Phillip L. Walker

pwalker@anth.ucsb.edu

Professor Walker is currently working on a number of bioarchaeological and forensic anthropological 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 remains with information gathered from sources in archaeology, climate history, geography, and history. More information of these projects can be found at the following web sites:

The Human Morphometrics Laboratory

The Global History of Health Project

The Mosfell Archaeological Project

Read about a forensic case I am working on

View a television documentary on my Icelandic research

View "A Viking Landscape" a documentary about the Mosfell Archaeological Project

Papers and Publications from the WalkerLab

 

Dr. Walker is also the Past President of the:

American Association of Physical Anthropologists

and the

Dental Anthropology Association

Sample of Publications 2008 Sexing Skulls using Discriminant Function Analysis of Visually Assessed Traits.American Journal of Physical Anthropology, (in press). 2003 For everything there is a season: Chumash Indian births, marriages, and deaths at the Alta California missions. A.C. Swedlund and D. A. Herring (eds.), pp. 53-77. In: Human Biology in the Archives, Cambridge University Press (J. Johnson, co-author). 2004 Caring for the Dead: Finding a Common Ground in Disputes Over Museum Collections of Human Remains. In: Documenta Archaeobiologiae: Yearbook of the State Collection of Anthropology and Palaeoanatomy, G, Grupe and, J. Peters (eds.), Verlag M. Leidorf: Rahden/Westf. 2005 The Evolution of Treponemal Disease in the Santa Barbara Channel Area of Southern California. M. Lucas Powell and D.C. Cook (eds.), In: The Myth of Syphilis:The Natural History of Treponematosis in North America, 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)   Click here for my Curriculum Vitae Click here to download many of my publications ·  Undergraduate Courses o                                105. Human Variation o                                121. Human Evolution o                                112 Bioarchaeology o                                180A-B. Osteology ·  Graduate Courses o                                210. Basic Issues in Physical Anthropology Back to Anthropology Home Page