Margaret A Judd
Biographic Data
| ID | 83572 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Margaret A Judd |
| GIVEN NAMES | Margaret A |
| FAMILY NAME | Judd |
| SIGNATURE | JUDD M A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pittsburgh |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7409-5597 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 198 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Living with lower limb traumas and below-knee amputation in a Jordanian Late Ottoman nomadic community
Robebus Chapel Crypt Burials: Commingled, Broken, and Processed
The Robebus Chapel at Mount Nebo was revealed in 1981 and its crypts excavated from 2007 to 2011. The earliest interments were supine and articulated, while the bones of later depositions were disarticulated, commingled, and frequently broken. Postdepositional tool modification occurred on seven crania and on the ribs of one of the estimated seventy-three adult males interred. The accessibility to the crypts provided a means for monastics to view…
Commingled crypts: Comparative health among Byzantine monastics in the Levant
OBJECTIVES: Early Byzantine (A.D. 330-842) monastic rules stipulated that entrants relinquished familial connections, personal belongings and secular relationships to become part of the ascetic collective that continued in death, resulting in bioarchaeological marginalization, as was the case of the monastics excavated from the Chapel of Robebus at Mount Nebo, Jordan (ca. A.D. 491-640). It was hypothesized that compared to contemporary monastic g…
The formation of human populations in South and Central Asia
Ancient human movements through Asia Ancient DNA has allowed us to begin tracing the history of human movements across the globe. Narasimhan et al. identify a complex pattern of human migrations and admixture events in South and Central Asia by performing genetic analysis of more than 500 people who lived over the past 8000 years (see the Perspective by Schaefer and Shapiro). They establish key phases in the population prehistory of Eurasia, incl…
A microscopic evaluation of Paget’s disease of bone from a Byzantine monastic crypt in Jordan
The monastic mosaic at Mount Nebo, Jordan: Biogeochemical and Epigraphical Evidence for Diverse Origins
A truncated temporal styloid process from the Jordanian Ottoman Period: Developmental variant or fracture
Life in the fast lane: Settled pastoralism in the Central Eurasian Steppe during the Middle Bronze Age
Skeletal stress markers and injuries were uncommon among the KA-5 and regional groups, but a MBA-LBA high subadult mortality indicates elevated frailty levels and inability to survive acute illnesses. Following an optimal weaning program, subadults were at risk for physiological insult and many succumbed. Only a small number of individuals attained biological maturity during the MBA, suggesting that a fast life history was an adaptive regional re…
Bronze Age diet and economy: New stable isotope data from the Central Eurasian steppes (2100-1700 BC)
Weaning practices among pastoralists: New evidence of infant feeding patterns from Bronze Age Eurasia
OBJECTIVES: N) isotopic analyses of human bone collagen from Kamennyi Ambar 5, a Middle Bronze Age cemetery located in central Eurasia. The results presented are unique for the time period and region, as few cemeteries have been excavated to reveal a demographic cross-section of the population. Studies of weaning among pastoral societies are infrequent and this research adds to our knowledge of the timing, potential supplementary foods, and cessa…
Multiple Injury and Health in Past Societies: An Analysis of Concepts and Approaches, and Insights from a Multi-Period Study
Earlier clinical and bioarchaeological studies found that injury recidivists were most likely to be young adult males. Since then, the clinical meaning of the injury recidivist has expanded to include all individuals with multiple injuries, and other aspects of health have been considered. Our study sought to apply these advances to paleopathology and place multiple injuries in a wider context by investigating: the age and sex distribution of tho…
Isotopic Evidence for Diet Among Historic Bedouin of Khirbat al-Mudayna, Jordan
Interpreting the behaviours of nomadic groups from the archaeological record is particularly challenging owing to the ephemeral remains produced by their lifestyle. As such, human burials - even from isolated contexts - provide a wealth of information about these transient groups. Stable carbon and nitrogen isotope analysis of a series of human skeletal remains (n = 22) from isolated burials were utilized to reconstruct the diet of historic (ca. …
Pubic symphyseal face eburnation: An Egyptian sport story
Strenuous physical activity leaves scars on bone that attest to the demands of occupation, sport, aggression and recreation. During the assessment of 74 C-Group Nubians from Hierakonpolis (Egypt) dated to the Egyptian Middle Kingdom-Second Intermediate Period (2080-1700 BC), robust muscle insertions along the ilia and ischia were observed among some adults. In addition, a disproportionate degeneration of the pubic symphyseal faces when compared t…
Dying to serve: The mass burials at Kerma
High ranking burial mounds in Bronze Age Sudan featured burials in a corridor leading to the central burial - supposedly of a king. Were the 'corridor people' prisoners captured during periodic raids on Egypt, or local retainers who followed their king in death? The authors use the skeletal material to argue the second hypothesis - coincidentally that advanced by George Reisner, the original excavator
The parry problem
Investigating health at Kerma: Sacrificial versus nonsacrificial individuals
This analysis examines heterogeneity in risks by assessing the health status of individuals in two distinct burial contexts from the Nubian site of Kerma: sacrificial ( n = 100) and nonsacrificial ( n = 190) burial areas dated to the classic Kerma period (∼1750–1500 BC). Indicators of physiological stress that were examined include cribra orbitalia, dental enamel hypoplasia, tibial osteoperiostitis, and femur length. The analysis presented here s…
The Nubian Past: An Archaeology of the Sudan
The Nubian Past: An Archaeology of the Sudan. David N. Edwards. New York: Routledge, 2004. 348 pp
Continuity of interpersonal violence between Nubian communities
Modern communities affiliated with the same culture have been shown to experience comparable levels of interpersonal violence, no matter what their size. It was hypothesized that a similar relationship would exist among ancient rural and urban people, but that accident‐related trauma may be more prominent among rural dwellers due to their activity base. Through an analysis of antemortem trauma, this investigation contrasted the injury profile of …
Trauma in the city of Kerma: Ancient Versus Modern Injury Patterns
Injuries, whether accidental or intentional, have incapacitated humans and their primordial ancestors throughout time, although the injury mechanisms have become increasingly more technologically sophisticated. Interpretation of injury aetiology among past peoples is challenging, and often impossible, however, clinical research from developing countries provides a useful analogy with which to evaluate trauma or health patterns of an ancient socie…
Comparison of Long Bone Trauma Recording Methods
Ancient injury recidivism: An example from the Kerma period of ancient Nubia
A topical trend in clinical research has been the study of repeat trauma, referred to by clinicians as "injury recidivism," which lends itself to the assessment of accumulated injuries among ancient people. The present investigation examined the healed injuries among two archaeological skeletal samples from the Kerma period (ca. 2500-1500 BC) of Sudanese Nubia. Both groups were known to have a high prevalence of multiple trauma-80% of 54 adults f…
Fracture trauma in a medieval British farming village
Farming is among the three most hazardous occupations in modern society and perhaps also held a similar position during the medieval period. The goal of this study was to determine if there is a significant difference in frequencies and patterns of longbone fracture trauma observed between rural and urban activity bases that distinguish farming as a particularly dangerous occupation during the medieval period. The longbones of 170 individuals exc…
Fracture patterns at the Medieval Leper Hospital in Chichester
Humans are constantly at risk of bone fractures, not only when threatened by personal violence, but also by the challenge of daily living. Because fractures are a cross-cultural phenomenon and are one of the more commonly observed skeletal lesions in archaeological collections, their presence provides a unique opportunity to compare living conditions, and thereby assess fracture risk in coexisting cultures. This study analyzed long bone fracture …
The parry problem
Trauma in the city of Kerma: Ancient Versus Modern Injury Patterns
Injuries, whether accidental or intentional, have incapacitated humans and their primordial ancestors throughout time, although the injury mechanisms have become increasingly more technologically sophisticated. Interpretation of injury aetiology among past peoples is challenging, and often impossible, however, clinical research from developing countries provides a useful analogy with which to evaluate trauma or health patterns of an ancient socie…
Ancient injury recidivism: An example from the Kerma period of ancient Nubia
A topical trend in clinical research has been the study of repeat trauma, referred to by clinicians as "injury recidivism," which lends itself to the assessment of accumulated injuries among ancient people. The present investigation examined the healed injuries among two archaeological skeletal samples from the Kerma period (ca. 2500-1500 BC) of Sudanese Nubia. Both groups were known to have a high prevalence of multiple trauma-80% of 54 adults f…
Continuity of interpersonal violence between Nubian communities
Modern communities affiliated with the same culture have been shown to experience comparable levels of interpersonal violence, no matter what their size. It was hypothesized that a similar relationship would exist among ancient rural and urban people, but that accident‐related trauma may be more prominent among rural dwellers due to their activity base. Through an analysis of antemortem trauma, this investigation contrasted the injury profile of …
Bronze Age diet and economy: New stable isotope data from the Central Eurasian steppes (2100-1700 BC)
Comparison of Long Bone Trauma Recording Methods
Investigating health at Kerma: Sacrificial versus nonsacrificial individuals
This analysis examines heterogeneity in risks by assessing the health status of individuals in two distinct burial contexts from the Nubian site of Kerma: sacrificial ( n = 100) and nonsacrificial ( n = 190) burial areas dated to the classic Kerma period (∼1750–1500 BC). Indicators of physiological stress that were examined include cribra orbitalia, dental enamel hypoplasia, tibial osteoperiostitis, and femur length. The analysis presented here s…
Weaning practices among pastoralists: New evidence of infant feeding patterns from Bronze Age Eurasia
OBJECTIVES: N) isotopic analyses of human bone collagen from Kamennyi Ambar 5, a Middle Bronze Age cemetery located in central Eurasia. The results presented are unique for the time period and region, as few cemeteries have been excavated to reveal a demographic cross-section of the population. Studies of weaning among pastoral societies are infrequent and this research adds to our knowledge of the timing, potential supplementary foods, and cessa…
Dying to serve: The mass burials at Kerma
High ranking burial mounds in Bronze Age Sudan featured burials in a corridor leading to the central burial - supposedly of a king. Were the 'corridor people' prisoners captured during periodic raids on Egypt, or local retainers who followed their king in death? The authors use the skeletal material to argue the second hypothesis - coincidentally that advanced by George Reisner, the original excavator
Commingled crypts: Comparative health among Byzantine monastics in the Levant
OBJECTIVES: Early Byzantine (A.D. 330-842) monastic rules stipulated that entrants relinquished familial connections, personal belongings and secular relationships to become part of the ascetic collective that continued in death, resulting in bioarchaeological marginalization, as was the case of the monastics excavated from the Chapel of Robebus at Mount Nebo, Jordan (ca. A.D. 491-640). It was hypothesized that compared to contemporary monastic g…
The monastic mosaic at Mount Nebo, Jordan: Biogeochemical and Epigraphical Evidence for Diverse Origins
Multiple Injury and Health in Past Societies: An Analysis of Concepts and Approaches, and Insights from a Multi-Period Study
Earlier clinical and bioarchaeological studies found that injury recidivists were most likely to be young adult males. Since then, the clinical meaning of the injury recidivist has expanded to include all individuals with multiple injuries, and other aspects of health have been considered. Our study sought to apply these advances to paleopathology and place multiple injuries in a wider context by investigating: the age and sex distribution of tho…
Isotopic Evidence for Diet Among Historic Bedouin of Khirbat al-Mudayna, Jordan
Interpreting the behaviours of nomadic groups from the archaeological record is particularly challenging owing to the ephemeral remains produced by their lifestyle. As such, human burials - even from isolated contexts - provide a wealth of information about these transient groups. Stable carbon and nitrogen isotope analysis of a series of human skeletal remains (n = 22) from isolated burials were utilized to reconstruct the diet of historic (ca. …
Pubic symphyseal face eburnation: An Egyptian sport story
Strenuous physical activity leaves scars on bone that attest to the demands of occupation, sport, aggression and recreation. During the assessment of 74 C-Group Nubians from Hierakonpolis (Egypt) dated to the Egyptian Middle Kingdom-Second Intermediate Period (2080-1700 BC), robust muscle insertions along the ilia and ischia were observed among some adults. In addition, a disproportionate degeneration of the pubic symphyseal faces when compared t…
The Nubian Past: An Archaeology of the Sudan
The Nubian Past: An Archaeology of the Sudan. David N. Edwards. New York: Routledge, 2004. 348 pp
Fracture patterns at the Medieval Leper Hospital in Chichester
Humans are constantly at risk of bone fractures, not only when threatened by personal violence, but also by the challenge of daily living. Because fractures are a cross-cultural phenomenon and are one of the more commonly observed skeletal lesions in archaeological collections, their presence provides a unique opportunity to compare living conditions, and thereby assess fracture risk in coexisting cultures. This study analyzed long bone fracture …
Fracture trauma in a medieval British farming village
Farming is among the three most hazardous occupations in modern society and perhaps also held a similar position during the medieval period. The goal of this study was to determine if there is a significant difference in frequencies and patterns of longbone fracture trauma observed between rural and urban activity bases that distinguish farming as a particularly dangerous occupation during the medieval period. The longbones of 170 individuals exc…
Comparison of Long Bone Trauma Recording Methods
Ancient injury recidivism: An example from the Kerma period of ancient Nubia
A topical trend in clinical research has been the study of repeat trauma, referred to by clinicians as "injury recidivism," which lends itself to the assessment of accumulated injuries among ancient people. The present investigation examined the healed injuries among two archaeological skeletal samples from the Kerma period (ca. 2500-1500 BC) of Sudanese Nubia. Both groups were known to have a high prevalence of multiple trauma-80% of 54 adults f…
Trauma in the city of Kerma: Ancient Versus Modern Injury Patterns
Injuries, whether accidental or intentional, have incapacitated humans and their primordial ancestors throughout time, although the injury mechanisms have become increasingly more technologically sophisticated. Interpretation of injury aetiology among past peoples is challenging, and often impossible, however, clinical research from developing countries provides a useful analogy with which to evaluate trauma or health patterns of an ancient socie…
Continuity of interpersonal violence between Nubian communities
Modern communities affiliated with the same culture have been shown to experience comparable levels of interpersonal violence, no matter what their size. It was hypothesized that a similar relationship would exist among ancient rural and urban people, but that accident‐related trauma may be more prominent among rural dwellers due to their activity base. Through an analysis of antemortem trauma, this investigation contrasted the injury profile of …
The Nubian Past: An Archaeology of the Sudan
The Nubian Past: An Archaeology of the Sudan. David N. Edwards. New York: Routledge, 2004. 348 pp
The parry problem
Investigating health at Kerma: Sacrificial versus nonsacrificial individuals
This analysis examines heterogeneity in risks by assessing the health status of individuals in two distinct burial contexts from the Nubian site of Kerma: sacrificial ( n = 100) and nonsacrificial ( n = 190) burial areas dated to the classic Kerma period (∼1750–1500 BC). Indicators of physiological stress that were examined include cribra orbitalia, dental enamel hypoplasia, tibial osteoperiostitis, and femur length. The analysis presented here s…
Dying to serve: The mass burials at Kerma
High ranking burial mounds in Bronze Age Sudan featured burials in a corridor leading to the central burial - supposedly of a king. Were the 'corridor people' prisoners captured during periodic raids on Egypt, or local retainers who followed their king in death? The authors use the skeletal material to argue the second hypothesis - coincidentally that advanced by George Reisner, the original excavator
Pubic symphyseal face eburnation: An Egyptian sport story
Strenuous physical activity leaves scars on bone that attest to the demands of occupation, sport, aggression and recreation. During the assessment of 74 C-Group Nubians from Hierakonpolis (Egypt) dated to the Egyptian Middle Kingdom-Second Intermediate Period (2080-1700 BC), robust muscle insertions along the ilia and ischia were observed among some adults. In addition, a disproportionate degeneration of the pubic symphyseal faces when compared t…
Isotopic Evidence for Diet Among Historic Bedouin of Khirbat al-Mudayna, Jordan
Interpreting the behaviours of nomadic groups from the archaeological record is particularly challenging owing to the ephemeral remains produced by their lifestyle. As such, human burials - even from isolated contexts - provide a wealth of information about these transient groups. Stable carbon and nitrogen isotope analysis of a series of human skeletal remains (n = 22) from isolated burials were utilized to reconstruct the diet of historic (ca. …
Weaning practices among pastoralists: New evidence of infant feeding patterns from Bronze Age Eurasia
OBJECTIVES: N) isotopic analyses of human bone collagen from Kamennyi Ambar 5, a Middle Bronze Age cemetery located in central Eurasia. The results presented are unique for the time period and region, as few cemeteries have been excavated to reveal a demographic cross-section of the population. Studies of weaning among pastoral societies are infrequent and this research adds to our knowledge of the timing, potential supplementary foods, and cessa…
Multiple Injury and Health in Past Societies: An Analysis of Concepts and Approaches, and Insights from a Multi-Period Study
Earlier clinical and bioarchaeological studies found that injury recidivists were most likely to be young adult males. Since then, the clinical meaning of the injury recidivist has expanded to include all individuals with multiple injuries, and other aspects of health have been considered. Our study sought to apply these advances to paleopathology and place multiple injuries in a wider context by investigating: the age and sex distribution of tho…
A truncated temporal styloid process from the Jordanian Ottoman Period: Developmental variant or fracture
Life in the fast lane: Settled pastoralism in the Central Eurasian Steppe during the Middle Bronze Age
Skeletal stress markers and injuries were uncommon among the KA-5 and regional groups, but a MBA-LBA high subadult mortality indicates elevated frailty levels and inability to survive acute illnesses. Following an optimal weaning program, subadults were at risk for physiological insult and many succumbed. Only a small number of individuals attained biological maturity during the MBA, suggesting that a fast life history was an adaptive regional re…
Bronze Age diet and economy: New stable isotope data from the Central Eurasian steppes (2100-1700 BC)
The formation of human populations in South and Central Asia
Ancient human movements through Asia Ancient DNA has allowed us to begin tracing the history of human movements across the globe. Narasimhan et al. identify a complex pattern of human migrations and admixture events in South and Central Asia by performing genetic analysis of more than 500 people who lived over the past 8000 years (see the Perspective by Schaefer and Shapiro). They establish key phases in the population prehistory of Eurasia, incl…
A microscopic evaluation of Paget’s disease of bone from a Byzantine monastic crypt in Jordan
The monastic mosaic at Mount Nebo, Jordan: Biogeochemical and Epigraphical Evidence for Diverse Origins
Commingled crypts: Comparative health among Byzantine monastics in the Levant
OBJECTIVES: Early Byzantine (A.D. 330-842) monastic rules stipulated that entrants relinquished familial connections, personal belongings and secular relationships to become part of the ascetic collective that continued in death, resulting in bioarchaeological marginalization, as was the case of the monastics excavated from the Chapel of Robebus at Mount Nebo, Jordan (ca. A.D. 491-640). It was hypothesized that compared to contemporary monastic g…
Living with lower limb traumas and below-knee amputation in a Jordanian Late Ottoman nomadic community
Robebus Chapel Crypt Burials: Commingled, Broken, and Processed
The Robebus Chapel at Mount Nebo was revealed in 1981 and its crypts excavated from 2007 to 2011. The earliest interments were supine and articulated, while the bones of later depositions were disarticulated, commingled, and frequently broken. Postdepositional tool modification occurred on seven crania and on the ribs of one of the estimated seventy-three adult males interred. The accessibility to the crypts provided a means for monastics to view…
Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (16 works) · Medicine (16 works) · Geography (15 works) · Archaeology (14 works) · History (11 works) · Ancient history (9 works) · Demography (9 works) · Biology (7 works) · Archaeology and Historical Studies (5 works) · Bronze Age (5 works)