Charles F Merbs
Biographic Data
| ID | 87293 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Charles F Merbs |
| GIVEN NAMES | Charles F |
| FAMILY NAME | Merbs |
| SIGNATURE | MERBS C F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Arizona State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 266 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1967 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
The Art and Archaeology of the Moche: An Ancient Andean Society of the Peruvian North Coast
Preface (Steve Bourget) Introduction (Steve Bourget and Kimberly L. Jones) Chapter 1. Iconography Meets Archaeology (Elizabeth P. Benson) Chapter 2. Sacrifices and Ceremonial Calendars in Societies of the Central Andes: A Reconsideration (Anne Marie Hocquenghem) Chapter 3. Ulluchu: An Elusive Fruit (Donna McClelland) Chapter 4. Moche Masking Traditions (Christopher B. Donnan) Chapter 5. Convergent Catastrophe and the Demise of Dos Cabezas: Enviro…
Polydactyly in the prehistoric American Southwest
General surveys of skeletal collections from Arizona for evidence of trauma and pathology led to the identification of polydactyly in two subadults. Polydactyly is a congenital condition characterised by the presence of extra digits on the hands or feet. Both affected subadults exhibit a sixth digit in the form of a branching fifth metatarsal. One of the affected individuals is an infant from the Tapia del Cerrito site exhibiting Y-shaped fifth m…
Sagittal clefting of the body and other vertebral developmental errors in Canadian Inuit skeletons
The objective of this study was to determine the expression, distribution in the column, and overall frequency of sagittal clefting of the vertebral body in the skeletons of two Canadian Inuit groups. One group, referred to as Thule‐Historic, lived along the coast northwest of Hudson Bay, while the other, known as the Sadlermiut, were limited to Southampton Island and Coats Island north of Hudson Bay. The Thule‐Historic people are thought to be t…
Asymmetrical spondylolysis
The objective of this study was to examine examples of spondylolysis in which the pattern of separation was clearly asymmetrical, in order to learn more about the process of bone separation that produces this condition. Although the primary focus was on unilateral complete separation, examples of asymmetry represented by incomplete separation and by complete bilateral separation where the separation sites are in different locations on the two sid…
Spondylolysis in Inuit skeletons from Arctic Canada
Inuit skeletons from archaeological sites in Arctic Canada were examined for the presence of spondylolysis. The largest series represent the Thule culture and historic Inuit from northwest Hudson Bay and Labrador, and Sadlermiut from Southampton Island. The condition was found in 90 individuals, with a total of 120 affected vertebrae producing 198 hemi-arch defect sites. As in other studies, L5 is affected most frequently, followed by L4 and L3, …
Examination of Tattoos on Mummified Tissue using Infra-red Reflectography
Degenerative spondylolisthesis in ancient and historic skeletons from New Mexico Pueblo sites
The objective of this study was to identify the presence of degenerative spondylolisthesis in adult Native American skeletons recovered from prehistoric and historic Pueblo sites in New Mexico. The vertebral columns of 491 individuals that were complete enough to allow the necessary observations produced 64 cases, with a total of 74 affected levels. The L5–S1 level was affected most frequently (78%), in contrast to clinical and anatomical studies…
Spondylolysis of the sacrum in Alaskan and Canadian Inuit skeletons
Spondylolysis of the lower back, particularly that involving the isthmus between the superior and inferior articular processes (pars inter-articularis), is generally attributed to stress fracturing caused by movement of the affected vertebra relative to the vertebra below. The finding of isthmic spondylolysis in the first vertebra of a fused sacrum is thus unusual and requires explanation. Although unrepresented in the clinical literature, sacral…
Spondylolysis of the sacrum in Alaskan and Canadian Inuit skeletons
Spondylolysis of the lower back, particularly that involving the isthmus between the superior and inferior articular processes (pars interarticularis), is generally attributed to stress fracturing caused by movement of the affected vertebra relative to the vertebra below. The finding of isthmic spondylolysis in the first vertebra of a fused sacrum is thus unusual and requires explanation. Although unrepresented in the clinical literature, sacral …
Arctic Adaptations: Native Whalers and Reindeer Herders of Northern Eurasia . Igor Krupnik. Marcia Levenson, trans, and ed
Spondylolysis and spondylolisthesis: A cost of being an erect biped or a clever adaptation
Spondylolysis refers to a separation in a vertebral arch between the body and the spinous process. Most spondylolysis seen in humans occurs in the lower lumbar region and is due to stress (fatigue) fracturing, usually through the isthmus between the superior and inferior articular processes. Referred to here as “typical” spondylolysis, it is related to erect posture and bipedal locomotion, and, as such, it is a uniquely hominid condition. It deve…
Activity-induced musculoskeletal stress markers (MSM) and subsistence strategy changes among ancient Hudson Bay Eskimos
Although archaeological evidence may express the results of several seasons of activity, the human skeleton, when correlated with archaeological and ethnographic data, provides information concerning daily activities performed throughout an individual's lifetime. Studies in occupational and sports medicine, along with electromyographic analysis of movement, have shown that different activities place different amounts of stress on human bone. In t…
Diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis in Meroitic Nubians from Semna South, Sudan
The paleopathological study of human osteological remains from the site of Semna South, of northern Sudan, revealed that about thirteen percent of this ancient Nubian population had diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis (DISH). As in modern cases, males were more affected than females. Two thousand years ago, ancient Nubian males had the same spinal problems elderly men have today. © 1993 Wiley‐Liss, Inc
A new world of infectious disease
When Christopher Columbus crossed the Atlantic Ocean in 1492, he brought together two worlds of infection which had developed in virtual isolation from each other for thousands of years. The picture of infectious disease in the New World differed from that in the Old World in many ways, but probably most dramatically in the absence or near absence of crowd infections capable of causing severe epidemics. The devastating effects of these crowd dise…
Abo, MN and RH Frequencies Among the Havasupai and Other Southwest Indian Groups
In June of 1962, 105 Havasupai, members of a Yuman-speaking group residing in Havasu Canyon, Arizona, were typed for the A-B-O, M-N and Rh red blood cell systems. All individuals were determined to be blood type O, while the M-N testing produced an M allele frequency of.600 and an N frequency of.400. The Rh haplotype (alleles inherited together) frequencies were estimated as follows: CDe (R1) =.552, cDE (R2) =.438, CDE (Rz) =.005, and cDe (RO) =.…
Paleonutrition and Paleopathology of the Salt River Hohokam: A Search for Correlates
Recent excavations at the Phoenix area Hohokam sites of Grand Canal Ruins, Casa Buena, and La Ciudad yielded 163 non-cremated human skeletons representing both the pre-Classic and Classic periods. Several conditions associated with nutritional stress were observed in these remains including dental caries, wear and calculus formation, antemortem tooth loss, enamel hypoplasia, porotic hyperostosis, rickets, bladder stone disease and short stature. …
Spondylolysis: Its nature and anthropological significance
Spondylolysis of the lower back is a kind of vertebral fracture that is unique to humans being related to anatomical features such as the lumbar curve which facilitate upright posture and bipedal locomotion in this species. It is virtually never seen in children before the age of walking and has not been observed in adults who were never able to walk. Although apparently produced on occasion by acute trauma, spondylolysis usually develops as a fa…
The Human Skeleton . Pat Shipman, Alan Walker , and David Bichell
Atlanto‐occipital fusion and spondylolisthesis in an Anasazi skeleton from bright angel ruin, Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona
The skeleton of a middle‐aged female showing an unusual pattern of congenital, traumatic, and degenerative pathology was recovered from a small Kayenta Anasazi site located near the confluence of Bright Angel Creek with the Colorado River in the Inner Gorge of Grand Canyon. The atlas is fused with the base of the skull and C2 is fused with C3. The cervical region was subjected to hyperextension, perhaps through use of a tumpline, with resultant r…
Science or Sacrilege: The Study of Native American Remains . 1983. Produced by Phillip L. Walker
Patterns of Activity-Induced Pathology in a Canadian Inuit Population
Analyse de la pathologie degenerative et traumatique presentee par une serie de squelettes Inuit de la Baie d'Hudson (Sadlermiut du site de Native Point dans l'ile Southampton, Territoires du Nord-Ouest): relations entre les travaux accomplis par les hommes et les femmes (travail des peaux, chasse, peche) et leur pathologie osseuse.
Kuru and Cannibalism
Kuru: Early Letters and Field-Notes from the Collection of D. Carleton Gajdusek. Judith Farquhar and D. Carleton Gajdusek, eds
Paleopathology: Diseases and Injuries of Prehistoric Man . Paul A. JANSSENS
Physical Anthropology: The Skeletal Biology of Earlier Human Populations. D. R. Brothwell: Miscellaneous Papers in Paleopathology: I. William D. Wade
The Nunamiut Eskimos: Hunters of Caribou. N icholas J. G ubser
Activity-induced musculoskeletal stress markers (MSM) and subsistence strategy changes among ancient Hudson Bay Eskimos
Although archaeological evidence may express the results of several seasons of activity, the human skeleton, when correlated with archaeological and ethnographic data, provides information concerning daily activities performed throughout an individual's lifetime. Studies in occupational and sports medicine, along with electromyographic analysis of movement, have shown that different activities place different amounts of stress on human bone. In t…
Anterior Tooth Loss in Arctic Populations
A new world of infectious disease
When Christopher Columbus crossed the Atlantic Ocean in 1492, he brought together two worlds of infection which had developed in virtual isolation from each other for thousands of years. The picture of infectious disease in the New World differed from that in the Old World in many ways, but probably most dramatically in the absence or near absence of crowd infections capable of causing severe epidemics. The devastating effects of these crowd dise…
Spondylolysis: Its nature and anthropological significance
Spondylolysis of the lower back is a kind of vertebral fracture that is unique to humans being related to anatomical features such as the lumbar curve which facilitate upright posture and bipedal locomotion in this species. It is virtually never seen in children before the age of walking and has not been observed in adults who were never able to walk. Although apparently produced on occasion by acute trauma, spondylolysis usually develops as a fa…
Spondylolysis in Inuit skeletons from Arctic Canada
Inuit skeletons from archaeological sites in Arctic Canada were examined for the presence of spondylolysis. The largest series represent the Thule culture and historic Inuit from northwest Hudson Bay and Labrador, and Sadlermiut from Southampton Island. The condition was found in 90 individuals, with a total of 120 affected vertebrae producing 198 hemi-arch defect sites. As in other studies, L5 is affected most frequently, followed by L4 and L3, …
Diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis in Meroitic Nubians from Semna South, Sudan
The paleopathological study of human osteological remains from the site of Semna South, of northern Sudan, revealed that about thirteen percent of this ancient Nubian population had diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis (DISH). As in modern cases, males were more affected than females. Two thousand years ago, ancient Nubian males had the same spinal problems elderly men have today. © 1993 Wiley‐Liss, Inc
Sagittal clefting of the body and other vertebral developmental errors in Canadian Inuit skeletons
The objective of this study was to determine the expression, distribution in the column, and overall frequency of sagittal clefting of the vertebral body in the skeletons of two Canadian Inuit groups. One group, referred to as Thule‐Historic, lived along the coast northwest of Hudson Bay, while the other, known as the Sadlermiut, were limited to Southampton Island and Coats Island north of Hudson Bay. The Thule‐Historic people are thought to be t…
Kuru and Cannibalism
Kuru: Early Letters and Field-Notes from the Collection of D. Carleton Gajdusek. Judith Farquhar and D. Carleton Gajdusek, eds
Examination of Tattoos on Mummified Tissue using Infra-red Reflectography
Atlanto‐occipital fusion and spondylolisthesis in an Anasazi skeleton from bright angel ruin, Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona
The skeleton of a middle‐aged female showing an unusual pattern of congenital, traumatic, and degenerative pathology was recovered from a small Kayenta Anasazi site located near the confluence of Bright Angel Creek with the Colorado River in the Inner Gorge of Grand Canyon. The atlas is fused with the base of the skull and C2 is fused with C3. The cervical region was subjected to hyperextension, perhaps through use of a tumpline, with resultant r…
Cremated Human Remains from Point of Pines, Arizona: A New Approach
The traditional approaches of comparative human osteology have proven largely unsatisfactory in attempts to determine biological relationships among human populations which cremated their dead. However, one category of information, that of discrete traits or skeletal anomalies, has been largely ignored. Cremations from Point of Pines, Arizona, were analyzed to determine if this kind of information, along with that usually sought from skeletal mat…
Degenerative spondylolisthesis in ancient and historic skeletons from New Mexico Pueblo sites
The objective of this study was to identify the presence of degenerative spondylolisthesis in adult Native American skeletons recovered from prehistoric and historic Pueblo sites in New Mexico. The vertebral columns of 491 individuals that were complete enough to allow the necessary observations produced 64 cases, with a total of 74 affected levels. The L5–S1 level was affected most frequently (78%), in contrast to clinical and anatomical studies…
Paleonutrition and Paleopathology of the Salt River Hohokam: A Search for Correlates
Recent excavations at the Phoenix area Hohokam sites of Grand Canal Ruins, Casa Buena, and La Ciudad yielded 163 non-cremated human skeletons representing both the pre-Classic and Classic periods. Several conditions associated with nutritional stress were observed in these remains including dental caries, wear and calculus formation, antemortem tooth loss, enamel hypoplasia, porotic hyperostosis, rickets, bladder stone disease and short stature. …
Asymmetrical spondylolysis
The objective of this study was to examine examples of spondylolysis in which the pattern of separation was clearly asymmetrical, in order to learn more about the process of bone separation that produces this condition. Although the primary focus was on unilateral complete separation, examples of asymmetry represented by incomplete separation and by complete bilateral separation where the separation sites are in different locations on the two sid…
Science or Sacrilege: The Study of Native American Remains . 1983. Produced by Phillip L. Walker
Physical Anthropology: Human Palaeopathology Saul JARCHO, ed
Cremated Human Remains from Point of Pines, Arizona: A New Approach
The traditional approaches of comparative human osteology have proven largely unsatisfactory in attempts to determine biological relationships among human populations which cremated their dead. However, one category of information, that of discrete traits or skeletal anomalies, has been largely ignored. Cremations from Point of Pines, Arizona, were analyzed to determine if this kind of information, along with that usually sought from skeletal mat…
The Nunamiut Eskimos: Hunters of Caribou. N icholas J. G ubser
Anterior Tooth Loss in Arctic Populations
Physical Anthropology: The Skeletal Biology of Earlier Human Populations. D. R. Brothwell: Miscellaneous Papers in Paleopathology: I. William D. Wade
Paleopathology: Diseases and Injuries of Prehistoric Man . Paul A. JANSSENS
Kuru and Cannibalism
Kuru: Early Letters and Field-Notes from the Collection of D. Carleton Gajdusek. Judith Farquhar and D. Carleton Gajdusek, eds
Patterns of Activity-Induced Pathology in a Canadian Inuit Population
Analyse de la pathologie degenerative et traumatique presentee par une serie de squelettes Inuit de la Baie d'Hudson (Sadlermiut du site de Native Point dans l'ile Southampton, Territoires du Nord-Ouest): relations entre les travaux accomplis par les hommes et les femmes (travail des peaux, chasse, peche) et leur pathologie osseuse.
Atlanto‐occipital fusion and spondylolisthesis in an Anasazi skeleton from bright angel ruin, Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona
The skeleton of a middle‐aged female showing an unusual pattern of congenital, traumatic, and degenerative pathology was recovered from a small Kayenta Anasazi site located near the confluence of Bright Angel Creek with the Colorado River in the Inner Gorge of Grand Canyon. The atlas is fused with the base of the skull and C2 is fused with C3. The cervical region was subjected to hyperextension, perhaps through use of a tumpline, with resultant r…
Science or Sacrilege: The Study of Native American Remains . 1983. Produced by Phillip L. Walker
The Human Skeleton . Pat Shipman, Alan Walker , and David Bichell
Spondylolysis: Its nature and anthropological significance
Spondylolysis of the lower back is a kind of vertebral fracture that is unique to humans being related to anatomical features such as the lumbar curve which facilitate upright posture and bipedal locomotion in this species. It is virtually never seen in children before the age of walking and has not been observed in adults who were never able to walk. Although apparently produced on occasion by acute trauma, spondylolysis usually develops as a fa…
Paleonutrition and Paleopathology of the Salt River Hohokam: A Search for Correlates
Recent excavations at the Phoenix area Hohokam sites of Grand Canal Ruins, Casa Buena, and La Ciudad yielded 163 non-cremated human skeletons representing both the pre-Classic and Classic periods. Several conditions associated with nutritional stress were observed in these remains including dental caries, wear and calculus formation, antemortem tooth loss, enamel hypoplasia, porotic hyperostosis, rickets, bladder stone disease and short stature. …
A new world of infectious disease
When Christopher Columbus crossed the Atlantic Ocean in 1492, he brought together two worlds of infection which had developed in virtual isolation from each other for thousands of years. The picture of infectious disease in the New World differed from that in the Old World in many ways, but probably most dramatically in the absence or near absence of crowd infections capable of causing severe epidemics. The devastating effects of these crowd dise…
Abo, MN and RH Frequencies Among the Havasupai and Other Southwest Indian Groups
In June of 1962, 105 Havasupai, members of a Yuman-speaking group residing in Havasu Canyon, Arizona, were typed for the A-B-O, M-N and Rh red blood cell systems. All individuals were determined to be blood type O, while the M-N testing produced an M allele frequency of.600 and an N frequency of.400. The Rh haplotype (alleles inherited together) frequencies were estimated as follows: CDe (R1) =.552, cDE (R2) =.438, CDE (Rz) =.005, and cDe (RO) =.…
Diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis in Meroitic Nubians from Semna South, Sudan
The paleopathological study of human osteological remains from the site of Semna South, of northern Sudan, revealed that about thirteen percent of this ancient Nubian population had diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis (DISH). As in modern cases, males were more affected than females. Two thousand years ago, ancient Nubian males had the same spinal problems elderly men have today. © 1993 Wiley‐Liss, Inc
Activity-induced musculoskeletal stress markers (MSM) and subsistence strategy changes among ancient Hudson Bay Eskimos
Although archaeological evidence may express the results of several seasons of activity, the human skeleton, when correlated with archaeological and ethnographic data, provides information concerning daily activities performed throughout an individual's lifetime. Studies in occupational and sports medicine, along with electromyographic analysis of movement, have shown that different activities place different amounts of stress on human bone. In t…
Spondylolysis of the sacrum in Alaskan and Canadian Inuit skeletons
Spondylolysis of the lower back, particularly that involving the isthmus between the superior and inferior articular processes (pars inter-articularis), is generally attributed to stress fracturing caused by movement of the affected vertebra relative to the vertebra below. The finding of isthmic spondylolysis in the first vertebra of a fused sacrum is thus unusual and requires explanation. Although unrepresented in the clinical literature, sacral…
Spondylolysis of the sacrum in Alaskan and Canadian Inuit skeletons
Spondylolysis of the lower back, particularly that involving the isthmus between the superior and inferior articular processes (pars interarticularis), is generally attributed to stress fracturing caused by movement of the affected vertebra relative to the vertebra below. The finding of isthmic spondylolysis in the first vertebra of a fused sacrum is thus unusual and requires explanation. Although unrepresented in the clinical literature, sacral …
Arctic Adaptations: Native Whalers and Reindeer Herders of Northern Eurasia . Igor Krupnik. Marcia Levenson, trans, and ed
Spondylolysis and spondylolisthesis: A cost of being an erect biped or a clever adaptation
Spondylolysis refers to a separation in a vertebral arch between the body and the spinous process. Most spondylolysis seen in humans occurs in the lower lumbar region and is due to stress (fatigue) fracturing, usually through the isthmus between the superior and inferior articular processes. Referred to here as “typical” spondylolysis, it is related to erect posture and bipedal locomotion, and, as such, it is a uniquely hominid condition. It deve…
Examination of Tattoos on Mummified Tissue using Infra-red Reflectography
Degenerative spondylolisthesis in ancient and historic skeletons from New Mexico Pueblo sites
The objective of this study was to identify the presence of degenerative spondylolisthesis in adult Native American skeletons recovered from prehistoric and historic Pueblo sites in New Mexico. The vertebral columns of 491 individuals that were complete enough to allow the necessary observations produced 64 cases, with a total of 74 affected levels. The L5–S1 level was affected most frequently (78%), in contrast to clinical and anatomical studies…
Asymmetrical spondylolysis
The objective of this study was to examine examples of spondylolysis in which the pattern of separation was clearly asymmetrical, in order to learn more about the process of bone separation that produces this condition. Although the primary focus was on unilateral complete separation, examples of asymmetry represented by incomplete separation and by complete bilateral separation where the separation sites are in different locations on the two sid…
Spondylolysis in Inuit skeletons from Arctic Canada
Inuit skeletons from archaeological sites in Arctic Canada were examined for the presence of spondylolysis. The largest series represent the Thule culture and historic Inuit from northwest Hudson Bay and Labrador, and Sadlermiut from Southampton Island. The condition was found in 90 individuals, with a total of 120 affected vertebrae producing 198 hemi-arch defect sites. As in other studies, L5 is affected most frequently, followed by L4 and L3, …
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