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The biocultural context of dental modification in prehistoric Southeast Asia
No full text[Extract] Many cases of intentional dental modification have been documented throughout prehistoric mainland Southeast Asia (see Tayles 1996; Domett and Oxenham 2010; Domett et al. 2013). This area spans what is now Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Myanmar, and Laos. The evidence to date is predomminantly confined to Neolithic and Iron Age communities; only a few potential cases of dental modification in the Bronze Age exist for this region. The majority of communities identified with dental modification show evidence only for anterior tooth ablation, typically in symmetrical patterns. More recent evidence indicates that dental filing also occurred in parts of prehistoric Cambodia (Ikehara-Quebral 2010; Domett et al. 2013; Matsushita and Matsushita 2013). This evidence adds to the widespread identification of intentional dental modification around prehistoric mainland Southeast Asia and provides an opportunity to understand the biological impact and biocultural significance of this practice in the region more fully
Comment on: Markelein et al The Precarious State of Subsistence: Reevaluating Dental Pathological Lesions Associated with Agricultural and Hunter-Gatherer Lifeways
No full text[Extract] Marklein et al.’s study will invigorate discussion on a number of issues in bioarchaeology, both those specific to the relationship of caries and subsistence but also those of a broader nature, including the nonlinearity of many pathologies and human behavior and the importance of variation in human responses to change. To some degree, behind these issues is the lack of (or token) engagement with advancement in clinical studies that has led to the overgeneralization of, or now outdated, links between paleopathology and behavior. As many bioarchaeologists are recognizing, with advancements in our understanding of pathogenesis and the link between genetics and disease it is no longer valid to purport singular links between, for example, caries and diet (Newton et al. 2013; Tayles, Domett, and Halcrow 2009) or osteoarthritis and physical activity (Domett et al. 2017)
An unusual case of prone position in the Punic/Roman necropolis of Monte Luna in Sardinia (Italy): A multi-disciplinary interpretation of Tomb 27
No full textSardinia (Italy), noted for its wealth and strategic position, has been conquered through time by different populations and each one of them instilled their specific culture, ritual behaviour, and customs. Sometimes a clearcut distinction is evident between these cultures, while other times it is more of a natural progression with no marked moment of change evident. This study discusses a single grave from the Necropolis of Monte Luna, established by the Punic people, with depositional chambers and pits carved on a rockhill in front of the city settlement (Acropolis). Among the 120 tombs, Tomb 27 contained a young woman (T27.2) buried in an atypical prone deposition, having disturbed an earlier burial (T27.1), a subadult around 15 years of age. T27.2 suffered two distinctive types of perimortem trauma, a possible diastatic blunt force trauma to the occipital bone and a small quadrangular-shaped lesion reminiscent of a Roman era square shaped nail. The grave goods allow a quite specific dating to the period of transition between Punic and Roman cultures. These, and other characteristics of the young woman’s skeleton, are of significance in understanding funerary and cultural behaviour at the time of this transition
Le cimetière de Hnaw Kan, Malhaing (Mandalay). Note préliminaire
No full textWe present here, pending a more exhaustive study, the very first findings of an Iron age burial site excavation in central Myanmar. This field research, conducted in 2001 by a Burmese-French team, establishes a first basis for the study of late prehistory in the country.Nous présentons ici, avant l'étude définitive, les tout premiers résultats de la fouille d'une nécropole de l'âge du fer dans le centre du Myanmar. Ces recherches de terrain conduites en 2001 par une équipe birmano-française posent les premiers jalons d'une étude des périodes récentes de la Préhistoire dans la région.Pautreau Jean-Pierre, Pauk Pauk U, Domett Kate. Le cimetière de Hnaw Kan, Malhaing (Mandalay). Note préliminaire. In: Aséanie 8, 2001. pp. 73-101
Guidelines for Data Annotation
No full textIncluded here are a coding manual and supplementary examples of gesture forms (in still images and video recordings) that informed the coding of the first author (Kate Mesh) and four project reliability coders
Declining Unionization, Rising Inequality: an Interview with Kate Bronfenbrenner
No full textKate Bronfenbrenner is director of labor education research at the New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University. She worked for many years as an organizer with the United Woodcutters Association in Mississippi and the Service Employees International Union in Boston. She is the author, co-author and editor of numerous books and articles on union strategies
Kate Richards: madness
No full textKate Richards’ bleakly beautiful, confronting and important book, Madness: A Memoir, describes her 15 years coping with psychosis and depression, and her long, hard-won journey back to sanity, with the help of a wise and compassionate psychologist.
In this video, she speaks with Ranjana Srivastava, an oncologist and fellow author, about her experience – and about being able to write from deep within it, with expertise as both a medical researcher and writer.
 
Book signing by SC author and illustrator Kate Salley Palmer
No full textPhotograph of Book signing by SC author and illustrator Kate Salley Palme
SC author and illustrator Kate Salley Palmer signing book
No full textPhotograph of SC author and illustrator Kate Salley Palmer signing boo
Replication Data for Statistical Analysis
No full textIncluded here is a dataset with gesture form coding from the study author (Kate Mesh). Statistical analysis of the dataset was performed using R version 3.6.1 (R Core Team, 2019), with the package, lmer (Bates, Maechler, Bolcher & Walker, 2015). An R script is attached for the purposes of replication.
R Core Team (2019). R: A language and environment for statistical computing. R Foundation for Statistical Computing, Vienna, Austria. URL https://www.R-project.org/.
Douglas Bates, Martin Maechler, Ben Bolker, Steve Walker (2015). Fitting Linear Mixed-Effects Models Using lme4. Journal of Statistical Software, 67(1), 1-48. doi:10.18637/jss.v067.i01
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