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Phillip Walker |
| Professor of Anthropology |
| Email: pwalker@anth.ucsb.edu |
| Phone: (805) 893-2236 |
| Office: HSSB 1002 |
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| Research Interests |
Professor Walker is currently working on a number of bioarchaeological projects involving collections of human skeletal remains from various parts of the world, including Africa, central Asia, and Europe. He is the co-director of an archaeological project in Iceland that includes the excavation of a settlement period cemetery and church. Walker is a principle investigator on a large NSF funded collaborative project entitled “A History of Health in Europe from the Late Paleolithic Era to the Present.” This project involves researchers from many different European countries. Its goal is to measures and analyzes the evolution of skeletal health by combining data from human rmains with information gathered from sources in archaeology, climate history, geography, and history.
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| Sample Publications |
- 2005 The Evolution of Treponemal Disease in the Santa Barbara Channel Area of Southern California. M. Lucas Powell and D.C. Cook (eds.), In: New World Treponemal Disease, University of Florida Press, pp. 281-305 (P. Lambert, M. Schultz, J. Erlandson, co-authors).
- 2005 Greater Sciatic Notch Morphology: Sex, Age, and Population Differences. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 127: 385-391.
- 2005 Bioarchaeological Evidence for Trophy Taking in Prehistoric Central California. (V. A. Andrushko, K. Latham, D. Grady, & A. Pastron, co-authors).American Journal of Physical Anthropology 127: 375-384.
- 2005 Health and Disease in 19th Century San Francisco.(M. Buzon, F. Drayer-Verhagen, S. Kerr, co-authors) Historic Archaeology. vol. 39 no. 2
- 2005 Bioarchaeological Methods. In: Handbook of Archaeological Methods:Volume II, edited by H.D.G. Maschner and C. Chippindale. Altamira Press, Walnut Creek, pp 871-918, (M. Buzon, J. Eng, and P. Lambert, co-authors).
- 2005 Viking-age Valley in Iceland: The Mosfell Archaeological Project. Medieval Archaeology: Journal for the Society for Medieval Archaeology.49: 195-218 (J. Byock, J. Erlandson, P. Holck, D. Zori, M. Gudmundsson, and M. Tveskov, co-authors)
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Ph.D., University of Chicago |
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