Identity and community structure in Neolithic Man Bac, northern Vietnam

Oxenham, Marc; Hiep, Trinh Hoang; Matsumura, Hirofumi; Domett, Kate; Huffer, Damien; Crozier, Rebecca; Nguyen, Lan Thi; McFadden, Clare

doi:10.1016/j.ara.2021.100282

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“…At the Neolithic sites of Ban Chiang and Khok Phanom Di, Thailand, and Man Bac, Vietnam (Fig. 2), all associated with the transition to agriculture, strontium isotopes shifted over time such that women had a narrower range of isotopic signatures associated with the local isotope ratios, while men's strontium isotopes signatures had wider variations (Bentley et al 2005(Bentley et al , 2007Oxenham et al 2021). Researchers suggest that this may represent a widespread pattern of matrilocality at the time (Bentley et al 2007).…”

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“…However, women tended to be buried with iron sickles, evidence for a gendered division of agricultural labor (Higham 2002). At the Neolithic site of Man Bac, grave goods may indicate specific ideological or cosmologically gendered differences (Oxenham et al 2021). Several adult and subadult males were buried with shells; some were holding them in their hands.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…A female burial contained a unique shell disk necklace, a nephrite adze, and an unusual ceramic vessel in the shape of a drum. These items are associated with high-status individuals in southern China and may represent the burial of a shaman (Oxenham et al 2021).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…At Khok Phanom Di, a series of inherited cranial abnormalities and tooth ablations allowed for the creation of a hypothesized genealogy that spanned several mortuary phases (Higham 1989). In a recent study at Man Bac, probable kin groups were identified based on nonmetric cranial traits (Oxenham et al 2021). The presence of particular grave goods, biological traits, and body modifications suggest that there were perhaps two or more corporate groups in which kinship was an important component of group membership.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…At the Neolithic site of Man Bac, nonmetric cranial traits were used to identify kin groups, with mtDNA haplogroups and craniodental morphology used to determine if individuals were indigenous or migrants from East Asia (Oxenham et al 2021). Both populations were identified, with the indigenous kin group being associated with distinct types of body modification and more elaborate burials.…”

Section: Subgroups Within Communitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Building from the Ground Up: The Archaeology of Residential Spaces and Communities in Southeast Asia

Carter

2022

J Archaeol Res

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Despite the ethnographic importance of the Southeast Asian house and household, an explicitly Southeast Asian "household archaeology" is still in its infancy. Nevertheless, archaeologists in Southeast Asia have undertaken excavations within habitation areas and residential spaces, identifying domestic debris, the partial remains of house structures, and activity areas. As a result, archaeologists of Southeast Asia have addressed many topics of relevance to those who use a household archaeology approach, including the identification and description of houses and household activities; the domestic economy; domestic ritual; diversity and variability both within houses as related to questions of identity, specifically gender and age, and between houses, especially as related to status; and identification of supra-household communities. In this review, I consider how archaeologists have addressed these themes using examples from a diverse set of geographic locations and time periods in mainland and island Southeast Asia. I conclude with suggestions for future research directions to continue building an archaeology of residential spaces and communities in Southeast Asia.

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Section: Gender and Agementioning

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2022

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High prevalence of adult and nonadult scurvy in an early agricultural transition site from Mainland Southeast Asia was associated with decreased survivorship

Vlok,

Oxenham,

Domett

et al. 2024

American Journal of Biological Anthropology

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ObjectivesThe osteological paradox recognizes that the presence of lesions is not always directly related with increased mortality. When combined with the clinical, historical, and epidemiological literature on scurvy, survivorship analysis, a form of statistical analysis to assess the relationship between the presence of diseases in the archeological record and survival, helps determine the overall burden of the disease both in terms of morbidity and mortality. This article explores the relationship between scurvy and survivorship in 26 adults from Man Bac, a Neolithic site from northern Vietnam together with prepublished evidence of scurvy in the nonadult population (n = 44).MethodsDiagnosis of scurvy included differential diagnosis combined with the Snoddy, A. M. E., Buckley, H. R., Elliott, G. E., Standen, V. G., Arriaza, B. T., & Halcrow, S. E. (2018). Macroscopic features of scurvy in human skeletal remains: A literature synthesis and diagnostic guide. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 167(4), 876–895. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.23699 threshold criteria and the Brickley, M. B., & Morgan, B. (2023). Assessing diagnostic certainty for scurvy and rickets in human skeletal remains. American Journal of Biological Anthropology, 181, 637–645 diagnostic certainty approaches. Kaplan–Meier survival curves were produced to assess the relationship between the presence of probable scurvy and age‐at‐death.ResultsThe prevalence of probable scurvy in adults (35%) was considerably lower than reported for the nonadults (80%). Almost all lesions observed in the adults were in a mixed stage of healing. Kaplan–Meier analysis demonstrated no difference in survivorship between infants and children (<15 years) with or without probable scurvy, whereas a meaningful difference was observed for the adults and adolescents (15+ years).ConclusionsThe findings demonstrate that scurvy considerably decreased survivorship to older age categories. The degree of lesion remodeling, however, indicates that scurvy was not necessarily the direct cause of death but contributed to an overall disease burden that was ultimately fatal.

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Human femur morphology and histology variation with ancestry and behaviour in an ancient sample from Vietnam

Walker

Oxenham

Vlok

et al. 2023

Annals of Anatomy - Anatomischer Anzeiger

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Identity and community structure in Neolithic Man Bac, northern Vietnam

Cited by 4 publications

References 56 publications

Building from the Ground Up: The Archaeology of Residential Spaces and Communities in Southeast Asia

Building from the Ground Up: The Archaeology of Residential Spaces and Communities in Southeast Asia

High prevalence of adult and nonadult scurvy in an early agricultural transition site from Mainland Southeast Asia was associated with decreased survivorship

Human femur morphology and histology variation with ancestry and behaviour in an ancient sample from Vietnam

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