Tal Simmons CV
Tal Simmons CV
Tal Simmons CV
School of Forensic and Investigative Science
University of Central Lancashire
Preston PR1 2HE
UK
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 44‐(0)1772‐894256
ACADEMIC POSITIONS:
2008‐‐ Reader in Forensic Anthropology and Archaeology, Course Leader, MSc Forensic Anthropology
and MSc Disaster Victim Identification; School of Forensic and Investigative Sciences, University
of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK.
2011 Lady Davis Visiting Professor, Faculty of Humanities, Institute of Archaeology and Prehistory. The
Hebrew University of Jerusalem (March‐May).
2004 ‐8 Principal Lecturer in Forensic Anthropology and Archaeology, Course Leader, MSc Forensic
Anthropology; Department of Forensic and Investigative Sciences, University of Central
Lancashire, Preston, UK.
2003‐4 Senior Lecturer and Programme Leader, Forensic and Biological Anthropology MSc, Bournemouth
University, Poole, Dorset, UK.
1996‐2003 Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI.
2002 Visiting Scholar, Institute for Advanced Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, “Palaeoecology
of the Levantine Corridor” Working Group (March‐August).
1998 University Visiting Professor, Department of Evolution, Systematics, and Ecology, The Hebrew
University of Jerusalem (March‐June).
1991‐6 Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Western Michigan University,
Kalamazoo, MI.
1991 Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Loyola University,
Chicago, IL.
1990‐1 Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer. Department of CMS Biology, Northwestern University Medical
and Dental Schools, Chicago, IL.
CONSULTANCIES:
2011 (pending signing of contract) Development of Post‐mortem Database forms for the International
Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
2004 ‐7 Forensic Consultant, Human Rights Educational Institute of Burma in Chiang Mai, Thailand. (Pro
Bono)
2004 Forensic Anthropology Consultant for Morgue Operations in Iraq, Regime Crimes Liaison Office,
US Department of Defense (June‐August) (Pro Bono)
2000 Senior Forensic Consultant, Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Human
Rights Division, Missing Person’s Unit, Pristina. Kosovo (February‐May)
1999 Consultant, Physicians for Human Rights. Galle, Sri Lanka (October)
1999 Laboratory Director, Physicians for Human Rights, Cyprus Project, Nicosia, Cyprus (May‐July)
1998 Consultant, Forensic Monitoring Project, Physicians for Human Rights, Tuzla, Bosnia (July‐August)
1997 Director, Forensic Monitoring Project, Physicians for Human Rights, Tuzla, Bosnia (June‐
December).
EDUCATION:
PhD. 1987‐90 Anthropology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville. (Dissertation: “Comparative Morphometrics
of the Frontal Bone in Hominids: Implications for Models of Modern Human Origins”)
1988 (Autumn Semester) Special Graduate Student in Gross Anatomy, University of Texas Medical
Branch, Galveston, Texas.
M.A. 1984‐5 Paleopathology and Funerary Archaeology, Sheffield University, England. (Thesis: “The Ipiutak
Cemetery at Point Hope, Alaska: Cutural Ecology, Ethnography and Funerary Analysis”)
1983‐4 Graduate student in Anthropology, University of Wisconsin, Madison.
A.B. 1980‐3 Anthropology (minor: Fine Art), Bryn Mawr College. (Thesis: “Lithic Source Analysis in Southeast
Pennsylvania”)
PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATION and LICENSURE:
2009 Justice Rapid Response Certification Course, No Peace Without Justice, Brussels, 11‐14 September,
(Certificate of Completion)
2009 First Aid for Remote Locations qualification. (ITC level 2 Certificate)
2009‐13 Registered Forensic Practitioner in Anthropology (General Forensic Work and Osteology). Registration
Number 01930, Council for the Registration of Forensic Practitioners. Period of Registration: 9.8.09‐8.8.13
2005‐9 Registered Forensic Practitioner in Anthropology (General Forensic Work and Osteology). Registration
Number 01930, Council for the Registration of Forensic Practitioners. Period of Registration: 9.8.05‐8.8.09
2008 Analysis Skills Seminars, Institute for International Criminal Investigations, The Hague (Certificate of
Completion)
2005 International Investigators Course, Instruction in Techniques of Investigating Serious Violations of
International Humanitarian Law, Institute for International Criminal Investigations, The Hague (Certificate
of Completion)
1997‐‐ Diplomate of the American Board of Forensic Anthropology (Diplomat Number: 56)
MAJOR FIELDS OF INTEREST: Forensic Anthropology, Human Burial Taphonomy, Archaeozoology (Avifauna),
Palaeoanthropology and Palaeoecology, Evolutionary Theory
SERVICE TO PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS:
2009‐‐ Investigators Roster for Justice Rapid Response (Current Chair: Canada)
2008‐‐ Registered with “On‐Call Scientists” AAAS Science and Human Rights Program
2006‐‐9 Specialty Assessor in Forensic Anthropology for the Council of Registered Forensic
Practitioners (CRFP).
2006‐‐9 Council Member, British Association for Human Identification (BAHID)
2005‐7 Ad Hoc Ethics Committee, Physical Anthropology Section, American Academy of Forensic
Sciences.
2002‐4 INFORCE (International Forensic Centre of Excellence) Advisory Board
1999‐2001 Chair, J. Lawrence Angel Student Paper Award Committee, Physical Anthropology Section,
American Academy of Forensic Sciences
1996‐8 J. Lawrence Angel Student Paper Award Committee, Physical Anthropology Section, American
Academy of Forensic Sciences
1996 Co‐Chair and Organizer of the Midwest Bioarchaeology and Forensic Anthropology meetings.
Kalamazoo, MI (11‐13 October 1996).
GRANTS:
2009 Teaching Equipment Fund, UCLAN. (Teaching Forensic Anthropology) £27,600
2003‐4 Irene Levi Sala CARE Archaeological Foundation grant. “What ceremony else? Ritual treatment
of the dead at the PPNB site of Kfar HaHoresh”
2001 Irene Levi Sala CARE Archaeological Foundation grant. “Human Burial Taphonomy of the Pre‐
Pottery Neolithic B Site of Kfar HaHoresh, Israel”
2001 Faculty Research and Creative Activities Support Fund grant, Western Michigan University.
“Human Burial Taphonomy of the Pre‐Pottery Neolithic B Site of Kfar HaHoresh, Israel”
1998 University Visiting Professorship (Lady Davis Fellowship Trust). Department of Evolution,
Systematics, and Ecology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.
1998‐2000 WMU President’s Grant for Outstanding Contributions to Teaching, Western Michigan University.
1995‐6 Faculty Research and Creative Activites Support Fund Grant, Western Michigan University, "The
Avifauna of Ohalo II: Prehistoric human ecology in Israel."
1995 WMU Faculty Development Fund for sitting the Board Certification Examination in Forensic
Anthropology (ABFA).
1993‐4 New Faculty Research Support Program Grant, Western Michigan University. "Analysis of Avian
Fauna from the Site of Ohalo II, Israel," and "Late Pleistocene Hybrid Zones in the Levant and
North Africa: Baboon Models and Species Recognition."
1990 University of Tennessee Graduate Student Travel Grant.
1989‐90 National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant, "Comparative
Morphometrics of the Frontal Bone in Hominids."
AWARDS and HONORS:
2007 Merit Award for Contributed Scientific Paper, “Forensic anthropological documentation of
patterns of torture in Sri Lanka,” (with Clifford Perera and Will Goodwin) 9th Indo‐Pacific
Congress on Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
1999 Merit Award, College of Arts and Sciences Administration, Western Michigan University. For
excellence in research, teaching, and service.
1998 Merit Award, College of Arts and Sciences Administration, Western Michigan University. For
excellence in research.
1996 Merit Award, College of Arts and Sciences Administration, Western Michigan University. For
excellence in the areas of research, service and teaching.
1995 Merit Award, College of Arts and Sciences Administration, Western Michigan University. For
excellence in teaching.
1995 Inducted as an Honorary Member of the Golden Key National Honor Society.
1994 Elected to Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Society.
1994 Merit Award, College of Arts and Sciences Administration, Western Michigan University.
1990 Chancellor's Citation for Extraordinary Professional Promise. The University of Tennessee,
Knoxville.
1989 J. Lawrence Angel Student Paper Award, Physical Anthropology Section, American Academy of
Forensic Sciences, "Stature estimation from fragmentary femora: a revision of the Steele
method."
1988 Elected to Phi Kappa Phi, honor society.
PUBLISHED PAPERS
Valla, F., Khalaily, K. Samuelian, N., Bridault, A. Rabinovich, R. Simmons, T. Dosseur, G., and Ashkenazi, S.
in press La structure 215‐228 de Mallaha (Eynan), Israël, esai d’analyse spatiale. In: The Natufian Culture
in the Levant” Eds. O. Bar‐Yosef and F. Valla. Archaeological Series of International Monographs
in Prehistory IMP: Ann Arbor, MI
Simmons, T.
in press Avifauna of the final Natufian of Eynan. In: The Natufian Culture in the Levant” Eds. O. Bar‐Yosef
and F. Valla. Archaeological Series of International Monographs in Prehistory IMP: Ann Arbor, MI
Simmons, T., Moffatt, C., Heaton, V. And A. Lagden
in press Letter to the Editor “Reply to Madea and Doberentz re. JFS 2010:55:302‐307” Journal of Forensic
Sciences. (forthcoming: November 2010)
Horwitz, L., Simmons, T. Lernau, O. and Tchernov, E.
2010 Fauna from the sites of Gilgal I, II, and III. In: Gilgal: Early Neotlithic Occupations in the Lower
Jordan Valley. Eds: O. Bar‐Yosef, Gopher, A. and Goring‐Morris, N. Chapter 18, pp. 259‐283.
Harvard University Press: Cambridge
Simmons, T. And Hunter, J.
2010 Forensic Archaeology and Anthropology. In: From Crime Scene to Court, Ed. P.C. White. Chapter
16, pp. 468‐506. Cambridge: Royal Society of Chemistry.
Simmons, T., Cross, P., Adlam, R. and Moffatt, C.
2010 The influence of insects on decomposition rate in buried and surface remains. Journal of Forensic
Sciences 55(4):889‐892
Bachmann, J. and Simmons, T.
2010 The influence of pre‐burial Insect access on the decomposition rate. Journal of Forensic Sciences
55(4): 893‐900
Heaton, V., Lagden, A. Moffatt, C. and Simmons, T.
2010 Predicting the Post‐Mortem Submersion Interval for Human Remains Recovered from UK
Waterways. Journal of Forensic Sciences 55(2):302‐7
Cross, Peter A. and Simmons, T.
2010 The Influence of Penetrative Trauma on the Rate of Decomposition. Journal of Forensic Sciences
55(2):295‐301
Simmons, T., Adlam, R., and Moffatt, C.
2010 Debugging decomposition data – comparative taphonomic studies and the influence of insects
and carcass size on decomposition rate. Journal of Forensic Sciences, 55(1):8‐13.
Cross, P., Simmons, T., Cunliffe, R. And Chatfield, L.
2009 Establishing a taphonomic research facility in the UK. Forensic Science Policy & Management:
An International Journal 1(4):187‐91
Bridault, A., Rabinovich, R. and Simmons, T.
2009 Human activities, site location and taphonomic process: a relevant combination for
understanding the fauna of Eynan (Ain Mallaha), level Ib (final Natufian, Israel). Proceedings of
the 8th International Meeting of the ASWA (Archaeozoology of Southwestern Asia ) held in Lyon –
28 June / 1 July 2006. This volume edited by E. Vila, L. Gourichon, A. Choyke and H. Buitenhuis,
Maison de l’Orient et de la Méditerranée in the Series TMO (Travaux de la Maison de l’Orient)
49:99‐117.
Valla F.R., Khalaily H., Valladas H., Kaltnecker, E., Bocquentin F., Cabellos, T., Bar‐Yosef‐Mayer D., Le Dosseur G.,
Regev, L., Chu, V., Weiner, S., Boaretto, E., Samuelin, N., Valentin, B., Delerue, S., Poupeau, G., Bridault A.,
Rabinovich R., Simmons T., Zohar, I., Ashkenazi, S., Deglado Huertas, A., Spiro, B., Mienis, H., Miller‐Rosen A., Porat,
N., and Belfer‐Cohen A
2007 Les Fouilles de Ain Mallaha (Eynan) de 2003 à 2005: Quatrième Rapport Prèliminaire. Mitkufat
Haeven (Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society) 37:135‐380.
Adlam, R. and Simmons, T.
2007 The effect of repeated physical disturbance on soft tissue decomposition – are taphonomic
studies an accurate reflection of decomposition? Journal of Forensic Sciences 52(5): 1007‐1014.
Simmons, T.
2007 “Fleeing Srebrenica: A surprise attack on a group of men and boys in the mountains,” In: Forensic
Anthropology: Case Studies from Europe, Eds. M. Brickley and R. Ferllini, Chapter 11, pp.165‐182
Springfield: Charles C. Thomas Press.
Simmons, T. Horwitz, L., and Goring‐Morris, N.
2007 “What ceremony else?”: Ritual treatment of the dead in the Pre‐Pottery Neolithic B Mortuary
Complex at Kfar HaHoresh, Israel. Pp. 100‐126. BAR International Series 1603, "Faces from the
Past: Diachronic Patterns in the Biology of Human Populations from the Eastern Mediterranean.
Papers in honour of Patricia Smith" Archaeopress, Oxford
Haglund, W. and Simmons, T.
2005 Archaeology, Excavation and Retrieval of Remains. In: The Encyclopedia of Forensic and Legal
Medicine, Vols.1‐3, Eds. J. Payne‐James, R.Byard, T. Corey and C.Henderson, pp. 89‐94. Elsevier
Sciences Ltd.
Simmons, T. and W. Haglund
2005 Anthropology in a Forensic Context. In: Forensic Archaeology:Advances in Theory and Practice.
Eds. J. Hunter and M. Cox, Chapter 6, pp. 159‐176. Routledge: London.
Keough, M. E., Simmons, T., and Samuels, M.
2004 Missing persons in post‐conflict settings: best practices for integrating psychosocial and scientific
approaches. The Journal of the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health, 124(6): 271‐275.
Valla F.R., Khalaily H., Valladas H., Samuelian N., March R., Bocquentin F., Bridault A. , Rabinovich R., Simmons T.,
Le Dosseur G., Bar‐Yosef‐Mayer D., Miller‐Rosen A., Dubreuil L., Belfer‐Cohen A
2004 Les fouilles à Mallaha en 2000 et 2001: 3ème rapport préliminaire. Mitkufat Haeven (Journal of
the Israel Prehistoric Society) 34:49‐244.
Simmons, T.
2004 “A feather for each wind that blows”: Utilizing avifauna in assessing changing patterns in
palaeoecology and subsistence at Jordan Valley archaeological sites. In: Human Palaeoecology in
the Levantine Corridor, Chapter XIII. Eds: N. Goren‐Inbar and J. Speth, pp.191‐205. Oxford:
Oxbow Books.
Osborne, D., Simmons, T. and Nawrocki, S.
2004 Reconsidering the auricular surface as an indicator of age at death. Journal of Forensic Sciences
49(5):905‐911.
Nadel D., Tsatskin A., Bar‐Yosef Mayer D.E., Belmaker M., Boaretto E., Kislev M.E., Hershkovitz I., Rabinovich R.,
Simmons T., Weiss E., Zohar I., Emmer G., Ghraieb T., Grinberg U., Spivak P., Weissbrod L., Zaidner Y.
2003 The Ohalo II 2001 season of excavation: a preliminary report. Mitkufat Haeven (Journal of the
Israel Prehistoric Society) 33: 9‐36.
Nadel, D., A. Tsatskin, D.E. Bar‐Yosef Mayer, M. Belmaker, E. Boaretto, M.E. Kislev, I. Hershkovitz, R. Rabinovich, T.
Simmons, E. Weiss, I. Zohar, O. Asfur, G. Emmer, T. Ghraieb, U. Grinburg, H. Halabi, L. Weissbrod, and Y. Zaidner
2002 The Ohalo II 1999‐2000 seasons of excavation: a preliminary report. Mitkufat Haeven (Journal of
the Israel Prehistoric Society) 32: 17‐48.
Simmons, T.
2002 The Birds of Ohalo II. In: Ohalo II: A 23,000‐year‐old Fisher‐Hunter‐Gatherers’ Camp on the
shore of the Sea of Galilee. Ed: Dani Nadel. (Hebrew pp. 29‐32; English pp. 32‐36). Reuben
and Edith Hecht Museum, University of Haifa.
Simmons, T.
2002 Taphonomy of a Karstic Cave Execution Site at Hrgar, Bosnia‐Herzegovina. In: Advances in
Forensic Taphonomy: Method, Theory and Archaeological Perspectives. Eds: W. Haglund and M.
Sorg, pp.263‐275. Boca Raton: CRC Press, Inc.
Nadel, D.,Tsatskin, A., Zertal, A. and Simmons, T.
1999 Ein Suhun ‐‐ a PPNA/B site in the Eastern Sumarian Hills. Neo‐Lithics: A Newsletter of Southwest
Asian Lithics Resarch 2/99: 3‐4.
Simmons, T.
1999 Home Alone: Distinguishing Blunt Force Trauma from Possible Taphonomic Processes. In: Broken
Bones: Anthropological Analysis of Blunt Force Trauma. Ed: A. Galloway, pp. 301‐303. Springfield:
Charles C. Thomas.
Simmons, T.
1999 Migration and Contact Zones in Modern Human Origins: Baboon models for hybridization and
species recognition. Anthropologie (Brno): XXXVII (1):101‐109.
Burge, B. Mumcouglu, M. and Simmons, T.
1999 The Effects of Sambucol© on Flu‐like Symptoms in Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes): Prophylactic
and Symptom‐dependent Treatment. International Zoo News, Vol. 46/1(290):16‐19.
Simmons, T. and Nadel, D.
1998 The Avifauna of the Early Epipalaeolithic Site of Ohalo II (19,400 B.P), Israel: Species Diversity,
Habitat, and Seasonality. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 8:79‐96
Galloway, A. and Simmons, T.
1997 Education in Forensic Anthropology: Appraisal and Outlook. Journal of Forensic Sciences,
42(5):796‐801.
Simmons, T.
1997 Late Pleistocene Hybrid Zones in the Levant and North Africa: Baboon Models and Species
Recognition. In: The Human Tide: Human Colonization and the Paleeolithic Archaeological
Record. Eds: A. Velichko and O. Soffer, pp. 85‐96. INQUA, Moscow (in Russian)
Smith, F. H., Falsetti, A. B., and Simmons, T.
1995 Circum‐Mediterranean biological connections and the pattern of late Pleistocene human
evolution. In Man and Environment in the Palaeolithic, Ed. H. Ullrich, pp. 197‐207. Liege: Etudes
et Recherches Archיologiques de Universitי de Liטge (E.R.A.U.L.), no62.
Simmons, T.
1994 Archaic and Modern Homo sapiens in the Contact Zones: Evolutionary schematics and model
predictions. In Origins of Anatomically Modern Humans, Eds. M. Nitecki and D. Nitecki, pp. 201‐
225. Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology series. New York: Plenum Press.
Simmons, T. and Smith, F. H.
1991 Human Population Relationships in the Late Pleistocene. Current Anthropology, (December)
32:623‐627.
Simmons, T., Falsetti, A.B., and Smith, F.H.
1991 Frontal Bone Morphometrics of Southwest Asian Pleistocene Hominids. Journal of Human
Evolution, 20:249‐269.
Simmons, T., Jantz, R.L., and Bass, W.M.
1990 Stature estimation from fragmentary femora: Revision of the Steele Method. Journal of Forensic
Sciences, 35(3):628‐636.
BOOK REVIEWS:
Simmons, T.
2010 Review of: Maureen Schaefer, Sue Black and Louise Scheuer’s Juvenile Osteology: A Laboratory
and Field Manual. Academic Press, Amsterdam. 2009 In: Science and Justice 50(3): 162‐163
Simmons, T.
2002 Review of: William J. Farrand’s Depositional History of Franchthi Cave: Sediments,
Stratigraphy,and chornology. Bloomington: Indian University Press. 2000. In American Antiquity
67(2): 384‐5.
Simmons, T.
1992 Review of: G. Philip Rightmire's The Evolution of Homo erectus: Comparative Anatomical Studies
of an Extinct Human Species. New York: Cambridge University Press. 1990. In American
Scientist, Vol. 80 (November‐December), pp. 612‐613.
TECHNICAL REPORTS:
2007‐‐ Forensic case reports to the Lancashire and Cheshire Constabularies, Preston, UK.
2003 (with Bill Haglund and Melissa Connor) Comments on “Inforce Protocols for Investigating Mass Graves,
Version 3” From International Forensic Program of Physicians for Human Rights (November)
2003 Forensic case reports to Kent Police, Crime Scene Investigation Unit, Kent, UK
2003 The Avifauna of Eynan. (To: Francois Vallas. CNRS)
2002 The Fauna of Ain Darat (with Liora Kolska Horwitz).
2000 Presumptive Identification System design and Project Reports for Organization for Security and
Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) (internal documents), Human Rights Division, Pristina, Kosovo.
1999 Forensic Monitoring Project Reports to Physicians for Human Rights (internal documents)
Examination and Identification of skeletal remains from Chemmani, Sri Lanka.
1999 Forensic Project Reports to Physicians for Human Rights (internal documents) and to the Foreign Affairs
Division, Cypriot Government
Exhumations and Laboratory Procedures at the Lakatamia Cemetery and Constantine and Helena
Cemetery.
1998 Forensic Monitoring Project Reports to Physicians for Human Rights (internal documents)
Re‐examination of bodies exhumed by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former
Yugoslavia in 1996.
1997 Forensic Monitoring Project Reports to Physicians for Human Rights (internal documents) and to the
Expert Group on Exhumations and Identifications (Office of the High Representative, Sarajevo).
Gorazde‐Sarajevo Grebak Mountain Passage; Gorazde‐Drina River; Gorazde Burnt House; Hrgar‐
Jama, Bihac; Suhi‐Potok executions, Gorazde; Kravica‐Konjavic Polje (Srebrenica).
1991‐2006 Forensic reports to local and state medico‐legal officials in Michigan re. the recovery, analysis and
identification of human remains (mean = 5 per year).
1988 The estimation of stature from fragments of the femur: a revision of the Steele Method. (with W. M. Bass
and R. L. Jantz). Final Report submitted to Universal Energy Systems, Sept. 23, 1988.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS:
Simmons, T.
2005 The Red Panda (Ailurus fulgens), Animal in Focus, June 2005, www.jerusalemzoo.org.il
Simmons, T.
2005 The Tawny Frogmouth (Podargus strigoides), Animal in Focus, May 2005,
www.jerusalemzoo.org.il
Simmons, T.
2005 Hand‐Raising a Baby Zoo‐Keeper, Propil – The Newsletter of the Tisch Family Zoological Gardens.
(Summer).
Simmons, T.
2002 Cooperation between the Jerusalem Biblical Zoo and the Archaeolozoology Laboratory of Hebrew
University. Propil – The Newsletter of the Tisch Family Zoological Gardens. (May)
Simmons, T.
2000 Faith‐Inspiring, Defying: Human rights forensic anthropology in Bosnia‐Hercegovina. Bryn Mawr
College Alumnae Bulletin, pp. 16‐19. Winter 2000.
PUBLISHED ILLUSTRATIONS:
1983‐2002 in Human Variation: Races, types, and ethnic groups, 2nd‐5th editions, by S. Molnar. Prentice
Hall, Inc.
1985 in "Affluent foragers of Mesolithic Scandinavia," by T.D. Price, in Prehistoric Hunters and Gatherers: the
emergence of cultural complexity, eds. T.D. Price and J.A. Brown. New York: Academic Press.
INVITED PAPERS/LECTURES:
2008 “The Taphonomy of Execution and Ambush Sites in the Balkan War,” New Perspectives in Conflict
Archaeology Conference, The Royal Logistics Corps Museum, The Princess Royal barracks, Deepcut (July)
2006 “Forensic Anthropology: Responsible and Responsive Education” Forensic Research and Teaching
(FORREST) Conference, Preston (September)
2006 “Forensic Anthropology” in “Interdisciplinary work in mass disasters”, Forensic Evidence: Guilty or
Innocent? CRFP Stakeholder’s Conference, Warwick (September)
2006 “Forensic anthropology and international investigations.” Department of Forensic Sciences, Faculty of
Health and Sciences, Staffordshire University (March)
2004 “Post conflict forensic investigations: integrating the needs of the scientific and missing persons
communities.” Irish Centre for Human Rights, International Humanitarian Law Programme, University of
Galway, Ireland. (October)
2004 “A feather for each wind that blows”: Utilizing avifauna in assessing changing patterns in
palaeoecology and subsistence at Jordan Valley archaeological sites. Cambridge University. (January)
2002 Talons, Feathers and Food: Avifaunal trends in Jordan Valley archaeological sites” University of Michigan,
Museum of Anthorpology, Ann Arbor (October).
2002 “A feather for each wind that blows”: Assessing seasonality and habitat from Avian migration patterns.
Institute of Advanced Studies, Hebrew University of Jersualem, “Palaeocology of the Levantine Corridor”
Conference.
2002 The birds of Ohalo II. Haifa University, Reuven and Edith Hecht Museum. (June)
2001 Documenting Human Rights Violations Through Forensic Anthropology. Doctors for Social Conscience,
Michigan State University Medical School, East Lansing, MI (April)
2001 Forensic Anthropology and the Documentation of Human Rights Violations. Keynote Address, Michigan
Academy High School Conference. Gilmore Center, Kalamazoo, MI (March)
2000 Missing Persons are Good, Bodies are Bad: The process and politics of identifying the dead in the Balkan
War. Chico State University, CA. (February)
2000 Seeing the Forest (and not missing the trees): Large Scale International Forensic Missions. Chico State
University, CA. (February)
1999 War Crimes Exhumations and Identifications in Bosnia: A holistic approach to forensic anthropology.
Michigan State University, East Lansing. (April)
1998 Human Rights Forensic Anthropology: It's more than digging graves. University of Indiana, South Bend.
(October)
1998 Ethical Considerations in the Investigation of Human Rights Violations and War Crimes: Forensic
Anthropology in Bosnia. Midwest BioArchaeology and Forensic Association meetings, Iowa City, IO
(October)
1998 Forensic Anthropology and Human Rights in Bosnia. Hebrew University Lecture of the Month. Jerusalem,
Israel. (April)
1998 Taphonomy and Recovery of Human Skeletal Remains in Bosnia. Board of Anthropology Studies,
University of California, Santa Cruz, CA. (February)
1998 Forensic Anthropology and Human Rights in Bosnia. Department of Anthropology, Northern Illinois
University, DeKalb, IL. (January)
1998 Skeletal Trauma in Bosnian Victims of Ethnic Cleansing. Departments of Pathology and Orthopaedics,
University of Texas Medical branch, Galveston, TX. (January)
1997 "The Meaning of Modernity in Middle Eastern Mousterian Hominids" Invited Symposium, "What is
Modern About Modern Humans: Prospects for understanding the archaic/modern dichotomy." American
Association of Physical Anthropologists. April: St. Louis, Missouri.
1996 "Paleolithic Cave Archaeology in Israel: From Goat Dung to Spectrographic Analysis" Kalamazoo Chapter
of the Michigan Archaeological Society (10 October 1996)
1996 "The Position of a Forensic Anthropologist in Conjunction with a Mass Disaster" (with R. Sundick).
Managing Mass Casualty/Disaster ‐ Are You Ready?, Kalamazoo County Medical Examiner Annual
Conference, Kalamazoo, MI (16‐17 May 1996)
1996 "The Archaeology of Crime: Forensic Anthropology in the Investigation of Homicide." Keynote Speaker,
Undergraduate Research Symposium, Northeast Missouri State University, Kirksville, MO (29 March 1996)
1995 "African Origins of Humankind." For "Africa Today," the African Studies Lecture Series sponsored by the
Office of International Affairs, the Asian Studies Program, The Lee Honor's College, The Department of
Political Science, and The Institute of Government and Politics at Western Michigan University (12
September 1995)
1994 "Archaeological Methods of Recovery in Forensic Anthropology." Chicago Archaeological Society. (24 April
1994)
1993 "Hybrids, Variability, and Species Recognition in the Late Pleistocene Levant." Palaeoanthropology Journal
Club, Anthropology Department, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. (27 October 1993)
1993 "Late Pleistocene Hybrid Zones in the Levant and North Africa: Baboon models and species recognition."
The Human Tide ‐ Human Colonization and the Paleeolithic Archaeological Record, an International
Symposium sponsored by the Werner‐Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research and INQUA. 15‐19
June, 1993.
1991 "Archaic and Modern Homo sapiens in the Contact Zones: North Africa and the Levant." Origins of
Anatomically Modern Humans ‐ 14th Annual Spring Systematics Symposium, Field Museum of Natural
History, Chicago. 11 May 1991.
1990 "North African Hominid Frontal Morphology: Complex Population Relations in the Late Pleistocene."
Chicago Primatological Society. 14 December 1990.
1990 "Frontal Bone Morphology of Late Pleistocene Hominids:Regional Perspectives on Modern Human
Origins." Departments of Biology, Sociology and Anthropology, Loyola University, Chicago. 5 Decemeber
1990.
PAPERS PRESENTED at PROFESIONAL MEETINGS:
2010 Development and validation of regional spatial prediction “Isoscape” models for the provenancing
of unidentified human remains. (with Robert Posey, Khudooma Na'imi, Henriette Ueckerman and
Dr. Jurian Hoogewerff). FIRMS, April: Washington, D.C.
2010 Recollected vs. actual stature: how does the height reported by next of kin measure up? (with L.
Duhaime). American Academy of Forensic Sciences, February: Seattle, WA.
2010 Effects of heat modification on sharp force trauma in charred remains. (with D. Vincent). American
Academy of Forensic Sciences, February: Seattle, WA.
2010 Taphonomic processes involved with the decomposition of human remains within the Puget Sound (with
S. Huntington). American Academy of Forensic Sciences, February: Seattle, WA.
2010 An investigation into the rate of decomposition of decapitated heads and heads with an attached body
(with E. Walker). American Academy of Forensic Sciences, February: Seattle, WA.
2010 Establishing a taphonomic research facility in the United Kingdom (with p. Cross, R. Cunliffe, and L.
Chatfield). American Academy of Forensic Sciences, February: Seattle, WA.
2009 “Bugs Bunny? No Bugs Bunny” (with P. Cross, R. Adlam, and C. Moffatt). American Academy of Forensic
Sciences, February: Denver CO.
2008 “Debugging Decomposition Data” (with C. Moffatt and R. Adlam). American Academy of Forensic
Sciences, February: Washington, D.C.
2008 “Computer simulation for drift trajectories of objects in the Magdalena River, Colombia” (with A.C.
Guatame‐Garcia and L. A. Camacho). American Academy of Forensic Sciences, February: Washington, D.C.
2008 “Decomposition scoring as a method for estimating the postmortem submersion interval of human
remains recovered form United Kingdom Rivers – A Comparative Study.” (with A. Lagden) American
Academy of Forensic Sciences, February: Washington, D.C.
2007 “Presumptive (mis)identification rates for the Balkans,” 9th Indo‐Pacific Congress on Legal Medicine and
Forensic Sciences, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
2007 “Forensic anthropological documentation of patterns of torture in Sri Lanka,” (with Clifford Perrera and
Will Goodwin) 9th Indo‐Pacific Congress on Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
2007 “The Taphonomy of Execution and Ambush Sites in the Balkan War,” Witness to War: Conflict
Archaeology, 7th Annual Battlefield Archaeology Conference, Royal Logistical Corps Museum, Deepcut, UK.
2007 “Calibre Estimation from Fracture Patterns in Pig Femora,” (with Joanna Kay) 10 May 2007, SPARC (Salford
Postgraduate Annual Research Conference) ‐Salford University
2007 “Bullet Type and Calibre Estimation from Fracture Patterns in Pig Femora,” (with Joanna Kay) 28 June
2007, PRISM (Postgraduate Researchers in Science/Medicine) ‐ University of Chester
2007 “Considerations for ethical standards in forensic anthropology” Symposium on the Foruth Era of
Anthropology: Examining the future of the Discipline. (with Alison Galloway) American Academy of
Forensic Sciences. February: San Antonio.
2007 “Long bone ratios for the Bosnian male population” (with Alexandra Klonowski) American Academy of
Forensic Sciences. February: San Antonio.
2007 “Forensic anthropology investigation of human rights violations in the Ixil and Ixcan areas, Guatemala”
(with Lourdes Pendaos) American Academy of Forensic Sciences. February: San Antonio.
2007 “The decomposition of human remains recovered from the River Clyde, Scotland: a comparative study of
UK fluvial systems” (with Vivienne Heaton) American Academy of Forensic Sciences. February: San
Antonio.
2007 “Decomposition in a Mass grave and the implications for postmortem interval estimates” (with Rebecca
White) American Academy of Forensic Sciences. February: San Antonio.
2007 “Sex estimation based on the calcaneus, talus, and metatarsal length” (with Dawn Strohmeyer) American
Academy of Forensic Sciences. February: San Antonio.
2006 “Long bone ratios for the Bosnian male population: A new method in re‐association of commingled
remains” (with Alexandra Klonowski) FORREST Conference. September: Preston
2006 “Forensic anthropology and the investigation of human rights violations in the Ixil and Ixcan areas,
Guatemala” (with Lourdes Penados‐Ceren) FORREST Conference. September: Preston
2006 “Decomposition in a mass grave and the implications for postmortem interval estimates” (with Rebecca
White) FORREST Conference. September: Preston
2006 “The decomposition of human remains recovered from the River Clyde, Scotland: A comparative study of
UK fluvial systems” (with Viv Heaton) FORREST Conference. September: Preston
2006 “Sex estimation from the curvature of the iliac crest” (with Sally Gordon) FORREST Conference.
September: Preston
2006 “Estimating sex from mandibular ramus flexure: testing and evaluating a revised method” (with Rebecca
Sheen) FORREST Conference. September: Preston
2006 “Sex and stature estimation based on the calcaneus, talus, and metatarsal length” (with Dawn
Strohmeyer) FORREST Conference. September: Preston
2006 “Human activities, site location, chronological position and taphonomic process : a relevant combination
for understanding the fauna of Eynan/Ain Mallaha, level Ib (final Natufian, Israel” (with Anne Bridault and
Rivka Rabinovich ) ).International Congress on Archaeozoology. June: Lyon.
2006 “Assessing the effect of a repeated physical disturbance associated with data collection in experimental
decomposition studies” (with Rachel Adlam). American Academy of Forensic Sciences. February: Seattle.
2006 “The accuracy of antemortem data and presumptive identification: appropriate procedures, applications,
and ethics” (with Mark Skinner) American Academy of Forensic Sciences. February: Seattle.
2006 “Evidence vs. identification: the role of humanitarian organizations in the Balkans 1992‐2002” (with Abbie
Cuff) American Academy of Forensic Sciences. February: Seattle.
2006 “Restructuring data collection strategies and investigative priorities in the resolution of mass fatality
incidents” (with Andrew Tyrrell, Elias Kontanis, and Paul Sledzik) American Academy of Forensic Sciences.
February: Seattle.
2004 “Rapid responses to International Incidents: to go or not to go (or when to go and how to go)?” (Organizer
and panelist) American Academy of Forensic Sciences. February: Dallas.
2002 “What ceremony else?”: Ritual treatment of the dead in the Pre‐Pottery Neolithic B Mortuary Complex at
Kfar HaHoresh, Israel. Midwest Bioarchaeology and Forensic Anthropology meetings. October:
Indianapolis, IN.
2001 Victim identification standards in human rights missions: transparency in professional standards and
ethics (with W. Haglund). American Academy of Forensic Sciences. February: Seattle.
2001 Age indicators are population specific ‐ caution! (With M. Lagrou). American Academy of Forensic
Sciences. February: Seattle.
2000 Laboratory Management in International Forensic Anthropology Missions. American Academy of Forensic
Sciences. February: Reno.
1999 Seeing the Forest (and not missing the trees): Large Scale International Forensic Missions. Midwest
BioArchaeology and Forensic Association meetings. October: Lansing, MI
1999 Revising Age Estimation Standards for a Bosnian Forensic Population: clavicle, rib, and pubic sypmhysis.
American Association of Physical Anthropologists. April: Columbus, OH.
1999 Evaluating Age Estimation in a Bosnia Forensic Population: "Age‐at‐Stage" via Probit Analysis (with V.
Tuco, R. Kesetovic, and Z. Cihlarz). American Academy of Forensic Sciences. February: Orlando.
1998 Forensic Investigations in the Gora_de District, Bosnia‐Hercegovina, 1997 (with Z. Cihlarz and R.
Kesetovic). American Academy of Forensic Sciences. February: San Francisco.
1996 The Avifauna of Ohalo II: A preliminary analysis of migratory patterns and site seasonality.
Paleoanthropology Association. April: New Orleans, Louisiana.
1996 Facing the Future of Forensic Anthropology: A Further Appraisal (organizer and moderator, with A.
Galloway). American Academy of Forensic Sciences. February: Nashville, Tennessee.
1995 Facing the Future of Forensic Anthropology: A Panel Discussion (moderated by A. Galloway and W.
Haglund). American Academy of Forensic Sciences. February: Seattle, Washington.
1994 Personal identification through human footprints: a discriminant function test for accuracy (with D. Hunt).
American Academy of Forensic Sciences. February: San Antonio, Texas.
1993 Species recognition in hybrid zones: baboons and Late Pleistocene hominids. American
Association of Physical Anthropologists. April: Toronto, Ontario.
1992 The concept of hybridization in modern human origins. 3rd International Congress on Human
Paleontology. August: Jerusalem, Israel.
1992 The Spencer R. Atkinson Collection: 1400 Missing Identies (with A. Galloway and S.C. Anton). American
Academy of Forensic Scientists. February: New Orleans, Louisiana.
1992 Evaluating the concept of hybrid zones in modern human origins. American Association of Physical
Anthropologists. April: Las Vegas, Nevada.
1991 North African and Levantine Hominid Affinities: Frontal Squama and Browridge Morphometry. American
Association of Physical Anthropologists. April: Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
1991 Sequential Footprint Series: A Comparison of Intra‐Individual and Inter‐Individual Metric Variation.
American Academy of Forensic Sciences, February: Anaheim, California.
1990 Comparative morphometrics of the frontal in hominids: implications for models of modern human origins.
American Association of Physical Anthropologists. April: Miami, Florida.
1990 Metric identification factors in sequential bare and socked footprints (with D. Hunt). American Academy
of Forensic Sciences. February: Cincinatti, Ohio.
1989 Zuttiyeh and the ancestry of early modern Southwest Asians (with A. B. Falsetti and F. H. Smith). American
Association of Physical Anthropologists. March: San Diego, California.
1989 Stature estimation from fragmentary femora. American Academy of Forensic Sciences. February: Las
Vegas, Nevada.
COURSES PREPARED TO TEACH:
Introduction to Biological Anthropology Human Osteology
Human Evolution Palaeopathology
Primate Behavior and Ecology Evolution of Human Culture (Archaeology)
Forensic Anthropology Human Gross Anatomy
Bioarchaeology Archaeozoology
Forensic Taphonomy Developmental Anatomy
TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
2005‐‐ Principal Lecturer/Reader, MSc Forensic Anthropology Course Leader, Department of Forensic
and Investigative Sciences, University of Central Lancashire, Preston. Developmental Anatomy,
Forensic Anthropology, Research Methods, Expert Witness (International Humanitarian Law),
Forensic Taphonomy, Crime Scene Investigation and the Anthropologist.
2003‐‐ Senior Lecturer; MSc Forensic and Biological Anthropology Programme Leader; School of
Conservation Sciences, Bournemouth University. Human Anatomy; Developmental Biology;
Biological Anthropology; Human Taphonomy; Pathology in the Forensic and Biological Context;
Legal Framework and Crime Scene Investigation.
1991‐2003 Assistant/Associate Professor. Human Origins (Anthropology 100); Introduction to Physical
Anthropology (250); World Prehistory (305); Human Osteology (351); Faunal Analysis (352);
Primate Behaviour and Ecology (450); Human Evolution (550); Osteology (551); Evolution of
Human Culture (551); Forensic Anthropology (552); Seminar in Modern Human Origins (555);
Archaelogy of Human Evolution (555); Primates (555); Human Skeletal Biology (650). Department
of Anthropology, Western Michigan University.
2001 Forensic Methods Workshops (Skeletal Biology and Age Estimation; Standardization and
Recording). Fundacion de Anthropologica Forense de Guatemala, Guatemala City, Guatemala.
1998 Lecturer. Forensic Anthropology. Summer University, Medical School, University of Tuzla,
Bosnia‐Hercegovina.
1998 Visiting Professor. Primate Behaviour and Ecology (72540). Department of Evolution,
Systematics, and Ecology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Givat Ram, Jerusalem, Israel.
1991 Lecturer. Human Origins (Anthropology 101). Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Loyola
University, Chicago.
1990‐1 Lecturer. Human Gross Anatomy, Department of CMS Biology, Northwestern University Medical
and Dental Schools.
1989‐90 Teaching Assistant in Anthropology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville ‐ African Prehistory,
Primate Evolution, Human Origins.
LABORATORY RESEARCH EXPERIENCE:
2004 Identification of avifuana from the sites of Gilgal I, II, and III, Jordan Valley, Israel. Department of
Evolution, Systematics, and Ecology, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
2002‐6 Taphonomic analysis of human skeletal material from the Pre‐Pottery site of Kfar HaHoresh, lower
Galileee, Israel, Department of Evolution, Systematics, and Ecology, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
2002‐‐ Identification of avifauna from the sites of Gesher B’not Ya’akov, Qafzeh, Amud, Eynan, Beisamun, and
Ain Darat, Israel. Department of Evolution, Systematics, and Ecology, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
2000‐2 Identification of avifauna from the site of Bawab el Gazhal, Jordan (with Elissa Kinzelman). Museum of
Zoology, Ann Arbor.
1999 Forensic Examination and Identification of ca. 175 skeletal human remains. Physicians for Human Rights,
Cyprus Project in Nicosia, Cyprus.
1999‐2001 Identification of avifauna from the sites of Fazael VI and Salabiya IX. Museum of Zoology, Ann
Arbor; Department of Evolution, Systematics, and Ecology, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
1998‐‐ Age Estimation in a Bosnian Autopsy Sample: ribs, pubic symphyses, and clavicles. Tuzla Clinical Center,
Bosnia‐Hercegovina.
1997 (June‐November) Autopsies and Forensic Examinations of ca. 300 human remains in Bosnia‐Hercegovina.
Tuzla Clinical Center, Gora_de, Bihac, and Visoko.
1996 (December) Collections Management. Comparative Avian Skeletal Collection. Department of Evolution,
Systematics, and Ecology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
1996 (July) Study of Middle Paleolithic hominids in Israel. The Rockerfeller Museum, Jerusalem.
1993‐‐ Identification of avifauna from the Epipalaeolithic site of Ohalo II, Israel. Field Museum of Nautral History;
Museum of Zoology, Ann Arbor; Department of Evolution, Systematics, and Ecology, Hebrew University,
Jerusalem; Stekelis Museum of Prehistory, Haifa.
1988‐9 (Nov‐Jan) Research Assistant, Department of Neurology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston,
TX. Dr. T. Kent, director.
1988 Graduate research assistant to Drs. Bass and Jantz, Anthropology Department, University of Tennessee,
Knoxville. ("The estimation of stature from fragments of the femur," a grant from the Research Initiation
Program, U.S. Air Force ‐ Office of Scientific Research.)
1987 (autumn quarter) Data entry for the Forensic Data Bank, University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Dr. R.L. Jantz,
director.
1987 (Aug) Study of human skeletal remains from the Khirbet 'Ein Ziq site, Israel, the Rockerfeller Museum, with
J. Zias, curator.
1983‐4 Graduate research assistant to Dr. T.D. Price, University of Wisconsin, Madison. Trace element analysis
and the prehistoric diet.
1983 (Aug) Cataloguer of artifacts from Bryn Mawr College's excavations at Karluk, Kodiak Island, Alaska. Dr.
R.H. Jordan, director..PA
1982‐3 Lithic analyst and cataloguer for the Jasper Project, Bryn Mawr College. Dr. R.H. Jordan, director.
1982‐3 Illustrator of materials from the Gritille site (Turkey), Bryn Mawr College. Dr. R. Ellis, director.
1982 (May‐Aug) Laboratory assistant and faunal analyst, The Lubbock Lake Site, Texas. Dr. E. Johnston, director.
1976‐80 Illustrator/lab assistant, Washington University, St. Louis. Dr. S. Molnar, director.
ARCHAEOLOGICAL FIELD EXPERIENCE:
2008 Excavations with “No Man’s Land” at 8 Great War sites in France and Belgium for the YAP
Television Production series, “The Trench Detectives.” (January‐April)
2000‐2002 Excavations at Kfar HaHoresh, Israel.
1999 Exhumations at Lakatamia and Constantine and Helena Cemeteries, Nicosia, Cyprus.
1997‐8 Exhumations in Bosnia‐Hercegovina of mass graves from the 1992‐1995 war.
1996 (July) Umm el‐Jimal, Jordan. Supervisor of human skeletal excavation and analysis. Dr. Bert de
Vries, director.
1992‐4 Hayonim Cave Excavations, Project on Human Origins in Southwest Asia. Dr. Ofer Bar‐Yosef,
director.
1989‐90 Kebara Cave excavations, Project on Human Origins in Southwest Asia. Dr. Ofer Bar‐Yosef,
director.
1986‐7 Kebara Cave excavations.
1985‐6 Negev Desert Tours and Seminars (archaeology, geology, and ecology), Kibbutz Yahel, Israel.
1986 Netiv Hagdud excavations, Hebrew University, Jerusalem. Dr. Ofer Bar‐Yosef, director.
1984 Leader of the National Federation of Temple Youth's Archaeological Seminar in Israel.
Excavations at Tel Aphek, Tel Aviv University. Dr. Moshe Kochavi, director.
1983 Excavations at Skateholm I, II, VIII, Sweden. University of Lund. Dr. L. Larsson, director.
1983 Excavations at Vaenget Nord, Vedbaek Fjord, Denmark. Drs. E. Brinch‐Petersen (Univ. of
Kobenhavn) and T.D. Price (Univ. of Wisconsin), directors.
1982‐3 Excavations at East Rock I, Pa. Bryn Mawr College. Dr. R.S. Davis, director.
1981‐2 Survey of prehistoric sites and quarries in Southeast, Pa. Bryn Mawr College. Dr. R.H. Jordan,
director.
1981‐2 Excavations at the Fischler Site, Pa. Bryn Mawr College. Dr. R.H. Jordan, director.
1978 Excavations at Tel Aphek, Israel. Tel Aviv University. Dr. Moshe Kochavi, director
Memberships in PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS:
American Board of Forensic Anthropology (Diplomate)
Certified Registered Forensic Practitioners (UK)
Justice Rapid Response Team
American Academy of Forensic Sciences, Physical Anthropology Section (Fellow)
Centre for International Forensic Assistance (CIFA)
British Association for Human Identification (BAHID)
American Association of Physical Anthropologists
REFERENCES
Prof Sue Black
Anatomy and Forensic Anthropology
Faculty of Life Sciences
University of Dundee
Dow Street
Dundee DD1 5EH
Scotland
Tel. 01382 345776
Fax. 01382 345893
[email protected]
Dr William Haglund (Retired)
International Forensic Science Director
Physicians for Human Rights
20410 25th Avenue NW
Shoreline, WA 98177
(206)542‐7763
[email protected]
Dr Mark Skinner
Department of Archeology
Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, British Columbia
Canada V5A 1S6
(778) 782‐4171
[email protected]
Dr Alison Galloway
Professor
Board of Anthropology Studies
University of California
Social Sciences I
Santa‐Cruz, CA 95064
(408) 459‐3360
[email protected]