George Milner
Pennsylvania State University, Anthropology, Faculty Member
... Regional Approaches to Mortuary Analysis, edited by Lane Anderson Beck Plenum Press. ... 226 George R. Milncr Figure 1, Cranial fractures in a Norris Farms individual who also was scalped (Skeleton 72) Debilitating conditions were... more
... Regional Approaches to Mortuary Analysis, edited by Lane Anderson Beck Plenum Press. ... 226 George R. Milncr Figure 1, Cranial fractures in a Norris Farms individual who also was scalped (Skeleton 72) Debilitating conditions were common among the group who were killed. ...
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Research Interests: Archaeology, DISTRIBUTION, War, Information, American antiquity, and 3 moreSkeleton, Form, and Distribution
... ed. Harbor Hill Books, Harrison, NY. ... Rohrbaugh, Charles L. 1982 Spiro and Fort Coffee Phases: Changing Cultural Complexes of the Caddoan Area. PhD dissertation. ... Page 12. Sabo, George, and Ann M. Early 1990 Prehistoric Culture... more
... ed. Harbor Hill Books, Harrison, NY. ... Rohrbaugh, Charles L. 1982 Spiro and Fort Coffee Phases: Changing Cultural Complexes of the Caddoan Area. PhD dissertation. ... Page 12. Sabo, George, and Ann M. Early 1990 Prehistoric Culture History. ...
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Page 1. Research Chert hoes as digging tools George R. Milner1*, Scott W. Hammerstedt2 & Kirk D. French1 What type of implement was used to cut and move earth in prehistory? In the Mississippian culture at least, the key ...
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A new procedure for skeletal sex estimation based on humeral and femoral dimensions is presented, based on skeletons from the United States. The approach specifically addresses the problem that arises from a lack of variance homogeneity... more
A new procedure for skeletal sex estimation based on humeral and femoral dimensions is presented, based on skeletons from the United States. The approach specifically addresses the problem that arises from a lack of variance homogeneity between the sexes, taking into account prior information about the sample's sex ratio, if known. Three measurements useful for estimating the sex of adult skeletons, the humeral and femoral head diameters and the humeral epicondylar breadth, were collected from 258 Americans born between 1893 and 1980 who died within the past several decades. For measurements individually and collectively, the probabilities of being one sex or the other were generated for samples with an equal distribution of males and females, taking into account the variance structure of the original measurements. The combination providing the best estimates correctly classifies 88.3% of the skeletons, with 10.8% considered unknown and 0.9% assigned to the wrong sex. Probabilit...
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To date, no estimates of the long-term effect of cranial vault fractures on the risk of dying have been generated from historical or prehistoric skeletons. Excess mortality provides a perspective on the efficacy of modern treatment, as... more
To date, no estimates of the long-term effect of cranial vault fractures on the risk of dying have been generated from historical or prehistoric skeletons. Excess mortality provides a perspective on the efficacy of modern treatment, as well as the human cost of cranial injuries largely related to interpersonal violence in past populations. Three medieval to early modern Danish skeletal samples are used to estimate the effect of selective mortality on males with cranial vault injuries who survived long enough for bones to heal. The risk of dying for these men was 6.2 times higher than it was for their uninjured counterparts, estimated through a simulation study based on skeletal observations. That is about twice the increased risk of dying experienced by modern people with traumatic brain injuries. The mortality data indicate the initial trauma was probably often accompanied by brain injury. Although the latter cannot be directly observed in skeletal remains, it can be inferred throu...
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Page 1. CHAPTER 18 ADVANCES IN PALEODEMOGRAPHY GEORGE R. MILNER, JAMES W. WOOD, and JESPER L. BOLDSEN INTRODUCTION Among the first questions asked when faced with human skeletons are whether ...
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... experience than simply lumping skeletons into broadly defined categories, such as juvenile and adult ... Katz, D., and Suchey, JM, 1986 Age Determination of the Male Os Pubis. ... ESTIMATING AGE AND SEX FROM THE SKELETON 283... more
... experience than simply lumping skeletons into broadly defined categories, such as juvenile and adult ... Katz, D., and Suchey, JM, 1986 Age Determination of the Male Os Pubis. ... ESTIMATING AGE AND SEX FROM THE SKELETON 283 Konigsberg, LW, and Frankenberg, SR ...
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... temper. Alterations also occurred in lithic assemblages, which were composed largely of expedient tools made from chert flakes, as well as structure construction characteristics, subsistence practices, and settlement patterns. ...
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Page 1. CURRENT ANTHROPOLOGY Volume 33, Number 4, August-October i992 ? i992 by The Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research. All rights reserved ooII-3204/92-3304-OOOI$2.50 The Osteological Paradox Problems of Inferring... more
Page 1. CURRENT ANTHROPOLOGY Volume 33, Number 4, August-October i992 ? i992 by The Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research. All rights reserved ooII-3204/92-3304-OOOI$2.50 The Osteological Paradox Problems of Inferring Prehistoric ...
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... As Goodman (CA 34:2,81-88) and Saunders and Hoppa (1993) point out, and indeed as we pointed out ourselves, osteologists have long acknowledged that they deal with samples made up of life's failures at any... more
... As Goodman (CA 34:2,81-88) and Saunders and Hoppa (1993) point out, and indeed as we pointed out ourselves, osteologists have long acknowledged that they deal with samples made up of life's failures at any particular age. ...
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Over the past two decades, it has been recognized that the effects of intergroup conflict in prehistoric small-scale societies were greater than previously thought. Osteological evidence provides otherwise unobtainable information on the... more
Over the past two decades, it has been recognized that the effects of intergroup conflict in prehistoric small-scale societies were greater than previously thought. Osteological evidence provides otherwise unobtainable information on the number of people who were killed, and who was most likely to become a casualty. One such site is Norris Farms #36 in the American Midwest, dating to ca. AD 1300. Skeletal evidence of injuries (blunt force trauma and arrow wounds), body mutilation (scalping, decapitation, and dismemberment), and scavenger damage indicate that one-third of the adults died in a series of ambushes, although children were mostly spared. Both young and old adults were killed, and the age distributions of the male and female victims were similar. Individuals with disabilities that interfered with mobility were more likely to be killed than their healthier counterparts. This level of conflict-related mortality almost certainly had an effect on the community's ability to conduct its affairs and, indeed, to survive as a viable economic and social group.
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... Michi-gan. Contrary to expectations, he finds that females not males have a greater incidence of nonlethal violence represented by healed injuries of the forehead in frequencies four times that found in males. Based on accounts ...
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A method for determining the sex of human skeletons was developed using molecular genetic techniques. The amelogenin gene, found on the X and Y chromosomes, was examined using the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and a nonradioactive dot... more
A method for determining the sex of human skeletons was developed using molecular genetic techniques. The amelogenin gene, found on the X and Y chromosomes, was examined using the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and a nonradioactive dot blot procedure. DNA was analyzed from 20 modern individuals of known sex and 20 skeletons from an archaeological site in central Illinois dating to A.D. 1300. An independent assessment of the sex of each skeleton was made according to standard osteological methods. The sex of 19 ancient and 20 modern individuals was accurately determined using this molecular genetic technique. Molecular sex determination will be especially useful for juvenile and fragmentary remains when it is difficult, or impossible, to establish an individual's sex from morphological features.
Research Interests: Ancient History, Evolutionary Biology, Archaeology, Paleontology, Anthropology, and 18 moreMolecular Genetics, American Journal of Physical Anthropology, DNA, Humans, Female, Ancient DNA, Male, Polymerase Chain Reaction, American, Y chromosome, Sex Determination, Amelogenin, History Modern, Illinois, X chromosome, Base Sequence, Bone and Bones, and Molecular Sequence Data
Research Interests: Evolutionary Biology, Archaeology, Anthropology, Survival Analysis, Physical Anthropology, and 13 moreAdolescent, American Journal of Physical Anthropology, Humans, United States, Female, Male, Skeleton, Aged, Middle Aged, Adult, Reproducibility of Results, Bone and Bones, and Age determination by skeleton
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Forensic anthropology (special section of the Canadian Society of Forensic Science Journal/La Societe Canadienne des Sciences Judiciaires Journal, volume 22, numbers 1 and 2). Guest edited by M. F. Skinner and M. Y. Iscan. Ottawa, Ontario: The Canadian Society for forensic science. 1989, no price...more
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... Research Project, we may look forward to further discoveries of the lifeways of the ancient peoples of the Indus Valley and the ... underscores experiences of these pioneers that were quite similar: facing formidable obsta-cles... more
... Research Project, we may look forward to further discoveries of the lifeways of the ancient peoples of the Indus Valley and the ... underscores experiences of these pioneers that were quite similar: facing formidable obsta-cles prefigured by race, class, and gender, each pioneer ...
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... research on the role of conflict in differential population histories, dynamic cultural landscapes, and the ... consistent with modem-day tuberculosis that resemble those found in other EasternWoodlands populations, most often... more
... research on the role of conflict in differential population histories, dynamic cultural landscapes, and the ... consistent with modem-day tuberculosis that resemble those found in other EasternWoodlands populations, most often skeletons dating to the late prehistoric period ...
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... of materials. Here the shape and size of a chert arrowhead lodged in a 700-year-old tibia from Norris Farms #36, Illinois, are identified, as are the bony response and the arrow's probable trajectory through the bone.... more
... of materials. Here the shape and size of a chert arrowhead lodged in a 700-year-old tibia from Norris Farms #36, Illinois, are identified, as are the bony response and the arrow's probable trajectory through the bone. The use ...