Field Notes. Volume 08
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Subadult Growth Stunting at Schroeder Mounds (11He177): A Late Woodland Sample from Illinois
(2020-11-05)Constitutional growth delay in subadults may be caused by chronic illness, malnutrition, and/or undernutrition. Very little is known about the community health of the presumptive forager-farmers of the Late Woodland (~ AD ... -
A Striped Hyena Scavenging Event: Implications for Oldowan Hominin Behavior
(2020-11-05)The spotted (Crocuta crocuta), brown (Hyaena brunnea), and striped hyena (Hyaena hyaena) are well documented collectors of faunal remains. Actualistic studies of spotted and brown hyenas used as analogs for hominin behavior ... -
Analysis of Intraspecific Communication Plasticity in Captive Female Orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus)
(2020-11-05)Social plasticity, the adjustment of social behavioral expression to the nuances of daily life, is an important facet of primate communication because it is a response to the selective pressures that make one form of ... -
Negotiating Moral Identity with Type 1 Diabetes: Care and Contradiction in Conversations with Young Adults
(2020-11-05)This article is based on original ethnographic research among college students aged 18–25 living with insulin-dependent type 1 diabetes. I investigate how moral language in medical treatment settings and social environments ... -
Effects of Picture References on Reproducibility of Entheseal Change Recordation
(2020-11-05)Reproducibility and observer agreement are critical to the production of standardized and comparable data sets. The reproducibility of recording methodology is a current issue in entheseal change studies. The effects of a ... -
Major Questions about Teres Minor: The Pattern of Reactive Changes in a Precolumbian Human Skeletal Sample From Illinois
(2020-11-05)The ubiquitous presence of reactive changes at the insertion of a minor muscle of the rotator cuff on the proximal humerus (teres minor) is analyzed in an adult Late Woodland (AD 800–1150) period osteological sample (N = ... -
Tactile Encounters and the Ephemerality of the Graffiti Image
(2020-11-05)The use of new materials such as stickers, posters, and stencils has transformed how graffiti (or if you prefer street art) is made in the public spaces of Barcelona. In this article, I explore the practice of graffiti in ... -
Shipwreck Artifacts from the S.S. Otago and the S.S. Tairoa as Symbols of Dominant Maritime Regional Identity Narratives in Southeastern New Zealand
(2020-11-05)This article considers the actions of social actors and organizations, who through engaging with artifacts from the wrecks of the nineteenth-century S.S. Otago and S.S. Tairoa, have helped affirm the dominance of shipwreck-based ...
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