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My research examines health and disease in prehistoric populations through their skeletal remains. I am specifically interested in understanding prehistoric human adaptations in desert ecosystems and the role local resources play in the adoption of agriculture and their impact on health. Current projects involve the excavation and analysis of the earliest farmers in the Sonoran Desert, incipient agriculturalists in the Atacama Desert, and the earliest foragers in the Peruvian highlands.Show Less
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Courses
- OHDOrigins of Human Diversity
- HOHuman Osteology
- ASArchaeology of the Southwest
- PPPatterns in Prehistory
- DHEDiseases and Human Evolution
Grants
- Tonto NF AZ U Phase I NAGPRA
Principal Investigator (PI)
2022
$126.5K
Active - Tucson Basin NAGPRA Collections Repatriation - Phase VI
Principal Investigator (PI)
2022
$15.0K
Active - Doctoral Dissertation Research: Identifying Plastic Responses in Human Skeletal Tissues Through a Sensitive Developmental Windows Framework
Principal Investigator (PI)
2020
$30.6K
- Native American Grave Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA)
Principal Investigator (PI)
2019
$175.0K
- 2019 Tucson Basin NAGPRA Collections Repatriation
Principal Investigator (PI)
2019
$15.0K
- NAGPRA Repatriation in the Tucson Basin- FY 2018
Principal Investigator (PI)
2018
$15.0K
- Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA)
Principal Investigator (PI)
2017
$96.5K
- Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA)
Principal Investigator (PI)
2017
$33.0K
- Connections and Impacts of Northwest Mexican Culture
Principal Investigator (PI)
2013
$18.0K
News
- Ancient Burials Suggestive of Blood Feuds
2016
- High School Students Get Taste of Archaeology, Cultural Heritage
2013
- Humans Have Love-Hate Relationship With the Environment
2012
- Bone Camp: Discovering the World of Forensic Anthropology
2012
- Employee Q&A: Bone Keeper John McClelland
2010
- Mummies Lure Professor to Chile
2009
- Arizona State Museum Aids in Nationwide Tour of Ancestral Human Fossil
2009
- Transition to Agriculture Aggravated Oral Health for Women
2009
- UA Astronomer Dennis Zaritsky Named 2006 Guggenheim Fellow
2006
- UA Gears up for Day of Caring
2000
- UA Participates in Day of Caring
2000
Publications (47)
Recent
- Respectful Terminology in Archaeological Compliance
2022
- Female hunters of the early Americas
2020
- Transformation by Fire: Changes in Funerary Customs from the Early Agricultural to Preclassic Period among Prehispanic Populations of Southern Arizona
2020
- Dental microwear texture analysis of Homo sapiens sapiens: Foragers, farmers, and pastoralists
2019
- Dental Wear in Evolutionary and Biocultural Contexts
2019
- Transformation by Fire: Changes in Funerary Customs from the Early Agricultural to Early Preclassic Period among Prehispanic Populations of Southern Arizona
2019
- Diet as a Social Construct in the Early Andean Diaspora
2019
- Periodontal Health and the Lifecourse Approach in Bioarchaeology
2019
- Changes in remembrance of a cremation urnfield cemetery, Cerro de Trincheras, Sonora, Mexico
2019
- Changes in remembrance of an urnfield cremation cemetery, cerro de trincheras, sonora, Mexico
2018
- Pintados de rojo: prácticas funerarias de los primeros agricultores del Desierto de Sonora
2018
- Book Review: What Teeth Reveal About Human Evolution
2018
- Raiding and Warfare in Early Farming Villages of the Sonoran Desert.
2018
- The genetic prehistory of the Andean highlands 7000 years BP though European contact
2018
- Dental evidence for wild tuber processing among Titicaca Basin foragers 7000 ybp
2017
- Humans permanently occupied the Andean highlands by at least 7 ka
2017
- Shaping Identity in the Prehispanic Southern Nevada
2017
- Review: Bone Rooms: From Scientific Racism to Human Prehistory in Museums by Samuel J. Redman
2017
- Violence and Perimortem Signaling among Early Irrigation Communities in the Sonoran Desert
2016
- Postclassic Expansion of Mesoamerican (Biocultural) Characteristics into Sonora, Northwest Mexico
2016
- Postclassic expansion of MesoAmerican biocultural characteristics into Sonora, Mexico
2016
- Death, Memorial, and Remembrance in Sonora
2016
- The La Playa Archaeological Project: Binational Multidisciplinary Research on Long-term Human Adaptation in the Sonoran Desert
2015
- Documenting Archaeological Mortuary Features using High Dynamic Range (HDR) Imaging
2015
- Internal Environmental Characteristics of a Chiribaya Style Tomb Holding Swine Remains and their Taphonomic Impact on Decomposition Delay, a Requisite for Mummification
2014
- Gendered Logistic Mobility among the Earliest Farmers in the Sonoran Desert
2013
- Violence and Postmortem Signaling in Early Farming Communities of the Sonoran Desert: An Expanded Taphonomic Approach
2012
- Architecture and the Afterlife: A Spatial Analysis of Mortuary Patterns at University Indian Ruin
2012
- Stratigraphy and geochronology of La Playa archaeological site, Sonora, Mexico
2012
- Two Villages on Tumamoc Hill
2011
- Introduction of agriculture and its effects on women's oral health
2010
- THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF PUEBLO GRANDE DE NEVADA
2010
- The Archaeology of Pueblo Grande de Nevada: Past and Current Research within Nevada’s “Lost City”
2010
- Formative adaptations, diet, and oral health in the Azapa Valley of Northwest Chile
2010
- Sex and the agricultural transition: Dental health of early farming females
2009
- Animal Resource Exploitation among the Virgin River Puebloans in the American Southwest
2008
- Changes in food processing and occlusal dental wear during the early agricultural period in northwest Mexico
2008
- Prehistoric dental disease and the dietary shift from cactus to cultigens in Northwest Mexico
2008
- Book review: Diet, health, and status among the Pasión Maya: A reappraisal of the collapse
2007
- Exploring the thrifty genotype's food-shortage assumptions: A cross-cultural comparison of ethnographic accounts of food security among foraging and agricultural societies
2006
- Cavities on the cob: Dental health and the agricultural transition in Sonora, Mexico
2004