Nina Maaranen

Nina Maaranen
The University of Sheffield | Sheffield · Department of Archaeology

Doctor of Philosophy

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Introduction
Visiting Fellow at Bournemouth University Specialised in macroscopic analysis of human remains in archaeological contexts.

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Publications (28)
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Objectives: The Levantine Middle Bronze Age (MBA, circa 2000-1500 BCE) marks a period of increased trade and regional interaction, spurred on by technological developments. In light of previous research exhibiting limited mobility in Sidon, further investigation was conducted using biodistance analysis to understand local population history and si...
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Bulletin d'archéologie et d'architecture libanaises This report presents the main results of the final season of excavations in 2016 at Tell Fadous-Kfarabida, located on the north Lebanese coast 2 km south of Batroun. Excavations focused on four areas. In Area II we worked only in Squares 310/295 and parts of 305/295, where the excavations in 2015...
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The urbanization of Mesopotamia in the 4th millennium BCE led to unprecedented social, economic, and political changes. Tell Brak, located in the Syrian Khabur basin, is one of the best-known early urban sites from this period. Surveys suggest that urban growth at Tell Brak resulted from peripheral expansion driven by the migration of several disti...
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Dental non-metric traits have become widely used to estimate biological affinities, particularly by utilizing the Arizona State University Dental Anthropology System (ASUDAS). Here, we offer information from the Middle Bronze Age site of Avaris, located near modern Tell el-Dab’a in the Egyptian Nile Delta, that was ruled by the Hyksos kings during...
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The site of Pella, located in the foothills of the east Jordan valley, was a prosperous city-state throughout the Middle Bronze Age (MBA, ca. 2000—1500 BCE). As part of a widespread trading network, Pella enjoyed extensive socio-economic relationships with Egypt, Cyprus and the Aegean, Anatolia and Babylonia during this period. We report isotopic a...
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Objectives Excavations at Sidon (Lebanon) have revealed dual identities during the Middle Bronze Age (ca. 2000–1600 BCE): a maritime port and center for local distribution, as well as a settlement with a heavy subsistence dependence on the extensive inland hinterlands. We aim to investigate residential mobility at Sidon using isotopic analyses of 1...
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Objectives Found throughout the ancient Near East during the Middle Bronze Age (c. 2000–1600 BCE), many modern scholars emphasize that weapon-associated burials are ideological and symbolic associations, not reflections of occupation. However, the term “warrior burial” still carries interpretive value that misinforms popular perception. The site of...
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We report preliminary findings from a small assemblage of human remains recovered at Tell Fadous-Kfarabida to provide comparative data and lay the foundations for future larger-scale studies. Dental non-metric traits display little variation, suggesting relative withingroup homogeneity. Isotope analyses indicate a terrestrial diet with insignifican...
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Rome saw its number of foreign individuals increase considerably as the empire expanded. These foreigners arrived as either free persons or slaves from the newly conquered provinces and near-frontier zones and came to influence the whole life of the city. Yet relatively little is known about their life histories. In this study, we bring direct evid...
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The origin of the Hyksos dynasty (c. 1638–1530 BCE) is thought to be rooted in the Near East given the architectural features and burial customs present at the site of Tell el-Dab c a, identified as the capital of Hyksos rule in the Eastern Delta of Egypt. We expand previous ⁸⁷ Sr/ ⁸⁶ Sr research on the site’s cemetery assemblage using a multi-isot...
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The volume comprises the collected papers of a workshop titled ‘Changing Clusters and Migration in the Near Eastern Bronze Age’ (Vienna, December 2019), organised by the ERC Advanced Grant ‘The Enigma of the Hyksos’. During the second half of the 12th Dynasty, Egypt confronted an influx of foreigners settling in the Eastern Nile Delta. Potentially...
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A foreign dynasty, known as the Hyksos, ruled parts of Egypt between c. 1638–1530 BCE. Their origins are thought to be rooted in the Near East, which is supported by architectural features and grave accoutrements of Tell el-Dabca. In this former Hyksos capital in the Eastern Nile Delta, burial culture is characterized by a blend of Egyptian and Nea...
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Though the term Hyksos commonly refers to the rulers of the Egyptian Second Intermediate Period, it is also used to describe the larger population from which these rulers derived. Archaeological, artistic and textual sources suggest a Levantine origin of the ‘Hyksos people’; however, whether this was a single homogenous group or several groups from...
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The term Hyksos commonly refers to the foreign dynasty that inhabited and held power in Egypt during the Second Intermediate Period, circa 1640–1530 BCE. Recent research has integrated archaeological, artistic and textual evidence, revealing the Hyksos origin and presence in Egypt more complex than previously envisioned. Answers to questions regard...
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The growth of gender archaeology has improved the inclusion of female and juvenile narratives in archaeological discourse, enabling us to better understand interactions between groups defined by both social and physiological differences. There has been a notable absence of elderly in research, however, that is not simply a question of attitudes but...
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Archaeological studies regarding the ethnogenetic nature of past communities have gained renewed interest due to advancements in bioarchaeological methods. The inclusion of biological information has not only assisted archaeological interpretations, but also repositioned the role of textual sources in current investigations. According to contempor...
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Mobility studies have experienced a new awakening in archaeology, caused by recent theoretical and methodological developments. The standardisation of dental nonmetric trait analysis has led to a strong increase in applications, allowing the assessment of morphological variation not only within but between sites. The ancient Egyptian Second Interme...
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Though the term Hyksos commonly refers to the rulers of the Egyptian Second Intermediate Period, it is also used to describe the larger population from which these rulers rose from. Archaeological, artistic and textual sources suggest a Levantine origin to the ‘Hyksos people’, however whether this was a single homogenous group or several groups fro...
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The growth of gender archaeology has improved the inclusion of female and juvenile narratives in archaeological discourse, enabling us to better understand interactions between groups defined by both social and physiological differences. There has been a notable absence of elderly in research, however, that is not simply a question of attitudes but...
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The term Hyksos commonly refers to the foreign dynasty that inhabited and held power in Egypt during the Second Intermediate Period, circa 1640-1530 BCE. Although research suggests the Hyksos were of Levantine origin, the exact provenance of the dynasty has remained elusive, calling for further employment of archaeological material. Previous work h...
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Harris lines, radiopaque lines visible on bones, form during growth and have traditionally been regarded as the result of childhood malnutrition, disease or trauma. However, there is no conclusive aetiology for Harris lines, lending them the term ‘non-specific stress marker’. Increased understanding of the biomechanical processes of growth and the...
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The absence of elderly in research is not simply a question of attitudes but of methodological limitations. Intrinsic and extrinsic factors govern the skeletal changes in relation to one another, their importance fluctuating during the life course of the individual. The young are much more dependent on the intrinsic (i.e. genetic) factors however w...

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I'm putting together a research plan that also employs pollen analysis, but it's not my area of expertise.. are there any rough estimates of the time and cost required by pollen analyses?
Thank you in advance!
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Hello!
I'm using the package cluster and function daisy in R. My data is both ordinal and binary, and the variables are in some cases correlated (I'm looking at multiple traits from one object). A previous study done in the field using the method eliminated variables with inter-trait correlation, but I haven't been able to find any publications that would state that dependence would be an issue. Does anyone know any references either for or against?
Thank you!

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