Alan C Swedlund
Biographic Data
| ID | 87423 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alan C Swedlund |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alan C |
| FAMILY NAME | Swedlund |
| SIGNATURE | SWEDLUND A C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 38 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 304 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Plagues and Epidemics: Infected Spaces Past and Present
Glass Cabinets and Little Black Boxes: The Collections of H. H. Wilder and the Curious Case of His Human-Hair Samples
The effects of wealth, occupation, and immigration on epidemic mortality from selected infectious diseases and epidemics in Holyoke township, Massachusetts, 1850−1912
BACKGROUND: Previous research suggests individual-level socioeconomic circumstances and resources may be especially salient influences on mortality within the broader context of social, economic, and environmental factors affecting urban 19th century mortality. OBJECTIVE: We sought to test individual-level socioeconomic effects on mortality from infectious and often epidemic diseases in the context of an emerging New England industrial mill town.…
George John Armelagos (1936-2014)
George Armelagos, 1936-2014
Chapter 5. Population Growth and Collapse in a Multiagent Model of the Kayenta Anasazi in Long House Valley
Chapter 6. The Evolution of Social Behavior in the Prehistoric American Southwest
Chapter 4. Understanding Anasazi Culture Change Through Agent-Based Modeling
Gordon Creek Woman Meets Spirit Cave Man: A Response to Comment by Owsley and Jantz
Owsley and Jantz (2001) allege that we (Swedlund and Anderson 1999) misunderstand and misrepresent the events surrounding the controversy over Kennewick Man, and that we misconstrue statements they have made regarding Spirit Cave Man. They then move to their own analysis of Gordon Creek Woman to demonstrate the value of their morphometric techniques in addressing questions of biological affinity. In this reply we clarify and amplify our position …
Population growth and collapse in a multiagent model of the Kayenta Anasazi in Long House Valley
Long House Valley in the Black Mesa area of northeastern Arizona (U.S.) was inhabited by the Kayenta Anasazi from about 1800 before Christ to about anno Domini 1300. These people were prehistoric ancestors of the modern Pueblo cultures of the Colorado Plateau. Paleoenvironmental research based on alluvial geomorphology, palynology, and dendroclimatology permits accurate quantitative reconstruction of annual fluctuations in potential agricultural …
Repertoires of Timekeeping in Anthropology
Previous articleNext article FreeRepertoires of Timekeeping in Anthropology1by AndreGingrich, ElinorOchs, and AlanSwedlundby AndreGingrich, ElinorOchs, and AlanSwedlundPDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreCommunities the world over record the timing of objects and events in ways that adhere to notions of both objective measurable tim…
A view on the science: Physical anthropology at the millennium
A view on the science: Physical anthropology at the millennium
Methods and Validity of a Panel Study Using Record Linkage: Matching Death Records to a Geographic Census Sample in Two Massachusetts Towns, 1850–1912
Mill Town Mortality: Consequences of Industrial Growth in Two Nineteenth-Century New England Towns
Recent research has considerably increased our understanding of the factors associated with the American epidemiological transition in the late nineteenth century. However, uncertainty remains regarding the impact on mortality of specific changes ancillary to urbanization and industrialization in American cities and towns. The broad objective of the Connecticut Valley Historical Demography Project is to examine changing relationships between soci…
Gordon Creek Woman Meets Kennewick Man: New Interpretations and Protocols Regarding the Peopling of the Americas
Recent discoveries-particularly those of Kennewick Man-have renewed debates on the peopling of the Americas. Our vantage point comes from research on the Gordon Creek Burial which commenced some 30 years ago. We suggest that a contrast between the conditions under which Gordon Creek and Kennewick were recovered and analyzed provides insights into current interpretations and controversies. Specifically, we argue that bioarchaeologists cannot, and …
Let's Avoid Paleo-Racial Anthropology
Situating Fertility: Anthropology and Demographic Inquiry
Diabetes As a Disease of Civilization: The Impact of Culture Change on Indigenous Peoples
Diabetes As a Disease of Civilization: The Impact of Culture Change on Indigenous Peoples. Jennie R. Joe and Robert S. Young eds. New York: Mouton de Gruyter. Studies in the Social Sciences, 50. 1994 (cloth). viii + 527 pp
General/Theoretical Anthropology: Anatomy of Love: The Natural History of Monogamy, Adultery, and Divorce . Helen E. Fisher
Biological Anthropology Section
Biocultural perspectives on stress in prehistoric, historical, and contemporary population research
Stress, a concept addressing the consequences of disruptive events on individuals and populations, can be a useful integrative idea. The stress process has much in common with its sister concept of adaptation. However, where adaptation focuses on "adaptive" or positive consequences, stress redresses an imbalance by focusing on the costs and limits of adaptation. In this paper we first review the interdisciplinary roots of the stress concept. Whil…
Sex-specific mortality and economic opportunities: Massachusetts, 1860–1899
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Population structure in the Connecticut Valley: II. A comparison of multidimensional scaling solutions of migration matrices and isonymy
In a previous paper (Swedlund et al., 1984) we have described the population structure of the historical Connecticut River Valley of Massa chusetts in terms of matrimonial migration matrices. Using procedures described by Morton (1973), Harpending and Jenkins (1974), Jorde (1980), and others the exchanges between subdivisions which make up the matrices are made column stochastic and analyzed to predict genetic kinship. Subsequently the kinship es…
Population structure in the Connecticut Valley. I. Marital migration
This study reports on an analysis of marital migration among 12 communities in the Connecticut River Valley of Massachusetts during the years 1790–1849. Genetic inferences are drawn, and the requisite assumptions considered. The effect of geographic distance on genetic kinship is predicted using Malécot's isolation‐by‐distance model. The resulting estimates are discussed in terms of geographic and historical factors. The configuration of communit…
Biocultural perspectives on stress in prehistoric, historical, and contemporary population research
Stress, a concept addressing the consequences of disruptive events on individuals and populations, can be a useful integrative idea. The stress process has much in common with its sister concept of adaptation. However, where adaptation focuses on "adaptive" or positive consequences, stress redresses an imbalance by focusing on the costs and limits of adaptation. In this paper we first review the interdisciplinary roots of the stress concept. Whil…
Repertoires of Timekeeping in Anthropology
Previous articleNext article FreeRepertoires of Timekeeping in Anthropology1by AndreGingrich, ElinorOchs, and AlanSwedlundby AndreGingrich, ElinorOchs, and AlanSwedlundPDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreCommunities the world over record the timing of objects and events in ways that adhere to notions of both objective measurable tim…
An Early Burial from Gordon Creek, Colorado
An isolated burial was excavated from the bank of a tributary of Gordon Creek, Roosevelt National Forest, northern Colorado. A preliminary report was prepared (D. Anderson 1966, 1967) but further analysis of the skeletal material and newly obtained cultural information add significantly to the documentation of the burial.The body of a woman, aged 25-30 years, was given primary interment in a pit coated with red ocher. The body was placed on its l…
Historical Demography as Population Ecology
Infrastructures are material forms that allow for the possibility of exchange over space. They are the physical networks through which goods, ideas, waste, power, people, and finance are trafficked. In this article I trace the range of anthropological ...Read More
Mill Town Mortality: Consequences of Industrial Growth in Two Nineteenth-Century New England Towns
Recent research has considerably increased our understanding of the factors associated with the American epidemiological transition in the late nineteenth century. However, uncertainty remains regarding the impact on mortality of specific changes ancillary to urbanization and industrialization in American cities and towns. The broad objective of the Connecticut Valley Historical Demography Project is to examine changing relationships between soci…
On a Demographer's View of Prehistoric Demography
Diabetes As a Disease of Civilization: The Impact of Culture Change on Indigenous Peoples
Diabetes As a Disease of Civilization: The Impact of Culture Change on Indigenous Peoples. Jennie R. Joe and Robert S. Young eds. New York: Mouton de Gruyter. Studies in the Social Sciences, 50. 1994 (cloth). viii + 527 pp
The Use of Ecological Hypotheses in Australopithecine Taxonomy1
Ecological concepts have been applied to lower Pleistocene hominid evolution for several years (e.g., Mayr 1951; Robinson 1963; Weiss 1972; Wolpoff 1971). In this paper the major ecological hypotheses are reviewed and their rationale considered in light of prevalent theories on speciation. This review suggests that the hypotheses are central to an understanding of taxonomy and that greater precision in their application is warranted. Allopatric a…
Une recherche en paléo-démographie: La Nubie soudanaise
L'analyse du matériau squelettique pose toujours un problème délicat à l'anthropologue et à l'archéologue. De nombreux chercheurs ont eu déjà l'idée d'utiliser ce matériau dans leurs essais de reconstruction de l'histoire culturelle (Cf. Armélagos, 1968) ; néanmoins il nous paraît que d'autres applications, plus fécondes, pourraient être faites de ces données. Puisque, apparemment, la culture d'une population peut influencer ses processus biologi…
Population structure in the Connecticut Valley. I. Marital migration
This study reports on an analysis of marital migration among 12 communities in the Connecticut River Valley of Massachusetts during the years 1790–1849. Genetic inferences are drawn, and the requisite assumptions considered. The effect of geographic distance on genetic kinship is predicted using Malécot's isolation‐by‐distance model. The resulting estimates are discussed in terms of geographic and historical factors. The configuration of communit…
Methods and Validity of a Panel Study Using Record Linkage: Matching Death Records to a Geographic Census Sample in Two Massachusetts Towns, 1850–1912
Population studies in the Connecticut valley: Prospectus
Gordon Creek Woman Meets Kennewick Man: New Interpretations and Protocols Regarding the Peopling of the Americas
Recent discoveries-particularly those of Kennewick Man-have renewed debates on the peopling of the Americas. Our vantage point comes from research on the Gordon Creek Burial which commenced some 30 years ago. We suggest that a contrast between the conditions under which Gordon Creek and Kennewick were recovered and analyzed provides insights into current interpretations and controversies. Specifically, we argue that bioarchaeologists cannot, and …
Population structure in the Connecticut Valley: II. A comparison of multidimensional scaling solutions of migration matrices and isonymy
In a previous paper (Swedlund et al., 1984) we have described the population structure of the historical Connecticut River Valley of Massa chusetts in terms of matrimonial migration matrices. Using procedures described by Morton (1973), Harpending and Jenkins (1974), Jorde (1980), and others the exchanges between subdivisions which make up the matrices are made column stochastic and analyzed to predict genetic kinship. Subsequently the kinship es…
Let's Avoid Paleo-Racial Anthropology
Fertility Transition in the Connecticut Valley: 1740-1850
The growth of population in North America during the last three centuries presents an interesting episode in world demographic history. Although many areas of England and continental Europe provide a richness and depth of records that is only occasionally found in North America, the latter affords us the unique opportunity to view a literate population from initial colonization through over 300 years of settlement. While the growth rates of some …
The effects of wealth, occupation, and immigration on epidemic mortality from selected infectious diseases and epidemics in Holyoke township, Massachusetts, 1850−1912
BACKGROUND: Previous research suggests individual-level socioeconomic circumstances and resources may be especially salient influences on mortality within the broader context of social, economic, and environmental factors affecting urban 19th century mortality. OBJECTIVE: We sought to test individual-level socioeconomic effects on mortality from infectious and often epidemic diseases in the context of an emerging New England industrial mill town.…
George John Armelagos (1936-2014)
Gordon Creek Woman Meets Spirit Cave Man: A Response to Comment by Owsley and Jantz
Owsley and Jantz (2001) allege that we (Swedlund and Anderson 1999) misunderstand and misrepresent the events surrounding the controversy over Kennewick Man, and that we misconstrue statements they have made regarding Spirit Cave Man. They then move to their own analysis of Gordon Creek Woman to demonstrate the value of their morphometric techniques in addressing questions of biological affinity. In this reply we clarify and amplify our position …
Sex-specific mortality and economic opportunities: Massachusetts, 1860–1899
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Thinning populations and population thinners: The historical demography of Native Americans
Dobyns, Henry F. Their Number Become Thinned: Native American Populations Dynamics in Eastern North America. Native American Historic Demography Series paper. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1983. xxi + 378 pp. including 29 tables, 4 figures, 2 maps, bibliography, and index. $29.95 cloth, $14.95 paper
Une recherche en paléo-démographie: La Nubie soudanaise
L'analyse du matériau squelettique pose toujours un problème délicat à l'anthropologue et à l'archéologue. De nombreux chercheurs ont eu déjà l'idée d'utiliser ce matériau dans leurs essais de reconstruction de l'histoire culturelle (Cf. Armélagos, 1968) ; néanmoins il nous paraît que d'autres applications, plus fécondes, pourraient être faites de ces données. Puisque, apparemment, la culture d'une population peut influencer ses processus biologi…
An Early Burial from Gordon Creek, Colorado
An isolated burial was excavated from the bank of a tributary of Gordon Creek, Roosevelt National Forest, northern Colorado. A preliminary report was prepared (D. Anderson 1966, 1967) but further analysis of the skeletal material and newly obtained cultural information add significantly to the documentation of the burial.The body of a woman, aged 25-30 years, was given primary interment in a pit coated with red ocher. The body was placed on its l…
The Use of Ecological Hypotheses in Australopithecine Taxonomy1
Ecological concepts have been applied to lower Pleistocene hominid evolution for several years (e.g., Mayr 1951; Robinson 1963; Weiss 1972; Wolpoff 1971). In this paper the major ecological hypotheses are reviewed and their rationale considered in light of prevalent theories on speciation. This review suggests that the hypotheses are central to an understanding of taxonomy and that greater precision in their application is warranted. Allopatric a…
Swedlund Replies to Cartmill, Shaklee and Shaklee, Byles, Eckhardt, and Washburn
The Use of Life Tables in Paleodemography
Anthropologists have become increasingly aware of the importance of population as a factor in a systematic view of human biological and cultural development. This awareness has generated an interest in the field of demography, and consequently, techniques once utilized almost exclusively by demographers are now frequently utilized for anthropological studies. Anthropological-paleodemographic inquiry traditionally starts with the excavation of a s…
Population Growth and Settlement Pattern in Franklin and Hampshire Counties, Massachusetts, 1650-1850
Locational Analysis has been a fundamental part of research in plant ecology and cultural geography for many years (for reviews see Greig-Smith 1964; Haggett 1966; Harvey 1967; King 1969; Morrill 1970). Recently there has been a growing interest in applying locational analysis in anthropological studies (for example, Plog 1968; Zubrow 1970; Wood 1971; Johnson 1972; Marcus 1973; Whallon 1973a, 1973b; Waddell 1972). The spatial organization of sett…
On a Demographer's View of Prehistoric Demography
Population studies in the Connecticut valley: Prospectus
Fertility Transition in the Connecticut Valley: 1740-1850
The growth of population in North America during the last three centuries presents an interesting episode in world demographic history. Although many areas of England and continental Europe provide a richness and depth of records that is only occasionally found in North America, the latter affords us the unique opportunity to view a literate population from initial colonization through over 300 years of settlement. While the growth rates of some …
Historical Demography as Population Ecology
Infrastructures are material forms that allow for the possibility of exchange over space. They are the physical networks through which goods, ideas, waste, power, people, and finance are trafficked. In this article I trace the range of anthropological ...Read More
Archeology: Demographic Archaeology . Fekri A. Hassan
A test of the child replacement hypothesis: Nineteenth century Massachusetts
Child mortality experience may affect subsequent fertility of couples by exerting the so‐called “physiological” and/or “replacement” responses. The influence of either effect should become apparent upon an examination of individual reproductive histories. The impact of infant and early childhood mortality on subsequent reproductive behavior of couples is analyzed for the presence and intensity of these effects. Historical data are derived from 1,…
Population structure in the Connecticut Valley. I. Marital migration
This study reports on an analysis of marital migration among 12 communities in the Connecticut River Valley of Massachusetts during the years 1790–1849. Genetic inferences are drawn, and the requisite assumptions considered. The effect of geographic distance on genetic kinship is predicted using Malécot's isolation‐by‐distance model. The resulting estimates are discussed in terms of geographic and historical factors. The configuration of communit…
Thinning populations and population thinners: The historical demography of Native Americans
Dobyns, Henry F. Their Number Become Thinned: Native American Populations Dynamics in Eastern North America. Native American Historic Demography Series paper. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1983. xxi + 378 pp. including 29 tables, 4 figures, 2 maps, bibliography, and index. $29.95 cloth, $14.95 paper
Population structure in the Connecticut Valley: II. A comparison of multidimensional scaling solutions of migration matrices and isonymy
In a previous paper (Swedlund et al., 1984) we have described the population structure of the historical Connecticut River Valley of Massa chusetts in terms of matrimonial migration matrices. Using procedures described by Morton (1973), Harpending and Jenkins (1974), Jorde (1980), and others the exchanges between subdivisions which make up the matrices are made column stochastic and analyzed to predict genetic kinship. Subsequently the kinship es…
Sex-specific mortality and economic opportunities: Massachusetts, 1860–1899
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Biocultural perspectives on stress in prehistoric, historical, and contemporary population research
Stress, a concept addressing the consequences of disruptive events on individuals and populations, can be a useful integrative idea. The stress process has much in common with its sister concept of adaptation. However, where adaptation focuses on "adaptive" or positive consequences, stress redresses an imbalance by focusing on the costs and limits of adaptation. In this paper we first review the interdisciplinary roots of the stress concept. Whil…
Biological Anthropology Section
General/Theoretical Anthropology: Anatomy of Love: The Natural History of Monogamy, Adultery, and Divorce . Helen E. Fisher
Let's Avoid Paleo-Racial Anthropology
Situating Fertility: Anthropology and Demographic Inquiry
Diabetes As a Disease of Civilization: The Impact of Culture Change on Indigenous Peoples
Diabetes As a Disease of Civilization: The Impact of Culture Change on Indigenous Peoples. Jennie R. Joe and Robert S. Young eds. New York: Mouton de Gruyter. Studies in the Social Sciences, 50. 1994 (cloth). viii + 527 pp
Mill Town Mortality: Consequences of Industrial Growth in Two Nineteenth-Century New England Towns
Recent research has considerably increased our understanding of the factors associated with the American epidemiological transition in the late nineteenth century. However, uncertainty remains regarding the impact on mortality of specific changes ancillary to urbanization and industrialization in American cities and towns. The broad objective of the Connecticut Valley Historical Demography Project is to examine changing relationships between soci…
Gordon Creek Woman Meets Kennewick Man: New Interpretations and Protocols Regarding the Peopling of the Americas
Recent discoveries-particularly those of Kennewick Man-have renewed debates on the peopling of the Americas. Our vantage point comes from research on the Gordon Creek Burial which commenced some 30 years ago. We suggest that a contrast between the conditions under which Gordon Creek and Kennewick were recovered and analyzed provides insights into current interpretations and controversies. Specifically, we argue that bioarchaeologists cannot, and …
A view on the science: Physical anthropology at the millennium
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