Curriculum Vitae: Shawn M
Curriculum Vitae: Susan Pfeiffer
April 2020
Personal Information
3
Professor Emeritus (July 1, 2018)
Department of Anthropology
University of Toronto
19 Russell Street
Toronto, Ontario M5S2S2 CANADA
E-mail: [email protected]
Education
1976Ph.D., Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto
Thesis Title: The Skeletal Biology of Archaic Populations of the
Great Lakes Region (Advisor: F.J. Melbye).
1972M.A., Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto
1968B.A. in Religion, University of Iowa
Professional Employment
07/2018--Professor EmeritusUniversity of Toronto
2000-2018Professor, AnthropologyUniversity of Toronto
2005-2009Vice-Provost, Graduate Education University of
Toronto
2004-2009Dean, School of Graduate Studies University of
Toronto
2003-2004 Vice-Dean, Grad Ed & Research, Faculty of Arts
& Science University of Toronto
2002 Acting Chair, AnthropologyUniversity of Toronto
1999-2000Associate Professor, AnthropologyUniversity of
Toronto
1983-1999Associate Professor, Human Biology & Nutritional
SciencesUniversity of Guelph
1992-1997Associate Dean, Faculty of Graduate StudiesUniversity
of Guelph
1995Acting Dean, Faculty of Graduate StudiesUniversity of
Guelph
1993Acting Dean, Faculty of Graduate StudiesUniversity of
Guelph
1995-1999Adjunct Professor, International Development
StudiesUniversity of Guelph
1983-1999 Associate Professor, Anthropology (part-time
cross-appointment)McMaster University
1977-1983Assistant Professor, Human BiologyUniversity of
Guelph
1977Assistant Professor, AnthropologyMcMaster University
1976Lecturer, AnthropologyWaterloo University
Honours
2019Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
– Anthropology Section
2018J.J. Berry Smith Doctoral Supervision Award, University of
Toronto
2018 Research Professor, Department of Anthropology, George
Washington University
2016J. Norman Emerson Medal, Ontario Archaeological
Association
2016Students’ Choice: Outstanding Anthropology Course
Instructor, Anthropology Students Association
2013Symposium, Canadian Association for Physical Anthropology,
UTSC, October 19, 2013:
Canadian Contributions to Biorchaeology in Honour of
Susan Pfeiffer
2004--Senior Fellow, Massey College, University of Toronto
2001University of Toronto Faculty of Arts and Science
Outstanding Teacher Award (Social
Sciences)
1995--Association of Southern African Professional
Archaeologists (ASAPA)
1988--Sigma Xi
1968-- Phi Beta Kappa
Current Professional Affiliations and Activities
2018--European Science Foundation, Community of Experts
2018--Research Professor, Center for the Advanced Study of Human
Paleobiology (CASHP), George Washington University, D.C., USA
2017-- Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR)
International Review Body
2016--European Research Council Panel Chair
2011-- Faculty Member, Archaeology Centre, University of
Toronto
1999--Honorary Research Associate, Department of Archaeology,
University of Cape Town
Prior Professional Affiliations and Activities
2017Expert panel, Social Sciences and Humanities, Research
Council of Lithuania
2017-2018Panel member, SSHRC 2017 Insight Development Grants:
Anthropology, Archaeology, and Linguistics
2014-2015European Research Council Panel Member
2014Speaker, Human Remains Workshop, Commonwealth Museums Assn.,
South Africa
2005-2014Research Council Member, Canadian Institute for
Advanced Research
Research Interests
As Chair of the Repatriation Committee, I played a central role
in the repatriation of the remains of over 1700 ancestors from
University of Toronto to the Huron-Wendat Nation, September 14,
2013. This relates directly to my continuing interest in:
· The relevance of information from the human skeleton to
heritage matters, and the establishment of sustained working
relationships with aboriginal peoples;
· Skeletal biology of past peoples, focusing on Southern African
Khoe-San and North American Lower Great Lakes past populations;
· Methods for deriving information about past lives from human
bone and tooth tissues, through microscopy and stable isotope
analyses.
External Research Grants – Sole Recipient, Recent Past
2012-2016SSHRC Insight Grant, Foraging adaptations among Later
Stone Age communities, Holocene South Africa, $268,200 total
2007-2010SSHRC, Variability in hunter-gatherer behaviour: the
Later Stone Age of Southern Africa, $78,000 total
2003-2006SSHRC, Habitat and adaptation among Holocene foragers
of southern Africa,$192,000 total
1999-2002 SSHRC, Behaviour and biology of early southern African
populations,$77,000 total
External Research Grants – Collaborator, Recent Past
2014Early herding and monumental architecture in the West
Turkana, Kenya
L. Hildebrand, PI
National Geographic Society, $35,000 US
2012Early herding and monumental architecture in the West
Turkana, Kenya
L. Hildebrand, PI
National Science Foundation, US; $151,732
Institutional Grants
2013Huron-Wendat Nation Repatriation: Celebrating the
Huron-Wendat Nation in Ontario: Exploring New Approaches
to Learn about the Past, September 12 - 14, 2013; Social Sciences
& Humanities Research Council, Exceptional Time-Sensitive
Opportunities. $35,222
2012SSHRC Institutional Grant, Conference Travel (SIG); $664
1999University of Toronto Connaught Fund, New Staff Start-up
Grant ; $10,000
Scholarly and Professional Work
Film
2015 Kalahari Reflections, with Michael Chazan.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgFhtIwbX0Y
Books
1977Pfeiffer, S. The Skeletal Biology of Archaic Populations of
the Great Lakes Region, National Museum of Man Mercury Series,
Number 64 National Museums of Canada, Ottawa.
Edited Books
2003Williamson, Ronald F., S. Pfeiffer, editors. Bones of the
Ancestors: The Archaeology
and Osteobiography of the Moatfield Site. Archaeological Survey
of Canada Mercury Series Paper 163. Canadian Museum of
Civilization: Ottawa.
2001Sawchuk, L., S. Pfeiffer, editors. Out of the Past: The
History of Human Osteology at
the University of Toronto. E-book published on website.
1991Pfeiffer, S. and R.F. Williamson, editors. Snake Hill: An
Investigation of a Military
Cemetery from the War of 1812. Toronto, Ontario: Dundurn
Press.
Chapters in Edited Books
SubmittedForrest, C., Williamson, R., Lesage, L., Pfeiffer, S.
Happiness of the Souls: the Return of Huron-Wendat Ancestors.
Learning from the Ancestors, C. Meloche, L. Spake, K. Nichols, eds.
Routledge Press.
2018Pfeiffer, S., & Harrington, L. Regional Continuity and
Local Challenges to Resilience among Holocene Hunter-Gatherers of
the Greater Cape Floristic Region, South Africa. In D. Temple &
C. Stojanowski (Eds.), Hunter-Gatherer Adaptation and Resilience: A
Bioarchaeological Perspective (Cambridge Studies in Biological and
Evolutionary Anthropology, pp. 26-46). Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press. doi:10.1017/9781316941256.002
2013Pfeiffer, S. 2013 Population dynamics in the Southern
African Holocene: Human burials from the West Coast. Chapter 8, pp.
143-154 in The Archaeology of the West Coast of South Africa,
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology No. 84, A. Jerardino,
A. Malan, D. Braun eds. BAR International Series 2526, UK:Oxford,
ISBN 978 1 4073 1144 9.
2012Pfeiffer, S., Pinto, D. Histological analyses of human bone
from archaeological contexts. Chapter 11. In: Bone Histology: An
Anthropological Perspective, Sam Stout and Christian Crowder, eds.,
pp. 297-311, Boca Raton: CRC Press.
2010Pfeiffer, S., Harrington, L. Child growth among southern
African foragers. In: Moffat, T. and Prowse, T. (eds.) Human Diet
and Nutrition in Biocultural Perspective, pp. 35-56, Biosocial Book
Series, Catherine Panter-Brick (ed.), Berghahn Press (Oxford and
New York).
2010Crowder, C., Pfeiffer, S. The application of cortical bone
histomorphometry to estimate age at death. In: Age Estimation from
the Human Skeleton. Editors: Krista E. Latham and Michael Finnegan.
Pp. 193-215. C.C.Thomas.
2010Pfeiffer, S. Cranial trauma as evidence of a stressful
period among southern African foragers. The Compleat Archaeologist:
Papers in Honor of Michael Spence, Chris Ellis, Neal Ferris, Peter
Timmins and Christine White, eds. London Chapter, Ontario
Archaeological Society (Occasional Paper No. 9) and Museum of
Ontario Archaeology joint publication, Chapter 11, pp. 259-271.
2007Pfeiffer, S. The Health of Foragers: People of the Later
Stone Age, Southern Africa. In: Ancient Health: Skeletal Indicators
of Agricultural and Economic Intensification, M.N. Cohen and G.
Crane-Kramer, eds., pp.223-236. University Press of Florida.
2006Pfeiffer, S. Cortical bone histology in juveniles.
Microscopic Examinations of Bioarchaeological Remains: Keeping a
close eye on ancient tissues. Documenta Archaeobiologiae Band 4, G.
Grupe and J. Peters, eds., Verlag Marie Leidorf GmbH:Rahden/Westf.
ISBN 3-89646-619-4.
2003Williamson, R.F., S. Pfeiffer. Studying the bones of the
ancestors. Bones of the Ancestors: The Archaeology and
Osteobiography of the Moatfield Site, R.F. Williamson and S.
Pfeiffer, eds., pp.5-18. Archaeological Survey of Canada Mercury
Series Paper 163. Canadian Museum of Civilization: Ottawa.
2003Williamson, R.F., A. Clish, G.R. Clark, S. Pfeiffer. The
archaeology of the Moatfield ossuary. Bones of the Ancestors: The
Archaeology and Osteobiography of the Moatfield Site. R.F.
Williamson and S. Pfeiffer, eds., pp. 133-162. Archaeological
Survey of Canada Mercury Series Paper 163. Canadian Museum of
Civilization: Ottawa.
2003Pfeiffer, S. Introduction to the osteobiographical analysis.
Bones of the Ancestors: The Archaeology and Osteobiography of the
Moatfield Site. R.F. Williamson and S. Pfeiffer, eds., pp. 163-170.
Archaeological Survey of Canada Mercury Series Paper 163. Canadian
Museum of Civilization: Ottawa.
2003Pfeiffer, S. The health of the Moatfield people as reflected
in palaeopathological features. Bones of the Ancestors: The
Archaeology and Osteobiography of the Moatfield Site. R.F.
Williamson and S. Pfeiffer, eds., pp. 189-204. Archaeological
Survey of Canada Mercury Series Paper 163. Canadian Museum of
Civilization: Ottawa.
2003van der Merwe, N.J., S. Pfeiffer, R.F. Williamson. The diet
of the Moatfield people. Bones of the Ancestors: The Archaeology
and Osteobiography of the Moatfield Site. R.F. Williamson and S.
Pfeiffer, eds., pp. 205-222. Archaeological Survey of Canada
Mercury Series Paper 163. Canadian Museum of Civilization:
Ottawa.
2003Crinnion, C., D.C. Merrett, S. Pfeiffer. The dentition of
the Moatfield people. Bones of the Ancestors: The Archaeology and
Osteobiography of the Moatfield Site. R.F. Williamson and S.
Pfeiffer, eds., pp. 223-240. Archaeological Survey of Canada
Mercury Series Paper 163. Canadian Museum of Civilization:
Ottawa.
2003Pfeiffer, S., R.F. Williamson. Summary and conclusions: What
we learned from studying the ancestors. Bones of the Ancestors: The
Archaeology and Osteobiography of the Moatfield Site. R.F.
Williamson and S. Pfeiffer, eds., pp. 333-348. Archaeological
Survey of Canada Mercury Series Paper 163. Canadian Museum of
Civilization: Ottawa.
2000Pfeiffer, S. Palaeohistology: Health and Disease. In:
Biological Anthropology of the Human Skeleton, M.A. Katzenberg and
S.R. Saunders, eds., pp. 281-296, Wiley-Liss, New York.
1999Miller, D., A. Hammell, C. White, S. Pfeiffer, N.J. van der
Merwe, P. Mitchell. 1999. South Africa’s informal mining industry:
connecting the present with the past. In: Issues and Responses:
Land Use and Planning in Eastern and Southern Africa, W. Caldwell,
ed., pp. 195-214. Environmental Capacity Enhancement Project
Environmental Roundtable Series, John Devlin, series editor,
University of Guelph, Canada. Weaver Press, Harare, Zimbabwe. ISBN
0 7974 2016 9.
1995Katzenberg, M.A., S. Pfeiffer. Nitrogen isotope evidence for
weaning age in a 19th century Canadian skeletal sample. In A.
Grauer (ed.) Bodies of Evidence: Reconstructing History through
Skeletal Analysis, pp. 221-236, Wiley-Liss, New York.
1994Pfeiffer, S., R.A. Lazenby. Low bone mass in past and
present aboriginal populations. Advances in Nutritional Research,
Vol. 9, H.H. Draper (ed.), pp. 35-51, Plenum Press.
1994Pfeiffer, S. , S.I. Fairgrieve. Evidence from ossuaries: the
effect of contact on the health of Iroquoians. In C.S. Larsen and
G. Milner (eds.) In the Wake of Contact: Biological Responses to
Conquest, pp. 47-61, A.R. Liss, New York.
1991Pfeiffer, S. Studying the bones: biological anthropology.
Chapter 5, pp. 163-166, in S. Pfeiffer and R.F. Williamson (eds.)
Snake Hill: An Investigation of a Military Cemetery from the War of
1812. Toronto, Ontario: Dundurn Press.
1991Pfeiffer, S. Estimation of age at death. Chapter 6, pp.
167-175, in S. Pfeiffer and R.F. Williamson (eds.) Snake Hill: An
Investigation of a Military Cemetery from the War of 1812. Toronto,
Ontario: Dundurn Press.
1991Williamson, R.F., S. Pfeiffer. Conclusions. Chapter 15, pp.
295-302, in S. Pfeiffer and R.F. Williamson (eds.) Snake Hill: An
Investigation of a Military Cemetery from the War of 1812. Toronto,
Ontario: Dundurn Press.
1991Pfeiffer, S. Is paleopathology a relevant predictor of
contemporary health patterns? Pp. 12-17 in D.J. Ortner and A.C.
Aufderheide, Human Paleopathology: Current Syntheses and Future
Options. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press.
1991Pfeiffer, S. Anthropology and physical activity. Chapter 12,
pp. 99-106 in C. Bouchard, B.D. McPherson and A.W. Taylor (eds.)
Physical Activity Sciences. Champaign, Illinois: Human Kinetics
Publishers.
1985Pfeiffer, S., R.D.G. Webb. Is farming good for you? Aspects
of farm health and safety. Pp. 241-254 Farming and the Rural
Community in Ontario: An Introduction, T. Fuller, ed., Toronto:
Foundation for Rural Living.
Chapters in Conference Proceedings
2012 Pfeiffer, S. Conditions for evolution of small adult body
size in Southern Africa. Human Biology and the origin of Homo.
Current Anthropology 53:S6:S383-S394, Editors: S. Antόn, L. Aiello.
Wenner-Gren Foundation Symposium
2008Pfeiffer, S. Canadian versus American doctoral completion
and time-to-degree comparisons. Global Perspectives on Graduate
Education: Proceedings of the Strategic Leaders Global Summit on
Graduate Education. Pp.12-14, Council of Graduate Schools:
Washington, D.C.
2004Pfeiffer, S. Tenacity and adaptation: The contribution of
skeletal evidence to heritage knowledge. Research for Khoe and San
Development International Conference, University of Botswana, 10-12
September 2003, K. Motshabi and S. Saugestad, eds, pp. 54-55,
University of Botswana and University of Tromso; ISBN
99912-560-8-3.
2003van der Merwe, N.J., S. Pfeiffer, R.F. Williamson, K.O.
Allegretto, S. Cox Thomas 2003 The Moatfield Ossuary: Isotopic
dietary analysis of an Iroquoian community, using dental tissue. In
symposium ”Pioneer in Paleodiet and the Radiocarbon Dating of Bone:
Papers in Honor of Hal Krueger,” 66th Annual meeting of the Society
for American Archeology, New Orleans, April 18-22, 2000;
Organizers/Guest Editors J. Krigbaum and S. Ambrose, Journal of
Anthropological Archaeology 22:245-261.
2000Pfeiffer, S., T. Varney. Quantifying histological and
chemical preservation in archaeological bone. Fourth Advanced
Paleodiet Seminar, Banff, 1994. Biogeochemical Approaches to
Paleodietary Analysis, S.H. Ambrose and M.A. Katzenberg, eds., pp.
141-158, Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers: New York.
1996Pfeiffer, S., R. Lazenby, F. Thackeray. Tuinplaas: Affinity
assessed from long bone cross-sectional geometry. Paper presented
at Four Million Years of Hominid Evolution in Africa: An
International Congress in Honour of Dr. Mary Douglas Leakey's
Outstanding Contribution in Palaeoanthropology, Arusha, Tanzania,
August, 1993, Kaupia 6:137-143.
1995Pfeiffer, S. An exploration of possible relationships
between structural and chemical decomposition of bone. Proceedings
of the I World Congress on Mummy Studies, Museo Arqueologico y
Etnografico doe Tenerife, Islas Canarias (Spain), 1992. ISBN
84-88594-01-1.
1993Whiteley, M.F., S. Pfeiffer, S. Austin, J.C. Dudar.
Archaeology, biology and history: research collaboration in the
Prospect Hill project. Canadian Methodist Historical Society
Papers, Vol. 9, N. Semple, ed. pp. 65-78, Toronto.
1987Pfeiffer, S. Dental modification and attrition, 1250 B.C. to
1050 A.D., in the Borno region of Nigeria. Proceedings of the 19th
Annual Chacmool Conference, University of Calgary, Nov. 7 9,
1986.
Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals
In pressPfeiffer, S., Sealy, J., Harrington, L., Loftus, E.,
Maggs, T. A Late Holocene community burial area: evidence of
diverse mortuary practices in the Western Cape, South Africa. PLOS
ONE. Accepted 03/04/2020.
2019Beresheim, A., Pfeiffer, S., Grynpas, M. Ontogenetic changes
to bone microstructure in human ribs. Journal of Anatomy.
236:3:448-462.
In revisionCameron, M.E., Pfeiffer, S., Stock, J. Small body
size phenotypes among Middle and Later Stone Age Southern Africans.
Journal of Human Evolution. 04/15/19.
2019Pfeiffer, S. , Cameron, M.E., Beresheim, A., Sealy, J. Diet
and adult age-at-death among mobile foragers: A synthesis of
bioarchaeological methods. American Journal of Physical
Anthropology 2019;1–17. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.23883
2019Sawchuk, E.A., Pfeiffer, S., Klehm, C.E., Cameron, M.E.,
Hill, A.C., Janzen, A., Grillo, K.M., Hildebrand, E.A. The
bioarchaeology of mid-Holocene pastoralist cemeteries west of Lake
Turkana, Kenya. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences
11:6221-6241.
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12520-019-00914-4.
2019Schell, L.M., Gallo, M., Pfeiffer, S., Lee, F., Garry, D.,
Yucel, R., Akwesasne Task Force on the Environment. Trends in
height, weight, BMI, skinfolds, and measures of overweight and
obesity from 1979 through 1999 among American Indian Youth: The
Akwesasne Mohawk. International Journal of Obesity. DOI:
10.1038/s41366-019-0349-5
2019Pfeiffer, S., Harrington, L., Lombard, M. The people behind
the samples: Biographical features of Past Hunter-Gatherers from
KwaZulu-Natal who yielded aDNA. International Journal of
Palaeopathology. 24:158-164.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpp.2018.10.008
2019 Beresheim, A., Pfeiffer, S., Grynpas, M.D., Alblas, A. Use
of Backscattered Scanning Electron Microscopy to Quantify the Bone
Tissues of Mid-Thoracic Human Ribs. American Journal of Physical
Anthropology. 168:262-278. DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.23716.
2019Cameron, M.E., Pfeiffer, S. An additional person from “Diaz
Street Midden,” Saldanha Bay, Western Cape. South African
Archaeological Bulletin. 73(208): 138-142.
2018Beresheim, A., Pfeiffer, S., Alblas, A. The influence of
body size and bone mass on cortical bone histomorphometry in human
ribs. Anatomical Record. 301:1788-1796. DOI: 10.1002/ar.23933
2018Hildebrand, E.A., Grillo, K.M.,
Sawchuk, E.A., Pfeiffer, S.K., Conyers, L.B.,
Goldstein, S.T., Hill, A.C., Janzen, A.,
Klehm, C.E., Helper, M., Kiura, P., Ndiema, E.,
Ngugi, C., Shea, J.J., and Wang, H. A monumental cemetery
built by eastern Africa’s first herders near Lake Turkana, Kenya. 6
pp. + Supporting Information. Proceedings of the National Academy
of Sciences, 2018; 201721975 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1721975115
2018 Beresheim AC, Pfeiffer SK, Grynpas MD, Alblas A.
Sex-specific patterns in cortical and trabecular bone
microstructure in the Kirsten Skeletal Collection, South Africa. Am
J Hum Biol. 2018;e23108. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajhb.23108
2017Vairamuthu, T., Pfeiffer, S. A juvenile with compromised
osteogenesis provides insights into past hunter-gatherer lives.
International Journal of Palaeopathology 20:1-9.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpp.2017.11.002
2017Pfeiffer, S., J.C. Sealy, R.F. Williamson, C. Forrest, L.
Lesage. Patterns of weaning among ancestral Huron-Wendat
communities, determined from nitrogen isotopes. American Antiquity
82:2: 244-261. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/aaq.2016.36
2016Pfeiffer, S., J.C. Sealy, R.F. Williamson, S. Needs-Howarth,
L. Lesage. Maize, fish and deer: Investigating dietary staples
among ancestral Huron-Wendat villages, as documented from tooth
samples. American Antiquity 81:3:515-532.
DOI: 10.7183/0002-7316.81.3.515
2016Pfeiffer, S., Heinrich, J., Beresheim, A., Alblas, M.
Cortical bone histomorphology of known-age skeletons from the
Kirsten Collection, Stellenbosch University, South Africa. American
Journal of Physical Anthropology 160:1:137-147. DOI:
10.1002/ajpa.22951
2016Pfeiffer, S. An Exploration of Interpersonal Violence among
Holocene Foragers of Southern Africa. International Journal of
Palaeopathology. 13:27-38.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpp.2016.01.001
2015 Orton, J., Halkett, D., Hart, T., Patrick, M., Pfeiffer, S.
An unusual pre-colonial burial from Bloubergstrand, Table Bay,
South Africa. South African Archaeological Bulletin
70(201):106-112.
2014Pfeiffer, S., Doyle, L.E., Kurki, H. K., Harrington, L.,
Ginter, J.K., Merritt, C.E. Discernment of Mortality Risk
associated with Childbirth in Archaeologically Derived Forager
Skeletons . International Journal of Palaeopathology, 7:15-24.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpp.2014.05.005
2014Pfeiffer, S., Lesage, L. The Repatriation of Wendat
Ancestors / Le rapatriement des ancêtres Wendat, 2013. Canadian
Journal of Archaeology, 38 :1-22.
2014Cameron, M. Pfeiffer, S. Later Stone Age foragers’ long bone
cross-sectional geometric properties compared: fynbos, forest and
lower Orange River Valley. South African Journal of Science, 110
(9/10): Art. #2013-0369, 11 pages. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/
sajs.2014/20130369.
.
2014Pfeiffer, S., Williamson, R.F., Sealy, J., Smith, D.G.,
Snow, M. Stable Isotopes and mtDNA from Woodland period southern
Ontario people: results from a tooth sampling protocol. Journal of
Archaeological Science 42:334-345.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2013.11.008
2013Willmon, R., Coqueugniot, H., Dutour, O., Holowka, S.,
Pfeiffer, S. 2013 Fibrous Dysplasia of the Temporal Bone: A case
from the Glen Williams Ossuary, Ontario, Canada. International
Journal of Palaeopathology 3:269-273.
2012Pfeiffer, S. Two Disparate Instances of Healed Cranial
Trauma from the Later Stone Age. South African Archaeological
Bulletin 67(196):256-261.
2012 Kurki, H.K., Pfeiffer, S., Stynder, D.D. Allometry of head
and body size in Holocene foragers of the South African Cape.
American Journal of Physical Anthropology 147:462–471.
2011Doyle, L.E., Lazenby, R.A., Pfeiffer, S. Cortical bone mass
and geometry: age, sex, and intraskeletal variation in
Nineteenth-Century Euro-Canadians. American Journal of Human
Biology 23:534-545.
2011Pfeiffer, S., Harrington, L. Bioarchaeological evidence for
the basis of small adult stature in southern Africa. Current
Anthropology, 52:3:449-461.
2011Pfeiffer, S. Pelvic stress injuries in a small-bodied
forager. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology. 21:694-703.
2010Dewar, G., Pfeiffer, S. Approaches to estimation of marine
protein in human collagen for radiocarbon date calibration.
Radiocarbon, 52:4:1611-1625.
2010Kurki, H.K., Ginter, J.K., Stock, J.T., Pfeiffer, S. Body
size estimation of small-bodied humans: Applicability of current
methods. American Journal of Physical Anthropology
141:2:169-180.
2009Pfeiffer, S. The incorporation of bioarchaeology into
KhoeSan studies. South African Archaeological Bulletin
64(190):193-196.
2008Harrington, L., Pfeiffer, S. Juvenile mortality in southern
African archaeological contexts. South African Archaeological
Bulletin 63 (188): 95-101.
2008Kurki, H.K., Ginter, J.K., Stock, J.T., Pfeiffer, S. Adult
proportionality in small-bodied foragers: a test of ecogeographic
expectations. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 136:1:
28-38.
2006Pfeiffer, S., Crowder, C., Harrington, L., Brown, M.
Secondary osteon and Haversian canal dimensions as behavioral
indicators. American Journal of Physical Anthropology
131:460-468
2006Clayton, F., Sealy, J., Pfeiffer, S. Weaning age among
foragers at Matjes River Rock Shelter, South Africa, from stable
nitrogen and carbon isotope analyses. American Journal of Physical
Anthropology 129:311-317.
2006Pfeiffer, S., Sealy, J. Body size among Holocene foragers of
the Cape Ecozone, Southern Africa. American Journal of Physical
Anthropology 129:1-11.
2005Stock, J.T., Pfeiffer, S.K., Chazan, M., Janteski, J. The
F-81 skeleton from Wadi Mataha, Jordan, and its bearing on human
variability in the Epipalaeolithic of the Levant. American Journal
of Physical Anthropology 128:453-465.
2004Stock, J.T., Pfeiffer, S. Long bone robusticity and
subsistence behavior among Later Stone Age foragers of the forest
and fynbos biomes of South Africa. Journal of Archaeological
Science. 31: 999-1013.
2004Pfeiffer, S., van der Merwe, N.J. Cranial injuries to Later
Stone Age children from the Modder River Mouth, Southwestern Cape,
South Africa. South African Archaeological Bulletin
59(180):59-65.
2004Dewar, G., Pfeiffer, S. 2004 Postural behavior of Later
Stone Age people in South Africa. South African Archaeological
Bulletin 59(180):52-58.
2004Pfeiffer, S., Crowder, C. An ill child among mid-Holocene
foragers. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 123:23-29.
2001Stock, J., Pfeiffer, S. Linking structural variability in
long bone diaphyses to habitual behaviors: foragers from the
southern African Later Stone Age and the Andaman Islands. American
Journal of Physical Anthropology, 115:4:337-348
2000Jerardino, A., Sealy, J., Pfeiffer, S. An infant burial from
Steenbokfontein Cave, West Coast, South Africa: its archaeological,
nutritional and anatomical context. South African Archaeological
Bulletin, 55:44-48.
2000Sealy, J., Pfeiffer, S., Yates, R., Willmore, K., Manhire,
A., Maggs, T., Lanham, J. Hunter-gatherer child burials from the
Pakhuis Mountains, Western Cape: growth, diet and burial practices
in the Late Holocene. South African Archaeological Bulletin,
55:32-43.
2000Sealy, J., Pfeiffer, S. Diet, body size and landscape use
among Holocene people in the Southern Cape, South Africa. Current
Anthropology 41:4:642-655.
2000Hammell, A. White, C., Pfeiffer, S., Miller, D. Pre-colonial
mining in southern Africa. Journal of the South African Institute
of Mining and Metallurgy (SAIMM), 100:49-56.
2000Merrett, D.C., Pfeiffer, S. Maxillary sinusitis as an
indicator of respiratory health in past populations. American
Journal of Physical Anthropology, 111:301-318.
1999Pratte, D.G., Pfeiffer, S. Histological age estimation of a
cadaveral sample of diverse origins. Journal of the Canadian
Society of Forensic Science, 32:155-168.
1999Pfeiffer, S., van der Merwe, N.J., Parkington, J.E., Yates,
R. 1999. Violent human death in the past: a case from the Western
Cape. South African Journal of Science 95:137-140.
1998Pfeiffer, S. Variability in osteon size in recent human
populations. American Journal of Physical Anthropology,
106:2:219-228.
1998Pfeiffer, S., Milne, S., Stevenson, R.M. The natural
decomposition of adipocere. Journal of Forensic Sciences
43:2:368-370.
1998Braun, M., Cook, D. C., Pfeiffer, S.. DNA from Mycobacterium
tuberculosis complex identified in North American, pre-Columbian
human skeletal remains. Journal of Archaeological Science
25:271-277.
1996Dupras, T.L., Pfeiffer, S. Determination of sex from adult
human ribs. Canadian Journal of Forensic Science 29:4:221-231.
1996Pfeiffer, S., Zehr, M. A morphological and histological
study of the human humerus from Border Cave. Journal of Human
Evolution 31:49-59.
1995Varney, T.L., Pfeiffer, S. The people of the Hind site.
Ontario Archaeology 59:92-104.
1995Pfeiffer, S., Lazenby, R., Chiang, J. Brief communication:
cortical remodeling data are affected by sampling location.
American Journal of Physical Anthropology 96:89-92.
1993Lazenby, R.A., Pfeiffer, S. Effects of a nineteenth century
below-knee amputation and prosthesis on femoral morphology.
International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 3:19-28.
1993Dudar, J.C., Pfeiffer, S., Saunders, S.R. Evaluation of
morphological and histological adult skeletal age-at-death
estimation techniques using ribs. Journal of Forensic Sciences
38:677-685.
1992Pfeiffer, S. Cortical bone age estimates from historically
known adults. Zeitschrift für Morphologie und Anthropologie
79:1-10.
1992Pfeiffer, S., Dudar, J.C., Austin, S. Prospect Hill:
Skeletal remains from a 19th century Methodist cemetery, Newmarket,
Ontario. Northeast Historical Archaeology 18(1989):29-48
(1989).
1991Pfeiffer, S. Rib lesions and New World Tuberculosis.
International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 1:191-198.
1990Pfeiffer, S. The evolution of human longevity: distinctive
mechanisms? Canadian Journal on Aging 9:2.
1989Kamibayashi, L., Pfeiffer, S., Hearn, T., Taves,C.,
Thomason, J.J., Binnington, A.G. Remodeling of cancellous and
cortical canine bone in response to decreased mechanical loading.
Veterinary and Comparative Orthopaedics and Traumatology
3:104-107.
1988Pfeiffer, S. Summary of Osceola Site skeletal remains. The
Wisconsin Archeologist 69:1-2:62-63.
1988Bradshaw, M.K., Pfeiffer, S. Feeding mode and anthropometric
changes in primiparas. Human Biology 60:2:251 261.
1987Moore, C.D., Pfeiffer, S. A cross longitudinal study of
physical fitness in Ontario dairy farmers, aged fifty years and
over. Canadian Journal on Aging 6:3: 201 210.
1986Pfeiffer, S. Prehistoric people of southern Ontario: an
introduction. Can. J. of Anthropology/Can. Review of Physical
Anthropology, 5:2:1-2.
1986Pfeiffer, S., Stewart, K., Alex, C. Growth arrest lines
among Uxbridge Ossuary Juveniles. Ontario Archaeology 46:27 31.
1986Pfeiffer, S. Morbidity and mortality in the Uxbridge
Ossuary. Can. J. of Anthropology/Can. Review of Physical
Anthropology, 5:2:23-31.
1985Pfeiffer, S., Katzenberg, M.A., Kelley, M.A. Congenital
abnormalities in a prehistoric Iroquoian village: The Uxbridge
Ossuary. Can. J. of Anthropology/Can. Review of Physical
Anthropology, 4:2: 83 92.
1985Pfeiffer, S. Comparison of adult age estimates, using an
ossuary sample. Can. J. of Anthropology/Can. Review of Phys.
Anthropology, 4:2: 13 18.
1985Pfeiffer, S. Paleopathology of Archaic peoples of the Great
Lakes. Can. J. of Anthropology/Can. Review of Physical
Anthropology, 4:2: 1 8.
1984Pfeiffer, S. Paleopathology in an Iroquoian Ossuary, with
special reference to tuberculosis. American Journal of Physical
Anthropology, 65:2:181 189.
1984Pfeiffer, S., Graham, T.E., Webb, R.D.G., Wilson, B.A.,
Rivington Moss, E.G., Fisher Ingram, L. Aspects of physical fitness
and health in Ontario dairy farmers. Canadian Journal of Public
Health, 75:3:204 211.
1984Gallow, D., Graham, T.E., Pfeiffer, S. Comparative
thermoregulatory responses to acute cold in women of Asian and
European descent. Human Biology, 56: 1: 19 34.
1983Pfeiffer, S. Demographic parameters of the Uxbridge Ossuary
population. Ontario Archaeology, 40: 9 14.
1983Katzenberg, M.A., Kelley, M.A., Pfeiffer,S. Hereditary
multiple exostoses in an individual from a Southern Ontario
Iroquois population. Ossa, 8: 109 114.
1983Pfeiffer, S., King, P. Cortical bone formation and diet
among protohistoric Iroquoians. American Journal of Physical
Anthropology, 60: 23 28.
1982Pfeiffer, S., Dibblee, L. The effect of urbanization on the
growth of Canadian native children. Canadian Journal of
Anthropology, 2:2:217-224.
1980Pfeiffer, S. Bone remodeling age estimates compared with
estimates obtained by other techniques. Current Anthropology,
21:6:793.
1980Pfeiffer, S. Spatial distribution of human skeletal material
within an Iroquoian ossuary. Canadian Journal of Archaeology,
4:169-172.
1980Pfeiffer, S. Age changes in the external dimensions of adult
bone. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 52:529-532.
1979Pfeiffer, S. Assignment of sex to adult femora from an
ossuary population. Canadian Review of Physical Anthropology,
1:2:55-65.
1979Pfeiffer, S. Archaic population affinities as determined by
analysis of cranial morphology. Ontario Archaeology. 32:35-41.
1978Pfeiffer, S. The relationship of buccal pits to caries
formation and tooth loss. American Journal of Physical
Anthropology, 50:1:35-38.
1974Pfeiffer, S. Analysis of Cremations from Two Late Archaic
Burial Sites: Riverside and Hind. The Wisconsin Archeologist.
55:4:302.
Non-Refereed Publications
2019Pfeiffer, S. Southern Africans Address Human Remains
Management. Evolutionary Anthropology News; 28:4:164-165.
2019Pfeiffer, S. Southern African past foragers: weaving strands
of evidence. The Digging Stick, 36:1:1-4. ISSN 1013-7521.
2008Pfeiffer, S. Comment to Diet, Tuberculosis, and the
Paleopathological Record (A. K. Wilbur, A. W. Farnbach, K. J.
Knudson, and J. E. Buikstra). Current Anthropology 49:6:963-991;
comment on pg. 981.
1983Katzenberg, M.A., Kelley, M.A., Pfeiffer, S. Hereditary
multiple exostoses in an individual from a Southern Ontario
Iroquois population. Paleopathology Newsletter, 42: 8.
1982Pfeiffer, S. Occupation and Health: a study of dairy
farmers. Rural Outreach, 6:2, Rural Development Outreach Project,
University of Guelph.
1981Pfeiffer, S. Reply to Martin, Goodman, Armelagos, On the use
of micro-structural bone for age determination. Current
Anthropology, 22:4:437.
1980Pfeiffer, S. Why bother with burials? Newsletter of the
Museum of Indian Archaeology, University of Western Ontario.
2:1.
1978Pfeiffer, S. Invited comment to Szathmary and Ossenberg. Are
the biological differences between North American Indians and
Eskimos truly profound? Current Anthropology, 19:4:691.
1978Pfeiffer, S. Appendix A: Report on skeletal material from
the Liahn II Site. In: Williamson, R.F. Report on Investigations of
the Early Woodland Liahn II Site (AcHo-2) and Test Excavations at
the Peterkin Site (AcHo-9), Mitchell’s Bay, Ontario. Museum of
Indian Archaeology at the University of Western Ontario Research
Report No. 8. Pp. 138-146.
1978 Pfeiffer, S. Appendix A: Report on skeletal material from
the Peterkin Site. In: Williamson, R.F. Report on Investigations of
the Early Woodland Liahn II Site (AcHo-2) and Test Excavations at
the Peterkin Site (AcHo-9), Mitchell’s Bay, Ontario. Museum of
Indian Archaeology at the University of Western Ontario Research
Report No. 8.Pp. 138-147-162.
Book Reviews
2018Pfeiffer, S. Review of Engaging with the Dead: Exploring
Changing Human Beliefs about Death, Mortality and the Human Body.
Jennie Bradbury and Chris Scarre, eds., Oxford: Oxbow Books 2018.
Archaeological Review from Cambridge 33.2:138-140.
2009Pfeiffer, S. Review of Past Bodies: body centred research in
archaeology. Dušan Borić and John Robb, eds., Oxford: Oxbow Books,
2008. Journal of Archaeological Science 36:1655.
2007Pfeiffer, S. Review of The Evolution of Modern Humans in
Africa: A Comprehensive Guide, by P.R. Willoughby. Lanham, MD: Alta
Mira Press, 2007. Canadian Journal of Archaeology,
31(2):278-279.
2006Howell, N., Pfeiffer, S. Review of Sexual Revolutions:
Gender and Labor at the Dawn of Agriculture, by J.Peterson, Walnut
Creek, CA: AltaMira Press, 2002, Journal of Comparative Family
Studies, 37:3:492-493.
2006Pfeiffer, S. Review of: The Bioarchaeology of Tuberculosis:
A global view on a reemerging disease. Charlotte A. Roberts and
Jane E. Buikstra. University Press of Florida, 2003. Economics and
Human Biology, 4:433-434.
2003Pfeiffer, S. Review of: Paleodemography: Age Distributions
from Skeletal Samples, edited by Robert D. Hoppa and James W.
Vaupel. Cambridge Series in Biological and Evolutionary
Anthropology, Cambridge University Press, 2002. American Antiquity
68:410-411.
1996Pfeiffer, S., Leonard, W.R. Review of Why We Get Sick by
R.M. Nesse and G.C. Williams, Disease and Social Diversity by S.J.
Kunitz, Aboriginal Health in Canada by J.B. Waldram, D.A. Herring,
T.K. Young. American Journal of Physical Anthropology
101:443-444..
1991Pfeiffer, S. Review of Piltdown: A Scientific Forgery by F.
Spencer, 1990, and The Piltdown Papers 1908-1955 by F. Spencer,
1990, Queens Quarterly 99:3:735-737.
1990Pfeiffer, S. Review of Health and the Rise of Civilization
by M.N. Cohen, 1989, in American Journal of Physical Anthropology
82:3:401-402.
1989Pfeiffer, S., Mahaney, M.C. Review of Assessing the Skeletal
Maturity of the Hand-wrist: Fells Method by A.F. Roche, W.C.
Chumlea and D. Thissen, 1988, in American Journal of Physical
Anthropology. 80:2:260-261.
1987Pfeiffer, S. Review of Female Strategies by E. Shaw and J.
Darling, 1986, in Human Biology. 59:2:380382.
1981Pfeiffer, S. Review of Biological Principles with Human
Perspectives by G.E. Nelson, 1980. In American Journal of Physical
Anthropology, 56:1:96.
Published Abstracts and Conference Presentations
2018Pfeiffer, S., Harrington, L., Sealy, J. An unusual group
burial from the late Holocene, South African Cape Coast. Canadian
Association for Physical Anthropology, London, ON., Nov 1.
2018Pfeiffer, S., Harrington, L., Lombard, M. The people behind
the samples: Biographical features of Natal Later Stone Age
skeletons that yielded aDNA. Society of Africanist Archaeologists,
Toronto, June, 2018.
2018Hildebrand, E., K. Grillo, E. Sawchuk, A. Janzen, S.
Goldstein, S. Pfeiffer. Monuments on a moving frontier: Pillar
sites as fixed landmarks in a dynamic landscape around Lake
Turkana, Kenya. Society of Africanist Archaeologists, Toronto,
June, 2018.
2018Hildebrand, E., K. Grillo, A. Janzen, S. Pfeiffer, E.
Sawchuk 2018. Ritual sites as anchors in a dynamic
landscape: The social and economic importance of monumental
cemeteries built by eastern Africa’s earliest herders. Society of
American Archaeologists, DC.
2018Pfeiffer, S., Cameron, M.E., Sealy, J., Beresheim, A.
Dietary sufficiency and bone histomorphometry assessed in rib
tissue of Later Stone Age southern African foragers. American
Association of Physical Anthropologists, Austin, TX, April,
2018.
2018Beresheim, A.C., Pfeiffer, S., Grynpas, M.D., Alblas, A. Use
of back-scattered scanning electron microscopy to quantify bone
tissue characteristics in mid-thoracic human ribs. American
Association of Physical Anthropologists, Austin, TX, April,
2018.
2017Pfeiffer, S., Cameron, M.E., Stock, J. Unique body size and
shape phenotypes among Middle and Later Stone Age southern
Africans. Canadian Association for Physical Anthropology, Edmonton,
October 30, 2017.
2017Cameron, M.E., Pfeiffer, S., Stock, J.T. Small body size
phenotypes among Middle and Later Stone Age southern Africans.
European Society for Human Evolution, September 23, 2017,
Leiden.
2017Harrington, L., Pfeiffer, S. Are enamel defects “stress”
markers? Indicators of growth disruption among non-surviving
hunter-gatherer children from coastal South Africa. IoA Stressed
Out Conference, UCL Institute of Archaeology, May19-20, 2017.
2017Vairamuthu, T., Pfeiffer, S. A Forager Child with
Compromised Health and Mobility from the Late Archaic, Southwestern
Ontario. Palaeopathology Association, New Orleans, April 17-19,
2017.
2017Pfeiffer, S., Judith C. Sealy, Ronald F. Williamson, Crystal
Forrest, Louis Lesage Patterns of weaning and childhood diets among
ancestral Huron-Wendat communities, determined from stable isotopes
of teeth. Symposium, Breastfeeding and Weaning Practices in Ancient
Populations: A cross-cultural view SAA Annual Meetings, Vancouver,
March 27-April 2.
2016Pfeiffer, S. New Discoveries about the Lives of Huron-Wendat
Ancestors, 2016. CAPA Annual Meetings, Peterborough, Oct 27-30.
2016Pfeiffer, S. Candidates for ‘catalysts of change’: Holocene
millennia of hunting and gathering along the coasts of Southern
Africa. Society of Africanist Archaeologists, 23rd Biennial
Meeting, Toulouse, France, June 27- July 1.
2016Harrington, L., Pfeiffer, S. Developmental variation in
perikymata expression in co-interred child foragers. Symposium:
Early-life stress in the past: bioarchaeological approaches to the
evolution and ecology of human life history. American Journal of
Physical Anthropology 159:S62:168.
2016Beresheim, A., Pfeiffer, S., Heinrich, J., Alblas, M. Age
assessment of adolescent and young adult skeletons from the Kirsten
Collection, Stellenbosch University, South Africa. (podium) 44th
Annual Anatomical Society of Southern Africa (ASSA) Conference 8 –
11 May 2016
Bloemfontein, Free State, South Africa.
2015Pfeiffer, S. New discoveries about the lives of Wendat
ancestors. Joint meeting of Eastern States Archaeological
Association and Ontario Archaeological Society, Midland, Ontario,
October 16-18.
2015Pfeiffer, S., Sealy, J.C., Williamson, R.F. Temporal Trends
in Reliance on Maize among Ancestral Huron-Wendat Villages, as
reflected in δ13C from Human Enamel. SAA Annual Meetings, San
Francisco, April 18, 2015.
2015Vairamuthu, T., Pfeiffer, S. Pleural surface rib lesions in
a South African cadaver-derived skeletal sample. 42th Annual
Meeting of the Paleopathology Association, St. Louis, Missouri,
March 24-25, 2015
2014Sawchuk, E., Pfeiffer, S. A ‘mortuary tradition’ around Lake
Turkana during the Middle Holocene? Perspectives from newly
excavated human remains. PanAfrican Archaeological
Association/Society for Africanist Archaeology, joint meeting,
University of Witwatersrand, July 14-18, 2014.
2014Cameron, M., Pfeiffer, S. Later Stone Age foragers’ long
bone cross-sectional geometric properties compared: fynbos, forest
and lower Orange River Valley. PanAfrican Archaeological
Association/Society for Africanist Archaeology, joint meeting,
University of Witwatersrand, July 14-18, 2014.
2014Sawchuk, E., S. Pfeiffer. Mid-Holocene population dynamics
in eastern Africa: new dental evidence from megalithic “pillar
sites” west of Lake Turkana, NW Kenya. American Association of
Physical Anthropologists, Calgary, Alberta, April 9-12. American
Journal of Physical Anthropology S58:230.
2014Pfeiffer, S., Sawchuk, E. Funerary Practices in the West
Turkana Pillar Sites: Evidence from the Burials. Invited
contribution to: New Holocene Research in the Turkana Basin, Kenya:
Population Change, Subsistence, and Ceremony, K. Grillo, chair; SAA
79th Annual Meeting at Austin, TX, April 23-27.
2014Cameron, M., Pfeiffer, S. Later Stone Age foragers’ long
bone cross-sectional geometric properties compared: fynbos, forest
and lower Orange River Valley. Canadian Association for Physical
Anthropology, University of Toronto at Scarborough, October
17-20.
2013Pfeiffer, S., R. Williamson, J. Sealy, C. Forrest.
Environmental isotopes indicate interactions among Iroquoians.
“Trading Spaces: The Archaeology of Interaction, Migration and
Exchange” Chacmool Conference, University of Calgary, Alberta,
Canada, November 7-9.
2013Harrington, L., Hopper, C., Pfeiffer, S. Three short lives:
the shared experiences of the Modder River children recorded in
enamel. Canadian Association for Physical Anthropology, University
of Toronto at Scarborough, October 17-20.
2013Hildebrand, E., K. Grillo, A. Janzen, S. Pfeiffer, S.
Pilliard, E. Sawchuk, and J. Shea. Early monumental architecture in
northwest Kenya: new perspectives from pillar sites west of Lake
Turkana. Paper for the 4th annual conference of the East African
Association for Palaeoanthropology and Palaeontology, Mombasa,
Kenya July 28-August 2.
2013Pfeiffer, S. Cranial trauma patterns among Holocene foragers
– intentional and accidental causes. Special session in honor of
Dr. Donald Ortner, podium. 40th Annual meeting, Paleopathology
Association, Knoxville, Tennessee, April 8-10.
2012Pfeiffer, S. Paleodemographic features of South African
forager skeletal collections. 40th Annual meeting, Canadian
Association for Physical Anthropology, Victoria, British Columbia.,
Nov 7-10.
2012 Morris, A. G., Pfeiffer, S. A Revised Catalogue of Holocene
Human Skeletons from South Africa. Society of Africanist
Archaeologists, 21st Biennial Meeting, Toronto, Ontario, June
20-23.
2012Pfeiffer, S. On Beyond Diet: New knowledge about Holocene
foragers of southern Africa. Society of Africanist Archaeologists,
21st Biennial Meeting, Toronto, Ontario, June 20-23.
2012Wilmore, R., Dutour, O., Coqueugnoit, H., Pfeiffer, S.,
Holowka, S. Fibrous Dysplasia of the temporal bone: a case from the
Glen Williams Ossuary, Ontario, Canada. 39tH Annual Meeting of the
Palaeopathology Association, Portland, Oregon, April 10-12.
2012Pfeiffer, S., O. Dutour Tuberculous skeletal lesions among
Pre-Contact Longhouse People of the North American Great Lakes.
Invited Paper, Tuberculosis Evolution Meeting held in Szeged,
Hungary, March 22-25.
2011Pfeiffer, S. Ecological and behavioral correlates of small
adult body size in Holocene
southern Africa. AAA Symposium, November, Montreal.
2011Pfeiffer, S. Conditions for evolution of small adult body
size in southern Africa. Wenner-Gren Symposium 143, “Human Biology
and the Origins of Homo”, March 4-11, Sintra, Portugal.
2011Kurki, H., Pfeiffer, S., Stynder, D. Allometry of head and
body size in Holocene forgers of the South African Cape (Abstract).
American Journal of Physical Anthropology S52:193-194.
2010Pfeiffer, S. Diversity in Later Stone Age burial practices,
South Africa. 13th Congress of the Panafrican Archaeological
Association for Prehistory and Related Studies/ 20th Meeting of the
Society of Africanist Archaeologists, Dakar, Senegal, 1-7
November.
2010Pfeiffer, S. Holocene population dynamics on the southwest
coast of Africa. CIFAR Workshop on Human-Environment Interactions
in Long Term Perspective, Vancouver, BC, 13-14 October.
2010Pfeiffer, S. Pubic symphysis stress injury in a small bodied
Holocene coastal forager, South Africa. Palaeopathology Association
North American Meeting, Albuquerque, N.M.,13-14 April.
2010Doyle, E., Pfeiffer, S., Lazenby, R.A. Adult cortical mass
and mechanical strength: a study of the femur and second metacarpal
in nineteenth century European Canadians. Palaeopathology
Association North American Meeting, Albuquerque, N.M., 13-14
April.
2009Pfeiffer, S., Sealy, J.C. Regional patterns among Holocene
hunter-gatherers of southern Africa. American Journal of Physical
Anthropology S48:210.
2009Hutcheson, A., Williamson, R.F., Forrest, C., Pfeiffer, S.,
Du Tour, O. An early 20th century man with advanced tertiary
syphilis. Palaeopathology Association North American Meeting,
Chicago, Illinois, March 31 to April 1.
2008Pfeiffer, S, Harrington, L. Indicators of childhood health
among foragers and agriculturists of southern Africa. Symposium: A
Celebration of Shelley R. Saunders’ Contribution to Physical
Anthropology, Canadian Association for Physical Anthropology,
Hamilton, Ontario, 5-8 November.
2008Pfeiffer, S. Harrington, L. Indicators of childhood health
among foragers and agriculturists of southern Africa (abstract)
Nyame Akuma: Bulletin of the Society of Africanist Archaeologists,
70:126.
2008Dewar, G., Pfeiffer, S. Calibration of radiocarbon dates
from human skeletons that reflect marine food intake: a comparison
of methods (abstract). Nyame Akuma: Bulletin of the Society of
Africanist Archaeologists 70:126.
2008Crowder, C.M., Pfeiffer, S. Bone Histomorphometry:
Validating methods of age estimation. American Journal of Physical
Anthropology S45.
2008Kurki, H., Ginter, J., Stock, J., Pfeiffer, S. Estimating
adult body mass and stature in a morphologically unique Later Stone
Age sample from southern Africa. Canadian Association for Physical
Anthropology, November 15-17, Banff, Alberta.
2007Harrington, L., Pfeiffer, S. Linear diaphyseal growth in
southern African forager children. American Journal of Physical
Anthropology S44:12-126.
2007Kurki, H., Ginter, J., Stock, J., Pfeiffer, S. Body size
reconstruction in a small-bodied sample: applicability of current
methods. American Journal of Physical Anthropology S44: 149.
2006 Pfeiffer, S. Cranial trauma as evidence of a stressful
period among southern African foragers. Symposium honouring Prof.
M. Spence, OAS Symposium, October, 2006, Ontario Archaeological
Society.
2006Kurki, H., Ginter, J., Pfeiffer, S. Ecogeographic attributes
of small-bodied direct return foragers from southern Africa.
Canadian Association for Physical Anthropology, October 25-28,
Peterborough, ON.
2006Pfeiffer, S. Palaeopathology and archaeology: convergence in
the study of Holocene South African foragers. Annual OAS Symposium,
Oct 27-29, London, ON.
2006Pfeiffer, S. Behavioral reconstruction of Holocene foragers
provides anthropological and heritage insights. Society of
Africanist Archaeologists, biennial meeting, Calgary, Alberta,
23-26 June, 2006.
2006Pfeiffer, S. The contribution of human skeletal evidence to
heritage knowledge. Association of Southern African Professional
Archaeologists, biennial meeting, Pretoria, South Africa, 9-13
April, 2006.
2005Pfeiffer, S. Bone microstructure and osteobiography.
Gesellschaft für Anthropologie e.V., Kongress “Facetten der
modernen Anthropologie,” München, Deutschland, 13-16 September
2005.
2005Pfeiffer, S. Southern Later Stone Age Skeletons and the
Kalahari Model. 12th Congress of the Pan African Archaeological
Association for Prehistory and Related Studies, Gaborone, Botswana,
03-10 July, 2005.
2004 Pfeiffer, S. Skeletal and dental indicators of foraging
among Holocene people of southern Africa. Invited presentation to
16th International Congress of the International Federation of
Associations of Anatomists (IFAA), Kyoto, Japan.
2003Pfeiffer, S. Tenacity and adaptation: The contribution of
skeletal evidence to heritage knowledge. Research for Khoe and San
Development International Conference, University of Botswana, 10-12
September 2003.
2003 Henderson, H., Dewar, G., Ginter. J., Shook, B., Pfeiffer,
S. Analysis of a Western Basin Tradition Burial Site on the Detroit
River. Annual OAS Symposium, Oct. 25, Orillia.
2003 Williamson, R.F., Pfeiffer, S. The archaeology and
osteobiography of the Moatfield ossuary. Annual OAS Symposium, Oct.
25, Orillia.
2003Pfeiffer, S. Tenacity and adaptation: The contribution of
skeletal evidence to heritage knowledge. Research for Khoe and San
Development, University of Botswana, September 10-12, 2003.
2003 Pfeiffer, S. Variation in burial patterns from Southwestern
Ontario, from foraging times to historic times. Canadian
Archaeological Association, 36th Annual Conference, Hamilton, May
7-10.
2003 Pfeiffer, S., Rix, E., Kurki, H. Correspondence among
different methods of estimating age at death from adult skeletal
remains. Canadian Society of Forensic Science Journal, 36:51.
2002Pfeiffer, S. Juvenile mortality and morbidity among Holocene
foragers of southern Africa. Nyame Akuma 57:67.
2002Pfeiffer, S. and Stock, J. Upper limb morphology and the
division of labor among southern African Holocene foragers.
American Journal of Physical Anthropology S34:124.
2002Chazan, M., Janetski, J., Pfeiffer, S., and Stock, J.
Epipaleolithic burial practices in light of discoveries at Wadi
Mataha, Jordan. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the
Society for American Archaeology, Denver, Colorado.
2001Pfeiffer, S. Small adult size among Southern African
foragers: A case of stabilizing natural selection? Presented at the
29th Annual Meetings of the Canadian Association for Physical
Anthropology, Winnipeg, Oct. 25-27.
2001Stock, J., Pfeiffer, S. Mammalian size abundance
relationships and natural selection in South Africa during the
Upper Pleistocene. Paper presented at SASQUA, Saldanha, South
Africa, July 9-11, 2001.
2001Pfeiffer, S. Patterns of skeletal trauma during the Holocene
Later Stone Age, Southern Africa. Paper presented at the
Pan-African Congress of Prehistory, Bamako, Mali, February
2001.
2000Pfeiffer, S. Stock, J., Chazan, M., Katzmarzyk, C.,Janetski,
J.An intriguing skeleton from the Natufian/Kebaran period, Petra,
Jordan. Paper presented at the meetings of the Canadian Association
for Physical Anthropology, Burlington, Ontario, October, 2000.
2000Pfeiffer, S. Learning about the ancestors, expeditiously:
the Moatfield project. Paper presented at 33rd Annual Meetings,
Canadian Archaeological Association, Ottawa, May 3-7.
2000Pfeiffer, S., Dixon, L. The histological development of
cortical bone in juveniles from Spitalfields, a known-age sample.
American Journal of Physical Anthropology S30:249-250.
1999Pfeiffer, S. Adaptation of early southern African humans:
post-cranial evidence. Paper presented at INQUA, XV International
Congress, 3-11 August, Durban, South Africa.
1998Pfeiffer, S., J. Sealy. Exploring the link between diet and
body size in Holocene hunter-gatherers. Canadian Association for
Physical Anthropology, 26th Annual meeting, Calgary, Alberta, Nov.
4-8.
1998Pfeiffer, S. Change and stasis in southern African MSA and
LSA populations. Paper presented at the Dual Congress of Human
Paleontology and Human Biology, Sun City, South Africa, June
28-July 4.
1998Stock, J., Pfeiffer, S. Structural variability in the long
bone diaphyses of small-bodied hunter-gatherers. Paper presented at
the Dual Congress of Human Paleontology and Human Biology, Sun
City, South Africa, June 28-July 4.
1998Pfeiffer, S., Sealy, J. Reconstructing aspects of behavior
of Later Stone Age people, southern Cape, through osteobiographic
analysis. Paper presented at the Southern African Association of
Archaeologists, Thohoyandou, South Africa, July 5-11.
1998Stock, J., Pfeiffer, S. Behavioral implications of LSA long
bone morphology. Paper presented at the Southern African
Association of Archaeologists, Thohoyandou, South Africa, July
5-11.
1998van der Merwe, N. J., Pfeiffer, S. Parkington, J., Yates, R.
Homicide in the Later Stone Age. Paper presented at the Southern
African Association of Archaeologists, Thohoyandou, South Africa,
July 5-11.
1998Merrett, D., Pfeiffer , S. Sinusitis among Iroquoian
horticulturists. Paper presented at Third International Congress of
Mummy Studies, Arica, Chile, May 18 -22, 1998.
1998Pfeiffer, S., Sealy, J. Reconstructing diet and behavior of
Later Stone Age people of the Southern Cape, South Africa. Nyame
Akuma 50:56-57.
1998Pfeiffer, S. Klasies River Mouth post-cranial comparisons.
Journal of Human Evolution, 34:A17.
1998Stock, J., Pfeiffer, S. Allometric variability in the
cross-sectional properties of the human femoral midshaft. American
Journal of Physical Anthropology 26S:210.
1997Sealy, J., Pfeiffer, S. A study of Holocene Later Stone Age
people along the southern Cape coast of South Africa: diet, anatomy
and settlement patterns. Paper presented at the 5th Palaeodietary
Seminar, Valbonne, France, Sept 1-5.
1995Pfeiffer, S. Reconstruction of life characteristics from MSA
human skeletal remains. 10th Congress of the Pan African
Association for Prehistory and Related Studies, p. 3. Harare,
Zimbabwe, June, 1995.
1995Varney, T.L., Pfeiffer, S. Assessment of the relationship
between “collagen” integrity and histological preservation in bone
derived from an archaeological context. American Journal of
Physical Anthropology 20S:215.
1995Pfeiffer, S., Zehr, M. Variability and correlations of
osteon size in modern humans. American Journal of Physical
Anthropology 20S:170-171.
1993Katzenberg, M.A., Pfeiffer, S. Nitrogen isotope evidence for
weaning age in a 19th century Canadian skeletal sample. American
Journal of Physical Anthropology. S16:122.
1992Pfeiffer, S., Lazenby, R.,Saunders, S.R. (Dis)continuities
in cortical bone dynamics within H. sapiens demonstrated in femoral
diaphyses. Third International Congress on Human Paleontology,
Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society Suppl. 1:95.
1992Lazenby, R.A., Pfeiffer, S., Bertini, D. Immature cortical
bone response to exercise training. Annual Meeting of the Clinical
Research Society of Toronto, April 11, 1992, p. 30.
1992Pfeiffer, S., Fairgrieve, S.I. Evidence from ossuaries: the
effect of contact on the health of Iroquoians. American Journal of
Physical Anthropology. Suppl. 14:131.
1991Pfeiffer, S. Introductory remarks. (Symposium on Physical
Activity and Human Biology) American Journal of Human Biology.
3:1:70.
1990Pfeiffer, S., Taves, C., VanVliet, D. The influence of
moderate biomechanical load reduction on cortical bone remodeling.
American Journal of Physical Anthropology 81:2:280-281.
1990Pfeiffer, S., Taves, C., VanVliet, D. Skeletal robusticity:
a behavioral indicator and/or taxonomic discriminator? Newsletter,
Canadian Association for Physical Anthropology, spring 1990. Paper
delivered to CAPA, Vancouver, 1989.
1990McKinnon, M.J., Pfeiffer, S., Taves, C., Molloy D.W. Gait
changes characteristic of individuals diagnosed as having senile
dementia of the Alzheimer type. Neurobiology of Aging
11(3):259-260.
1989Pfeiffer, S. Using historic materials to solve basic
research problems: bone decomposition at Snake Hill. Paper
delivered to Ont. Archaeological Assn. symposium, London, 1989.
1989Pfeiffer, S. Estimation of age at death from skeletal
indicators in "Research at Snake Hill: A War of 1812 Cemetery"
Symposium organized by S. Pfeiffer and M.S. Micozzi, Northeastern
Anthropological Assn. 15-19 March, 1989. Abstracts published in
special edition of NEA Newsletter.
1989Pfeiffer, S. Characterization of archaeological bone
decomposition in a sample of known length of interment American
Journal of Physical Anthropology 78:2:283.
1988Pfeiffer, S., Kamibayashi, L., Taves, C. Correlation of
trabecular bone density with weight bearing using video image
analysis. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 75:2:256.
1988Pfeiffer, S. The estimation of age at death among soldiers
from the War of 1812. Journal of the Canadian Society of Forensic
Science 21:4:191.
1988Pfeiffer, S. Estimation of age at death from auricular
surface changes Canadian Association for Physical Anthropology
Newsletter, spring 1989.
1988Pfeiffer, S. Is paleopathology a relevant predictor of
contemporary health patterns? Collegium Antropologicum 12,
suppl:341.
1987Pfeiffer, S., McKee, L., Stewart, K. A study of the
functional effects of an exercise program on retirement home
participants. Canadian Association on Gerontology, a Newsletter
Special Edition, 14:A4.
1986Pfeiffer, S. Cortical bone age estimates from historically
known individuals American Journal of Physical Anthropology 69:2:
251.
1985Moore, C., Pfeiffer, S. An application of the Standardized
Test of Fitness in a longitudinal study of aged farmers Canadian
Association on Gerontology, Program and Abstracts, Vol. 2.
1985Pfeiffer, S. Tuberculosis among the Ontario Iroquois.
Paleopathology Club Newsletter 22:5. Paper delivered to
International Academy of Pathology, Toronto.
1985Pfeiffer, S. Changes in the chemical composition of bone
following burial Canadian Journal of Anthropology, supplement to
4:2: 55. Paper delivered to Can. Assn. for Phys. Anth., Edmonton
1984.
1985Pfeiffer, S., Wade, W.D. Estimated ageatdeath among Gray
site adults, comparing gross anatomy and histomorphometric
techniques. Canadian Journal of Anthropology, supplement to 4:2:
41. Paper delivered to Can. Assn. for Phys. Anth., Montreal,
1983.
1984Pfeiffer, S. Estimation of mortality and morbidity from an
Iroquoian Ossuary supplement to Man in the Northeast p. 51. Paper
delivered to Northeastern Anthropological Association, Hartford,
Conn.
1983Pfeiffer, S., Wade, W.D. A histological reevaluation of age
estimates of Gray site adults American Journal of Physical
Anthropology, 60: 238.
1983Pfeiffer, S. Histological age estimation applied to
prehistoric cortical bone samples. Canadian Federation of Biology
Society. 26: 199.
1983Gallow, D., Graham, T.E., Pfeiffer, S. Ethnic differences in
female responses to work in the cold. Medical Science in Sports
Exercise, 15: 157.
1983Wilson, B.A., RivingtonMoss, E.G., Pfeiffer, S., Graham, T.,
Webb, R.D.G., FisherIngram, L.M. Physical health of Canadian dairy
farmers. Medical Science in Sports Exercise, 15: 155.
1981Katzenberg, M.A., Kelley, M.A., Pfeiffer , S. Hereditary
multiple exostoses in an individual from a Southern Ontario
Iroquois population. Ossa, 8:109-144.
1981Pfeiffer, S., King, P. Intracortical bone remodeling and
decrease in cortical mass among prehistoric Amerindians. American
Journal of Physical Anthropology, 54:2:262.
1980Pfeiffer, S. Investigation of possible effects of air-born
fluorides on growth and dental emergence among Amerindians.
American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 52:2:267.
1974Pfeiffer, S. A test and evaluation of cremation analysis
techniques. American Journal of Physical Anthropology,
40:1:147.
1970Pfeiffer, S. Some ethnological considerations of the
Icelandic family sagas. Nebraska Academy of Sciences and Affiliated
Societies 80th Annual Meeting, Lincoln, NE.
1970Pfeiffer, S. Attitude rating among elderly Winnebago,
1969-1970. Nebraska Academy of Sciences and Affiliated Societies
80th Annual Meeting, Lincoln, NE.
Invited Presentations and Lectures
2018February 21. The skeletons of archaeology: How they shape
our views of the past. Center for Advanced Study of Human
Paleobiology, George Washington University. One hour.
2017November 11. Paleoanthropology and the repatriation of
Wendat ancestors. (Im)Material Culture: Health Collections in a
Digital Era. U of Toronto Faculty of Medicine. 20 minutes.
2017October 17. Repatriation, Scholarship, Reconciliation. ROM
Speaks “Archaeology for the 21st Century” Series. Two hours.
2017October 19. “Shifting Archaeological Perspectives on
Aboriginal Lives” forum on Indigenous-Settler Development
Relations, Trinity College; convenor: John Duncan.
2016March 17. Disrupting the Peace: a period of interpersonal
violence during the Later Stone Age. Department of Archaeology,
University of Cape Town. One hour.
2015May 30. The People Who Greeted the French. University of
Toronto Alumni Celebration, one hour.
2014April 22. The Skeletons of Archaeology: How they Inform our
Stories. Department of Anthropology, Rice University, Houston,
Texas. Invited seminar speaker. One hour, plus a day’s activities
in the department.
2014 April 8. Discussion Panel: The Past Teaching the Present:
Application of Palaeopathology in Understanding Modern Health.
Palaeopathology Association 41st Annual Meeting, Calgary, Alberta,
April 7-9, 2014. (three panelists, one hour)
2014February 5, The Skeletons of Archaeology: How they Inform
our Stories. School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona
State University, Tempe, Arizona. One hour.
2013October 19, Repatriation at the U of T – a discussion of the
issues. Canadian Association for Physical Anthropology, University
of Toronto at Scarborough, October 17-20, 2013.
2013Exploring the Origins of Modern Humans through African
Archaeological Evidence, Royal Canadian Institute for the
Advancement of Science 2013 Gala dinner, “Explore your inner
Einstein,” MaRS. April 25.
2012“Decades of Dialogue: International and Local Perspectives
on Repatriation.” Sally Weaver Award Guest Lecture, Department of
Anthropology, University of Waterloo, November 13.
2012Decades of Dialogue: Shifting Perspectives on
Repatriation in Canada. Department of Archaeology, University of
Cape Town, South Africa, May 7.
2012 February 8, Population Dynamics in the Southern African
Holocene: Human Burials from the West Coast. Invited seminar in the
Palaeobiology Series, State University of New York at Stony Brook.
One hour.
2012 Decades of Dialogue: Shifting Perspectives on Repatriation.
Archaeologists at Work Day, Feb. 10, Archaeology Centre, University
of Toronto.
2012 Discussion of recent repatriation memorandum, Cultural
Heritage Interest Group, Feb. 16, Archaeology Centre, University of
Toronto.
2010Department of Archaeology, University of Cape Town,
February.
2009Department of Anthropology, University of Victoria, B.C.,
October.
2009Featured in 60 minute video, The Hangman’s Graveyard,
Ballinran Productions,
released 2009 and aired on History Television.
2008Department of Anthropology, New York University, March.
2006U of Toronto Philosophy Café, November.
2006St. Michael’s Hospital Rounds, Toronto, September.
2005Department of Anthropology, Rutgers University, New Jersey,
Dec.
2005U of Toronto Later Life Learning, October.
2001Albany Museum, Rhodes University, South Africa, August.
2001Featured in Extreme Body Parts, “Feet”, a 60 minute video,
produced by Great North (an Alliance Atlantis Company) for
Discovery TV, released August, 2001.
1994, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2012:
Lecturer, undergraduate courses, Dept of Archaeology, University
of Cape Town
1996Discussant, NSF sponsored conference, A History of Health
and Nutrition in the Western Hemisphere, Columbus, Ohio, March.
Earlier Invited Presentations and Lectures
1992, 1994Guest faculty, Paleopathology Course in Continuing
Education, U.S. Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Washington,
D.C
1994Invited seminar, British Museum (Natural History)
1989Ontario Coroners’ Annual Meeting
1989Third Age Learning, Guelph
1988Field Work Term Supervisor, Bennington College, Vermont
1984, 1989, 1990Toronto Academy of Medicine
Invited research seminars were given at these Universities,
pre-1996: Toronto, Waterloo (Goddard Medal lecturer), McMaster,
Western Ontario, Trent, Wilfrid Laurier, Alberta, Calgary,
University of Northern British Columbia, Copenhagen (Denmark),
Stockholm (Sweden), Charles (Czechoslovakia), Harvard, University
of Cape Town, Witwatersrand (South Africa), Adelaide
(Australia).
Recent Professional Activities
Manuscript reviewer:
Azania
Anthropologischer Anzeiger / HOMO (2018)
Anthropologie - International Journal of Human Diversity and
Evolution (2016)
American Journal of Physical Anthropology (
Bioarchaeology International 12, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2018)
Canadian Journal of Archaeology (2014)
Current Anthropology (2014)
Forensic Anthropology (2017)
International Journal of Palaeopathology (2012, 2016, 2017,
2018)
International Journal of Osteoarchaeology (2016, 2018)
Journal of Human Evolution (2015, 2016)
Journal of Cultural Heritage (2013, 2015)
Journal of Archaeological Science (2014)
Ontario Archaeology (2016)
PNAS (2016)
Quaternary International (2012, 2015)
Scientific Reports (2014)
South African Archaeological Bulletin (
· CIFAR Expert Review Panel member, Humans & the Microbiome
Renewal; Nov 6-8, 2019.2017)
· Swiss National Science Foundation Sinergia program reviewer:
2019.
· European Research Council: Consolidator Grants evaluation
panel chair SH6–The Study of the Human Past: 2014 to 2020.
Reviewer for Starting, Advanced and Synergy Grants, panel SH6 –
The Study of the Human Past, 2015- 2019.
· Program Committee member, Society of Africanist Archaeologists
(SAfA), June 2018 Toronto meeting
· Expert Panel, Research Council of Lithuania, 2017.
· Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada:
Panel member, Insight Development Grants: Anthropology,
Archaeology, and Linguistics, 2017.
· Grant application and research record reviewer, recent
past:
L.S.B Leakey Foundation (2012)
National Research Foundation (South Africa) (2012, 2014,
2017)
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (2014)
National Science Foundation (U.S.) (2013, 2016, 2017)
IdEx Bordeaux International Post-doctoral program (2014,
2016)
Cambridge University Post-doctoral Fellowships (2015, 2016)
· Book manuscript reviewer, career:
Cambridge University Press
Academic Press
UBC Press
· Promotion file reviewer, various universities, in
confidence
· External examiner, Ph.D. Thesis, W. Black, “Dental morphology
and variation across Holocene Khoesan people of southern Africa”
Department of Archaeology, Faculty of Science, University of Cape
Town.
· External examiner, M.Sc. Thesis, K. Warren, “Population
variation within the Iron Age of southern Africa:An assessment
using dental anthropological and cranio-mandibular metric
techniques.” Faculty of Science, University of Cape Town.
· Research Council and member of the Junior Fellows Academy
Oversight Committee, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research;
Internal Review Committee, Global Scholars Fellowship Program,
Nov-Dec 2013.
· Chair of the External Academic Program Review Committee,
Department of Archaeology, Simon Fraser University, site visit Feb
28 to March 3, 2012, and report.
· Member of the External Academic Program Review Committee,
Department of Anthropology, Victoria University, site visit March
8-10, 2012, and report.
· University of Calgary, External examiner for PhD thesis,
Kathleen Jane Faccia, Exploring Age and Activity Related Changes in
Prehistoric Cis-Baikal Hunter-Gatherer-Fishers: A Micro-CT Analysis
of Cortical Canal Microstructure, M.A. Katzenberg advisor, December
7, 2011.
· Organizing committee, 2012 meetings of the Society for
Africanist Archaeology, being hosted by U of Toronto
Teaching CoursesUndergraduate
Special Topics in Biological Anthropology: Science Abroad, U of
Cape Town
Evolutionary Anthropology Theory: third year lecture
Human Skeletal Biology: third year lecture and lab
Health, Diet and Disease in the Past: fourth year lecture and
lab
Human Biology & Evolution: second year lecture and lab
Human Variability in Health and Disease: fourth year lecture and
lab
Biological Bases for Human Social Behavior: third year
lecture
Biology of Growth and Aging: third year lecture and lab
Introduction to Health and Disease: second year lecture and
lab
Independent Study and Special Projects
Graduate
Evolutionary Anthropology Theory
Palaeopathology
Hunter-Gatherers in Evolutionary Perspective
Advanced Topics in Human Osteology
Theoretical Paradigms and Case Studies
Career Supervisions
Post-doctoral Fellows
2017Cameron, Michelle, Ph.D. Cambridge University (U.K.).
Holocene foragers
2009Pinto, Deborrah, Ph.D. The Ohio State University. Cortical
bone histology.
2008-2009Dewar, Genevieve, Ph.D. University of Cape Town.
Radiocarbon dates in the context of marine diets among Holocene
foragers (SSHRC funded).
1992-1994Lazenby, R.A., PhD McMaster University. Biomechanics of
human remains from archaeological contexts (NSERC funded).
Ph.D. Students (N = 12)
2013-2018Beresheim, Amy. Bone Microstructure and Changes in
Mineralization Density: A Study of Rib Tissue throughout the Adult
Lifespan in Apartheid South Africans. Trillium Award.
2012-2017Sawchuk, Elizabeth. The Bioarchaeology of Early to
Mid-Holocene Human Populations in the Turkana Basin, Kenya:
Evidence of East African Pastoralists. SSHRC Doctoral Award,
Michael Smith Supplement; British Institute of East Africa Award,
SSHRC Postdoctoral Award.
2011-2016Symchych, Natalie. An Ecogeographic Study of Body
Proportion Development in the Sadlermiut Inuit of Southampton
Island, Nunavut. SSHRC Doctoral Award.
2010-2015Heinrich, Jarred. Spatial Characterization of Rib
Cortical Bone Microstructure and the Effect of Nutritional and
Physiological Stresses.
2009-2015L. Elizabeth Doyle. Population stress, growth deficit,
and degenerative joint disease in foragers from South Africa’s
Later Stone Age. SSHRC Doctoral Award.
2008-2013Merritt, Catherine. The Influence of Body Size on
Current Age Estimation Methods. SSHRC Doctoral Award, SSHRC
Post-Doctoral Award.
2005-2010Forrest, Crystal. Iroquoian infant mortality and
juvenile growth, 1250 to 1700 AD.
2003-2009Harrington, Lesley. Ontogeny of post-cranial
robusticity among Holocene hunter-gatherers of southernmost
Africa.
2001-2008Ginter, Jaime. A bioarchaeological study of
socioeconomic stress and success: Understanding subsistence changes
among Later Stone Age foragers of the Eastern Cape, South
Africa.
2001-2005Kurki, Helen. Adaptive allometric modeling of the
pelvis in small-bodied Later Stone Age (Holocene) foragers from
Southern Africa.
2001-2005Crowder, Christian. Evaluating the use of quantitative
bone histology to estimate adult age at death.
1999-2002Stock, J.T. Climatic and behavioral influences on
postcranial robusticity among Holocene foragers.
M.Sc. Students (N = 32)
2015-2019Hazzard, Michelle. A Reanalysis of Cranial Trauma at
Uxbridge Ossuary
(BbGt-1) for Evidence of Interpersonal Violence.
2014-2016Vairamuthu, Thivviya. A Forager Child with Compromised
Health and Mobility from the Late Archaic, Southwestern
Ontario.
2011-2013Cameron, Michelle. Regional variation in Later Stone
Age forager cross-sectional geometric properties. SSHRC Masters
Award., SSHRC doctoral award.
2011-2013Black, Daniel. A review of tuberculosis in the
fourteenth century northern Iroquoian Glen Williams ossuary.
2010-2012Andronowski, Janna. Evaluating bone area as a
histomorphometric variable in estimating adult age at death.
2010-2012Chaszczewskji, Zenia. Endocranial lesion analysis in
the Uxbridge Ossuary, a population known to have been affected by
Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
2008-2010Kelly, Johanna. The benefits and limitations of
retaining skeletal collections in museums long term.
2006-2008Fauser, Kara. Temporal and spatial patterns of
tuberculosis in southern Ontario ossuaries.
2003-2005Mo, Delores. A study of juvenile nasal morphology
oriented toward ancestry differentiation and elucidation of
ontogenetic patterns.
2000-2005Grief, Cindy J. (Part Time). Anthropological and
psychiatric perspectives on grieving: A merging of discourses.
2002-2004Reay, Heather. The use of osteometrics in sorting
commingled human remains: theory and applicability.
2001-2003Strong, Christopher. Analysis of footprint track from
possible Middle Stone Age site, South Africa.
2000-2002Brinck, Toni. Skeletal growth and population health of
Later Stone Age subadults from South Africa.
2000-2002Rix, Emily. Estimation of age at death in Later Stone
Age adults, using a histological technique.
1999-2000Matzke, Lise. Dental development and maturation of
juvenile dentitions from the Later Stone Age, South Africa.
--1998Bogdanovich, Tamara A. Patterns of adult bone maintenance
in a nineteenth century population.
--1998Spencer, Gary J. Changing patterns of growth and
development among the Evenki reindeer herders of Central Siberia.
(Co-advisor W. R. Leonard).
--1998Merrett, Deborah Claire. Maxillary sinusitis among
fifteenth century Iroquoians.
--1998Stock, Jay. Structural and allometric variability in human
long bone diaphyses.
--1996Pratte, David Graham. Histological age estimation of a
South African cadaveral sample.
--1995Dupras, Tosha Lea. Sexual dimorphism at gross and
histological levels in human ribs.
--1994Zehr, Marie Kathryn. A morphological and histological
analysis of the Border Cave humerus.
--1994Varney, Tamara Lynn. Characterization of “collagen” in
histologically modified bone derived from an archaeological
context.
--1993Choh, Audrey Cheng-Lin. Proportions and birthweight in
health term infants. (co-advisor M. Mahaney)
--1993Surowiak, James F. Comparison of biomechanical properties
of human and artificial bone tissue.
--1992Dudar, J. Christopher. Estimating adult skeletal age at
death using morphological and histological rib techniques.
--1990VanVliet, Deborah. Evaluation of cortical and cancellous
remodeling in response to prosthetic implant in the canine
femur.
--1989McKinnon, Jane. Gait changes characteristic of individuals
diagnosed as having senile dementia of the Alzheimer type.
--1988Kamibayashi, Lynne. Quantification of bone response to
altered mechanical loading, using a canine model.
--1987Cuncins, Astrid. The effects of low frequency sinusoidal
vibration on the creep behaviour of isolated canine lumbar
intervertebral units. (Co-advisor T. Hearne)
--1986Bradshaw, Mary Kathleen McNally. Energy balance and body
composition in postpartum primiparas.
--1985Moore, Carolyn Diane. A cross-longitudinal analysis of
aspects of physical health of Ontario dairy farmers aged fifty
years and older.
M.A. Students (N = 7)
2013-2014Dick, Daniel. Geographic modeling of coastal Later
Stone Age burials relative to fresh water sources.
2013-2015Townsend, Amber. Repatriation in Canada and the United
States: Looking Towards the Future.
2008-2010Doyle, Leigh (Bess). Adult Cortical Bone Mass and
Mechanical Strength: A study of the femur and second metacarpal in
nineteenth century European-Canadians. SSHRC Masters Award.
2005-2007 Keeth, Margaret. Histological age estimation as
compared to other methods of age estimation.
2004-2006Forrest, Crystal. The in-house burials at the Late
Ontario Iroquoian Draper Site (AlGt-2). SSHRC Masters Award.
2002-2003Harrington, Lesley. Estimating age at death from
basiocciput osteometrics: a test of the method in juvenile Later
Stone Age foragers.
2001-2002Dewar, Genevieve. A study of the positional behavior
utilized by
prehistoric Khoisan populations.
Administrative PositionsUniversity of Toronto
2005-2009 Vice-Provost, Graduate Education
2004-2009 Dean, School of Graduate Studies
2003-2004 Vice-Dean, Grad Ed & Research, Faculty of Arts
& Science
2002 Acting Chair, Anthropology
2002-2005Elected member of Academic Board
2003-2005Institutional representative to Social Sciences &
Humanities Research Council of Canada
2003-2005Comparative Program on Health & Society review
committee
2003Human Biology Programme Committee
2001 Undergraduate Coordinator and Associate Chair, Department
of Anthropology
2001-2004School of Graduate Studies Council and Exec Committee
Division II
2001-2003Social Sciences Review Committee, Connaught Fund
2000-2001Vice-Chair, General Committee of the Faculty of Arts
and Science
University of Guelph (highlights)
1983-1988, 1992-1997:
University of Guelph Senate
1983-1985 Senate Ad-Hoc Committee to Review the Aims and
Objectives of the University of Guelph
1985- 1988Presidential Advisory Committee on Equal Rights for
Women and Men
1986-1990Executive Working Group of the University of Guelph
Gerontology Research Centre
1986University of Guelph delegate, Conference of Ontario
Universities Committee on Health Research, Gerontology and
Geriatrics
1988-1990University of Guelph Joint Working Group on Salary
Policy
1993-1999Long-term Salary and Benefits Watch-Dog Committee
1994- 1997 University Negotiating Team, Canadian Union of
Educational Workers (CUPE)
Other Organizations:
Executive Positions:
1991Scientific program chair, Canadian Association for Physical
Anthropology
1991Scientific program chair, Human Biology Council
1981-1985President, Canadian Association for Physical
Anthropology
Research Publication and Policy Activities:
2005-2014 Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Scientific
Advisory Board
2006-2008NSERC GCS Structure Review External Advisory
Committee
2000-2004Associate Editor, American Journal of Physical
Anthropology
1988-1989Advisory Editor, Current Anthropology
1979-1985Editorial Board, Canadian Review of Physical
Anthropology
1992Panelist, Direct Participation: First Nations and
Archaeology in Canada, Canadian Archaeological Association, London,
Ontario
1991Symposium organizer and chair, “Dialogue on Research: A
Discussion of Mutual Interests with First Nations”, Canadian
Associate for Physical Anthropology, Hamilton, Ontario
1992Invited participant, Southern African Association of
Archaeologists, Biennial Conference, University of Cape Town,
“Reburial - Adapting to new realities: aboriginal involvement in
archaeological research”
1986Invited participant, National Institute of Nutrition Calcium
Intervention Workshop
1988-1993Canada representative, International Union of
Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences
1984Canada representative, 3rd Colloquium of Physical
Anthropology - Juan Comas, Mexico City
