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Heather J.H. Edgar
Research Assistant Professor of Anthropology (Evolutionary Anthropology)
Curator of Human Osteology, Maxwell Museum of Anthropology
Research Assistant Professor, Health Sciences Library and Informatics Center
At UNM since 2003

hjhedgar@unm.edu
505.277-3535 (Lab)
505.277-4415 (Office)

Anthropology Courses Taught at UNM since 2002

  • Are There Human Races? (450/550)
  • Osteology/Odontology Practicum (450/550)
  • Human Paleopathology (454/554)
  • Museum Collections Management (485/585)

Education

University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Anthropology, BA 1990
Arizona State University, Anthropology, MA 1994
The Ohio State University, Anthropology, PhD 2002
Dissertation: “Biological Distance and the African-American Dentition”"


Research

Bioarchaeology, osteology and paleopathology, dental anthropology, biocultural aspects of human variation, African American and Hispanic American biological anthropology, forensic anthropology


Selected Publications

“Microevolution of African American Dental Morphology,” American Journal of Physical Anthropology 132 (2007): 535-44

(and L. R. Lease) “Deciduous and Permanent Dental Morphology in a European American Sample,” American Journal of Physical Anthropology 133 (2007): 726-34

(Edgar, E. A. Jolie, J. F. Powell, and J. E. Watkins) “Contextual Issues in Paleoindian Repatriation: Spirit Cave Man as a Case Study,” Journal of Social Archaeology 7 (2007): 101-22

(and P. W. Sciulli) “Comparative Human and Deer (Odocoileus virginianus) Taphonomy at the Richards Site, Ohio,” International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 16 (2006): 124-37

(D. Guatelli-Steinberg, P. W. Sciulli, and Edgar) “Dental fluctuating asymmetry in the Gullah: Tests of Hypotheses Regarding Developmental Stability in Deciduous vs. Permanent and Male vs. Female Teeth,” American Journal of Physical Anthropology 129 (2006): 427-34

“Prediction of Social Race Category Using Characteristics of Dental Morphology,” Journal of Forensic Sciences 50 (2005): 269-73

(and P. W. Sciulli) “Elongated Premolar: A New Morphological Variant,” Dental Anthropology Journal 17 (2004): 24-27


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