiated Freedoms within Enslavement
Freshwater and Marine eels in the Pacific and New Zealand
Eels are ubiquitous throughout the Pacific and New Zealand, and offer a rich source of protein and fat. However, bones of eels are rare in archaeological sites. This contrast has been noted several times in archaeological literature, not just in the Pacific, but also in Europe. Explanations for the dearth of bones range from taphonomic processes, the bones are too small, or too fragile, or they preferentially self-destruct because they are rich w…
The Subfloor-Pit Tradition in the United States
Black and White Beads in the African Diaspora
The Confederate and the Freedmen
In 1999, the human remains, coffin, and associated artifacts of William Ayres Crawford, a Confederate colonel who died in Saline County, Arkansas, in 1874, was examined archaeologically. Comparisons to Crawford's biohistory are made to his contemporaries—African-American freedmen who lived and died in the 1870s and early 1880s and who were interred in Freedman's Cemetery in Dallas, Texas. The Freedman's Cemetery site was intensively studied archa…
A Cluster of Sacred Symbols”
Deconstructing the Myth of the “Hand Charm”
Descendant Community Partnering, the Politics of time, and the Logistics of Reality
This article explores some diverse examples as a way of furthering the understanding of the complexities of descendant community engagement and offering some suggestions as to methodology. Several sites are investigated with a variety of levels of community engagement and all have particular historical trajectories that have often helped determine the timbre and extent of this interaction. The example sites that this article draws on include the …
James Davidson
They Laid Planks ‘Crost the Coffins”
Encountering the Ex-Slave Reparations Movement From the Grave
New Perspectives from Old Collections
Charles Fairbanks advanced the field of plantation archaeology in 1968 in his pioneering excavation in the cabins of enslaved laborers at Kingsley Plantation, Florida, with a focus on identifying "Africanisms." Failing to recognize elements of African cultures, Fairbanks and his students moved to St. Simons Island, the Couper Plantation and Cannon's Point site, and focused instead upon socio-economic status patterns. Other archaeologists would la…
Hidden Differences Beneath a Surface Equality
(2011). HIDDEN DIFFERENCES BENEATH A SURFACE EQUALITY: MORTUARY VARIABILITY IN TWO LATE-NINETEENTH-CENTURY CEMETERIES IN CRAWFORD COUNTY, ARKANSA. Southeastern Archaeology: Vol. 30, No. 2, pp. 203-214
Keeping the Devil at Bay
Identity and violent death
During the Freedman's Cemetery Project of the 1990s, evidence of lethal gun violence was recovered archaeologically from several early twentieth century burials. Although lying in unmarked graves, those who died violently still have the chance of being identified through the very bullets that robbed them of their lives. Forensic identification of the bullets and other archaeological criteria are compared to descriptions of gunshot victims in news…
Resurrection Men” in Dallas
The Landscape of Van Winkle’s Mill
Rituals Captured in Context and Time
The Quality of African-American Life in the Old Southwest near the Turn of the Twentieth Century
This chapter examines the quality of life of African–Americans in the historic West between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The primary data come from two sites: Cedar Grove Cemetery in rural southwest Arkansas, and Freedman's Cemetery, an urban graveyard located in downtown Dallas, Texas. We compare these skeletal series to archival and other demographic data sets and to a small…
Rituals Captured in Context and Time
Keeping the Devil at Bay
The Landscape of Van Winkle’s Mill
Deconstructing the Myth of the “Hand Charm”
Resurrection Men” in Dallas
A Cluster of Sacred Symbols”
New Perspectives from Old Collections
Charles Fairbanks advanced the field of plantation archaeology in 1968 in his pioneering excavation in the cabins of enslaved laborers at Kingsley Plantation, Florida, with a focus on identifying "Africanisms." Failing to recognize elements of African cultures, Fairbanks and his students moved to St. Simons Island, the Couper Plantation and Cannon's Point site, and focused instead upon socio-economic status patterns. Other archaeologists would la…
They Laid Planks ‘Crost the Coffins”
The Subfloor-Pit Tradition in the United States
Black and White Beads in the African Diaspora
Hidden Differences Beneath a Surface Equality
(2011). HIDDEN DIFFERENCES BENEATH A SURFACE EQUALITY: MORTUARY VARIABILITY IN TWO LATE-NINETEENTH-CENTURY CEMETERIES IN CRAWFORD COUNTY, ARKANSA. Southeastern Archaeology: Vol. 30, No. 2, pp. 203-214
Report on some Discoveries at Glenluce Sands, Wigtownshire
Padlocks as Negotiated Freedoms within Enslavement
The Confederate and the Freedmen
In 1999, the human remains, coffin, and associated artifacts of William Ayres Crawford, a Confederate colonel who died in Saline County, Arkansas, in 1874, was examined archaeologically. Comparisons to Crawford's biohistory are made to his contemporaries—African-American freedmen who lived and died in the 1870s and early 1880s and who were interred in Freedman's Cemetery in Dallas, Texas. The Freedman's Cemetery site was intensively studied archa…
Encountering the Ex-Slave Reparations Movement From the Grave
A Bronze Age Cemetery at Knappers, Kilbowie, Dumbartonshire
Notes on Some Antiquities from Sutherland
Two cists were found side by side at Achinchanter whilst ploughing. The crouched skeleton in the first cist was very badly decomposed and only fragments of skull and long bone survived. The second cist contained a human jaw bone, a flint barbed and tanged arrowhead, a Food Vessel and a fragment of bronze. A sculptured stone from Embo Street formed part of a cist. The symbol suggests the form of a much shortened spade with a greatly exaggerated ha…
A Miscellany of Antiquities in Easter Ross and Sutherland
Sites discussed include a prehistoric tumulus, a short-cist cemetery, early Christian chapels, castles, a post-medieval sculptured grave slab, three chambered cairns, a stone circle and artefacts including flint and stone tools
A Stone Age Site at Woodend Loch, near Coatbridge
Report on some Discoveries at Glenluce Sands, Wigtownshire
Induction of increased collagen and elastin biosynthesis in copper-deficient pig aorta.
Young pigs raised on a copper-deficient diet develop severe abnormalities of connective tissue due to defective cross-linking of collagen and elastin. They eventually succumb to anemia and cardiovascular damage, the latter apparently due to the defective connective tissue metabolism. We evaluated the effects of nutritional copper deficiency upon collagen and elastin synthesis using short-term explant cultures of the medial portion of four success…
American Catholic Laity in a Changing Church
Journal Article American Catholic Laity in a Changing Church, by William D'Antonio, James Davidson, Dean Hoge, and Ruth Wallace. Kansas City: Sheed and Ward, 1989, 193 pp. $15.95 Get access Nicholas R. Ellig Nicholas R. Ellig Concordia College, Minnesota Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 51, Issue 3, Fall 1990, Pages 343–344, https://doi.org/10.2307/3711192 Published: 01 October…
The estimation of live fish size from archaeological cranial bones of the New Zealand blue codParapercis colias
Twenty-four measurements were taken on five of the paired cranial bones and the otoliths of a modern sample of 177 blue cod. Parapercis colias. Regression analysis was performed on these measurements to estimate live fork length and ungutted weight. A number of regression models were examined (linear, logarithmic, exponential and power curve) to work out the optimum estimator for each bone measurement. It was found that live fork length of this s…
The Quality of African-American Life in the Old Southwest near the Turn of the Twentieth Century
This chapter examines the quality of life of African–Americans in the historic West between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The primary data come from two sites: Cedar Grove Cemetery in rural southwest Arkansas, and Freedman's Cemetery, an urban graveyard located in downtown Dallas, Texas. We compare these skeletal series to archival and other demographic data sets and to a small…
Rituals Captured in Context and Time
The Landscape of Van Winkle’s Mill
Resurrection Men” in Dallas
Identity and violent death
During the Freedman's Cemetery Project of the 1990s, evidence of lethal gun violence was recovered archaeologically from several early twentieth century burials. Although lying in unmarked graves, those who died violently still have the chance of being identified through the very bullets that robbed them of their lives. Forensic identification of the bullets and other archaeological criteria are compared to descriptions of gunshot victims in news…
Keeping the Devil at Bay
Hidden Differences Beneath a Surface Equality
(2011). HIDDEN DIFFERENCES BENEATH A SURFACE EQUALITY: MORTUARY VARIABILITY IN TWO LATE-NINETEENTH-CENTURY CEMETERIES IN CRAWFORD COUNTY, ARKANSA. Southeastern Archaeology: Vol. 30, No. 2, pp. 203-214
Descendant Community Partnering, the Politics of time, and the Logistics of Reality
This article explores some diverse examples as a way of furthering the understanding of the complexities of descendant community engagement and offering some suggestions as to methodology. Several sites are investigated with a variety of levels of community engagement and all have particular historical trajectories that have often helped determine the timbre and extent of this interaction. The example sites that this article draws on include the …
James Davidson
They Laid Planks ‘Crost the Coffins”
Encountering the Ex-Slave Reparations Movement From the Grave
New Perspectives from Old Collections
Charles Fairbanks advanced the field of plantation archaeology in 1968 in his pioneering excavation in the cabins of enslaved laborers at Kingsley Plantation, Florida, with a focus on identifying "Africanisms." Failing to recognize elements of African cultures, Fairbanks and his students moved to St. Simons Island, the Couper Plantation and Cannon's Point site, and focused instead upon socio-economic status patterns. Other archaeologists would la…
Deconstructing the Myth of the “Hand Charm”
The Confederate and the Freedmen
In 1999, the human remains, coffin, and associated artifacts of William Ayres Crawford, a Confederate colonel who died in Saline County, Arkansas, in 1874, was examined archaeologically. Comparisons to Crawford's biohistory are made to his contemporaries—African-American freedmen who lived and died in the 1870s and early 1880s and who were interred in Freedman's Cemetery in Dallas, Texas. The Freedman's Cemetery site was intensively studied archa…
A Cluster of Sacred Symbols”
Black and White Beads in the African Diaspora
The Subfloor-Pit Tradition in the United States
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