John E Robb
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 81015 |
|---|---|
| NOME | John E Robb |
| PRENOMES | John E |
| SOBRENOME | Robb |
| ASSINATURA | ROBB J E |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Cambridge, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research Cambridge UK |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 16 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 105 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 16 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1994 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Making by Rules—Making by Reflex
This study evaluates whether archaeological ceramic typologies correspond to coherent technological practices by analyzing 334 rim sherds from the Middle Neolithic site of Penitenzeria (Calabria, Italy). Conventional categories—Stentinello, Impressed, and Undecorated—are tested against variation in raw materials, forming, finishing, and firing using systematic attribute analysis, bivariate comparisons, and multidimensional scaling. Results show s…
Test of the lateral angle method of sex estimation on Anglo‐Saxon and medieval archaeological populations with genetically estimated sex
The lateral angle method of sex estimation is tested on an archaeological population with genetic sex estimates. Casts of the internal auditory canal were made using a quick drying impression material on 90 individuals (76 adults and 14 nonadults) from Anglo‐Saxon and Medieval Cambridgeshire. The anterior and posterior angles of the internal auditory canal were measured, and the relationship of the angle to genetic sex was tested. The posterior a…
Communication invitée du thèmeRegards actuels sur les femmes dans les sociétés du passé
state of the field, problems and future directions La bioarchologie du genre : tat des lieux, problmes et orientations futures
Caring for the injured
OBJECTIVE: To combine paleopathological and biomechanical analysis to reconstruct the impact that a severe skeletal injury had on an individual's ability to function and participate in medieval society. MATERIALS: Three medieval individuals from Cambridge, England with ante-mortem fractures to the lower limb were analyzed. METHODS: Plain X-rays were used to determine the degree of malunion, rotation and overlap of each fracture. Cortical bone arc…
Assessing the relative benefits of imaging with plain radiographs and microCT scanning to diagnose cancer in past populations
Gout and ‘Podagra’ in medieval Cambridge, England
OBJECTIVE: To estimate the prevalence rate of gout and to explore the social factors that contributed to its development in the various sub-populations in medieval Cambridge. MATERIALS: 177 adult individuals from four medieval cemeteries located in and around Cambridge, UK. METHODS: Lesions were assessed macroscopically and radiographically. Elements with lytic lesions were described and imaged using micro-computed tomography (μCT) to determine t…
Intrapopulation variation in lower limb trabecular architecture
OBJECTIVES: Trabecular structure is frequently used to differentiate between highly divergent mechanical environments. Less is known regarding the response of the structural properties to more subtle behavioral differences, as the range of intrapopulation variation in trabecular architecture is rarely studied. Examining the extent to which lower limb trabecular architecture varies when inferred mobility levels and environment are consistent betwe…
East Anglian early Neolithic monument burial linked to contemporary Megaliths
In the fourth millennium BCE a cultural phenomenon of monumental burial structures spread along the Atlantic façade. Megalithic burials have been targeted for aDNA analyses, but a gap remains in East Anglia, where Neolithic structures were generally earthen or timber. An early Neolithic (3762-3648 cal. BCE) burial monument at the site of Trumpington Meadows, Cambridgeshire, UK, contained the partially articulated remains of at least three individ…
On the Road to Paradis
We here report the results of a programme of AMS dating and stable isotope analysis on human remains from the chambered tomb of Le Déhus, Guernsey. An early use‐phase in the range 4100–3900 BC is indicated, confirming the monument's attribution to the Middle Neolithic II as defined in western France. Late Neolithic burial activity is also identified. Stable carbon isotope measurements provide little or no evidence for the consumption of marine fo…
The Origins of War
Past Bodies
Doing” Agency
The interpretation of skeletal muscle sites
Muscle attachments have only recently been used systematically as markers of ancient activity, in part because of methodological and interpretive difficulties involved in associating muscle markings with specific activities. An alternative analytical approach focuses on the organization of activity rather than the identification of specific activities. This paper presents data from 18 muscle insertion sites in 56 adult skeletons from the Italian …
The Archaeology of Symbols
Why should archaeologists deal with symbols and how can they do so? This article outlines three major traditions archaeologists have followed in conceptualizing symbols, each with its own preferred topics of study, understanding of power and social relations, and epistemology. These include the processual view of symbols as tokens that represent reality, the structuralist view of symbols as mental girders framing a cultural reality, and the postm…
New Directions in Italian Burial Studies
Burial and Social Reproduction in the Peninsular Italian Neolithic
This essay analyzes Neolithic burial sites from Southern and Central Italy. Aside from a poorly defined Abruzzese/Latial regional tradition, most sites fall into a well-defined developmental sequence. The Early and Middle Neolithic are characterized by unelaborated single primary burials in villages, without grave goods or formal tomb architecture. Sporadic local experiments with goods, tombs, formal cemetery areas and secondary burial are known …
The Archaeology of Symbols
Why should archaeologists deal with symbols and how can they do so? This article outlines three major traditions archaeologists have followed in conceptualizing symbols, each with its own preferred topics of study, understanding of power and social relations, and epistemology. These include the processual view of symbols as tokens that represent reality, the structuralist view of symbols as mental girders framing a cultural reality, and the postm…
Doing” Agency
Burial and Social Reproduction in the Peninsular Italian Neolithic
This essay analyzes Neolithic burial sites from Southern and Central Italy. Aside from a poorly defined Abruzzese/Latial regional tradition, most sites fall into a well-defined developmental sequence. The Early and Middle Neolithic are characterized by unelaborated single primary burials in villages, without grave goods or formal tomb architecture. Sporadic local experiments with goods, tombs, formal cemetery areas and secondary burial are known …
On the Road to Paradis
We here report the results of a programme of AMS dating and stable isotope analysis on human remains from the chambered tomb of Le Déhus, Guernsey. An early use‐phase in the range 4100–3900 BC is indicated, confirming the monument's attribution to the Middle Neolithic II as defined in western France. Late Neolithic burial activity is also identified. Stable carbon isotope measurements provide little or no evidence for the consumption of marine fo…
Intrapopulation variation in lower limb trabecular architecture
OBJECTIVES: Trabecular structure is frequently used to differentiate between highly divergent mechanical environments. Less is known regarding the response of the structural properties to more subtle behavioral differences, as the range of intrapopulation variation in trabecular architecture is rarely studied. Examining the extent to which lower limb trabecular architecture varies when inferred mobility levels and environment are consistent betwe…
Burial and Social Reproduction in the Peninsular Italian Neolithic
This essay analyzes Neolithic burial sites from Southern and Central Italy. Aside from a poorly defined Abruzzese/Latial regional tradition, most sites fall into a well-defined developmental sequence. The Early and Middle Neolithic are characterized by unelaborated single primary burials in villages, without grave goods or formal tomb architecture. Sporadic local experiments with goods, tombs, formal cemetery areas and secondary burial are known …
New Directions in Italian Burial Studies
The interpretation of skeletal muscle sites
Muscle attachments have only recently been used systematically as markers of ancient activity, in part because of methodological and interpretive difficulties involved in associating muscle markings with specific activities. An alternative analytical approach focuses on the organization of activity rather than the identification of specific activities. This paper presents data from 18 muscle insertion sites in 56 adult skeletons from the Italian …
The Archaeology of Symbols
Why should archaeologists deal with symbols and how can they do so? This article outlines three major traditions archaeologists have followed in conceptualizing symbols, each with its own preferred topics of study, understanding of power and social relations, and epistemology. These include the processual view of symbols as tokens that represent reality, the structuralist view of symbols as mental girders framing a cultural reality, and the postm…
Doing” Agency
The Origins of War
Past Bodies
On the Road to Paradis
We here report the results of a programme of AMS dating and stable isotope analysis on human remains from the chambered tomb of Le Déhus, Guernsey. An early use‐phase in the range 4100–3900 BC is indicated, confirming the monument's attribution to the Middle Neolithic II as defined in western France. Late Neolithic burial activity is also identified. Stable carbon isotope measurements provide little or no evidence for the consumption of marine fo…
East Anglian early Neolithic monument burial linked to contemporary Megaliths
In the fourth millennium BCE a cultural phenomenon of monumental burial structures spread along the Atlantic façade. Megalithic burials have been targeted for aDNA analyses, but a gap remains in East Anglia, where Neolithic structures were generally earthen or timber. An early Neolithic (3762-3648 cal. BCE) burial monument at the site of Trumpington Meadows, Cambridgeshire, UK, contained the partially articulated remains of at least three individ…
Intrapopulation variation in lower limb trabecular architecture
OBJECTIVES: Trabecular structure is frequently used to differentiate between highly divergent mechanical environments. Less is known regarding the response of the structural properties to more subtle behavioral differences, as the range of intrapopulation variation in trabecular architecture is rarely studied. Examining the extent to which lower limb trabecular architecture varies when inferred mobility levels and environment are consistent betwe…
Gout and ‘Podagra’ in medieval Cambridge, England
OBJECTIVE: To estimate the prevalence rate of gout and to explore the social factors that contributed to its development in the various sub-populations in medieval Cambridge. MATERIALS: 177 adult individuals from four medieval cemeteries located in and around Cambridge, UK. METHODS: Lesions were assessed macroscopically and radiographically. Elements with lytic lesions were described and imaged using micro-computed tomography (μCT) to determine t…
Assessing the relative benefits of imaging with plain radiographs and microCT scanning to diagnose cancer in past populations
Communication invitée du thèmeRegards actuels sur les femmes dans les sociétés du passé
state of the field, problems and future directions La bioarchologie du genre : tat des lieux, problmes et orientations futures
Caring for the injured
OBJECTIVE: To combine paleopathological and biomechanical analysis to reconstruct the impact that a severe skeletal injury had on an individual's ability to function and participate in medieval society. MATERIALS: Three medieval individuals from Cambridge, England with ante-mortem fractures to the lower limb were analyzed. METHODS: Plain X-rays were used to determine the degree of malunion, rotation and overlap of each fracture. Cortical bone arc…
Test of the lateral angle method of sex estimation on Anglo‐Saxon and medieval archaeological populations with genetically estimated sex
The lateral angle method of sex estimation is tested on an archaeological population with genetic sex estimates. Casts of the internal auditory canal were made using a quick drying impression material on 90 individuals (76 adults and 14 nonadults) from Anglo‐Saxon and Medieval Cambridgeshire. The anterior and posterior angles of the internal auditory canal were measured, and the relationship of the angle to genetic sex was tested. The posterior a…
Making by Rules—Making by Reflex
This study evaluates whether archaeological ceramic typologies correspond to coherent technological practices by analyzing 334 rim sherds from the Middle Neolithic site of Penitenzeria (Calabria, Italy). Conventional categories—Stentinello, Impressed, and Undecorated—are tested against variation in raw materials, forming, finishing, and firing using systematic attribute analysis, bivariate comparisons, and multidimensional scaling. Results show s…
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