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Reconstructing diet at An Són and Hòa Diêm: implications for understanding Southeast Asian subsistence patterns
No full textIn recent years the bioarchaeology of Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands has seen enormous progress. This new and exciting research is synthesised, contextualised and expanded upon in The Routledge Handbook of Bioarchaeology in Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands . The volume is divided into two broad sections, one dealing with mainland and island Southeast Asia, and a second section dealing with the Pacific Islands. A multi-scale approach is employed to the bio-social dimensions of Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands with contributions varying between region and/or site-specific scales of operation to the individual or personal scale. The more personal level of osteobiographies enriches the understanding of the lived experience in past communities. By including a number of contributions from sub-disciplinary approaches tangential to bioarchaeology, the book provides a broad theoretical and methodological approach. It provides new information on the globally relevant topics of farming, population mobility, subsistence and health; no other volume provides such a range of coverage on these important themes
The demographic profile of the Man Bac cemetery sample
No full textThe chief aims of this chapter are to describe the Man Bac human skeletal sample in terms of its sex and age-at-death distributions. Moreover, the preservation of the sample will be discussed in the context of a demographic reconstruction of the past population, which will include a range of measures of fertility. Inferences regarding the demographic 'health' of the population will be made with reference to major social and behavioural changes seen in the region some 3,500 years ago
Dealing with death in late Neolithic to Metal Period Nagsabaran, the Philippines
No full textIn recent years the bioarchaeology of Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands has seen enormous progress. This new and exciting research is synthesised, contextualised and expanded upon in The Routledge Handbook of Bioarchaeology in Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands . The volume is divided into two broad sections, one dealing with mainland and island Southeast Asia, and a second section dealing with the Pacific Islands. A multi-scale approach is employed to the bio-social dimensions of Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands with contributions varying between region and/or site-specific scales of operation to the individual or personal scale. The more personal level of osteobiographies enriches the understanding of the lived experience in past communities. By including a number of contributions from sub-disciplinary approaches tangential to bioarchaeology, the book provides a broad theoretical and methodological approach. It provides new information on the globally relevant topics of farming, population mobility, subsistence and health; no other volume provides such a range of coverage on these important themes
Dealing with death in late Neolithic to Metal Period Nagsabaran, the Phillipines
No full textOne of the densest areas of known prehistoric, Neolithic through to Metal Period settlements in the Philippines can be found along the lower Cagayan River valley in northern Luzon Island. From the early 1970s, over 30 Neolithic and Metal Period midden sites have been documented in this region. One site in particular, Nagsabaran, has proven to be particularly significant in documenting direct contact, entailing significant levels of human migration, with Austronesian-speaking populations originating from Taiwan c.2000 cal bce. The purpose of this chapter is to explore aspects of the mortuary behaviour of the Late Neolithic to Metal Period inhabitants of Nagsabaran in order to reconstruct aspects of this community's attitudes to a range of bio-social constructions including gender, age, status and, of course, death. In addition to this, we provide an osteobiography of a severely disabled adult Metal Period burial in order to determine the nature of the injury or disease that led to his condition as well as to use this opportunity to further explore possible community attitudes to disability some 2000 years ago in the northern Philippines
The demographic profile of the Man Bac cemetery sample
No full textThe chief aims of this chapter are to describe the Man Bac human skeletal sample in terms of its sex and age-at-death distributions. Moreover, the preservation of the sample will be discussed in the context of a demographic reconstruction of the past population, which will include a range of measures of fertility. Inferences regarding the demographic 'health' of the population will be made with reference to major social and behavioural changes seen in the region some 3,500 years ago
Palaeohealth at Man Bac
No full textThe purpose of this chapter is to review the evidence of adult and subadult health for individuals recovered from the Man Bac site during the 2005 and 2007 excavation seasons. A fuller appreciation of the inhabitants of Man Bac can only be realised through an examination of the nature and patterning of health markers in the context of other bio-variables such as preservation, demographic profile, stature, diet and genetic relationships with contemporaneous, previous and later populations in the region. To this end, the health profile of the Man Bac inhabitants has been developed towards the end of this monograph.
The palaeohealth of the ancient inhabitants of what is now Vietnam has been extensively examined and discussed in a number of studies (Oxenham et al., 2005; Oxenham, 2006; Oxenham et al., 2006). With respect to Man Bac specifically, limited examinations of childhood health, using remains from the 2005 season only, have been carried out in the context of broader mortuary archaeological questions (Oxenham, 2006). In this chapter, health variables are limited to two nonspecific signatures of physiological impairment, cribra orbitalia and linear enamel hypoplasia, as well as a range of oral health indicators, including dental caries, alveolar defects (often termed abscesses) and antemortem tooth loss. Subsequent publications will review the evidence for other health variables including trauma and infectious disease
The role of an international law enforcement agency in the identification of deceased persons and remains
No full textAs recently as 5 years ago the answer to the question posed in the title of this chapter, ‘the role of an international law enforcement agency in the identification of deceased persons and remains’ would, at least in the case of the Australian Federal Police (AFP), have been an easy question to answer: almost no role! Since the first Bali bombing in October 2002 the AFP has come of age in the world of disaster victim identification (DVI) through its involvement in a number of bombing incidents; through its overseas assistance to a number of countries in the South Pacific; and, through its role in responding to the December 2004 South-East Asian tsunami. In this chapter I will consider the work of the AFP in the above incidents, our pathway of learning, and how we are trying to make a difference by building capacity with our regional colleagues and partners. It would be presumptuous to say that the AFP experience is unique or that it is an international benchmark but there will be undoubted parallels with the experience of others and, I am certain, common themes
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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