Recent publications by the faculty and graduate students of the Department of Anthropology
2025
Eren Yüncü, Ayca Küçükakdag Doǧu, Damla Kaptan, Muhammed Sıddık Kılıç, Camilla Mazzucato, Merve N. Güler, Elifnaz Eker, Büşra Katıcıoğlu, Maciej Chyleński, Kivilcuim, Kıvılcım Başak Vural, Ekin Saǧican, Gözde Ataǧ, Defne Bozkurt, Jessica Pearson, Arda Sevkar, N. Ezgi Altınışık, Marco Milella, Cansu Karamurat, Sevval Aktürk, Emre Deniz Yurttaş, Nisan Yıldız, Dilek Koptekin, Sevgi Yorulmaz, Duygu Deniz Kazancı, Ayça Aydoǧan, Kanat Gürün, Eline M.J. Schotsmans, Jana Anvari, Eva Rosenstock, Jennifer Byrnes, Peter F. Biehl, David Orton, Vendela Kempe Lageholm, Hasan Can Gemici, Milena Vasic, Arkadiusz Marciniak Ciǧdem Atakuman, Yılmaz Selim Erdal, Emrah Kırdök, Marin Pilloud, Clark Spencer Larsen, Scott D. Haddow, Anders Götherström, Christopher J. Knüsel, Füsun Őzer, Ian Hodder, and Mehmet Somel (2025), Female Lineages and Changing Kinship Patterns in Neolithic Ҫatalhöyük, Science 388, eadr2915. DOI: 10.1126/science.adr2915.
Dilek Koptekin, Ayça Aydoǧan Cansu Karamurat, N. Ezgi Altınışık, Kıvılcım Başak Vural, D. Deniz Kazancı, Ayca Küçükakdag Doǧu, Damla Kaptan, Hasan Can Gemici, Eren Yüncü, Hannah M. Moots, Gülsün Umertak, Refik Duru, Erkan Fidan, Őzlem Ҫevik, Burçin, Erdoǧu, Taner Korkut, Christopher J. Knüsel, Scott D. Haddow, Clark Spencer Larsen, Rana Őzbal, Fokke Gerritsen, Eylem Őzdoǧan, Ali Akbaba, Uygar Ozan Usanmaz, Yasin Cemre Derici, Mine Ucmazoğlu, Flora Jay, Mehmet Őzodoğan, Anders Götherström, Yılmaz Selim Erdal, Anna-Sapfo Malaspinas, Ҫiğdem Atakuman, Füsun Őzer, Mehmet Somel (2025) Out-of-Anatolia: Cultural and genetic interactions during the Neolithic expansion in the Aegean. Science 388,eadr3326 2025). June, 1386-1395.
Clark Spencer Larsen (2025) Our Origins: Discovering Biological Anthropology, Sixth Edition. W. W. Norton, New York.
Peterson, Jeffrey V. and Loudon, James L. (2025) Multidimensional Relationships Between Long-Tailed Macaques (Macaca fascicularis) and Domesticated Animals in Bali, Indonesia. Folia Primatologica, 96: 245-252.
Passalacqua, N.V., Bartelink, E., McQuade, W.E.P., Steadman, D., Boyd, D., Spradley, K., Sauerwein, K. and Ho, R. (2025). The Development of Standards for the Ethical Use of Human Skeletal Remains for Education, Research, and Training in Forensic Anthropology. American Journal of Biological Anthropology.
Passalacqua, N. V., Taylor, E., Konda, A., Perera, N., George, R. L., Chapman, E. N., & Rowcroft, D. (2025, May 20). Characteristics of vertebral body augmentation in human skeletal remains. Forensic Anthropology
Langley, N.R., Tersigni-Tarrant, M.A., Passalacqua, N.V., Crowder, C.M., Garvin, H.M., McQuade, W.E.P., Martinez, M.S. and Pilloud, M.A. (2025). The Future of Forensic Anthropology Practice and Education: Competencies, Certification, and Licensure. American Journal of Biological Anthropology.
Pilloud, M. A., N. V. Passalacqua, and E. J. Bartelink. (2025). Forensic Anthropology as Practiced in the United States: Qualifications, Standards, and Ethical Practice. American Journal of Biological Anthropology.
Bartelink, E. J., N. V. Passalacqua, and W. E. P. McQuade. (2025). The Development of Professional Standards in Forensic Anthropology. American Journal of Biological Anthropology
McCorriston J, Ball L, Harrower MJ, Hamilton IM, Ivory SJ, et al. (2025). South Arabia’s prehistoric monument landscape shows social resilience to climate change. PLOS ONE.
Cohen, J. H. (2025). Eating Grasshoppers: Chapulines and the women who sell them. University of Texas Press.
Guatelli‐Steinberg, D., Watson, J., Samuel, L., Showalter, E., Lerner, F., Dixon, E., Kensler, T. B., Francis, G., Maldonado, E., Kohn, L. A. and Zhao, M. Q. (2025). Revisiting Linear Enamel Hypoplasia in Cayo Santiago Rhesus Macaques (Macaca mulatta): How a Stress Marker Relates to Environment and Maternal Lineage in a Rare Rhesus Colony With Known Life History. American Journal of Primatology.
Towle, I., O'Hara, M. C., Leece, A. B., Herries, A. I., Adjei, A., Guatelli-Steinberg, D., de Pinillos, M. M., Modesto-Mata, M., Thiebaut, A., Hernando, R. and Irish, J. D. (2025). Uniform, circular, and shallow enamel pitting in hominins: Prevalence, morphological associations, and potential taxonomic significance. Journal of Human Evolution.
Zhao, M. Q., Novak, C. T., Gong, R., Kaur, M., Guatelli‐Steinberg, D., Kensler, T. B., Francis, G., Maldonado, E., Kohn, L. A. and Wang, Q., (2025). CSViewer for Analysts: I. Building an Integrative Database and Knowledge Model for the Cayo Santiago Rhesus Macaque Colony and Its Derived Skeletal Collections. American Journal of Primatology.
Gurian, K. N., Guatelli‐Steinberg, D., McGraw, W. S., Rychel, J. and O'Hara, M. C. (2025). Inter‐Observer Processing and Measurement Error Are Low for 2D Dental Measurements on Shared microCT Scans. American Journal of Biological Anthropology
Willow, A. & Abiral, B. (Eds.). (2025). Post-Carbon Futures: Imagining (and Enacting) New Worlds through Transition Studies (1st ed.). Routledge.
Willow, A. (2025). Anthropology’s Postapocalyptic Turn: New Temporalities for New Times. Anthropological Theory Commons.
Willow, A. (2025). The World We Want: How Emotion and Futurity Constitute Climate Change Response. Nature and Culture.
Willow, Anna. (2025). Decolonizing Alliances for the Post-Carbon Transition: Seeking Solidarity through Temporality, Emplacement, and Interaction. Settler Colonial Studies
Wright, H. M., & Piperata, B. A. (2025). Between two worlds: Challenges measuring food insecurity with a standardized scale in a multiethnic peri-urban Indigenous community in the Brazilian Amazon. Ecology of Food and Nutrition.
Rhue, S. J., Piperata, B. A., & Lopes, U. (2025). Coping with water insecurity despite access and abundance in the urban Amazon. Journal of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene for Development.
McCorriston, J., Ball, L., Harrower, M. J., Hamilton, I. M., Ivory, S. J., Senn, M. J., Steimer-Herbet, T., Buffington, A. F., Al-Kathiri, ‘A. A., & Al-Mahri, ‘A. M. (2025). South Arabia’s prehistoric monument landscape shows social resilience to climate change. PLoS ONE.
Tverskoi, D., Scaggs, S. A., & Downey, S. S. (2025). A complex adaptive systems model of labour reciprocity and normative reasoning in swidden agriculture. Royal Society Open Science.
Piperata, B. A., Fannin, S. F., Cestonaro, T., Brito-Azevedo, A. C., Tavares da Silva, V. de C., Mendonça Freire Pereira, J., & Bittencourt Tavares Oliveira, R. (2025). Biocultural determinants of mothers’ complementary feeding decisions in the urban Brazilian Amazon. American Journal of Human Biology.
Moore, E. V., Shearer, K., Thiam, S., Ramakdawala, Z., Yin, L., & Alvelo Colon, G. (2025). #diabetictoddlers and #type1moms: Visibilizing parent–child interembodiment on TikTok. Social Science & Medicine.
Mitchel, A. (2025). Traditional foods forum: A day of Indigenous knowledge at the Society for Applied Anthropology meeting. FoodAnthropology.
Lemmers, S. A. M., Le Luyer, M., Stoll, S. J., Hoffnagle, A. G., Ferrell, R. J., Gamble, J. A., Guatelli-Steinberg, D., Gurian, K. N., McGrath, K., O’Hara, M. C., Smith, A. D. A. C., & Dunn, E. C. (2025). Inter-rater reliability of stress signatures in exfoliated primary dentition: Improving scientific rigor and reproducibility in histological data collection. PLoS ONE.
Rhue, S. J. (2025). The world is and has been changing, so must our anthropological training. Practicing Anthropology.
2024
Schaffer R, Kang Y-S, Marcallini A, Pipkorn B, Bolte JH, Agnew AM. Direct comparison of structural bending properties in human ribs with and without costal cartilage. Stapp Car Crash Journal. Vol. 68(1), 104-154. Dec 2024. https://doi.org/10.4271/2024-22-0006
Corrales MA, Holcombe S, Agnew AM, Kang Y-S, Cronin D. Isolated rib response and fracture prediction for young mid-size male, enabled by population specific material models and rib cross-sectional geometry. Stapp Car Crash Journal. Vol. 68(1), 89-103. Dec 2024.
Jeszka J, Hummel D, Woźniewicz M, Morinaka T, Sone Y, Crews DE. Among elderly Poles, allostatic load and frailty do not covary significantly among older residents of Greater Poland. Journal of Physiological Anthropology 2024 43:12. DOI. IF 3.1
90. Yaussy S, Marklein KE, DeWitte S, Crews, DE. Frailty or resilience? Hazards-based and cumulative phenotype approaches to discerning signals of health inequality by estimated sex in medieval London. Science Advances. 2024. 10(46): IF 11.7
Lopez-Valdes FJ, Mascareñas Brito A, Agnew AM, Cripton P, Kerrigan J, Masouros S, Schmitt K-U, Siegmund G. The ethics, applications, and contributions of cadaver testing in injury prevention research. Traffic Injury Prevention. Vol. 25(8), 1115-1128. Nov 2024. https://doi.org/10.1080/15389588.2024.2376937
Haverfield Z, Agnew AM, Loftis K, Zhang J, Hayden LE, Hunter RL. Multi-site phantomless bone mineral density from clinical quantitative computed tomography in males. Journal of Bone and Mineral Research Plus. Vol. 8(10). ziae106. Oct 2024. https://doi.org/10.1093/jbmrpl/ziae106
Agnew AM, Baker G, Marcallini A, Bendig A, Moorhouse K, Rhule H, Bolte JH, Kang YS. Small female PMHS thoracic responses to simplified oblique and lateral loading. International Research Council on Biomechanics of Injury (IRCOBI). Paper IRC-24-40, 274-291. Sept, 2024.
Harden A, Hunter RL, Agnew AM. Skeletal Fracture: Biomechanics and forensic perspectives. In Bone Histology: An anthropological perspective. Edited by: Crowder C, Stout SD. New York: CRC Press. 2nd Edition. Dec, 2024. Chapter 4: pp 126-149. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003385608
Kang YS, Pradhan V, Stammen J, Baker G, Hagedorn A, Agnew AM, Moorhouse K, Bolte JH. Pelvic responses and injuries to male post-mortem human subjects (PMHS) in rear-facing seat configurations in high-speed frontal impacts. International Research Council on Biomechanics of Injury (IRCOBI). Paper IRC-24-30, 138-160. Sept, 2024.
Kang YS, Marcallini A, DeWitt T, Song J, Jung YH, Lee DG, Harm JJ, Ko S, Kim HJ, Baker G, Hunter RL, Agnew AM. Responses and injuries of male post-mortem human subjects (PMHS) seated in an unreinforced production seat in rear-facing frontal impacts. International Research Council on Biomechanics of Injury (IRCOBI). Paper IRC-24-31, 161-193. Sept, 2024.
Hunter RL, Haverfield Z, Hayden L, Sun Z, Agnew AM. Preliminary investigation of bone mineral density differences between female and male post-mortem human subjects. International Research Council on Biomechanics of Injury (IRCOBI). Paper IRC-24-44, 319-343. Sept, 2024.
Brzezinski ET, Hubbe M, Hunter RL, Agnew AM. Sex differences in workload in medieval Eastern Europe: Patterns of asymmetry and biomechanical adaptation in the upper limb at Giecz, Poland. American Journal of Biological Anthropology. Vol. 183(2), e24886. Feb, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.24886
Chabot, J & Yerkes, R. W. (2024). Early bronze age Stone tools and agricultural Innovations: Comparing canaanean blades from Tell 'Atij in Northern Mesopotamia and Ein Zippori. Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology.
Moore, E. V., & Schneidermann, N. (2024). Women who pay their own brideprice: Reimagining provider masculinity through Uganda’s thriving wedding industry. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute Hardin J, Dengah F, Gibbs JK, Mendenhall E, Nyembo E, Oths K, Piperata BA, Snodgrass JG, Weller S. 2024. Planning to work as an applied medical anthropologist? The advantages of a broad and strategic methodological toolkit. Practicing Anthropology 46(2), 100–103. doi.org/10.1080/08884552.2024.2345805.
Negron R, Wutich A, Bernard HR, Brewis A, Ruth A, Mayfour K, Piperata B, Beresford M., SturtzSreetharan C, Mahdavi P, Hardin J, Zarger R, Harper K, Holland Jones J, Gravlee CC, Brayboy B. 2024. Ethnographic Methods: Training Norms and Practices and the Future of American Anthropology. American Anthropologist, 126(3), 458-469.
2023
Tregidgo D, Piperata BA, Valsecchi J, Lima JJ, Inglez M. 2023. Dietary resilience in Amazonian communities experiencing dramatic seasonal flooding. Human Ecology. DOI: 10.1007/s10745-023-00433-w
Mills M, Lee S, Piperata BA, Garabed R, Choif B, Lee J. 2023. Household environment and animal fecal contamination are critical modifiers of the gut microbiome and resistome in young children from rural Nicaragua. Microbiome 11:207. DOI: 10.1186/s40168-023-01636-5
Adams IR, Meshelemiah J, Noble S, Piperata BA. 2023. The Complementary feeding practices of low-income Black mothers with infants between 6 and 24 months of age: a qualitative study.
Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics. DOI: 10.1111/jhn.13189
Rhue SJ, Torrico G, Amuzie C, Collins SM, Lemaitre A, Workman CL, Rosinger AY, Pearson AL, Piperata BA, Wutich A, Brewis A, Stoler J. 2023. The effects of household water insecurity on child health and well-being. WIREs Water. DOI: 10.1002/wat2.1666
Piperata BA, Scaggs S, Dufour DL, Adams IKR. 2023. Measuring food insecurity: methodological approaches for human biologists and human ecologists. American Journal of Human Biology e23821. DOI: 10.1002/ajhb.23821
Edes AN, Edwards KL, Zimmerman D, Jourdan, Crews DE, Wolfe BA, Neiffer DL, Brown JL. Comparing predictors and outcomes of higher allostatic load across zoo-housed African great apes. J Zoological and Botanical Gardens. 2023. IF 3.20
Arbogast D, Crews DE, McGraw S, Ely JJ. Demography and epidemiology of captive former biomedical research chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) 1: Survival and mortality. Am J Primatology. 85(4): e23466. 2023. IF 2.37
Tuggle AC, Crews DE. Ethical considerations in biocultural research with vulnerable communities - added value with community-engaged methodology. Commentary. Health Populations Journal (1): 9-11. 2023. DOI: 10.15273/hpj.v3i1.11481.