Douglas W. Owsley
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Douglas W. Owsley is an American anthropologist who is head of Physical Anthropology at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History . He is regarded as one of the most prominent and influential archaeologists and forensic anthropologists in the world in some popular media. In September 2001, he provided scientific analysis at the military mortuary located at Dover Air Force Base, following the 9/11 attack in Washington, D.C. The following year, the US Department of Defense honored him with the Commander's Award for Civilian Service for helping in the identification of 60 federal and civilian victims who died when American Airlines Flight 77 hit the Pentagon.
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- Variation among early North American crania. (2001) (158)
- Identification of Treponema pallidum subspecies pallidum in a 200-year-old skeletal specimen. (1999) (121)
- Demography and pathology of an urban slave population from New Orleans. (1987) (107)
- Skeletal biology in the Great Plains : migration, warfare, health, and subsistence (1997) (88)
- Techniques for Locating Burials, with Emphasis on the Probe (1995) (78)
- Long bone growth variation among Arikara skeletal populations (1984) (77)
- Frontal sinus size in Eskimo populations. (1980) (75)
- Factor analysis of finger ridge-counts in Blacks and Whites. (1977) (65)
- Demographic and Osteological Evidence for Warfare at the Larson Site, South Dakota (1977) (62)
- A demographic analysis of skeletons from the Larson site (39WW2) Walworth County, South Dakota: Vital statistics (1979) (58)
- Mortuary Display and Status in a Nineteenth-Century Anglo-American Cemetery in Manassas, Virginia (1992) (57)
- Archaeological Politics and Public Interest in Paleoamerican Studies: Lessons from Gordon Creek Woman and Kennewick Man (2001) (53)
- Non-carious interproximal grooves in Arikara Indian dentitions. (1979) (50)
- Stable Carbon and Oxygen Isotope Spacing Between Bone and Tooth Collagen and Hydroxyapatite in Human Archaeological Remains (2015) (47)
- Kennewick Man: The Scientific Investigation of an Ancient American Skeleton (2014) (47)
- Clovis and Early Archaic Crania from the Anzick Site (24PA506), Park County, Montana (2001) (46)
- Mortality of pregnant females in Arikara villages: osteological evidence. (1983) (45)
- Long bone lengths and gestational age distributions of post-contact period Arikara Indian perinatal infant skeletons. (1985) (43)
- Formation of the permanent dentition in Arikara Indians: timing differences that affect dental age assessments. (1983) (40)
- Identification of the fragmentary, burned remains of two U.S. journalists seven years after their disappearance in Guatemala. (1993) (40)
- Case involving differentiation of deer and human bone fragments. (1985) (38)
- The role of forensic anthropology in the recovery and analysis of Branch Davidian Compound victims: recovery procedures and characteristics of the victims. (1995) (37)
- The role of forensic anthropology in the recovery and analysis of Branch Davidian Compound victims: techniques of analysis. (1995) (33)
- Reply to Van Vark et al.: Is European Upper Paleolithic cranial morphology a useful analogy for early Americans? (2003) (33)
- From Clovis to Comanchero: Archeological Overview of the Southern Great Plains (1989) (32)
- Isotopic Evidence for Diet in the Seventeenth-Century Colonial Chesapeake (2003) (30)
- Positive personal identity of skeletonized remains using abdominal and pelvic radiographs. (1992) (29)
- Intracemetery Morphological Variation In Arikara Crania From the Sully Site(39SL4), Sully County, South Dakota (1978) (29)
- Intercemetery morphological variation in Arikara crania from the Mobridge Site (39WW1). (1982) (28)
- The role of forensic anthropology in the recovery and analysis of Branch Davidian compound victims: assessing the accuracy of age estimations. (1996) (28)
- Search for the grave of the hanged Texas gunfighter, William Preston Longley (1994) (27)
- Os trigonum. Variation of a common accessory ossicle of the talus. (1990) (27)
- Stable isotope indicators of provenance and demographics in 18th and 19th century North Americans (2014) (26)
- SKELETAL BIOLOGY IN THE GREAT PLAINS (1994) (25)
- Multivariate analysis of relative growth in the limb bones of Arikara Indians. (1988) (23)
- Positive identification in a case of intentional extreme fragmentation. (1993) (19)
- Misclassification probability of dental discrimination functions for sex determination. (1983) (19)
- Human Finger and Hand Bone Necklaces from the Plains and Great Basin (2007) (18)
- Temporal changes in limb proportionality among skeletal samples of Arikara Indians. (1984) (17)
- Positive identification based on radiographic examination of the leg and foot. A case report. (1989) (16)
- Human osteology: key to the sequence of events in a postmortem shooting. (1992) (16)
- Demographic and Osteological Evidence for Warfare At the Larson Site (39WW2), Walworth County, South Dakota (1977) (15)
- Talon cusp: a review with three cases from native North America. (1991) (14)
- Archaeological and Physical Anthropological Study of the First Cemetery in New Orleans, Louisiana (1985) (14)
- Arch Lake Woman: Physical Anthropology and Geoarchaeology (2010) (14)
- Osteology of the Fay Tolton Site: Implications For Warfare During the Initial Middle Missouri Variant (1994) (13)
- Hanging Valley Site (13HR28): a Stratified Woodland Burial Locale in Western Iowa (1988) (13)
- PATHOLOGY , TAPHONOMY , AND CRANIAL MORPHOMETRICS OF THE SPIRIT CAVE MUMMY (2015) (13)
- Preservation in Late 19th Century Iron Coffin Burials (1997) (13)
- Dental development in protein-deprived infant rhesus monkeys. (1988) (12)
- Why the forensic anthropologist needs the archaeologist (2001) (12)
- CRANIOMETRIC VARIATION IN THE NORTHERN AND CENTRAL PLAINS (1981) (12)
- The Man in the Iron Coffin: An Interdisciplinary Effort to Name the Past (2006) (12)
- A reconstruction of 19th-century surgical techniques: Bones in Dr. Thompson’s Privy (1991) (11)
- Skeletal Biology of the Ancient Rapanui (Easter Islanders): Evidence for injuries and violent death (2016) (11)
- Radiographic examination of Chinese foot binding. (1990) (10)
- Culturally Modified Human Bones From the Edwards I Site (1994) (10)
- Easter Island Origins: Implications of Osteological Findings (1997) (10)
- Evidence of Warfare At the Heerwald Site (1994) (9)
- Demographic Analysis of Skeletons from the Larson Site (39WW2) (1979) (9)
- Mobridge Site Cemeteries: Controversy Concerning the Location of the Over and Stirling Burials (1981) (9)
- Medicolegal case involving a bear paw. (1990) (9)
- Transverse line formation in protein-deprived rhesus monkeys. (1984) (9)
- Search for the Grave of William Preston Longley, Hanged Texas Gunfighter (2006) (9)
- Measuring heavy metal content in bone using portable X-ray fluorescence (2014) (8)
- Interpopulation Relationships of Four Post-Contact Coalescent Sites From South Dakota: Four Bear (39DW2), Oahe Village (39HU2), Stony POint Village (39ST235) and Swan Creek (39WW7) (1981) (8)
- Using Arikara Osteological Data To Evaluate an Assumption of Fur Trade Archaeology (1982) (7)
- The Backbone of History: Welfare History on the Great Plains: Mortality and Skeletal Health, 1650 to 1900 (2002) (7)
- Evidence of maritime adaptation and coastal migration from Southeast Alaska (2014) (7)
- Caries frequency in deciduous dentitions of protohistoric Easter Islanders (1983) (7)
- Field recovery and analysis of horse skeletal remains. (1992) (6)
- Dental Discriminant Sexing of Arikara Skeletons (1982) (6)
- White Traders In the Upper Missouri: Evidence Form the Swan Creek Site (1994) (6)
- Otitis Media, Mastoiditis, and Infracranial Lesions In Two Plains Indian Children (1994) (6)
- Growth and Dental Development In Arikara Children (1994) (5)
- Bilateral dorsal defect of the patella. (1990) (5)
- Electron Microscopy of Parasite Remains On the Pitchfork Mummy and Possible Social Implications (1985) (5)
- Long bone growth among Arikara skeletal populations. (1984) (5)
- Inferring History From Crania: Biological Distance Comparisons of Mill Creek and Early Middle Missouri Tradition Crania With Mandan and Arikara Population Samples (1981) (5)
- Ancient DNA and bioarchaeological perspectives on European and African diversity and relationships on the colonial Delaware frontier. (2019) (4)
- Morphological Differences Between Mandan and Historic Arikara Crania (1981) (4)
- Anatomy of uncorrected talipes equinovarus in a fifteenth-century American Indian. (1989) (4)
- Demographic analysis of modified crania from Rapa Nui (2016) (4)
- Food preferences and connotative meaning of foods of Alabama teenagers (1980) (4)
- New Smith, 34RM400: a Plains Village Mortuary Site In Western Oklahoma (1992) (4)
- Bioarcheology of the North Central United States (1997) (4)
- Paleodiet in Western Idaho: An analysis of Mid-Archaic human remains from the Braden and DeMoss sites (2016) (4)
- Artifacts and Commingled Skeletal Remains from a Well on the Medical College of Virginia Campus: Human Skeletal Remains from Archaeological Site 44HE814 (2012) (4)
- An American Indian Skeleton with Clubfoot from the Cabin Burial Site (A1184), Hemphill County, Texas (1990) (3)
- Polemicizing Kennewick Man (1998) (3)
- Unearthing Robert Kennicott: Naturalist, Explorer, Smithsonian Scientist (2017) (3)
- Human bones from archaeological context: AN IMPORTANT SOURCE OF INFORMATION (1984) (3)
- Skeletal Biology On the Plains (1994) (3)
- Jordan's Journey: A Preliminary Report on the 1992 Excavations at Archaeological Sites 44PG302, 44PG303, and 44PG315 (1993) (3)
- Restoring Identity to People and Place: Reanalysis of Human Skeletal Remains from a Cemetery at Catoctin Furnace, Maryland (2020) (3)
- Written in bone : bone biographer's casebook (2009) (2)
- Skeletal Evidence of Anatomical and Surgical Training in Nineteenth-Century Richmond (2017) (2)
- Food preferences and food prestige ratings by black women in East Tennessee (1985) (2)
- Dermatoglyphic Variability and Asymmetry of Patients with Cleft Lip and Cleft Palate (1978) (2)
- The Smithsonian Anthropology Collections: Planning for Long‐Term Use (1990) (2)
- German V (2006) (1)
- Demographic Relections of Pathologic Change Among the Arikara (Abstract of Paper) (1982) (1)
- Osteological Analysis of the Burial From the McClure Site (39HU7) (1982) (1)
- Bioarcheology of the North Central United States, a Volume in the Central and Northern Plains Archeological Overview (1997) (1)
- Lives Lost: What Burial Vault Studies Reveal About Eighteenth-Century Identities (2018) (1)
- Finger ridge-count variation in 45,X Turner's syndrome (2004) (1)
- Patterns of Infant and Early Childhood Mortality In Arikara Skeletal Populations (1985) (1)
- Artifacts and Commingled Skeletal Remains from a Well on the Medical College of Virginia Campus: Introduction (2012) (1)
- Arch Lake Woman (2010) (1)
- Burial Archaeology and Osteology of the Charity Hospital / Cypress Grove II Cemetery, New Orleans: Report of Investigations, Progress Report I (1987) (1)
- Their Skeletons Speak: Kennewick Man and the Paleoamerican World (2013) (1)
- The Search for the Grave of William Preston Longley, Giddings Cemetery (41LE132), Lee County, Texas (1994) (1)
- The Lead Coffins of St. Mary’s: (2021) (1)
- An Avonlea inhumation at Split-Rock Ridge, Big Dry Creek Valley, Eastern Montana High Plains (2017) (1)
- Stable isotopes from the African site of Elmina, Ghana and their usefulness in tracking the provenance of enslaved individuals in 18th- and 19th-century North American populations. (2020) (1)
- The Scientists' Perspective on Kennewick Man (2010) (0)
- Putting the Pieces Together: Forensic Facial Reconstruction of “Jane” (2014) (0)
- Reply To Benn’s Comments On The Hanging Valley Site (13hr28) (1989) (0)
- Intercemetery Demographic Patterning At the Sully Site (39SL4) (1982) (0)
- Post-Traumatic Bone Loss in Civil War Soldiers (2013) (0)
- Analysis of Human Skeletal Remains from the Little Mud Lake Site, (3Ca265) (1984) (0)
- Save our history : written in bone (2007) (0)
- Morphological Differences Between Mandan and Arikara Crania (1981) (0)
- Evidence for Early Seventeenth-Century Surgery and Dissection at James Fort, Virginia (2017) (0)
- How Far We Have Come: Advances in Bioarchaeology at Historic St. Mary’s City (2020) (0)
- Foot deformity of unknown etiology in a prehistoric skeleton from Texas. (1990) (0)
- Analysis of a Human Skeleton from Near Quinter, in Gove County, Kansas (1975) (0)
- Search for the Grave (2016) (0)
- Seronegative spondyloarthropathy of the foot. (1990) (0)
- Unanswered Questions and Misguided Answers: An Overview of Current Problems with Late Pleistocene Contacts Between the Old World and the New World, with the Sketch of an Alternative Paradigm (1999) (0)
- Secular change in Croatian male crania: 1812-1973 (2018) (0)
- Identification of Ramón Power Y Giralt: Puerto Rico's Diplomat to the 1812 Spanish Constitutional Court (2015) (0)
- Culture Chang Among the Arikara: Effects of Biological Adaptation (1982) (0)
- In Search of a Civil War Confederate Cemetery: Port Hudson, Louisiana (1987) (0)
- Book Reviews (2011) (0)
- Technical Report on Ancient DNA analysis of 27 African Americans from Catoctin Furnace, Maryland (2022) (0)
- Anatomical and osteopathologic reference collections for podiatric research. (1989) (0)
- The Lead Coffins of St. Mary’s (2021) (0)
- Basketmakers revealed: Physical, CT, and 3D analyses of mummified human remains from the southwest (2015) (0)
- Written in Bone: Reading the Remains of the 17th Century (2014) (0)
- Three Decades of Identification: Advances in Civil War Bioarchaeology (2016) (0)
- A Reanalysis of Human Remains from a Cemetery at Catoctin Furnace (2016) (0)
- Restoring Identity to People and Place: Reanalysis of Human Skeletal Remains from a Cemetery at Catoctin Furnace, Maryland (2019) (0)
- Cannibalism at James Fort, Jamestown, Virginia: The Bone Evidence (2014) (0)
- Kennewick Man: paleodiet, and the people of the Pacific Northwest Coast (2015) (0)
- Archeological Investigations in the Upper Trinity River Basin in Parker County, Texas (2020) (0)
- Recovery and Analysis of Jamestown Rediscovery South Churchyard Burials from the 1999 Field Season (2001) (0)
- The Men of the H. L. Hunley: An Osteological Portrait (2020) (0)
- The Canyon Creek Site Plains Equestrian Nomad Archaeological Complex (2014) (0)
- Review of Skeletal Biology in the Great Plains : Migration , Warfare , Health , and Subsistence , edited by (2015) (0)
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