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Maria O. Smith Ph.D., Tennessee, 1982 Professor Smith is a biological anthropologist with an emphasis in bioarchaeology. Her work focuses on the cultural inferences that can be made from paleopathological conditions. To date, Professor Smith has worked extensively with prehistoric collections from the American Southeast and Southwest. She teaches courses in introductory physical anthropology, skeletal biology, and human variation. Selected PublicationsA Probable Case of Metastatic Carcinoma from the Late Prehistoric Eastern Tennessee River Valley. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, In Press. The Pattern of Spondylosis Deformans in Prehistoric Samples from West-Central New Mexico. Kirsten E. Kahl and Maria Ostendorf Smith, International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 10:432-446, 2000. Osteological Indications of warfare in the Late Archaic of the Western Tennessee Valley. In Troubled Times: Osteological and Archaeological Evidence of Violence. D.W. Frayer and D.L. Martin, editors. New YorkGordon & Breach, 1997. Parry Fractures and Female-directed Interperso Violence: Implications from the Late Archaic Period of West Tennessee. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 6: 84-91, 1996. Bioarchaeological Inquiry into Archaic Period Populations of the Southeast: Trauma and Occupational Stress. In K.E. Sassaman and D.G. Anderson, eds., Archaeology of the Mid-Holocene Southeast. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1995. Contact Information: Dr. Maria O. Smith
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Department
of Anthropology
Northern Illinois University DeKalb, IL 60115 Phone: (815) 753-0246 Fax: (815) 753-7027 |
Departmental
Chair: Dr. Judy Ledgerwood (jledgerw@niu.edu) |