THE BURIAL-GROUND AT SCUTARI.

The Political Ecology of Early Childhood Lead Exposure at the New York African Burial Ground

Comment on Article by Scutari

Hao Wang ̊ Scutari’s paper studies properties of the distribution of graphs ppGq. This is an interesting angle because it differs from many works that focus on distributions over parameter spaces for a given graph ppΘ | Gq. The paper’s investigation of ppGq centers around its implied covariance matrix Σ “ CovpGq. The major theoretical results, as I see it, concern eigenvalues of Σ as well as var...

Opisthorchiasis in infant remains from the medieval Zeleniy Yar burial ground of XII-XIII centuries AD

We present a paleoparasitological analysis of the medieval Zeleniy Yar burial ground of the XII-XII centuries AD located in the northern part of Western Siberia. Parasite eggs, identified as eggs of Opisthorchis felineus, were found in the samples from the pelvic area of a one year old infant buried at the site. Presence of these eggs in the soil samples from the infant's abdomen suggests that ...

Searching for the IRA "disappeared": ground-penetrating radar investigation of a churchyard burial site, Northern Ireland.

A search for the body of a victim of terrorist abduction and murder was made in a graveyard on the periphery of a major conurbation in Northern Ireland. The area is politically sensitive and the case of high profile. This required non-invasive, completely non-destructive and rapid assessment of the scene. A MALA RAMAC ground-penetrating radar system was used to achieve these objectives. Unproce...

The 'Headless Romans': Multi-isotope investigations of an unusual burial ground from Roman Britain

Recent excavations at Driffield Terrace in York (Northern England) revealed an extremely unusual Romano-British cemetery of probably all male composition, more than half of the individuals decapitated and with high incidence of other periand antemortem trauma. This paper presents the results of multi(carbon, nitrogen, oxygen and strontium) isotopic analyses of bone and dentine collagen (n=68) a...