Joseph F. Powell
Associate Professor of Anthropoloogy
At UNM since Fall 1995
Anthropology courses taught at UNM
Introduction to Anthropology (101)
Evolution and Human Emergence (150)
Archaeological Method and Theory (121)
Forensics and Crime (251)
Anthropology of the Skeleton(351)
Population and Quantitative Genetics(450/550)
Quantitative Methods in Biological Anthropology(550)
Topics in Biological Anthropology: Dental Anthropology (450/550),
Seminar on Paleoindians (450/570)
Education
Eastern Kentucky University, BA magna cum laude 1985.
The University of Texas at Austin, MA 1989
Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, August 1995, PhD 1995.
Dissertation: “Dental Variation and Biological Affinity Among Middle
Holocene Human Populations in North America.”
Selected Publications
(PD Tomczak and JF Powell),”Postmarital Residence Practices in
the Windover Population: Sex-based Dental Variation as an indicator of
patrilocality” American Antiquity, 68(1), : 93-108, 2003
(and JA Rose) “Report on the Osteological Assessmentof the “Kennewick Man” skeleton (CENWW.97.Kennewick)”US Department of the Interior report on the world-wide web(1999): http://nps.aad.kennewick.org/kennewick
(and W.A. Neves) “Craniofacial Mophology of the First Americans: Pattern and Process In The Peopling of The Americas” Yearbook Of Physical Anthropology 42(1999):153-188
“Variação dentária nas Américas: Uma visão alternativa.” Revista Universidade São Paulo 34 (1997): 82-95
(and D.G. Steele) “Diet and health of Paleoindians: An examination of Early Holocene human dental remains.” in K.D. Sobolik ed.,Paleonutrition: The Diet and Health of Prehistoric Americans, (Center for Archaeological Research Occasional Papers Series. Southern Illinois University Carbondale, IL,1994
(D.G Steele and JF Powell) “The Paleobiology of the First Americans”Evolutionary Anthropology 2(1994): 138-146
“Dental evidence for the peopling of the New World: Some methodological considerations.” Human Biology 65 (1993): 799-819
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