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Browsing by UP Author "Steyn, Maryna"
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Nienaber, Willem C.; Steyn, Maryna; Boshoff, Willem Sterrenberg (South African Society of Cultural History, 2015-12)The South African or Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902) Orange River Concentration Camp on the farm Doornbult, close to Hopetown in the Northern Cape Province, is one of the best preserved Camps from this War. The history of the ...
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Steyn, Maryna; Iscan, M.Y.; De Kock, M.; Kranioti, E.F.; Michalodimitrakis, M.; L'Abbe, Ericka Noelle (Wiley, 2010-09)When archaeological skeletons are assessed, the prevalence (and patterns of bone involvement) of trauma is important. The number and pattern of fractures can be used to gain insight into the occurrence of interpersonal ...
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Steyn, Maryna; De Kock, M.; Iscan, M.Y.; Michalodimitrakis, M. (2008-09-29)When archaeological skeletons are assessed, the incidence of trauma forms an integral part of the investigation. The number of fractures observed is interpreted in order to gain insight into the occurrence of interpersonal ...
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De Boer, H.H.; Van der Merwe, Alie Emily; Hammer, S.; Steyn, Maryna; Maat, G.J.R. (Wiley, 2015-01)The post-traumatic status of antemortem fractures in human dry bone remains is currently defined as being either ‘healing’ or ‘healed’. However, detailed ‘dating’ of the related post-traumatic time interval would be ...
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Steyn, Maryna; Becker, Piet J.; L’Abbé, Ericka Noelle; Scholtz, Yvette; Myburgh, Y. (Elsevier Ireland Ltd, 2011-08)Forensic anthropologists frequently use measurements of the human skeleton to determine sex and ancestry. Since the establishment of the Daubert criteria of admissibility of scientific evidence to court, methodologies ...
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Steyn, Maryna (Elsevier, 2011-01)Not many case reports of suspected child abuse as assessed solely on skeletal remains are available. Forensic anthropologists have intimate knowledge of normal skeletal anatomy, bone trauma and processes of healing of bone ...
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Oettle, Anna Catherina; Ehlers, Rene; Steyn, Maryna (Wiley, 2016-09)OBJECTIVES : The purpose of this study was to measure the mandibular angle as a reflection of the biomechanical forces acting on the mandible and relate it to aging and loss of teeth. METHODS : A total of 717 mandibles ...
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Steyn, Maryna; Scholtz, Yvette; Botha, Deona; Pretorius, Samantha (Elsevier, 2013-04)Tuberculosis remains a major health problem in many areas of the world. Previous research suggested that the frequency of bone lesions has decreased in the modern (but pre-antibiotic) period, and that the predominantly ...
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Brits, D.M. (Desire Marguerita); Steyn, Maryna; L'Abbe, Ericka Noelle (2008-09-29)Forensic anthropologists play an important role in the identification or exclusion of human remains recovered amongst animal remains and environmental ruins. Accurate separation techniques are needed as small animal bone ...
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Meyer, Anja; Steyn, Maryna (Wiley, 2016-07)Trauma analysis in archaeological human remains can aid our understanding of cultural practices, socioeconomic status, environmental and social conditions, and even aspects of a person’s occupation. For this reason, ...
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Steyn, Maryna; Nienaber, Willem C.; Hutten, Louisa; Loots, Marius; University of Pretoria. Dept. of Anatomy (University of Pretoria, 2006-11-23)K2 is an Iron Age site approximately 1 km from Mapungubwe in South Africa. Archaeological excavations were conducted here between 1995 and 1999, intending to differentiate between stock enclosure, midden and living area ...
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Van der Merwe, Alie Emily; Steyn, Maryna; Maat, G.J.R. (African Networks on Ethnomedicines, 2010)Dental health may deteriorate in populations exposed to economic growth as a result of easier access to refined carbohydrates and sugars. Such changes affected migrant labourers working in Kimberley, South Africa, during ...
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Botha, Deona; Steyn, Maryna (Elsevier, 2015-06)This paper presents the results of the dental analysis performedon a Khoesan skeletal sample representing the late 19th and early20th century Cape Colony in southern Africa. Skeletal material fromtwo European collections ...
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Sutherland, Anátulie; Myburgh, Jan G.; Steyn, Maryna; Becker, Piet J. (Elsevier, 2013-09)Forensic anthropologists rely on the state of decomposition of a body to estimate the post-mortem- interval (PMI) which provides information about the natural events and environmental forces that could have affected the ...
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Myburgh, Jolandie; L'Abbe, Ericka Noelle; Steyn, Maryna; Becker, Piet J. (Elsevier, 2013-06)The validity of the method in which total body score (TBS) and accumulated degree-days (ADD) are used to estimate the postmortem interval (PMI) is examined. TBS and ADD were recorded for 232 days in northern South Africa, ...
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Steyn, Maryna; Nienaber, Willem C.; Boshoff, Willem Sterrenberg (South African Archaeological Society, 2017)Between 23 and 25 November 1975, four South African soldiers died during military involvement (Operation Savannah) in Angola. The events took place near Ebo, in central Angola. At the time, it was impossible for the ...
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Cavanagh, D.; Steyn, Maryna (Elsevier, 2011-03)In forensic science, investigators frequently have to deal with unidentified skeletonised remains. When conventional methods of identification are unsuccessful, forensic facial reconstruction (FFR) may be used, often as a ...
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Boeyens, Jan Christoffel Antonie; Van der Ryst, Maria M.; Coetzee, Francois P.; Steyn, Maryna; Loots, Marius (Natal Museum, 2010-12)The interment of infants in ceramic receptacles was a fairly widespread funerary practice in southern Africa during the Iron Age. Using the rich source of ethnographic data on child-death and mortuary practices among ...
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Vance, Veronica Liane Wanek; Steyn, Maryna (Elsevier, 2013-10)A number of recent studies investigated the use of morphological characteristics of the distal humerus to estimate the sex of unknown individuals. Using visual assessment, accuracies ranging from 74% to more than 90% were ...
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Scholtz, Yvette; Steyn, Maryna; Pretorius, Etheresia (Elsevier, 2010-08)Sex determination is vital when attempting to establish identity from skeletal remains. Two approaches to sex determination exists: morphological and metrical. The aim of this paper was to use geometric morphometrics to ...
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