Roberta L Hall
Biographic Data
| ID | 79242 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Roberta L Hall |
| GIVEN NAMES | Roberta L |
| FAMILY NAME | Hall |
| SIGNATURE | HALL R L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Oregon State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 210 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Evolution of Intelligence and Consciousness
These five books address the evolution of cognition and consciousness, the two topics no longer considered synonymous but separate though related inquiries. Two books focus on consciousness as revealed in art and artifacts from prehistoric sites of anatomically modern humans; one evaluates the intelligence of anthropoid apes through ecological, ethological, behavioral, and anatomical studies of living and fossil apes; one concerns intelligence as…
Energetics of nose and mouth breathing, body size, body composition, and nose volume in young adult males and females
This research tests the relative ability of body size factors and sex to explain variation in nose volume and to explain metabolic measures during rest and moderate exercise in 50 young adults. It uses standard anthropometric measures plus two new measures of nose morphology (nose/face angle and nose volume) and evaluates body composition with a device for air displacement plethysmography. Standard physiological measures were obtained in nose-onl…
Using stable isotope analysis to obtain dietary profiles from old hair: A case study from Plains Indians
Stable isotope composition of human tissue reflects that of foods consumed, and can provide information about diet independent of artifactual remains. Here we refine and test this method by analyzing nitrogen (delta(15)N) and carbon (delta(13)C) isotope ratios in historic North American Plains Indians hair. Gas-source isotope-ratio mass spectrometry provides high-precision data for both delta(15)N and delta(13)C (+/-0.2 per thousand, 1 sigma) in …
Pleistocene migration routes into the Americas: Human biological adaptations and environmental constraints
Theories about the routes and timing of human entry into the Americas during the Late Pleistocene usually involve models of lowered sea levels and ice‐free land in Beringia, supported by locations and dates of archeological sites in Northeastern Asia and Northwestern America. Recently, paleoecological reconstructions made possible by advances in geochronology and climatology have received attention. Now morphological adaptations and environmental…
A Late Pleistocene Occupation on the Southern Coast of Oregon
Geoarchaeological research on the southern coast of Oregon brought to light archaeological evidence of early human occupation in the late Pleistocene. Indian Sands (35CU67) lies on a highly eroded deflated headland on the Oregon coast where previous surveys had found and dated surficial cultural materials as early as 8250 b.p. (uncalibrated radiocarbon years). Prior to excavation of Indian Sands, sediment and stratigraphic analysis, along with ra…
An energetics-based approach to understanding the menstrual cycle and menopause
A Late Pleistocene Occupation on the Southern Coast of Oregon
Loren G. Davis, Michele L. Punke, Roberta L. Hall, Matthew Fillmore, Samuel C. Willis, A Late Pleistocene Occupation on the Southern Coast of Oregon, Journal of Field Archaeology, Vol. 29, No. 1/2 (Spring, 2002 - Summer, 2004), pp. 7-16
How Were North American Sites of the Pleistocene-Holocene Transition Discovered
This article reports on a database categorizing the processes of discovery used in 323 North American archaeological sites that have an antiquity of at least 7,500 years. It discusses tabulations of discovery processes, types of material found in these sites, and methods used in dating them. These findings provide a context for research strategies currently used in seeking evidence of human occupation during the Pleistocene-Holocene transition
The evolving female: A life‐history perspective
The evolving female: A life-history perspective
Effectiveness of a consultation intervention to promote tobacco control policies in Northwest Indian tribes: Integrating experimental evaluation and service delivery
A quasi‐experimental replication of an intervention for promoting tobacco control policies in Northwest Indian tribes is described and the process of intervention including issues of collaboration among research institutions and Indian organizations is discussed. The policy intervention was evaluated using a pretest‐posttest design wherein 20 tribes that had served as wait‐list controls now received the intervention. The intervention comprised a …
Rapid assessment procedures to describe tobacco practices at sites managed by Indian tribes
Correspondence to Roberta L Hall, Department of Anthropology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA. Abstract Objective -To describe patterns of tobacco use and non-use in buildings managed by a sample of Northwest US Indian tribes, and at buildings of com parable local government offices in ad jacent communities, at baseline (1991) and after half of the tribes had received an intervention aimed at upgrading tobacco control policies (…
Tobacco Use Policies and Practices in Diverse Indian Settings
INTRODUCTION\nCigarette smoke is an equal opportunity killer. Although health data on American Indian populations are less comprehensive than desirable, it is clear that smoking-related diseases are a major cause of mortality. Because norms in the social environment are crucial in determining behaviors that lead to health or to illness, this paper reports data on policies that Indian agencies have implemented to regulate the personal use of tobac…
Clay Vessels at 35CS43 on the Oregon Coast
This article describes and analyzes two large unfired, non-portable clay vessels found at site 35CS43, at the mouth of the Coquille River on the Oregon coast, in levels estimated to be 1500–2000 B.P. These vessels are unique but share some features with other clay artifacts in the Northwest. Origin and production, use and breakdown, burial, and antiquity of these artifacts are discussed
Language and Cultural Affiliations of Natives Residing near the Mouth of the Coquille River before 1851
This case study of anthropological decision making examines the data and the process used in categorizing the culture of aboriginal people who lived in villages near the mouth of the Coquille River in southwestern Oregon. The chief problem identified is the tendency to make simplistic classifications of populations that are dynamic; a second problem is the unwillingness to review old data and incorporate new information when it becomes available.…
Origins and Implications of Sex
Betzig, Laura. Despotism and Differential Reproduction. New York: Aldine, 1986. xi + 171 pp. including appendix, bibliography, and index. $24.95 cloth. Halvorsen, Harlyn O. and Alberto Monroy, eds. The Origin and Evolution of Sex. New York: Alan R. Liss, 1986. xi + 345 pp. including tables, photographs, chapter references, and index. $68.50 cloth. Margulis, Lynn and Dorion Sagan. The Origin of Sex. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986. xiii + 2…
Assessment of Aids knowledge, attitudes, behaviors, and risk level of Northwestern American Indians
A survey was made of 710 American Indians of Oregon, Washington, and Idaho to assess the population's knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors in respect to acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), to estimate the population's risk, and to plan strategies to reduce it. In contrast to 3 percent of the general population, this study found 10.6 percent of male and 6.4 percent of female Pacific Northwestern American Indians in groups considered at high …
The Coquille Indians: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
Smokeless tobacco use and attitudes toward smokeless tobacco among Native Americans and other adolescents in the northwest
A survey of 1,180 sixth, ninth, and eleventh graders in three school districts in the State of Washington found that 34 per cent of male Native Americans, 24 per cent of female Native Americans, 20 per cent of male non-natives and 4 per cent of female non-natives are current users of smokeless tobacco products. In all areas and groups, the best predictor of whether an adolescent is a user is the use pattern of friends
A Methodology for Cross-cultural Ethnomedical Research [and Comments and Reply]
Dental pathology of prehistoric residents of Oregon
Dentitions of 208 prehistoric skeletal specimens from five geographic regions of Oregon were studied to describe their dental status. Comparisons were made of the incidence of specific pathologies among regions and between jaws. Maxillary premortem tooth losses were significantly higher than mandibular tooth loss. A relatively high caries incidence occurs in samples from the Willamette Valley and Klamath Basin where plant foods were used aborigin…
Biological Anthropology: Of Primeval Steps and Future Leaps: An Essay on the Emergence of Human Beings, the Source of Women's Oppression, and the Road to Emancipation. Ardea Skybreak
On Population Standards in Fertility
Gender and the Life Course . Alice Rossi
The Use of Quantitative Observational Techniques in Anthropology [and Comments and Replies]
The measurement of human activity is discussed in relation to anthropological methods and to observational techniques borrowed from the field of animal behavior. When observational techniques are used, a number of sources of bias emerge: choice of subjects, time of day, seasonal, demographic, and spatial effects, and the presence of the observer. Such biases can be circumvented. Use of a system of recording that describes both physical and purpos…
A Methodology for Cross-cultural Ethnomedical Research [and Comments and Reply]
The Use of Quantitative Observational Techniques in Anthropology [and Comments and Replies]
The measurement of human activity is discussed in relation to anthropological methods and to observational techniques borrowed from the field of animal behavior. When observational techniques are used, a number of sources of bias emerge: choice of subjects, time of day, seasonal, demographic, and spatial effects, and the presence of the observer. Such biases can be circumvented. Use of a system of recording that describes both physical and purpos…
Are the Biological Differences Between North American Indians and Eskimos Truly Profound? [and Comments and Reply]
A prevailing view in North American anthropology is that Eskimos are descendants of the most recent migrants from Siberia and are more closely related to Asiatic Mongoloids than to Indians. The assumption of Eskimo-Indian biological distinctiveness is challenged by genetic-marker and cranial data, analyzed separately and then compared, for populations from the Arctic, Subarctic, Northwest Coast, and Great Plains. Genetic distances and cluster ana…
Addendum: Child Transport, Family Size, and Increase in Human Population During the Neolithic
Functional relationships between dental attrition and the helicoidal plane
Several quantitative techniques were used to describe and analyze the development of the helicoidal curve of the dentition in a pre‐contact sample of 326 native Indians from British Columbia. Results were compared with studies of occlusal patterns in other populations, and anatomical‐functional features of the helicoidal pattern were abstracted and generalized. The features that define the helicoidal pattern were found to develop with attrition. …
Multivariate analysis of anthropometric data and classifications of British Columbian natives
Anthropometric data collected in native populations of British Columbia in the late 19th century by Franz Boas were analyzed by two multivariate techniques. Multivariate analysis of variance was used to test physical classificatory units devised by Boas and an ad hoc classification based on local cultural units. Both were found to have some empirical validity. Mahalanobis' D (Mahalanobis, '30) was computed between pairs of local groups, for both …
Using stable isotope analysis to obtain dietary profiles from old hair: A case study from Plains Indians
Stable isotope composition of human tissue reflects that of foods consumed, and can provide information about diet independent of artifactual remains. Here we refine and test this method by analyzing nitrogen (delta(15)N) and carbon (delta(13)C) isotope ratios in historic North American Plains Indians hair. Gas-source isotope-ratio mass spectrometry provides high-precision data for both delta(15)N and delta(13)C (+/-0.2 per thousand, 1 sigma) in …
Distribution of the Sweat Lodge in Alcohol Treatment Programs
How Were North American Sites of the Pleistocene-Holocene Transition Discovered
This article reports on a database categorizing the processes of discovery used in 323 North American archaeological sites that have an antiquity of at least 7,500 years. It discusses tabulations of discovery processes, types of material found in these sites, and methods used in dating them. These findings provide a context for research strategies currently used in seeking evidence of human occupation during the Pleistocene-Holocene transition
Dental pathology of prehistoric residents of Oregon
Dentitions of 208 prehistoric skeletal specimens from five geographic regions of Oregon were studied to describe their dental status. Comparisons were made of the incidence of specific pathologies among regions and between jaws. Maxillary premortem tooth losses were significantly higher than mandibular tooth loss. A relatively high caries incidence occurs in samples from the Willamette Valley and Klamath Basin where plant foods were used aborigin…
Paleobiology and systematics of canids and hominids
The Demographic Transition: Stage Four
The concept of the three-stage demographic transition from preindustrial to industrial society is here reviewed and revised. The rules of the third stage of the transition, in which socioeconomic development of the society and upper economic status of individuals are associated with declining fertility, do not apply to 20th-century America. A fourth stage, in which fertility level is positively related to the condition of the economy, is describe…
A Late Pleistocene Occupation on the Southern Coast of Oregon
Geoarchaeological research on the southern coast of Oregon brought to light archaeological evidence of early human occupation in the late Pleistocene. Indian Sands (35CU67) lies on a highly eroded deflated headland on the Oregon coast where previous surveys had found and dated surficial cultural materials as early as 8250 b.p. (uncalibrated radiocarbon years). Prior to excavation of Indian Sands, sediment and stratigraphic analysis, along with ra…
Tobacco Use Policies and Practices in Diverse Indian Settings
INTRODUCTION\nCigarette smoke is an equal opportunity killer. Although health data on American Indian populations are less comprehensive than desirable, it is clear that smoking-related diseases are a major cause of mortality. Because norms in the social environment are crucial in determining behaviors that lead to health or to illness, this paper reports data on policies that Indian agencies have implemented to regulate the personal use of tobac…
Language and Cultural Affiliations of Natives Residing near the Mouth of the Coquille River before 1851
This case study of anthropological decision making examines the data and the process used in categorizing the culture of aboriginal people who lived in villages near the mouth of the Coquille River in southwestern Oregon. The chief problem identified is the tendency to make simplistic classifications of populations that are dynamic; a second problem is the unwillingness to review old data and incorporate new information when it becomes available.…
The Coquille Indians: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
Smokeless tobacco use and attitudes toward smokeless tobacco among Native Americans and other adolescents in the northwest
A survey of 1,180 sixth, ninth, and eleventh graders in three school districts in the State of Washington found that 34 per cent of male Native Americans, 24 per cent of female Native Americans, 20 per cent of male non-natives and 4 per cent of female non-natives are current users of smokeless tobacco products. In all areas and groups, the best predictor of whether an adolescent is a user is the use pattern of friends
A Test of Paleodemographic Models
Paleodemography is a useful adjunct to archaeological reconstruction, but as a research tool it is relatively new and requires further study. This paper reports on a project in which the life-table method of modeling demographic processes, based on a sexed and aged sample from the community ossuary, was tested against census records of the population structure. Data were taken from cemetery headstones in a township in central Indiana, spanning th…
Effectiveness of a consultation intervention to promote tobacco control policies in Northwest Indian tribes: Integrating experimental evaluation and service delivery
A quasi‐experimental replication of an intervention for promoting tobacco control policies in Northwest Indian tribes is described and the process of intervention including issues of collaboration among research institutions and Indian organizations is discussed. The policy intervention was evaluated using a pretest‐posttest design wherein 20 tribes that had served as wait‐list controls now received the intervention. The intervention comprised a …
Assessment of Aids knowledge, attitudes, behaviors, and risk level of Northwestern American Indians
A survey was made of 710 American Indians of Oregon, Washington, and Idaho to assess the population's knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors in respect to acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), to estimate the population's risk, and to plan strategies to reduce it. In contrast to 3 percent of the general population, this study found 10.6 percent of male and 6.4 percent of female Pacific Northwestern American Indians in groups considered at high …
Multivariate analysis of anthropometric data and classifications of British Columbian natives
Anthropometric data collected in native populations of British Columbia in the late 19th century by Franz Boas were analyzed by two multivariate techniques. Multivariate analysis of variance was used to test physical classificatory units devised by Boas and an ad hoc classification based on local cultural units. Both were found to have some empirical validity. Mahalanobis' D (Mahalanobis, '30) was computed between pairs of local groups, for both …
Addendum: Child Transport, Family Size, and Increase in Human Population During the Neolithic
The Demographic Transition: Stage Four
The concept of the three-stage demographic transition from preindustrial to industrial society is here reviewed and revised. The rules of the third stage of the transition, in which socioeconomic development of the society and upper economic status of individuals are associated with declining fertility, do not apply to 20th-century America. A fourth stage, in which fertility level is positively related to the condition of the economy, is describe…
Functional relationships between dental attrition and the helicoidal plane
Several quantitative techniques were used to describe and analyze the development of the helicoidal curve of the dentition in a pre‐contact sample of 326 native Indians from British Columbia. Results were compared with studies of occlusal patterns in other populations, and anatomical‐functional features of the helicoidal pattern were abstracted and generalized. The features that define the helicoidal pattern were found to develop with attrition. …
Paleobiology and systematics of canids and hominids
Wolf and man: Evolution in Parallel
Examines wolf behavior in comparison with that of early man.
Are the Biological Differences Between North American Indians and Eskimos Truly Profound? [and Comments and Reply]
A prevailing view in North American anthropology is that Eskimos are descendants of the most recent migrants from Siberia and are more closely related to Asiatic Mongoloids than to Indians. The assumption of Eskimo-Indian biological distinctiveness is challenged by genetic-marker and cranial data, analyzed separately and then compared, for populations from the Arctic, Subarctic, Northwest Coast, and Great Plains. Genetic distances and cluster ana…
Physical Anthropology: Anthropological Studies of Human Fertility . Bernice A. Kaplan
A Test of Paleodemographic Models
Paleodemography is a useful adjunct to archaeological reconstruction, but as a research tool it is relatively new and requires further study. This paper reports on a project in which the life-table method of modeling demographic processes, based on a sexed and aged sample from the community ossuary, was tested against census records of the population structure. Data were taken from cemetery headstones in a township in central Indiana, spanning th…
Physical Anthropology: Reproductive Development of the Female; A Study in the Comparative Physiology of the Adolescent Organism. M. F. Ashley Montagu
On 'Redefining Race: Concepts of Race according to Physical Anthropologists
Gender and the Life Course . Alice Rossi
The Use of Quantitative Observational Techniques in Anthropology [and Comments and Replies]
The measurement of human activity is discussed in relation to anthropological methods and to observational techniques borrowed from the field of animal behavior. When observational techniques are used, a number of sources of bias emerge: choice of subjects, time of day, seasonal, demographic, and spatial effects, and the presence of the observer. Such biases can be circumvented. Use of a system of recording that describes both physical and purpos…
Distribution of the Sweat Lodge in Alcohol Treatment Programs
Dental pathology of prehistoric residents of Oregon
Dentitions of 208 prehistoric skeletal specimens from five geographic regions of Oregon were studied to describe their dental status. Comparisons were made of the incidence of specific pathologies among regions and between jaws. Maxillary premortem tooth losses were significantly higher than mandibular tooth loss. A relatively high caries incidence occurs in samples from the Willamette Valley and Klamath Basin where plant foods were used aborigin…
Biological Anthropology: Of Primeval Steps and Future Leaps: An Essay on the Emergence of Human Beings, the Source of Women's Oppression, and the Road to Emancipation. Ardea Skybreak
On Population Standards in Fertility
Smokeless tobacco use and attitudes toward smokeless tobacco among Native Americans and other adolescents in the northwest
A survey of 1,180 sixth, ninth, and eleventh graders in three school districts in the State of Washington found that 34 per cent of male Native Americans, 24 per cent of female Native Americans, 20 per cent of male non-natives and 4 per cent of female non-natives are current users of smokeless tobacco products. In all areas and groups, the best predictor of whether an adolescent is a user is the use pattern of friends
A Methodology for Cross-cultural Ethnomedical Research [and Comments and Reply]
The Coquille Indians: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
Assessment of Aids knowledge, attitudes, behaviors, and risk level of Northwestern American Indians
A survey was made of 710 American Indians of Oregon, Washington, and Idaho to assess the population's knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors in respect to acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), to estimate the population's risk, and to plan strategies to reduce it. In contrast to 3 percent of the general population, this study found 10.6 percent of male and 6.4 percent of female Pacific Northwestern American Indians in groups considered at high …
Origins and Implications of Sex
Betzig, Laura. Despotism and Differential Reproduction. New York: Aldine, 1986. xi + 171 pp. including appendix, bibliography, and index. $24.95 cloth. Halvorsen, Harlyn O. and Alberto Monroy, eds. The Origin and Evolution of Sex. New York: Alan R. Liss, 1986. xi + 345 pp. including tables, photographs, chapter references, and index. $68.50 cloth. Margulis, Lynn and Dorion Sagan. The Origin of Sex. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986. xiii + 2…
Language and Cultural Affiliations of Natives Residing near the Mouth of the Coquille River before 1851
This case study of anthropological decision making examines the data and the process used in categorizing the culture of aboriginal people who lived in villages near the mouth of the Coquille River in southwestern Oregon. The chief problem identified is the tendency to make simplistic classifications of populations that are dynamic; a second problem is the unwillingness to review old data and incorporate new information when it becomes available.…
Clay Vessels at 35CS43 on the Oregon Coast
This article describes and analyzes two large unfired, non-portable clay vessels found at site 35CS43, at the mouth of the Coquille River on the Oregon coast, in levels estimated to be 1500–2000 B.P. These vessels are unique but share some features with other clay artifacts in the Northwest. Origin and production, use and breakdown, burial, and antiquity of these artifacts are discussed
Rapid assessment procedures to describe tobacco practices at sites managed by Indian tribes
Correspondence to Roberta L Hall, Department of Anthropology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA. Abstract Objective -To describe patterns of tobacco use and non-use in buildings managed by a sample of Northwest US Indian tribes, and at buildings of com parable local government offices in ad jacent communities, at baseline (1991) and after half of the tribes had received an intervention aimed at upgrading tobacco control policies (…
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