James M Calcagno
Biographic Data
| ID | 91698 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James M Calcagno |
| GIVEN NAMES | James M |
| FAMILY NAME | Calcagno |
| SIGNATURE | CALCAGNO J M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Loyola University Chicago |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 100 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Still Keeping Cultural and Biological Anthropology Together: A Response to Alan Goodman's AAA Presidential Address
What makes us human? Answers from evolutionary anthropology
Today, scholars from numerous and highly diverse fields are not only addressing the question of what makes us human, but also seeking input from other disciplines to inform their answers to this fundamental issue. However, for the most part, evolutionary anthropologists are not particularly prominent in this discussion, or at least not acknowledged to be. Why is this the case? One reason may be that although evolutionary anthropologists are uniqu…
Keeping Biological Anthropology in Anthropology, and Anthropology in Biology
Considerable tension among the subfields has existed within the discipline of anthropology. As a result, some anthropology departments have splintered, and the hallmark "holistic approach" of anthropology has been considered more myth than reality. However, as promoted by the American Anthropological Association and the American Anthropologist for over one hundred years, enhancing the holistic nature of anthropology remains an important and neces…
Time for Every Purpose
Dental anthropology of Central‐Southern, Iron Age Italy: The evidence of metric versus nonmetric traits
Discrete and metric dental traits are used to assess biological similarities and differences among 13 bioarchaeological populations located on each side of the Apennine mountains in central-southern Italy and dated to the first millennium BC. An initial hypothesis, that the mountain chain might provide a significant geographical barrier for population movement (resulting in greater biological affinities among those groups on the same side), is no…
Dental anthropology of Central-Southern, Iron Age Italy: The evidence of metric versus nonmetric traits
Discrete and metric dental traits are used to assess biological similarities and differences among 13 bioarchaeological populations located on each side of the Apennine mountains in central-southern Italy and dated to the first millennium BC. An initial hypothesis, that the mountain chain might provide a significant geographical barrier for population movement (resulting in greater biological affinities among those groups on the same side), is no…
Recognizing third molar impactions—puzzles and problems: A reply to Dr. Neiburger
Brief communication: Possible third molar impactions in the hominid fossil record
Impacted third molars affect 15%–20% of modern Americans and Western Europeans. In contrast, third molar impactions have not been reported in the early hominid fossil record. It is uncertain whether the lack of reports reflects an absence of impactions or a failure to recognize them. This communication is intended to raise awareness of the possibility of impactions by describing the appearance of impacted teeth and by noting two possible instance…
From archaics to Angel
Buikstra, Jane E., (Ed.). A Life in Science: Papers in Honor of J. Lawrence Angel. Center for American Archaeology, Scientific Papers Number 6, 1990. xiii + 210 pp. including chapter references. Paper. Conroy, Glenn C. Primate Evolution. New York: W.W. Norton and Co., 1990. xiv + 492 pp. including appendices, references, credits, glossary, and index. $34.95 paper. Trinkaus, Erik, (Ed.). The Emergence of Modern Humans: Biocultural Adaptations in t…
Post-Pleistocene facial reduction, biomechanics and selection against morphologically complex teeth: A rejoinder to macchiarelli and bondioli
A critique of the «increasing population density effect»
Human dental reduction: Natural selection or the probable mutation effect
Dental reduction has been sufficiently widespread among human populations to render the phenomenon of reduced tooth size worthy of scientific explanation. One of the most controversial models invoked to explain structural reduction in organisms is referred to as the “probable mutation effect” (PME). According to this model, structures no longer functional owing to ecological or cultural changes will experience a relaxation of selection pressure, …
Dental reduction in post‐pleistocene Nubia
Tooth size changes among Nubian archaeological populations dating from the Mesolithic through the Christian era, a period of approximately 12,000 years, are analyzed. Standard length and breadth dimensions of all permanent teeth from several cultural horizons are combined to form three large samples: Mesolithic, 10000–7000 B.C.; Agriculturalist, 3300–1100 B.C. (A‐group, C‐group, Pharaonic); and Intensive Agriculturalist, A.D. 0–1400 (Meroitic, X‐…
Odontometrics and Biological Continuity in the Meroitic, X-Group, and Christian Phases of Nubia
On the applicability of sexing human skeletal material by discriminant function analysis
Human dental reduction: Natural selection or the probable mutation effect
Dental reduction has been sufficiently widespread among human populations to render the phenomenon of reduced tooth size worthy of scientific explanation. One of the most controversial models invoked to explain structural reduction in organisms is referred to as the “probable mutation effect” (PME). According to this model, structures no longer functional owing to ecological or cultural changes will experience a relaxation of selection pressure, …
Dental reduction in post‐pleistocene Nubia
Tooth size changes among Nubian archaeological populations dating from the Mesolithic through the Christian era, a period of approximately 12,000 years, are analyzed. Standard length and breadth dimensions of all permanent teeth from several cultural horizons are combined to form three large samples: Mesolithic, 10000–7000 B.C.; Agriculturalist, 3300–1100 B.C. (A‐group, C‐group, Pharaonic); and Intensive Agriculturalist, A.D. 0–1400 (Meroitic, X‐…
Keeping Biological Anthropology in Anthropology, and Anthropology in Biology
Considerable tension among the subfields has existed within the discipline of anthropology. As a result, some anthropology departments have splintered, and the hallmark "holistic approach" of anthropology has been considered more myth than reality. However, as promoted by the American Anthropological Association and the American Anthropologist for over one hundred years, enhancing the holistic nature of anthropology remains an important and neces…
Odontometrics and Biological Continuity in the Meroitic, X-Group, and Christian Phases of Nubia
What makes us human? Answers from evolutionary anthropology
Today, scholars from numerous and highly diverse fields are not only addressing the question of what makes us human, but also seeking input from other disciplines to inform their answers to this fundamental issue. However, for the most part, evolutionary anthropologists are not particularly prominent in this discussion, or at least not acknowledged to be. Why is this the case? One reason may be that although evolutionary anthropologists are uniqu…
Post-Pleistocene facial reduction, biomechanics and selection against morphologically complex teeth: A rejoinder to macchiarelli and bondioli
Brief communication: Possible third molar impactions in the hominid fossil record
Impacted third molars affect 15%–20% of modern Americans and Western Europeans. In contrast, third molar impactions have not been reported in the early hominid fossil record. It is uncertain whether the lack of reports reflects an absence of impactions or a failure to recognize them. This communication is intended to raise awareness of the possibility of impactions by describing the appearance of impacted teeth and by noting two possible instance…
A critique of the «increasing population density effect»
On the applicability of sexing human skeletal material by discriminant function analysis
Still Keeping Cultural and Biological Anthropology Together: A Response to Alan Goodman's AAA Presidential Address
On the applicability of sexing human skeletal material by discriminant function analysis
Dental reduction in post‐pleistocene Nubia
Tooth size changes among Nubian archaeological populations dating from the Mesolithic through the Christian era, a period of approximately 12,000 years, are analyzed. Standard length and breadth dimensions of all permanent teeth from several cultural horizons are combined to form three large samples: Mesolithic, 10000–7000 B.C.; Agriculturalist, 3300–1100 B.C. (A‐group, C‐group, Pharaonic); and Intensive Agriculturalist, A.D. 0–1400 (Meroitic, X‐…
Odontometrics and Biological Continuity in the Meroitic, X-Group, and Christian Phases of Nubia
Human dental reduction: Natural selection or the probable mutation effect
Dental reduction has been sufficiently widespread among human populations to render the phenomenon of reduced tooth size worthy of scientific explanation. One of the most controversial models invoked to explain structural reduction in organisms is referred to as the “probable mutation effect” (PME). According to this model, structures no longer functional owing to ecological or cultural changes will experience a relaxation of selection pressure, …
Post-Pleistocene facial reduction, biomechanics and selection against morphologically complex teeth: A rejoinder to macchiarelli and bondioli
A critique of the «increasing population density effect»
From archaics to Angel
Buikstra, Jane E., (Ed.). A Life in Science: Papers in Honor of J. Lawrence Angel. Center for American Archaeology, Scientific Papers Number 6, 1990. xiii + 210 pp. including chapter references. Paper. Conroy, Glenn C. Primate Evolution. New York: W.W. Norton and Co., 1990. xiv + 492 pp. including appendices, references, credits, glossary, and index. $34.95 paper. Trinkaus, Erik, (Ed.). The Emergence of Modern Humans: Biocultural Adaptations in t…
Brief communication: Possible third molar impactions in the hominid fossil record
Impacted third molars affect 15%–20% of modern Americans and Western Europeans. In contrast, third molar impactions have not been reported in the early hominid fossil record. It is uncertain whether the lack of reports reflects an absence of impactions or a failure to recognize them. This communication is intended to raise awareness of the possibility of impactions by describing the appearance of impacted teeth and by noting two possible instance…
Recognizing third molar impactions—puzzles and problems: A reply to Dr. Neiburger
Dental anthropology of Central‐Southern, Iron Age Italy: The evidence of metric versus nonmetric traits
Discrete and metric dental traits are used to assess biological similarities and differences among 13 bioarchaeological populations located on each side of the Apennine mountains in central-southern Italy and dated to the first millennium BC. An initial hypothesis, that the mountain chain might provide a significant geographical barrier for population movement (resulting in greater biological affinities among those groups on the same side), is no…
Dental anthropology of Central-Southern, Iron Age Italy: The evidence of metric versus nonmetric traits
Discrete and metric dental traits are used to assess biological similarities and differences among 13 bioarchaeological populations located on each side of the Apennine mountains in central-southern Italy and dated to the first millennium BC. An initial hypothesis, that the mountain chain might provide a significant geographical barrier for population movement (resulting in greater biological affinities among those groups on the same side), is no…
Time for Every Purpose
Keeping Biological Anthropology in Anthropology, and Anthropology in Biology
Considerable tension among the subfields has existed within the discipline of anthropology. As a result, some anthropology departments have splintered, and the hallmark "holistic approach" of anthropology has been considered more myth than reality. However, as promoted by the American Anthropological Association and the American Anthropologist for over one hundred years, enhancing the holistic nature of anthropology remains an important and neces…
What makes us human? Answers from evolutionary anthropology
Today, scholars from numerous and highly diverse fields are not only addressing the question of what makes us human, but also seeking input from other disciplines to inform their answers to this fundamental issue. However, for the most part, evolutionary anthropologists are not particularly prominent in this discussion, or at least not acknowledged to be. Why is this the case? One reason may be that although evolutionary anthropologists are uniqu…
Still Keeping Cultural and Biological Anthropology Together: A Response to Alan Goodman's AAA Presidential Address
Biology (8 works) · Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Anthropology (7 works) · Biological anthropology (6 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Dentistry (5 works) · Population (5 works) · dental development and anomalies (4 works)