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Nancy Tayles
Researcher at University of Otago
Publications - 72
Citations - 2252
Nancy Tayles is an academic researcher from University of Otago. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Southeast asian. The author has an hindex of 29, co-authored 72 publications receiving 2046 citations.
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The Bioarchaeological Investigation of Childhood and Social Age: Problems and Prospects
Siân E. Halcrow,Nancy Tayles +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the practicalities or theoretical issues that need to be considered when attempting to define subadulthood and age divisions within it, and approaches to identify "social age" in past populations.
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Agriculture and dental caries? The case of rice in prehistoric Southeast Asia
TL;DR: Although the evidence for a universal positive correlation between the adoption of agriculture based on a carbohydrate staple crop and dental caries prevalence is mainly based on evidence from America, this correlation does not appear to apply in areas of the world where the staple crop is rice.
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Re-examining the chemical evaluation of diagenesis in human bone apatite
TL;DR: In this paper, the value of FTIR analysis using human remains from the prehistoric site of Ban Non Wat, Northeast Thailand, and to compare the results with the non-destructive technique of FT-Raman spectroscopy.
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Leprosy and tuberculosis in Iron Age Southeast Asia
Nancy Tayles,Hallie R. Buckley +1 more
TL;DR: The recent excavation of a sample of 120 human skeletons from an Iron Age site in the valley of the Mun River, a tributary of the Mekong River on the Khorat Plateau in northeast Thailand, has provided the largest sample from this period in the region to date.