A Flawed Vision
Sex And Robusticity On King Island
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9397136 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Peter Brown (0000-0001-6130-7039, University of New England, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1994 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-7 |
| Publication date | 1994-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Australian Archaeology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0312-2417 • E-ISSN: 2470-0363 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/03122417.1994.11681510 |
| OpenAlex | W2304615073 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 14 |
Sim and Thorne (1990) report on the discovery of human skeletal remains, radiocarbon dated to 14,270±640 BP, from King Island in Bass Strait. Given the location of King Island, and the long debate over the biological origins of the Tasmanians (Pardoe 1991a; Brown in press a), the discovery and description of the King Island skeleton is of considerable historical significance. The skeleton was excavated under difficult circumstances and could only be retained for examination for a short period. On the basis of their assessment of the skeleton's size and robusticity Sim and Thorne conclude that the skeleton is that of a male, with an overall cranial morphology similar to Keilor and Thorne's (1977, 1980) 'gracile' Pleistocene population. Irrespective of the historical reality of this 'gracile' population an important issue in relation to Sim and Thorne's assessment of King Island is their identification of sex. As Pardoe (1991b) has recently pointed out, at least one earlier attempt to support the dual Pleistocene population model (Webb 1989) appears to be an artefact of a limited understanding of sexual dimorphism. There were indeed two human populations present in the Pleistocene of Australia, one of them more robust than the other, but these are called men and women
Archaeology · Biology · Ethnology · Genealogy · Geography · New guinea · Pleistocene · Population · Radiocarbon dating · Sexual dimorphism · Sociology · Zoology · Demography · Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies · History · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
The Archaeology of the Aru Islands, Eastern Indonesia
Australia's oldest human remains
Aboriginal Skeletal Collections And Research In Physical Anthropology
The Gracile Male Skeleton From Late Pleistocene King Island, Australia
Sex and significance of Lake Mungo 3
Australian Pleistocene variation and the sex of Lake Mungo 3
A new test of the sex of the Lake Mungo 3 skeleton
Possible evidence of a cultural practice affecting head growth in some late pleistocene east Asian and Australasian populations
Pleistocene Human Remains From King Island, Southeastern Australia
The femur of the Australian aborigine
Sex differences in the pubic bone
The Keilor skull
A newly developed visual method of sexing the os pubis
Pleistocene and recent Australians
Artificial Cranial Deformation
Competing paradigms and ancient human remains
Sex Determination of Aboriginal Crania from the Murray River Valley
The many faces of Wadjak Man
Pleistocene homogeneity and Holocene size reduction
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,22 |
| Citation span | 1994 - 2009 (16) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |