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Archaeology

Publications

 

Books and Book Chapters

·          Pinhasi, R. & Mays S. (eds.). 2008 Advances in Palaeopathology- methodological and biocultural perspectives. New York: Wiley-Liss.

·          Pinhasi R & Turner K. Epidemiological approaches in palaeopathology: practical, methodological and theoretical aspects. In Advances in Palaeopathological: Methodological and Biocultural Perspectives, Pinhasi R, Mays S (editors). New York: Wiley-Liss, pp 45-56.

·          Pinhasi R & Bourbou C. 2008. How representative are human skeletal assemblages for population analysis and interpretation? Implications for palaeopathological and palaeoepidemiological investigations. In Advances in Palaeopathological: Methodological and Biocultural Perspectives, Pinhasi R, Mays S (editors). New York: Wiley-Liss, pp. 31-44.

·          Pinhasi R. 2008. The study of growth in past archaeological populations. In Advances in Palaeopathological: Methodological and Biocultural Perspectives, Pinhasi R, Mays S (editors). New York: Wiley-Liss, pp. 363-380.

·          Pinhasi R, Teschler-Nicola M, Prossinger H, Shaw P. 2006. Diachronic trends in dental dimensions of Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene European and Near Eastern Populations. In Human evolution: facts and factors. EAA Biennial Books, Vol 4, Susanne C, Bodzsár EB, (eds.). Budapest: Eötvös Loránd University Press, pp. 117-138.

·          Pinhasi R. 2003. A biometric study of the affinities of Nazlet Khater- a quantitative analysis of the mandible dimensions. In Palaeolithic Living Sites in Upper and Middle Egypt. Egyptian Prehistory Monographs Vol. 2, Vermeersch M (ed.). Leuven University Press, pp. 279-330.

·          Pinhasi R, Foley R, Lahr MM. 2000. Spatial and temporal patterns in the Mesolithic-Neolithic Archaeological record of Europe. In Archaeogenetics: DNA and the population prehistory of Europe, Renfrew C, Boyle K (eds.). Cambridge: McDonald Institute Monographs, pp. 45-56.

·          Lahr MM, Foley R, Pinhasi R. 2000. Expected regional patterns of Mesolithic-Neolithic human population admixture in Europe based on archaeological evidence. In Archaeogenetics: DNA and the population prehistory of Europe, Renfrew C, Boyle K (eds.). Cambridge: McDonald Institute Monographs, pp. 81-88.

Journal articles, published/in press

 ·         Pinhasi R, Gasparian B, Wilkinson K, Bailey R, Bar-Oz, G., Bruch, A., Chataigner, C., Hoffmann, D., Hovsepyan, R., Nahapetyan S., Pike A.W.G., Schreve D., Stephens, M. In press. The Middle and Upper Palaeolithic of Armenia: a preliminary chronological framework. Journal of Human Evolution

·          Pinhasi R., Shaw P, Eshed V. 2008 Changes in the masticatory apparatus following the transition to farming in the Levant. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 135: 136-148.

·          Ogden AR, Pinhasi R, White B. in review. Gross enamel hypoplasia in molars from subadults in a 16th-18th century London graveyard. American Journal of Physical Anthropology  133: 957-966.

·          Pinhasi R. 2006. Neolithic skull shapes and demic diffusion: a bioarchaeological investigation into the nature of the Neolithic transition. Documenta Praehistorica 33: 61-70.

·          Ammerman AJ, Pinhasi R, Banffy E. 2006. Comment on “Ancient DNA from the First European Farmers in 7500-Year-Old Neolithic Sites” Science 312: 1875a

·          Pinhasi R., Foley RA, Donoghue H. 2006. Reconsidering the Antiquity of Leprosy. Science (Letters) 312:846

·          Pinhasi R, Gasparian B, Wilkinson K, Schreve D, Branch N, Nahapetyan S. 2006. The archaeology of Hovk, northeast Armenia: a preliminary report. Antiquity http://antiquity.ac.uk/ProjGall/308.html

·          Pinhasi R, Shaw R, White B, Ogden, D. 2006. Morbidity, rickets, and long bone growth in post-medieval Britain- a cross-population analysis. Annals of Human Biology 33: 372-389.

·          Pinhasi R, Fort J, Ammerman AJ. 2005. Tracing the origin and spread of agriculture in Europe. PLoS Biology 3(12): e410.

·          Pinhasi R, Teschler-Nicola M, Knaus A, Shaw P. 2005. A cross-population analysis of the growth of long bones and the os coxae of three Early Medieval Austrian populations. American Journal of Human Biology 17: 470-488.

·          Pinhasi R, Pluciennik M. 2004. A Regional Biological Approach to the Spread of Farming in Europe: Anatolia, the Levant, South-Eastern Europe, and the Mediterranean. Current Anthropology 45 S59-82.

·          Pinhasi, R. (2004). A new model for the spread of the first farmers in Europe. Documenta Praehistorica 30: 1-76.

·          Pinhasi R, Semal, P. 2000. The position of the Nazlet Khater specimen from Egypt among prehistoric and proto-historic African and Levantine populations. Journal of Human Evolution 39: 269-288.

·          Pinhasi, R. 1998. An odontometric investigation of the affinities of the Nazlet Khater specimen to prehistoric, protohistoric and modern African populations. Dental Anthropology 12: 2-10.

Conference presentations (since 1999)

·          Pinhasi, R. The spatio-temporal relationships between cultural and biological boundaries in Neolithic Europe.  Paper to be presented at the Scientific Meeting: ‘Us and Them: Modelling past genetic, linguistic, and cultural boundaries”. Bordeaux 15–17, May 2008.

·          Pinhasi R., Gasparian B., Wilkinson K., Stephens M., Nahapetyan S., Bailey R.,, Hoffmann, D.,, Pike A.,W.G., Chataigner C., Bar-Oz, G., Bruch, A. The Middle and Upper Paleolithic records of northeast Armenia: a view from Hovk 1 cave. Paper to be presented at the colloquium “The Palaeolithic in Syria and its adjoining countries” at the University of Basel in May 7th-11th, 2008.

·          Donoghue H, Taylor, GM, Pinhasi R, Marcsik A, Molnár E, Teschler-Nicola M, Erdal YS, Spigelman M. Who Brought Leprosy into Central Europe? Paper presented in the 16th European Meeting of the Paleopathology Association, 28th August-1st September, 2006, Santorini, Greece..

·         Pinhasi R, Fort J, Ammerman A. 2005. Demic diffusion 35 years later, re-examining the 'Wave of advance' model. Neolithic Seminars Prehistoric Gene Flow and Cognitive (r)Evolution: Inferences on the Neolithisation of Eurasia. 12th Neolithic Seminar, 10th - 13th November 2005, Dept of Archaeology, University of Ljubljana.

·         Pinhasi R, Teschler-Nicola M, Kainberger F, Pretterklieber ML. Infectious and non-infectious joint diseases of the feet in an Avar period site from Austria. Paper presented in the 15th Paleolpathology Association European Meeting, Durham, and August 10th-13th, 2004.

·         Teschler-Nicola M., Spigelman M, Pinhasi R, Donoghue HD, Kim V. Molecular evidence of Tuberculosis in the early mediaeval site of Gars/Thunau, Austria. Poster presented in the 15th Paleolpathology Association European Meeting, Durham, and August 10th-13th, 2004.

·         Pinhasi R. A new contribution from biological anthropology to the spread of the first farmers in Europe. Paper presented at the European Association of Archaeologists 9th Annual Meeting, St. Petersburg, Russia, and 10th-14th Sept, 2003.

·         Pinhasi R. The Appearance and Dispersion of the First Farmers in Europe. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropology (AAPA). Tempe, Arizona, April 23-26, 2003.

·         Pinhasi R.  A New Model for the Spread of the First Farmers in Europe. Paper presented at the 9th Neolithic Seminar, “The Neolithization of Eurasia - Reflections in Archaeology and Archaeogenetics”, Ljubljana, 28 November - 1 December 2002.

·         Pinhasi R. The Spread of Farming in Europe: a New Approach to an Old Dilemma. Paper presented at the Prehistory of the Iron Gates conference, University of Edinburgh, March 31-April 2, 2000.

Pinhasi R, Foley R. Jump dispersals, expansion and colonization across space and time: a novel approach to the spread of farming in Europe. Poster presented at the Third Euro conference of the European Human Genome Diversity project, Cambridge, 9-13, September,1999.

 

Short reports, reviews, abstracts

·         Pinhasi R. 2007. Review of Roger Lewin’s Human Evolution: An Illustrated Introduction. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 13 (3): 764-765.

·         Pinhasi R. 2006. Review of Stringer, Chris & Peter Andrews’ The Complete World of Human Evolution. Thames & Hudson, 2005. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 12: 682-683.

·         Pinhasi R. 2005. Review of Dean Falk’s Braindance: New Discoveries about Human Origins and Brain Evolution, 2nd Edition. University of Florida Press, 2005. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 11 (3): 608-609.

·         Pinhasi R. 2005. Review of Lewin R & Foley R.A. Principles of Human Evolution. Blackwell publishers, 2005. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 11 (1): 146-147

·         Pinhasi R. 2003. The appearance and dispersion of the first farmers in Europe. A novel approach to an old debate. American Journal of Physical Anthropology S36:168-9 (abstract).

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