University of California, Berkeley

Faculty Member, Anthropology

Associate Professor

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My research interests are focused broadly upon the age, sex and gender-related changes in bone quantity and quality, particularly the application of biocultural and developmental approaches to the study of bone maintenance and fragility. I have recently become interested in the application of research in bone maintenance to dialogues of social identity and embodiment in bioarchaeology. I have examined age-related changes in cortical bone microstructure, trabecular architecture, and mineral density in several British archaeological populations, and I am currently examining the long-term effect of growth and reproduction (parity and lactation) on the human and non-human primate maternal skeleton, studying samples from Turkey, Japan, and California.

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