Joel Davidson
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3635934 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Joel Davidson |
| PRENOMES | Joel |
| SOBRENOME | Davidson |
| ASSINATURA | DAVIDSON J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa |
| ORCID | 0009-0005-7915-2879 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 30 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 90 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 30 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1970 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Sustaining the Carrier War
The New Zealand bracken fern rhizome, Pteridium esculentum (G.Forst)
The two species of bracken fern, Pteridium esculentum and Pteridium aquilinum , are well known to produce neoplastic lesions and thiamine deficiency when consumed by mammals, with severe consequences to health. New Zealand Pre‐European Māori are known to have consumed rhizomes of P. esculentum as food with little or no recorded consequences to health. Processing methods by Māori prior to consumption may have helped to detoxify this food. We carri…
Freshwater and Marine eels in the Pacific and New Zealand
Eels are ubiquitous throughout the Pacific and New Zealand, and offer a rich source of protein and fat. However, bones of eels are rare in archaeological sites. This contrast has been noted several times in archaeological literature, not just in the Pacific, but also in Europe. Explanations for the dearth of bones range from taphonomic processes, the bones are too small, or too fragile, or they preferentially self-destruct because they are rich w…
Marque and Reprisal
Marque and Reprisal: The Spheres of Public and Private Warfare Marque and Reprisal: The Spheres of Public and Private Warfare. By Kenneth B. Moss. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2019. xii, 452 pp. $45.00.) Joel Davidson Joel Davidson Washington, D.C Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 107, Issue 3, December 2020, Page 729, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jaaa360 Publi…
Archaeological excavations at Pig Bay (N38/21, R10/22), Motutapu Island, Auckland, New Zealand, in 1958 and 1959
A large collection of artefacts and faunal material recovered 60 years ago from an excavation on the island of Motutapu, Hauraki Gulf, New Zealand is described for the first time. The occupation site primarily functioned as an adze manufactory using a nearby source of indurated greywacke.
Reducing Lead Exposure Risk to Vulnerable Populations
Recent headlines highlight disparities in childhood lead poisoning in urban areas yet discourse does not address the lack of primary prevention options. Previous geographic information systems (GIS) approaches, concentrated on census tracts or ZIP codes, miss contextual understanding of lead exposure and make intervention impractical. Through the combination of electronic medical record (EMR) data from an urban children's hospital and spatial vid…
Intrusion, integration and innovation on small and not‐so‐small islands with particular reference to Samoa
Investigations on small Polynesian outliers have illustrated how difficult it can be to identify archaeological evidence of intrusion, or to interpret the effect of any intrusion on the resident populations. In Samoa, the still meagre amount of artefactual and faunal remains from archaeological excavations adds to these problems. A review of the known Samoan archaeological sequence finds little or no evidence of intrusion, apart from a probable p…
Connections with Hawaiki
A tool from the archaeological site at Wairau Bar, New Zealand, is identified as an import from the tropical Pacific. The tool was made by working a cutting edge on the apex of a spiral gastropod shell, identified as Acus crenulatus (formerly Terebra crenulata) (family Terebridae). Similar tools have been found in a number of sites in tropical East Polynesia, dating to the same general time period as Wairau Bar. The tool supports the view that th…
Western Polynesia and Fiji
Cultural Replacement on Small Islands
The Lapita Occupation at Naitabale, Moturiki Island, Central Fiji
In 2003 the authors discovered and excavated a Lapita site at Naitabale close to the southern end of Moturiki Island (central Fiji). Today the site is 350 m inland from the coast, but in Lapita times it was located behind the active beach ridge. A large collection of potsherds (including 92 dentate-stamped or incised Lapita sherds), shell, and animal bones was recovered, together with a human burial. Sherd decorations show affinities with the Wes…
Home on the Rails
Reviewed by: Home on the Rails: Women, the Railroad, and the Rise of Public Domesticity Janet F. Davidson (bio) Home on the Rails: Women, the Railroad, and the Rise of Public Domesticity. By Amy G. Richter. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005. Pp. xiii+272. $49.95/$19.95. As the title of Amy G. Richter's book suggests, this is not your parents' railroad history. For much of the twentieth century, with rare exceptions such as Leo…
An Ocean in Common
This book traces the developing relationship between the U.S. Navy and ocean scientists from the end of World War I to the early 1960s. The author, Gary E. Weir, is an official navy historian who has written extensively about American submarine programs. His principal thesis is that the symbiotic connection between scientists and the navy depended as much upon an interpersonal network of military and civilian oceanography boosters as upon technol…
More than Munitions
Clare Wightman's More than Munitions explores the history of women's work in the British engineering industries from 1900 to 1950. After placing her book in the context of literature on the history of workplace control, feminist labor history, women's wartime work, and sexual segregation at work, Wightman surveys women's work opportunities in Britain in general and their employment opportunities in the engineering industries in particular. Explai…
Estimating Fish Size from Archaeological Bones within one Family
The use of size-frequency diagrams to characterize prehistoric fish catches and to assess human impact on inshore fisheries
Archaeological collections of fish bones from previously excavated sites in New Zealand are being re-examined and selected bones measured in order to estimate original fish size, reconstruct prehistoric fish catches and assess human impact on the fishery over the course of about 800 years of New Zealand prehistory. Several problems hamper this research, such as small sample sizes, lack of significant stratigraphy at many sites, inconsistent field…
Pre-European Catches of Snapper ( ) in Northern New Zealand
Pre-European Catches of Barracouta, Thyrsites atun, at Long Beach and Shag River Mouth, Otago, New Zealand
Planning War, Pursuing Peace
Journal Article Planning Wan Pursuing Peace: The Political Economy of American Warfare, 1920–1939. By Paul A. C. Koistinen. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998. xx, 432 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-7006-0890-7.) Get access Joel R. Davidson Joel R. Davidson Bethesda, Maryland Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 2, September 1999, Pages 821–822, https://doi.org/10.2307…
Ma Kiley
Reviewed by: Ma Kiley: The Life of a Railroad Telegrapher* Janet F. Davidson (bio) Ma Kiley: The Life of a Railroad Telegrapher. By Thomas C. Jepsen. El Paso: Texas Western Press, 1997. Pp. v+138; illustrations, figures, notes/references, bibliography. There are a number of reasons why you should read Thomas Jepsen’s Ma Kiley: The Life of A Railroad Telegrapher. The most compelling one is Mattie C. Kuhn, Ma Kiley herself. This book is a reproduct…
Prehistoric Fishing at Fa'ahia, Huahine, Society Islands, French Polynesia
Une collection d'os de poissons provenant des fouilles du locus C50 à Fa'ahia (Huahine) est analysée et les résultats sont comparés à ceux d'une étude précédente de la faune provenant d'une aire adjacente du même site. Les prises du locus C50 sont dominées par le poisson- perroquet alors que, dans l'étude précédente, le thon était dominant. Un tel contraste entre des parties adjacentes du même site est des plus inhabituels dans le Pacifique. Dive…
The Unsinkable Fleet
The estimation of live fish size from archaeological cranial bones of New Zealand Labridae
Treinta mediciones se llevaron a cabo en otolitos, dientes faríngeos y cinco de los huesos craneales pares de una muestra reciente de lábridos neozelandeses formada por 18 Notolabrus celidotus y 122 Pseudolabrus miles. Sobre estos valores se llevó a cabo un análisis de regresión a fín de inferir la longitud corporal hasta la inflexión de la aleta caudal y el peso del pez sin eviscerar. Diferentes modelos de regresión (eg. linear, logarítmico, exp…
The estimation of live fish size from archaeological cranial bones of the New Zealand blue codParapercis colias
Twenty-four measurements were taken on five of the paired cranial bones and the otoliths of a modern sample of 177 blue cod. Parapercis colias. Regression analysis was performed on these measurements to estimate live fork length and ungutted weight. A number of regression models were examined (linear, logarithmic, exponential and power curve) to work out the optimum estimator for each bone measurement. It was found that live fork length of this s…
Supplying the Troops
Journal Article Supplying the Troops: General Somervell and American Logistics in WWII. By John Kennedy Ohl. (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1994. x, 331 pp. $32.00, ISBN 0-87580-185-4.) Get access Joel R. Davidson Joel R. Davidson Silver Spring, Maryland Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Issue 3, December 1996, Pages 1067–1068, https://doi.org/10.2307/294…
The Lapita Occupation at Naitabale, Moturiki Island, Central Fiji
In 2003 the authors discovered and excavated a Lapita site at Naitabale close to the southern end of Moturiki Island (central Fiji). Today the site is 350 m inland from the coast, but in Lapita times it was located behind the active beach ridge. A large collection of potsherds (including 92 dentate-stamped or incised Lapita sherds), shell, and animal bones was recovered, together with a human burial. Sherd decorations show affinities with the Wes…
Archaeology in Western Samoa I
Intrusion, integration and innovation on small and not‐so‐small islands with particular reference to Samoa
Investigations on small Polynesian outliers have illustrated how difficult it can be to identify archaeological evidence of intrusion, or to interpret the effect of any intrusion on the resident populations. In Samoa, the still meagre amount of artefactual and faunal remains from archaeological excavations adds to these problems. A review of the known Samoan archaeological sequence finds little or no evidence of intrusion, apart from a probable p…
The use of size-frequency diagrams to characterize prehistoric fish catches and to assess human impact on inshore fisheries
Archaeological collections of fish bones from previously excavated sites in New Zealand are being re-examined and selected bones measured in order to estimate original fish size, reconstruct prehistoric fish catches and assess human impact on the fishery over the course of about 800 years of New Zealand prehistory. Several problems hamper this research, such as small sample sizes, lack of significant stratigraphy at many sites, inconsistent field…
Archaeology on Nukuoro Atoll
Manufacturing tools Coral grindstones Coral files and saws Drill points Pumice abraders Bivalves used for manufacturing Shell abraders Hammer stones 70 71 Domestic tools Coconut grater heads Spoons and scrapers Shell containers Pounders .Turtle bone adzes Long bone poles Coral rasps and other large coral items Needles .Other bone artifacts 72 72 75 75 76 76 77 77 77 78 Artifacts of uncertain function Coral disks Perforated shark teeth Hammers and…
Pre-European Catches of Snapper ( ) in Northern New Zealand
Pre-European Catches of Barracouta, Thyrsites atun, at Long Beach and Shag River Mouth, Otago, New Zealand
Cultural Replacement on Small Islands
Estimating Fish Size from Archaeological Bones within one Family
Reducing Lead Exposure Risk to Vulnerable Populations
Recent headlines highlight disparities in childhood lead poisoning in urban areas yet discourse does not address the lack of primary prevention options. Previous geographic information systems (GIS) approaches, concentrated on census tracts or ZIP codes, miss contextual understanding of lead exposure and make intervention impractical. Through the combination of electronic medical record (EMR) data from an urban children's hospital and spatial vid…
An Ocean in Common
This book traces the developing relationship between the U.S. Navy and ocean scientists from the end of World War I to the early 1960s. The author, Gary E. Weir, is an official navy historian who has written extensively about American submarine programs. His principal thesis is that the symbiotic connection between scientists and the navy depended as much upon an interpersonal network of military and civilian oceanography boosters as upon technol…
The estimation of live fish size from archaeological cranial bones of New Zealand Labridae
Treinta mediciones se llevaron a cabo en otolitos, dientes faríngeos y cinco de los huesos craneales pares de una muestra reciente de lábridos neozelandeses formada por 18 Notolabrus celidotus y 122 Pseudolabrus miles. Sobre estos valores se llevó a cabo un análisis de regresión a fín de inferir la longitud corporal hasta la inflexión de la aleta caudal y el peso del pez sin eviscerar. Diferentes modelos de regresión (eg. linear, logarítmico, exp…
Archaeology in Western Samoa I
Archaeology on Nukuoro Atoll
Manufacturing tools Coral grindstones Coral files and saws Drill points Pumice abraders Bivalves used for manufacturing Shell abraders Hammer stones 70 71 Domestic tools Coconut grater heads Spoons and scrapers Shell containers Pounders .Turtle bone adzes Long bone poles Coral rasps and other large coral items Needles .Other bone artifacts 72 72 75 75 76 76 77 77 77 78 Artifacts of uncertain function Coral disks Perforated shark teeth Hammers and…
Western Polynesia and Fiji
The adjacent archipelagos of Fiji, Samoa, Tonga, ‘Uvea and Futuna in the Central Pacific provide an opportunity to study inter‐island contact and cultural differentiation during more than 3,000 years of prehistory. The major islands were first settled during the second millennium B.C. by closely related people. Similar ceramic sequences, culminating in the abandonment of pottery manufacture everywhere except Fiji by about the beginning of the Chr…
The Prehistory of Western Polynesia
Excavations and surveys in Western Polynesia have revealed a sequence of more than 3 000 years of human occupation. The first 1 000 years of the sequence are best known from Tonga, with only a few pottery finds suggesting contemporary occupation of other islands. The last 2 000 years are best known from Samoa. Data from 'Uvea and Futuna are just beginning to be assembled. The limited evidence available so far suggests that the various island grou…
Niuatoputapu
Supplying the Troops
Journal Article Supplying the Troops: General Somervell and American Logistics in WWII. By John Kennedy Ohl. (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1994. x, 331 pp. $32.00, ISBN 0-87580-185-4.) Get access Joel R. Davidson Joel R. Davidson Silver Spring, Maryland Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Issue 3, December 1996, Pages 1067–1068, https://doi.org/10.2307/294…
The Unsinkable Fleet
The estimation of live fish size from archaeological cranial bones of New Zealand Labridae
Treinta mediciones se llevaron a cabo en otolitos, dientes faríngeos y cinco de los huesos craneales pares de una muestra reciente de lábridos neozelandeses formada por 18 Notolabrus celidotus y 122 Pseudolabrus miles. Sobre estos valores se llevó a cabo un análisis de regresión a fín de inferir la longitud corporal hasta la inflexión de la aleta caudal y el peso del pez sin eviscerar. Diferentes modelos de regresión (eg. linear, logarítmico, exp…
The estimation of live fish size from archaeological cranial bones of the New Zealand blue codParapercis colias
Twenty-four measurements were taken on five of the paired cranial bones and the otoliths of a modern sample of 177 blue cod. Parapercis colias. Regression analysis was performed on these measurements to estimate live fork length and ungutted weight. A number of regression models were examined (linear, logarithmic, exponential and power curve) to work out the optimum estimator for each bone measurement. It was found that live fork length of this s…
Prehistoric Fishing at Fa'ahia, Huahine, Society Islands, French Polynesia
Une collection d'os de poissons provenant des fouilles du locus C50 à Fa'ahia (Huahine) est analysée et les résultats sont comparés à ceux d'une étude précédente de la faune provenant d'une aire adjacente du même site. Les prises du locus C50 sont dominées par le poisson- perroquet alors que, dans l'étude précédente, le thon était dominant. Un tel contraste entre des parties adjacentes du même site est des plus inhabituels dans le Pacifique. Dive…
Pre-European Catches of Barracouta, Thyrsites atun, at Long Beach and Shag River Mouth, Otago, New Zealand
Planning War, Pursuing Peace
Journal Article Planning Wan Pursuing Peace: The Political Economy of American Warfare, 1920–1939. By Paul A. C. Koistinen. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998. xx, 432 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-7006-0890-7.) Get access Joel R. Davidson Joel R. Davidson Bethesda, Maryland Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 2, September 1999, Pages 821–822, https://doi.org/10.2307…
Ma Kiley
Reviewed by: Ma Kiley: The Life of a Railroad Telegrapher* Janet F. Davidson (bio) Ma Kiley: The Life of a Railroad Telegrapher. By Thomas C. Jepsen. El Paso: Texas Western Press, 1997. Pp. v+138; illustrations, figures, notes/references, bibliography. There are a number of reasons why you should read Thomas Jepsen’s Ma Kiley: The Life of A Railroad Telegrapher. The most compelling one is Mattie C. Kuhn, Ma Kiley herself. This book is a reproduct…
Pre-European Catches of Snapper ( ) in Northern New Zealand
More than Munitions
Clare Wightman's More than Munitions explores the history of women's work in the British engineering industries from 1900 to 1950. After placing her book in the context of literature on the history of workplace control, feminist labor history, women's wartime work, and sexual segregation at work, Wightman surveys women's work opportunities in Britain in general and their employment opportunities in the engineering industries in particular. Explai…
Estimating Fish Size from Archaeological Bones within one Family
The use of size-frequency diagrams to characterize prehistoric fish catches and to assess human impact on inshore fisheries
Archaeological collections of fish bones from previously excavated sites in New Zealand are being re-examined and selected bones measured in order to estimate original fish size, reconstruct prehistoric fish catches and assess human impact on the fishery over the course of about 800 years of New Zealand prehistory. Several problems hamper this research, such as small sample sizes, lack of significant stratigraphy at many sites, inconsistent field…
An Ocean in Common
This book traces the developing relationship between the U.S. Navy and ocean scientists from the end of World War I to the early 1960s. The author, Gary E. Weir, is an official navy historian who has written extensively about American submarine programs. His principal thesis is that the symbiotic connection between scientists and the navy depended as much upon an interpersonal network of military and civilian oceanography boosters as upon technol…
Home on the Rails
Reviewed by: Home on the Rails: Women, the Railroad, and the Rise of Public Domesticity Janet F. Davidson (bio) Home on the Rails: Women, the Railroad, and the Rise of Public Domesticity. By Amy G. Richter. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005. Pp. xiii+272. $49.95/$19.95. As the title of Amy G. Richter's book suggests, this is not your parents' railroad history. For much of the twentieth century, with rare exceptions such as Leo…
The Lapita Occupation at Naitabale, Moturiki Island, Central Fiji
In 2003 the authors discovered and excavated a Lapita site at Naitabale close to the southern end of Moturiki Island (central Fiji). Today the site is 350 m inland from the coast, but in Lapita times it was located behind the active beach ridge. A large collection of potsherds (including 92 dentate-stamped or incised Lapita sherds), shell, and animal bones was recovered, together with a human burial. Sherd decorations show affinities with the Wes…
Western Polynesia and Fiji
Cultural Replacement on Small Islands
Connections with Hawaiki
A tool from the archaeological site at Wairau Bar, New Zealand, is identified as an import from the tropical Pacific. The tool was made by working a cutting edge on the apex of a spiral gastropod shell, identified as Acus crenulatus (formerly Terebra crenulata) (family Terebridae). Similar tools have been found in a number of sites in tropical East Polynesia, dating to the same general time period as Wairau Bar. The tool supports the view that th…
Intrusion, integration and innovation on small and not‐so‐small islands with particular reference to Samoa
Investigations on small Polynesian outliers have illustrated how difficult it can be to identify archaeological evidence of intrusion, or to interpret the effect of any intrusion on the resident populations. In Samoa, the still meagre amount of artefactual and faunal remains from archaeological excavations adds to these problems. A review of the known Samoan archaeological sequence finds little or no evidence of intrusion, apart from a probable p…
Archaeological excavations at Pig Bay (N38/21, R10/22), Motutapu Island, Auckland, New Zealand, in 1958 and 1959
A large collection of artefacts and faunal material recovered 60 years ago from an excavation on the island of Motutapu, Hauraki Gulf, New Zealand is described for the first time. The occupation site primarily functioned as an adze manufactory using a nearby source of indurated greywacke.
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