British Academy Global Professorship Project
Utilising cutting-edge developments in ancient skeletal analysis, this project seeks to develop new ways of understanding ancient population dynamics to assess health and stress over the last 6,000 years. Reasons for, and consequences of, the experience of stress in human communities spanning the origin of farming (Neolithic) through to the Medieval period will be modelled in a study that utilises the rich, but understudied human remains collections archived in UK museums. This project seeks to provide new understanding of how Northern communities biologically adapted to and were resilient to the vagaries of significant change in climate, environment, technology and economy throughout antiquity. It aims to grow an emerging area of bioarchaeological expertise at the University of Aberdeen and provide new pioneering techniques in the field of bioarchaeology more generally.
www.abdn.ac.uk/news/13197/
theorkneynews.scot/2019/07/19/leading-archaeologist-professor-marc-oxenham-joins-aberdeen-university/
Potential Masters and PhD students are encouraged to enquire about potential research opportunities associated with this project.
[email protected]
www.abdn.ac.uk/news/13197/
theorkneynews.scot/2019/07/19/leading-archaeologist-professor-marc-oxenham-joins-aberdeen-university/
Potential Masters and PhD students are encouraged to enquire about potential research opportunities associated with this project.
[email protected]
A screenshot (courtesy of Alejandra Cares Henriquez) that provides an example of the type of output a microscopic analysis of Linear Enamel Hypoplasia produces. 3-D topographic profile (a transect) of the surface of a tooth. The red arrow identifies the CEJ, the white arrows (unverified, or unmatched) potential LEH events, while the green arrow identifies the cuspal end of the tooth. Typically, the exported data for such a profile would be "cleaned" (extraneous data to the left of the red arrow and right of the green arrow removed) prior to analysis. The following papers outline in detail our approach to LEH analysis, a method we are currently applying to samples from Scotland and Ireland.
Cares Henriquez A, Oxenham MF. 2020. A new comprehensive quantitative approach for the objective identification and analysis of linear enamel hypoplasia (LEH) in worn archaeological dental assemblages. Journal of Archaeological Science, 113:105064.
abdn.pure.elsevier.com/en/publications/a-new-comprehensive-quantitative-approach-for-the-objective-ident
Cares Henriquez A, Oxenham MF. 2019. New distance-based exponential regression method and equations for estimating the chronology of linear enamel hypoplasia (LEH) defects on the anterior dentition. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 168:510–520.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ajpa.23764
Cares Henriquez A, Oxenham MF. 2017. An alternative objective microscopic method for the identification of linear enamel hypoplasia (LEH) in the absence of visible perikymata. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 14:76-84.
abdn.pure.elsevier.com/en/publications/an-alternative-objective-microscopic-method-for-the-identificatio
Cares Henriquez A, Oxenham MF. 2020. A new comprehensive quantitative approach for the objective identification and analysis of linear enamel hypoplasia (LEH) in worn archaeological dental assemblages. Journal of Archaeological Science, 113:105064.
abdn.pure.elsevier.com/en/publications/a-new-comprehensive-quantitative-approach-for-the-objective-ident
Cares Henriquez A, Oxenham MF. 2019. New distance-based exponential regression method and equations for estimating the chronology of linear enamel hypoplasia (LEH) defects on the anterior dentition. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 168:510–520.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ajpa.23764
Cares Henriquez A, Oxenham MF. 2017. An alternative objective microscopic method for the identification of linear enamel hypoplasia (LEH) in the absence of visible perikymata. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 14:76-84.
abdn.pure.elsevier.com/en/publications/an-alternative-objective-microscopic-method-for-the-identificatio
