Holger Schutkowski
Biographic Data
| ID | 84218 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Holger Schutkowski |
| GIVEN NAMES | Holger |
| FAMILY NAME | Schutkowski |
| SIGNATURE | SCHUTKOWSKI H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Göttingen |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9527-4618 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 38 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 281 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 38 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Jordanian migration and mobility in the Middle Bronze Age (ca. 2100-1550 BCE) at Pella
The site of Pella, located in the foothills of the east Jordan valley, was a prosperous city-state throughout the Middle Bronze Age (MBA, ca. 2000-1500 BCE). As part of a widespread trading network, Pella enjoyed extensive socio-economic relationships with Egypt, Cyprus, and the Aegean, Anatolia, and Babylonia during this period. We report isotopic analysis (87Sr/86Sr, δ18O, and δ13C) from enamel of 22 human permanent second molars of which 13 se…
Who Were the Hyksos: Investigating Provenance from Dental Nonmetric Traits
The term Hyksos commonly refers to the foreign dynasty that inhabited and held power in Egypt during the Second Intermediate Period, circa 1650-1550 BCE. The later historian Manetho described the Hyksos as invading foreigners, and the view persisted until the modern period. Recent research has integrated archaeological, artistic and textual evidence, revealing the Hyksos origin and presence in Egypt more complex than previously envisioned. To inv…
Multi-isotopic study of diet and mobility in the northeastern Nile Delta
The origin of the Hyksos dynasty (c. 1638-1530 BCE) is thought to be rooted in the Near East given the architectural features and burial customs present at the site of Tell el-Dabca, identified as the capital of Hyksos rule in the Eastern Delta of Egypt. We expand previous 87Sr/86Sr research on the site's cemetery assemblage using a multi-isotopic methodology: oxygen (δ18O) and carbon (δ13Ccarb) stable isotopes from the carbonate portion of tooth…
Once were warriors: Challenging occupation preconceptions in Lebanese weapon-associated burials (Middle Bronze Age, Sidon)
ObjectivesFound throughout the ancient Near East during the Middle Bronze Age (ca. 2000-1600 BCE), many modern scholars emphasize that weapon-associated burials are ideological and symbolic associations, not reflections of occupation. However, the term "warrior burial" still carries interpretive value that misinforms popular perception. The site of Sidon (Lebanon) offers an excellent context to discuss this phenomenon. Our paper aims to assess wh…
Reconstructing breastfeeding and weaning practices in the Bronze Age Near East using stable nitrogen isotopes
OBJECTIVES: Breastfeeding and childhood diet have significant impact on morbidity and mortality within a population, and in the ancient Near East, it is possible to compare bioarchaeological reconstruction of breastfeeding and weaning practices with the scant textual evidence. MATERIALS AND METHODS: N) are analyzed here for dietary reconstruction in skeletal collections from five Bronze Age (ca. 2,800-1,200 BCE) sites in modern Lebanon and Syria.…
Stable isotopic evidence for land use patterns in the Middle Euphrates Valley, Syria
Objectives Stable carbon and nitrogen isotope ratios (δ 13 C and δ 15 N) were used to reconstruct the history of subsistence strategies in the middle Euphrates valley, NE Syria, in six temporal subsets dating from the Early Bronze Age (c. 2300 BCE) to the Modern period (19th/20th century CE). The study aims to demonstrate that changes in political and social organization over time, for which the archaeological record suggests different goals of l…
Longitudinal and contemporaneous manganese exposure in apartheid-era South Africa: Implications for the past and future
Continuity and change in subsistence at Tell Barri, NE Syria
The history of the Fertile Crescent is well documented through archaeology and epigraphy. However, contrary to adjacent regions in the Mediterranean and Middle East, the reconstruction of diet and food ways through isotope analysis is limited for Mesopotamia and, consequently, matters of subsistence change are not well understood. To address this, collagen carbon and nitrogen isotopic ratios of human (N = 84) and animal (N = 8) samples from Tell …
Diet in Peru's pre-Hispanic central coast
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Assessing the application of tooth cementum annulation relative to macroscopic aging techniques in an archeological sample
Exceptional preservation of a prehistoric human brain from Heslington, Yorkshire, UK
Infectious Disease Ecology, Effects of Ecosystems in Disease and of Disease on Ecosystems
Auricular surface aging: Worse than expected? A test of the revised method on a documented historic skeletal assemblage
This study presents results and recommendations arising from a blind test of the revised age estimation method for the auricular surface as proposed by Buckberry and Chamberlain ([2002] Am. J. Phys. Anthropol. 119:321-329). Auricular surfaces of 167 individuals from St. Bride's, London, a documented skeletal assemblage spanning the late 17th to early 19th century, were analyzed for the following traits: transverse organization, surface texture ap…
Comparison of child morbidity in two contrasting medieval cemeteries from Denmark
This study compares associations between demographic profiles, long bone lengths, bone mineral content, and frequencies of stress indicators in the preadult populations of two medieval skeletal assemblages from Denmark. One is from a leprosarium, and thus probably represents a disadvantaged group (Næstved). The other comes from a normal, and in comparison rather privileged, medieval community (Æbelholt). Previous studies of the adult population i…
Age changes in bone microstructure: Do They Occur Uniformly
Age estimations based on conventional multifactorial methods were compared with trends observed in the internal morphology of bones obtained from high-resolution μCT. Specifically, average trabecular thickness and number of trabeculae/mm transect were determined in the non-load-bearing capitate (hand) and the load-bearing navicular (foot). The μCT findings reveal age-related trends but—surprisingly—these correspond only loosely with the ages assi…
Diet and social status during the La Tène period in Bohemia: Carbon and nitrogen stable isotope analysis of bone collagen from Kutná Hora-Karlov and Radovesice
Human Remains from Middle Bronze Age Burials at Sidon, Lebanon: The 2001 Season
This report is concerned with fragmented skeletal remains dating to the Middle Bronze Age that were excavated in the 2001 campaign at Sidon, Lebanon. From 19 discrete burial units a total of 31 individuals were identified and assessed as to their biological characteristics. The majority of adults who could be sexed were male, many of them strongly built. The overall age distribution in this sample is characterised by a pattern commonly found in p…
Referate
Subsistence, social status and stature - Approaches from Historical Anthrology to the reconstruction and significance of dietary patterns
Article Subsistence, social status and stature - Approaches from Historical Anthrology to the reconstruction and significance of dietary patterns was published on June 1, 2000 in the journal Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte / Economic History Yearbook (volume 41, issue 1)
Differentiation between occupational and dietary-related intake of barium in the skeleton
On the basis of the reconstruction of general nutritional patterns by trace element data on historic populations, an examination on occupational Ba intakes in the skeleton was carried out for a historical metallurgy population. The concentrations of the trace elements Ba, Sr, and Pb as well as the matrix element Ca were determined by AAS analysis. Their correlations within the population were analysed statistically. Evidence of a correlation betw…
Neighbours in different habitats - Subsistence and social differentiation in early mediaeval populations of the eastern Swabian Alb
The sites of Neresheim and Kösingen are located in the easternmost part of the Swabian Alb in close proximity, but belong to separate natural units characterized by clearly different ecological properties. By investigating early mediaeval skeletal samples of the populations, two questions were addressed: (1) to what extent can modes of subsistence be explained by the ecological context, and (2) does this affect patterns of nutritional and social …
Bericht [Report]
Diet, Status and Decomposition at Weingarten: Trace Element and Isotope Analyses on Early Mediaeval Skeletal Material
Relation between Cribra orbitalia, archaeometric skeleton findings and habitat conditions
The interpretation of cribra orbitalia as an isolated skeletal lesion is mainly based on malnutrition, in particular in terms of iron deficiency or vitamin C deficiency. A chronic iron deficiency anemia should result in both a reduced iron content of the skeleton and an underhydroxylation of the amino acid proline with the consequence of a less stable collagen matrix of the bone. The latter holds also for a vitamin C deficiency. Trace element and…
Fatal wounds in a Late Neolithic double inhumation—A probable case of meningitis following trauma
Among a group of seven skeletons from the southern part of Lower Saxony, dating to the Single Grave Culture (ca. 2500BC), was a double inhumation, which showed an unusual burial position for one of the individuals interred. Deviating from the typical squatted position, this male was supine. Having been badly injured by an arrow shot into the back, he suffered from post-traumatic paraplegia and, most probably died from bacterial meningitis caused …
Sex determination of infant and juvenile skeletons: I. Morphognostic features
Ancient cemeteries are often characterized by a considerable number of infants and young children. Sex differences in childhood mortality, however, could rarely be studied up to now, mainly because there were only few proven traits for sexual determination of immature skeletons. Based on a historic sample of sixty‐one children of known sex and age from Spitalfields, London (37 boys, 24 girls), sexually distinctive traits in the mandible and ilium…
Diet, Status and Decomposition at Weingarten: Trace Element and Isotope Analyses on Early Mediaeval Skeletal Material
Diet and social status during the La Tène period in Bohemia: Carbon and nitrogen stable isotope analysis of bone collagen from Kutná Hora-Karlov and Radovesice
Comparison of child morbidity in two contrasting medieval cemeteries from Denmark
This study compares associations between demographic profiles, long bone lengths, bone mineral content, and frequencies of stress indicators in the preadult populations of two medieval skeletal assemblages from Denmark. One is from a leprosarium, and thus probably represents a disadvantaged group (Næstved). The other comes from a normal, and in comparison rather privileged, medieval community (Æbelholt). Previous studies of the adult population i…
Auricular surface aging: Worse than expected? A test of the revised method on a documented historic skeletal assemblage
This study presents results and recommendations arising from a blind test of the revised age estimation method for the auricular surface as proposed by Buckberry and Chamberlain ([2002] Am. J. Phys. Anthropol. 119:321-329). Auricular surfaces of 167 individuals from St. Bride's, London, a documented skeletal assemblage spanning the late 17th to early 19th century, were analyzed for the following traits: transverse organization, surface texture ap…
Sex determination of fetal and neonate skeletons by means of discriminant analysis
Facing the requirements of refined paleodemographical analyses, the access to the early ontogenetic sex ratio of skeletal populations is an important feature. Using raw data provided byFazekas & Kosa (1978) for a sample of known sex, discriminant functions are derived from hip and thigh bone dimensions that allow an almost unbiased classification of more than 70% of fetal and neonate individuals
Exceptional preservation of a prehistoric human brain from Heslington, Yorkshire, UK
Reconstructing breastfeeding and weaning practices in the Bronze Age Near East using stable nitrogen isotopes
OBJECTIVES: Breastfeeding and childhood diet have significant impact on morbidity and mortality within a population, and in the ancient Near East, it is possible to compare bioarchaeological reconstruction of breastfeeding and weaning practices with the scant textual evidence. MATERIALS AND METHODS: N) are analyzed here for dietary reconstruction in skeletal collections from five Bronze Age (ca. 2,800-1,200 BCE) sites in modern Lebanon and Syria.…
Continuity and change in subsistence at Tell Barri, NE Syria
The history of the Fertile Crescent is well documented through archaeology and epigraphy. However, contrary to adjacent regions in the Mediterranean and Middle East, the reconstruction of diet and food ways through isotope analysis is limited for Mesopotamia and, consequently, matters of subsistence change are not well understood. To address this, collagen carbon and nitrogen isotopic ratios of human (N = 84) and animal (N = 8) samples from Tell …
Stable isotopic evidence for land use patterns in the Middle Euphrates Valley, Syria
Objectives Stable carbon and nitrogen isotope ratios (δ 13 C and δ 15 N) were used to reconstruct the history of subsistence strategies in the middle Euphrates valley, NE Syria, in six temporal subsets dating from the Early Bronze Age (c. 2300 BCE) to the Modern period (19th/20th century CE). The study aims to demonstrate that changes in political and social organization over time, for which the archaeological record suggests different goals of l…
Age changes in bone microstructure: Do They Occur Uniformly
Age estimations based on conventional multifactorial methods were compared with trends observed in the internal morphology of bones obtained from high-resolution μCT. Specifically, average trabecular thickness and number of trabeculae/mm transect were determined in the non-load-bearing capitate (hand) and the load-bearing navicular (foot). The μCT findings reveal age-related trends but—surprisingly—these correspond only loosely with the ages assi…
Decomposition of skeletal remains in desert dry soil A roentgenological study
Multi-isotopic study of diet and mobility in the northeastern Nile Delta
The origin of the Hyksos dynasty (c. 1638-1530 BCE) is thought to be rooted in the Near East given the architectural features and burial customs present at the site of Tell el-Dabca, identified as the capital of Hyksos rule in the Eastern Delta of Egypt. We expand previous 87Sr/86Sr research on the site's cemetery assemblage using a multi-isotopic methodology: oxygen (δ18O) and carbon (δ13Ccarb) stable isotopes from the carbonate portion of tooth…
Dietary shift during the 2nd millennium BC in Prehistoric Shimal, Oman Peninsula
Contrairement aux périodes précédentes et suivantes, le mode de vie et l'alimentation des populations du 2e millénaire dans le Golfe Arabique sont encore mal connus. Des squelettes humains du cimetière de Shimal, Ras al-Khaimah (EAU) ont été analysés afin de retrouver la présence ďoligo-éléments dans les os. L'échantillon recouvre des sépultures de trois périodes. Les résultats des analyses montrent un changement dans l'alimentation au cours de c…
Diet in Peru's pre-Hispanic central coast
International audience
What you are makes you eat different things-interrelations of diet, status, and sex in the early medieval population of Kirchheim unter Teck, FGR
Who Were the Hyksos: Investigating Provenance from Dental Nonmetric Traits
The term Hyksos commonly refers to the foreign dynasty that inhabited and held power in Egypt during the Second Intermediate Period, circa 1650-1550 BCE. The later historian Manetho described the Hyksos as invading foreigners, and the view persisted until the modern period. Recent research has integrated archaeological, artistic and textual evidence, revealing the Hyksos origin and presence in Egypt more complex than previously envisioned. To inv…
Once were warriors: Challenging occupation preconceptions in Lebanese weapon-associated burials (Middle Bronze Age, Sidon)
ObjectivesFound throughout the ancient Near East during the Middle Bronze Age (ca. 2000-1600 BCE), many modern scholars emphasize that weapon-associated burials are ideological and symbolic associations, not reflections of occupation. However, the term "warrior burial" still carries interpretive value that misinforms popular perception. The site of Sidon (Lebanon) offers an excellent context to discuss this phenomenon. Our paper aims to assess wh…
Relation between Cribra orbitalia, archaeometric skeleton findings and habitat conditions
The interpretation of cribra orbitalia as an isolated skeletal lesion is mainly based on malnutrition, in particular in terms of iron deficiency or vitamin C deficiency. A chronic iron deficiency anemia should result in both a reduced iron content of the skeleton and an underhydroxylation of the amino acid proline with the consequence of a less stable collagen matrix of the bone. The latter holds also for a vitamin C deficiency. Trace element and…
Geographical Variation of Subsistence Strategies in Early Mediaeval Populations of Southwestern Germany
Jordanian migration and mobility in the Middle Bronze Age (ca. 2100-1550 BCE) at Pella
The site of Pella, located in the foothills of the east Jordan valley, was a prosperous city-state throughout the Middle Bronze Age (MBA, ca. 2000-1500 BCE). As part of a widespread trading network, Pella enjoyed extensive socio-economic relationships with Egypt, Cyprus, and the Aegean, Anatolia, and Babylonia during this period. We report isotopic analysis (87Sr/86Sr, δ18O, and δ13C) from enamel of 22 human permanent second molars of which 13 se…
The diagnostic value of the Pars petrosa ossis temporalis for sex determination
Sex-different traits in infant skeletons - Knowledge and diagnostic significance
Behavior of burnt compact bone under high temperatures - Implications for the diagnosis of burnt corpses
Sex determination of fetal and neonate skeletons by means of discriminant analysis
Facing the requirements of refined paleodemographical analyses, the access to the early ontogenetic sex ratio of skeletal populations is an important feature. Using raw data provided byFazekas & Kosa (1978) for a sample of known sex, discriminant functions are derived from hip and thigh bone dimensions that allow an almost unbiased classification of more than 70% of fetal and neonate individuals
Decomposition of skeletal remains in desert dry soil A roentgenological study
Values of wall thicknesses for sex determination by cremations
The amount of information provided by cremations is primarily determined by the general state of preservation. Consequently the possibilities of sex determination by means of morphognostic methods are limited due to a mostly poor representation of fragments which can be of diagnostic value. Therefore an improval of methods has to focus on those skeletal elements that occur in every or almost every batch. These are in particular fragments of the d…
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Dietary shift during the 2nd millennium BC in Prehistoric Shimal, Oman Peninsula
Contrairement aux périodes précédentes et suivantes, le mode de vie et l'alimentation des populations du 2e millénaire dans le Golfe Arabique sont encore mal connus. Des squelettes humains du cimetière de Shimal, Ras al-Khaimah (EAU) ont été analysés afin de retrouver la présence ďoligo-éléments dans les os. L'échantillon recouvre des sépultures de trois périodes. Les résultats des analyses montrent un changement dans l'alimentation au cours de c…
Prähistorische Anthropologie: Leitfaden der Feld- und Labormethoden
Sex determination of infant and juvenile skeletons: I. Morphognostic features
Ancient cemeteries are often characterized by a considerable number of infants and young children. Sex differences in childhood mortality, however, could rarely be studied up to now, mainly because there were only few proven traits for sexual determination of immature skeletons. Based on a historic sample of sixty‐one children of known sex and age from Spitalfields, London (37 boys, 24 girls), sexually distinctive traits in the mandible and ilium…
Once more: Direct application of discriminant functions. Comment on T. Majo, A .-M. Tillier and J. Bruzek
Schutkowski Holger. Once more: Direct application of discriminant functions. Comment on T. Majo, A .-M. Tillier and J. Bruzek. In: Bulletins et Mémoires de la Société d'anthropologie de Paris, Nouvelle Série. Tome 6 fascicule 1-2, 1994. pp. 113-115
What you are makes you eat different things-interrelations of diet, status, and sex in the early medieval population of Kirchheim unter Teck, FGR
Fatal wounds in a Late Neolithic double inhumation—A probable case of meningitis following trauma
Among a group of seven skeletons from the southern part of Lower Saxony, dating to the Single Grave Culture (ca. 2500BC), was a double inhumation, which showed an unusual burial position for one of the individuals interred. Deviating from the typical squatted position, this male was supine. Having been badly injured by an arrow shot into the back, he suffered from post-traumatic paraplegia and, most probably died from bacterial meningitis caused …
Geographical Variation of Subsistence Strategies in Early Mediaeval Populations of Southwestern Germany
Relation between Cribra orbitalia, archaeometric skeleton findings and habitat conditions
The interpretation of cribra orbitalia as an isolated skeletal lesion is mainly based on malnutrition, in particular in terms of iron deficiency or vitamin C deficiency. A chronic iron deficiency anemia should result in both a reduced iron content of the skeleton and an underhydroxylation of the amino acid proline with the consequence of a less stable collagen matrix of the bone. The latter holds also for a vitamin C deficiency. Trace element and…
Diet, Status and Decomposition at Weingarten: Trace Element and Isotope Analyses on Early Mediaeval Skeletal Material
Subsistence, social status and stature - Approaches from Historical Anthrology to the reconstruction and significance of dietary patterns
Article Subsistence, social status and stature - Approaches from Historical Anthrology to the reconstruction and significance of dietary patterns was published on June 1, 2000 in the journal Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte / Economic History Yearbook (volume 41, issue 1)
Differentiation between occupational and dietary-related intake of barium in the skeleton
On the basis of the reconstruction of general nutritional patterns by trace element data on historic populations, an examination on occupational Ba intakes in the skeleton was carried out for a historical metallurgy population. The concentrations of the trace elements Ba, Sr, and Pb as well as the matrix element Ca were determined by AAS analysis. Their correlations within the population were analysed statistically. Evidence of a correlation betw…
Neighbours in different habitats - Subsistence and social differentiation in early mediaeval populations of the eastern Swabian Alb
The sites of Neresheim and Kösingen are located in the easternmost part of the Swabian Alb in close proximity, but belong to separate natural units characterized by clearly different ecological properties. By investigating early mediaeval skeletal samples of the populations, two questions were addressed: (1) to what extent can modes of subsistence be explained by the ecological context, and (2) does this affect patterns of nutritional and social …
Bericht [Report]
Referate
Human Remains from Middle Bronze Age Burials at Sidon, Lebanon: The 2001 Season
This report is concerned with fragmented skeletal remains dating to the Middle Bronze Age that were excavated in the 2001 campaign at Sidon, Lebanon. From 19 discrete burial units a total of 31 individuals were identified and assessed as to their biological characteristics. The majority of adults who could be sexed were male, many of them strongly built. The overall age distribution in this sample is characterised by a pattern commonly found in p…
Comparison of child morbidity in two contrasting medieval cemeteries from Denmark
This study compares associations between demographic profiles, long bone lengths, bone mineral content, and frequencies of stress indicators in the preadult populations of two medieval skeletal assemblages from Denmark. One is from a leprosarium, and thus probably represents a disadvantaged group (Næstved). The other comes from a normal, and in comparison rather privileged, medieval community (Æbelholt). Previous studies of the adult population i…
Age changes in bone microstructure: Do They Occur Uniformly
Age estimations based on conventional multifactorial methods were compared with trends observed in the internal morphology of bones obtained from high-resolution μCT. Specifically, average trabecular thickness and number of trabeculae/mm transect were determined in the non-load-bearing capitate (hand) and the load-bearing navicular (foot). The μCT findings reveal age-related trends but—surprisingly—these correspond only loosely with the ages assi…
Diet and social status during the La Tène period in Bohemia: Carbon and nitrogen stable isotope analysis of bone collagen from Kutná Hora-Karlov and Radovesice
Geography (24 works) · Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (22 works) · Archaeology (20 works) · Biology (20 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (16 works) · Medicine (13 works) · Demography (9 works) · Ecology (9 works) · Isotope Analysis in Ecology (8 works) · Paleopathology and ancient diseases (8 works)