Curriculum Vitae - Anthropology - Emory University

August 10, 2012
I. PERSONAL
Department of Anthropology
108 Anthropology
Emory University
Atlanta, Georgia 30322
Phones: 404-727-2215 (Office)
404-727-2860 (Office FAX)
e-mail: antga@emory.edu
II. EDUCATION
CURRICULUM VITAE
George J. Armelagos
Lincoln Park High School 1950-1954
University of Michigan 1954-1958
B.A. Degree 1958
University of Michigan Medical School 1958-1959
University of Michigan -Rackham
Graduate School 1959-1960
University of Colorado 1961-1968
M.A. Degree 1963
Ph.D. Degree 1968
III. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Goodrich C. White Professor of Anthropology, 2005-
Chair, Department of Anthropology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, 2003 -2009
Professor, Department of Anthropology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, 1993-2005
Professor and Chairman, University of Florida, Gainesville 1990-1993
Affiliate Curator, Department of Anthropology, Florida State Museum of Natural History. 1991-
1993
Professor, Anthropology, University of Massachusetts, 1978-1990. Professor Emeritus, 1991
Visiting Professor, University of Colorado, summer 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988
Associate Professor, Anthropology, University of Massachusetts, February 1973-1978
Director, University of Massachusetts Honors Program, 1974-1977
Acting Chair, Department of Anthropology, University of Massachusetts, summer 1971, 1972.
Assistant Professor in Anthropology, University of Massachusetts, September 1968-1973

Visiting Professor, National Science Foundation Summer Institute for College Teachers in
Anthropology, University of Colorado, summer 1971.
Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Colorado, summer, 1971
Visiting Assistant Professor, Wayne State University, summer. 1966
Assistant Professor in Anthropology, University of Utah, September 1966-June 1968.
Instructor in Anthropology, University of Utah, September 1965-1966.
Teaching Associate, University of Colorado, Denver Center, spring 1965.
Research Associate, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, 1964-1965
Research Assistant, Physical Anthropologists, University of Colorado Nubian Expedition, Wadi
Halfa, Republic of the Sudan, 1963-1964
IV. PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
American Association for the Advancement of Science, Member 1964 -present; elected Fellow
1987, Nominations Committee, Section H, 1986-89. Delegate to the Council, Section H. (elected)
1992- 95; elected, Chair-elect, Anthropology Section (Section H), 1996; Chair, Anthropology
Section (Section H), 1997, Retiring Chair, Anthropology Section (Section H), 1998
American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Member 1963 -present; Vice-President, 1982-
84; Program Chairman, Annual Meetings 1982-84; Local Arrangements Chairman, 1974;
Executive Committee (Membership Chairman) 1979; Student Paper Award Committee 1977;
Chairman, Membership Committee 1972-73; Ad Hoc Committee for the Reburial Issue 1984-86;
Chair, Committee on Changing Format for Scientific Session of the American Association of
Physical Anthropology, 1984; Ad Hoc Committee on the Relation of the American Association of
Physical Anthropology with the American Anthropological Association, Appointed by the President
of AAPA; elected President, 1987-1989.
American Anthropological Association, Member 1963- ; Fellow, 1971; Associate Program Editor,
Annual Meetings, Houston 1977, Los Angeles 1978; Executive Board 1983-87; Board of
Directors 1983-88; Chairman of Biological Unit 1984-87; Committee for Selection of the American
Anthropological Association's Distinguished Service Award 1984-87; Representative to Section H,
American Association for the Advancement of Science 1985-89; Chairman, Committee on
Anthropology and the Government 1985-86; member, Committee on External Relations, 1986;
nominee, President Elect, 1987. General Anthropology Section, Distinguished Lecture, 1994.
Appointed Long Range Planning Committee, 1999. Biological Anthropology Unit, Distinguished
Lecture, 2004 (Presented 2005). Executive Board, elected, 2008-2011. Chair, Awards Committee
Society for the Study of Human Biology, Elected, May 1965-1976.
New York Academy of Science, 1967-Present
Current Anthropology, Associate. 1970-present
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Human Biology Council, 1978-present; Nominations Committee 1978.
Paleopathology Association, 1980-Present
Sigma Xi, Elected 1963; Elected 2nd Vice-President, University of Massachusetts Chapter 1982;
Elected 1st Vice-President, University of Massachusetts Chapter 1983; Elected President,
University of Massachusetts Chapter 1984; Past President (Executive Board member), University
of Massachusetts Chapter 1985.
Northeast Anthropological Association, President-elect, 1986; President, 1987-1988.
Society for Medical Anthropology, 1980-present; elected Executive Bd., 1986-1989.
Massachusetts Society of Professors, elected Executive Board, 1987.
Council on Nutritional Anthropology, 1980-present; Nominee, President 1982.
Southern Anthropology Society, Program Chair, 1994, 2004
V. HONORS
B.A. with Honors in Anthropology, University of Michigan, 1958
Graduate Scholarship, University of Colorado, 1961-1962, 1962-1963, summer 1964, 1964-1965
Sigma Xi, Associate Member, May 1963; Member, May 1965.
Distinguished Teacher Award, University of Massachusetts, 1973
Terrel Phenice Memorial Lecture, 1978, Michigan State University
Chancellor's Lecture, University of Massachusetts, 1980
Chancellor's Medallist, 1980
Distinguish Lecture, General Anthropology Division, American Anthropological Association. 1994
George Cuttino Award for Mentoring, Emory University. 2002
Distinguished Lecture, Biological Anthropology Unit, American Anthropological Association, 2005
Viking Fund Medalist, Wenner Gren Foundation, 2005
William Mulloy Lecture, University of Wyoming, 2006
Franz Boas Award for Exemplary Service to Anthropology, American Anthropological Association. 2008
Charles Darwin Award for Lifetime Achievement to Biological Anthropology. American Association of
Physical Anthropologists. 2009.
XXIX Journal of Anthropological Research Distinguished Lecture, 2009
VI. EDITORIAL BOARDS
Editorial Board, Reviews in Anthropology, 1980-1986.
Editorial Board, Medical Anthropology, 1980-2000
Editorial Board, Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology and Physical Anthropology, 1980-1982.
Editorial Board, Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 1986-1990.
Associate Editor for Physical Anthropology, Current Anthropology, 1987-1988.
Associate Editor, Evolutionary Anthropology, 1996-present
Editorial Board, SAR Press, 2007-2009
VII. BIOGRAPHICAL LISTINGS
American Men of Science, 1969, 1995
Who's Who in the East, 1975
American Men and Women of Science, 1977
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American Men and Women in Biology, 1977
The American Hellenic Who's Who, 1980
Who's Who in the World, 17 th Edition 2000
VIII. BIBLIOGRAPHY
A. Monographs and Books
1968 Armelagos, George J. Paleopathology of Three Archaeological Populations from
Sudanese Nubia. Abstract published in Dissertation Abstracts 29 (4): 124B. Available from
the University Microfilms, No. 58-14, 231 pp. Ph.D., University of Colorado.
1971 Armelagos, George J., James H. Mielke and John Winter. Bibliography of Human
Paleopathology. Department of Anthropology Research Reports. No. 8. Amherst, MA:
University of Massachusetts. 163 pp.
1972 Greene, David L. and George J., Armelagos. Mesolithic Populations from Wadi Halfa.
Department of Anthropology, Research Reports. No. 1. Amherst: University of
Massachusetts,. 136 pp.
1976 Swedlund, Alan C. and George J., Armelagos. Demographic Anthropology. Elements of
Anthropology Series, Dubuque, Iowa: W.C. Brown Publisher. 70 pp.
1980 Farb, Peter and George J. Armelagos. Consuming Passions: The Anthropology of Eating.
Boston: Houghton-Mifflin. 279 pp.
Farb, Peter and George J. Armelagos. Consuming Passions: The Anthropology of Eating.
New York: Literary Guild Edition. 279 pp.
1983 Farb, Peter and George J. Armelagos. Consuming Passions: The Anthropology of Eating.
New York: Washington Square Press Pocketbook Publishers. 279 pp.
1983 Armelagos, George J. Editor, Proceedings of the Fifty-second Annual Meeting of the
American Association of Physical Anthropologist. American Journal of Physical
Anthropology 60 (2): 142-277.
1984 Cohen, Mark N. and George J, Armelagos. Editors. Paleopathology at the Origins of
Agriculture. Orlando, FL: Academic Press. 615 pp.
1984 Armelagos, George J. Editor, Proceedings of the Fifty-third Annual Meeting of the
American Association of Physical Anthropologists. American Journal of Physical
Anthropology 63 (2): 105-242.
1985 Farb, Peter and George J. Armelagos. Anthropologie Des Coutumes Alimentaires Paris:
DeNoel Press. 268 pp. (Translation of Consuming Passions The Anthropology of Eating.)
1990 Swedlund, Alan C, and George J. Armelagos. Editors, Disease in Populations in
Transition: Anthropological and Epidemiological Perspective. South Hadley: Bergin and
Garvey.
1991 Martin, Debra, Alan H. Goodman, George J. Armelagos and Ann Magennis. Black Mesa
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Anazazi: Reconstructing Life from Patterns of Disease. Occasional Paper No.14.
Carbondale: Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, Center for Archaeological
Investigation. 314pp.
2012 Armelagos, George J. and John T. Woods, Jr. St. Catherines Island: Untold Story of
People and Place. Colonels Island, GA., Colonels Island Press.
B. Articles
Cohen, Mark N. and George J, Armelagos. Editors. Paleopathology at the Origins of
Agriculture. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, Reprint. Academic Press, 1984, 615
pp. Hardback, Paperback, ePDF and ePub editions.
1962 Armelagos, George J. Review of Mankind Evolving: The Evolution of Human Species, T.
Dobzhansky, New Haven: Yale University Press. Southwestern Lore 28(4): 76-77.
1963 Buckles, W. G. Ewing, N. Buckles, G. J. Armelagos, J. Wood, J. Haug, and J.
McCollough. The Excavation of the Hazeltine Heights Site. Southwestern Lore XXIX (1): 1-
37.
Kelso, A. J. and G. J. Armelagos. Nutritional Factors as Selective Agencies in the
Determination of ABO Blood Group Frequencies. Southwestern Lore XXIX (2): 44-48.
1964 Armelagos, George J. A Fossilized Mandible from Wadi Halfa, Sudan. Man XLV (1): 12-13.
Armelagos, George J. Comments on The Measuring of Morphological Differences between
Populations for a Set of Variables by Jean Hiernaux and Human Biology in general University
Education by J. M. Tanner. Yearbook of Physical Anthropology 12, Sheilagh T. Brooks and G. W.
Lasker, eds., p. 127.
1965 Armelagos, George J., George H. Ewing, David L. Greene and Kathleen Greene. Report
of the Physical Anthropology Section, University of Colorado Nubian Expedition. Kush 13:
24-27.
Carlson, R. and G. J. Armelagos. Cradleboard Hoods, Not Corsets. Science 149: 204-
205.
Armelagos, George J. Review of Bones, Bodies and Disease, Calvin Wells, Praeger
Press. Southwestern Lore 28(4)
1966 Wade, William and George J. Armelagos. Anthropometrical Data and Observations upon
Human Skeletal Material. In Contributions to Mesa Verde Archaeology III: Site 866 and the
Cultural Sequence at Four Villages in the Far View Group. Studies Series in Anthropology,
Number 12. R. H. Lister, ed. Pp. 97-112. Boulder: University of Colorado.
Armelagos, George J. Review of Bones, Bodies and Disease, Calvin Wells, Praeger Press.
American Anthropologist 68(5):1309 (1966).
1967 Greene, David L., George H. Ewing and George J. Armelagos. Dentition of a Mesolithic
Population from Wadi Halfa, Sudan. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 27 (1): 41-
57.
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Armelagos, George J. Future Work in Paleopathology. Miscellaneous Papers in
Paleopathology, I. Technical Series, No. 7. W. Wade, ed. Pp. 1-8. Flagstaff: Museum of
Northern Arizona.
Armelagos, George J. Man's Changing Environment. In Infectious Diseases: Their
Evolution and Eradication, T. A. Cockburn, ed. Pp. 66-87. St. Louis: C. C. Thomas.
1968 Armelagos, George J., George H. Ewing and David L. Greene. Physical Anthropology
and Man-Made Lakes. Dam Anthropology: River Basin Research. Special Issue of
Anthropological Quarterly 41:122-131.
Pendergast, David M., Murray H. Bartley and George J. Armelagos. A Maya Tooth
Sacrifice from Yakalche, British Honduras. Man: Journal of the Royal Anthropological
Institute 3(4): 635-643.
Armelagos, George J. Aiken’s Fremont Hypothesis and the Use of Skeletal Material in
Archaeological Interpretation. American Antiquity 33: 385-386.
Armelagos, George J., John Dewey and David Carlquist. Physical Anthropology and the
Uto-Aztecan Problem. In Utaztekan Prehistory, E. H. Swanson, Jr., ed. Occasional Papers
of the Idaho State University Museum (22): 131-148.
1969 Armelagos, George J. Disease in Ancient Nubia. Science 163 (3864): 255-259.
Van Gerven, Dennis P., George J. Armelagos and Murray H. Bartley. Roentgenographic
and Direct Measurement of Femoral Cortical Involution in a Prehistoric Mississippian
Population. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 31(1): 23-38.
Dewey, John R., George J. Armelagos and Murray H. Bartley. Femoral Cortical Involution
in Three Nubian Archaeological Populations. Human Biology 41(1): 13-28.
Dewey, John H., Murray H. Bartley and George J. Armelagos. The Rate of Bone
Involution in Prehistoric Populations from Sudanese Nubia Using Normalized Data.
Clinical Orthopaedics 65(6): 61-66.
Swedlund, Alan C., and George J. Armelagos. Une Recherche in Paleo-demographie: la
Nubia Soudanaise. Annales: Economies, Societies, Civilizations 24(6): 1287-1298.
Armelagos, George J. Review of Bone, F. C. McClean and M. R. Urist, University of
Chicago Press. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 31(3):435-436.
Armelagos, George J. Review of Readings in Race, Stanley M. Garn, Springfield, IL: C.
C. Thomas. American Anthropologist 71:1190-1191
1970 Armelagos, George J. and John R. Dewey. Evolutionary Response to Human Infectious
Disease. Bioscience 20: 241-275.
Van Gerven, Dennis P. and George J. Armelagos. Cortical Involution in Prehistoric
Mississipian Femora. Journal of Gerontology 25(1): 20-23.
1971 Carlson, David S, and George J, Armelagos. Problems in Racial Geography. Annals of
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Geography 61: 630-632.
Van Gerven, Dennis P. and George J. Armelagos. Current Directions in Physical
Anthropology: A Comment. Newsletter of the American Anthropological Association 12(2):
8.
Armelagos, George J. Review of Northern Plainsman: Adaptive Strategy and Life, J. W.
Bennet, Chicago: Aldine Press. The American Scientist 59:768.
Armelagos, George J. Review of Paleopathology: Disease and Injuries of Prehistoric
Man, New York: Humanities Press. American Journal of Physical Anthropology
35:262-264.
Armelagos, George J, Review of Physical Anthropology in Handbook of Middle American
Indians 9: , Wauchope (general edition), Austin: University of Texas Press. American
Journal of Archaeology 75 (3) :352:353.
1972 Armelagos, George J. and John R. Dewey. Evolutionary Responses to Human Infectious
Diseases. In The Ecology of Man: an Ecosystems Approach. R. L. Smith, ed. Pp.
222-227New York: Harper and Row. Reprinted from Bioscience 20: 271-272.
Armelagos, G. J., J. Mielke, K. O. Owen, D. P. Van Gerven, J. R. Dewey and P. E. Mahler.
Bone Growth and Development in Prehistoric Populations from Sudanese Nubia. Journal
of Human Evolution 1: 89-119.
Mielke, James H., Dennis P. Van Gerven and George J. Armelagos. Trabecular
Involution in Femoral Heads of Prehistoric (X-Group) Population from Sudanese Nubia.
American Journal of Physical Anthropology 36: 39-44.
1973 Post, Peter, Farrington Daniels and George J. Armelagos. Ancient Mummified Skin. Cutis
11(6): 779-781.
Armelagos, George J. and John R. Dewey. Evolutionary Response to Human Infectious
Disease. In Readings of Man, the Environment and Human Ecology, Arthur S. Boughey,
ed. Pp. 228-234. New York: MacMillan. Reprinted from Bioscience 20: 271-275, 1970.
1974 Van Gerven, Dennis P., David S. Carlson and George J. Armelagos. Racial History and
Bio-Cultural Adaptation of Nubian Archaeological Populations. Journal of African History
XXIV (4): 555-564.
Armelagos, G. J., J. Mielke, K. O. Owen, D. P. Van Gerven, J. R. Dewey and P. E. Mahler.
Bone Growth and Development in Prehistoric Populations from Sudanese Nubia In
Population Biology of the Ancient Egyptians, D. R. Brothwell and B. A. Chiarelli, eds.
London, New York: Academic Press. Reprinted from Journal of Human Evolution,
1:89-119, 1972.
Green, Sheryl, Stanton Greene and George J. Armelagos. Settlement and Mortality of the
Christian Site (1050 AD-1300 AD) of Meinarti (Sudan). Journal of Human Evolution 3:
297-316.
Carlson, Davis S, George J. Armelagos, and Dennis P. VanGerven. Factors Influencing
the Etiology of Cribra Orbitalia in Prehistoric Nubia. Journal of Human Evolution 3:
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405-410.
Armelagos, George J. Foreword to Bibliography of Human and Non-Human Non-Metric
Variation, M. Finnigan and M. A. Faust, eds, University of Massachusetts, Department of
Anthropology Research Report, No. 14.
1975 Armelagos, George J. and Alan McArdle. Population, Disease and Evolution. In
Population Studies in Archaeology and Biological Anthropology. Alan C. Swedlund, ed.
Society for American Archaeology, Memoir 30:1-10. American Antiquity 40(2) Part 2:1-10.
Moore, James A., Alan C, Swedlund and George J. Armelagos. The Use of the Life Table
in Paleodemography. In Population Studies in Archaeology and Biological Anthropology.
Alan C. Swedlund, ed. Society for American Archaeology, Memoir 30:57-70. American
Antiquity 40(2) Part 2.
Armelagos, George J. Comment on William Petersen's Demographer's View of
Prehistoric Demography. Current Anthropology 16(3): 461.
1976 Armelagos, George J., Alan Goodman and Kenneth H. Jacobs. Disease and the
Ecological Perspective. The Ecologist 6(2): 40-45.
Armelagos, George J and David L. Greene. The Wadi Halfa Mesolithic Population and
Rightmire's Interpretation of Later Pleistocene Man in Africa. American Anthropologist
78(1): 98-101.
Carlson, David S., George J. Armelagos, and Dennis P. Van Gerven. Patterns of Age
Related Cortical Bone Loss (Osteoporosis) within the Femoral Diaphysis. Human Biology
48(2): 295-314.
Armelagos, George J., and Alan McArdle. The Role of Culture in the Control of Infectious
Disease. The Ecologist 6(5): 179-182. A revised version of Population, Disease and
Evolution, 1975.
Armelagos, George J. and Z. Salzmann. Problems of Racial Classification. Acta
Facultatis Rerum Naturalium Universitatis Comenianae Anthropologia XXII: 11-13.
1977 Armelagos, George J. Disease in Ancient Nubia. In Culture, Disease and Healing:
Studies in Medical Anthropology. David Landy, ed. New York: MacMillan. Chapter 7, pp.
77-83. Reprinted from Science 63: 255-259.
Armelagos, George J. and Carlos Medina. The Demography of Prehistoric Populations.
Eugenics Bulletin 9(1): 8-14.
John W. Lallo, Robert P. Mensforth, George J. Armelagos, The Role of Diet, Disease and
Physiology in the Origin of Porotic Hyperostosis Human Biology 49: 471-483.
Van Gerven, Dennis P., George J. Armelagos and Arthur Rohr. Continuity and Change in
the Cranial Morphology of Three Nubian Archaeological Populations. Man: Journal of the
Royal Anthropological Institute 12(NS): 270-277.
Carlson, David S., George J. Armelagos, and Dennis P. Van Gerven, Patterns of
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Age-Related Cortical Bone Loss (Osteoporosis) within the Femoral Diaphysis,. In Twentythird
Rheumatism Review. American Rheumatism Association, Arthritis Foundation.
Reprinted from Human Biology 48(2): 295-314.
1978 Armelagos, George J. and John R. Dewey. Evolutionary Response to Human Infectious
Diseases. In Health and the Human Condition: Perspectives in Medical Anthropology, M.H.
Logan and F. Hunt, eds. North Scituate, Massachusetts: Duxbury Press, pp. 101-107.
Reprinted from Bioscience 20: 271-275).
Armelagos, George J., Alan Goodman and Kenneth H. Jacobs. The Ecological
Perspective in Disease. In Health and the Human Condition: Perspectives in Medical
Anthropology, M.H. Logan and F. Hunt, eds. Pp. 71-84. North Scituate, Massachusetts:
Duxbury Press.
Armelagos, George J. and David L. Greene. Racial and Demographic Interpretation of
the Kadero (Sudan) Neolithic Population. Current Anthropology 19(2): 411-412.
Debra Martin and George J. Armelagos. Paleoepidemiological Methods and Porotic
Hyperostosis. Paleopathology Newsletter 24:14-17.
Mensforth, Robert P., C. Owen Lovejoy, John W. Lallo and George J. Armelagos. The
Role of Constitutional Factors, Diet, and Infectious Disease in the Etiology of Porotic
Hyperostosis and Periosteal Reactions in Prehistoric Infants and Children. Medical
Anthropology 2(1): 1-59.
John W. Lallo, Jerome R. Rose and George J. Armelagos. Paleoepidemiology of
Infectious Disease in the Dickson Mounds Population. Medical College of Virginia
Quarterly 14(1): 17-23.
Jerome R. Rose, John W, Lallo and George J. Armelagos. Histological Enamel Indicator
of Childhood Stress in a Prehistoric Population. American Journal of Physical Anthropology
49(4): 511-516.
1979 Martin, Debra, George J. Armelagos and Jack King. Degenerative Joint Disease of the
Long Bones in Dickson Mounds. Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal 27(1): 60-63.
Martin, Debra and George J. Armelagos. Morphometrics of Compact Bone: An Example
from Sudanese Nubia. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 51(4): 571-579.
1980 Lallo, John, Jerome Rose and George J. Armelagos. An Ecological Interpretation of
Variation in Mortality within Three Prehistoric American Indian Populations from Dickson
Mounds. In Early Native Americans, David Bowman, ed. Pp. 203-239. The Hague:
Mouton Publishers.
Van Gerven, Dennis P. and George J. Armelagos. Sexual Dimorphism and Human
Evolution. Journal of Human Evolution 9: 437-446.
Goodman, Alan H., Jerome R. Rose and George J. Armelagos. Enamel Hypoplasias as
Indicators of Stress in Three Prehistoric Populations from Illinois. Human Biology 52(3):
515-528.
Bassett, E., M. Keith, G. J. Armelagos, D. Martin, and A. Villanueva. Tetracycline Labeled
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Human Bone from Prehistoric Sudanese Nubia (A.D. 350). Science 209:1532-1534.
Farb, Peter and George J. Armelagos. The Food Connection Natural History 89(9):
26-30.
Armelagos, George J. Comments on Social Responses During Severe Food Shortage
and Famine, Dirks. Current Anthropology 21(1): 32-33.
1981 Armelagos, George J., Kenneth H. Jacobs and Debra L. Martin. Death and Demography
in Prehistoric Sudanese Nubia. In Mortality and Immortality: Anthropology and Archaeology
of Death. Sally Humphries, ed. Pp. 33-57. London: Academic Press.
Schindler, Debra, George J. Armelagos and M. Pamela Bumsted. Skeletal Biology
Biocultural Adaptation in the Northeast. In Foundations of Northeast Archaeology. Dean R.
Snow, ed. Pp. 229-282. New York: Academic Press.
Martin, D. L. and George J. Armelagos. Techniques in Paleohistology: Morphometrics as
Indicators of Dietary Stress in Prehistoric Population from Sudanese Nubia. Proceedings of
the Symposium on Science and Egyptology. A.B. David and S. Fleming, eds. MASCA
Journal.
Martin, Debra, G. J. Armelagos, J. H. Mielke and R. Meindl. Bone Loss and Dietary Stress
in Prehistoric Populations from Sudanese Nubia. Bulletins et Memoires de la Societe
d'Anthropologie de Paris XIII: 307-319.
Farb, Peter and George J. Armelagos. The Food Connection. In Let the Earth Bless the
Lord. C. A. Cesaretti and S. Commins, eds. New York: The Seabury Press, pp. 74-80.
Reprinted from Natural History 89(9): 26-30.
Martin, Debra, Alan H, Goodman and George J. Armelagos. On the Use of
Microstructural Bone for Age Determination. Current Anthropology 21(4): 437-438.
Armelagos, George J. Review of Lucy and the First Family: (Odyssey Film Series).
Archaeology Magazine
1982 Huss-Ashmore, Rebecca, Alan H. Goodman and George J. Armelagos. Nutritional
Inferences from Paleopathology. In Advances in Archaeological Method and Theory,
5:385-473. M. Schiffer, ed., New York: Academic Press.
Farb, Peter and George J. Armelagos. Understanding Society through Eating in Food and
People, Dudley Kirk and Ellen K. Eliason, eds. Pp. 6-11. San Francisco: Boyd and Fraser
Publishers. Abridged from Consuming Passions: The Anthropology of Eating.
Farb, Peter and George J. Armelagos. Meal as Metaphor. In Food and People, Dudley
Kirk and Ellen K. Eliason, eds. Pp. 26-29. San Francisco: Boyd and Fraser Publishers.
Abridged from Meal as Metaphor from Consuming Passions: The Anthropology of Eating.
Farb, Peter and George J, Armelagos. The Wisdom of Cuisine. In Food and People,
Dudley Kirk and Ellen K. Eliason, eds. Pp. 40-46. San Francisco: Boyd and Fraser
Publishers. Abridged from The Wisdom of Cuisine from Consuming Passions: The
Anthropology of Eating.
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Keith, Margaret and George J. Armelagos. Naturally Occurring Antibiotics and Human
Health. In The Anthropology of Medicine. Lola Romanuuci-Ross, Daniel E. Moerman and
Laurence R. Tancredi, eds. Pp. 221-231. South Hadley, MA: Praeger-J.F. Bergin
Publishers.
Armelagos, George J., David S. Carlson and Dennis P. Van Gerven. The Theoretical
Foundations and Development of Skeletal Biology. In A History of Physical Anthropology,
1930-1980. F. Spencer, ed. Pp. 305-328. New York: Academic Press.
Lovejoy, C. Owen, Robert P. Mensforth and George J. Armelagos. Five Decades of
Skeletal Biology as Reflected in Pages of the American Journal of Physical Anthropology
(1930-1940). In A History of Physical Anthropology, 1930-1980, F. Spencer, ed. Pp. 329-
336. New York: Academic Press.
Armelagos, George J. Comment on Physical Anthropology of the Meroitic Area, Meroitic
Studies. Meroitica 6(5): 265-267
1983 Van Gerven, Dennis P. and George J. Armelagos. Farewell to Paleodemography?
Reports of Your Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated. Journal of Human Evolution 12:
326-331.
Farb, Peter and George J. Armelagos. The Origins of Chinese Food. Cosmopolitan
194(1): 226. Abridged from Consuming Passions: The Anthropology of Eating.
1984 Farb, Peter and George J. Armelagos. The Food Connection. In Conformity and Conflict:
Readings in Cultural Anthropology (fifth edition), J.P. Spradley and D.W. McCurdy, eds. ,
pp. 211-218. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. Reprinted from Natural History, 89:
26-30.
Martin, D. L., George J. Armelagos, Alan H. Goodman and Dennis P. Van Gerven. The
Effects of Socioeconomic change in Prehistoric Africa: Sudanese Nubia as a Case Study.
In Paleopathology at the Origins of Agriculture. M. Cohen and G. J. Armelagos, eds. Pp.
193-214. Orlando, Florida: Academic Press.
Armelagos, George J., D. P. Van Gerven, D. L. Martin and R. Huss-Ashmore. Effects of
Nutritional Change on Human Populations in Northeast Africa. In The Causes and
Consequences of Food Production in Africa. D. Clark and S. Brandt, eds. Pp. 131-146.
Berkeley: University of California Press.
Farb, Peter and George J. Armelagos. Wisdom of Cuisine. In Practical Guide to Writing,
S. Barnet and M. Stubbs, eds. Pp. 130-131. Boston: Little, Brown and Company.
Abridged from Consuming Passions: The Anthropology of Eating.
Goodman, Alan H., John Lallo, George J. Armelagos and Jerome C. Rose. Health
Changes at Dickson Mounds (A.D. 950-1300). In Paleopathology at the Origins of
Agriculture, M. Cohen and G. Armelagos, eds. Pp. 271-305. Orlando, Florida: Academic
Press.
Goodman, Alan H., Debra Martin, George J. Armelagos and George Clark. Indications of
Stress from Bones and Teeth. In Paleopathology at the Origins of Agriculture. M. Cohen
and G. Armelagos, eds. Pp. 13-49. Orlando, Florida: Academic Press.
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Cohen, M. H. and G. J. Armelagos. Paleopathology at the Origins of Agriculture: Editor's
Summation. In Paleopathology at the Origins of Agriculture. Pp. 585-601. Orlando,
Florida: Academic Press.
Goodman, Alan H., Jerome R. Rose and George J. Armelagos. The Chronological
Distribution of Enamel Hypoplasia from Prehistoric Dickson Mounds. American Journal of
Physical Anthropology 65:259-266.
1985 Armelagos, George J. Unwrapping the Mysteries of the Mummies. Contact 10:34-38.
Farb, Peter and George J. Armelagos. The Food Connection. In Critical Thinking, Critical
Choices. Aebersold, J., J. Kowitz, B. Schwarte and E. L. Smith, eds. Pp. 96-100. New
Jersey: Prentice Hall. Reprinted from Natural History 89:26-30.
Martin, Debra, Carol Piacentini and George J. Armelagos. Paleopathology of the Black
Mesa Anasazi, Arizona (700-1150 A.D.). Health and Disease in Prehistoric Southwest.
Anthropological Research Paper, Number 32. C. F. Merbs and R. J. Miller, eds. Pp.
104-115. Tempe: Arizona State University,
Goodman, Alan H. and George J. Armelagos. Disease and Death at Dr. Dickson's
Mounds. Natural History Magazine 94(9): 12-18.
Goodman, Alan H. and George J. Armelagos. Chronological Distribution of Enamel
Hypoplasia in Human Permanent Incisor and Canine Teeth. Archives of Oral Biology 30(6):
503-507.
Blakey, Michael and George J. Armelagos. Deciduous Dentition and Prenatal and
Postnatal Stress in Prehistoric Americans from Dickson Mounds. American Journal of
Physical Anthropology 66:371-380.
Price, T, Douglas, Margaret J. Schoeninger and George J. Armelagos. Bone Chemistry
and Past Behavior. Journal of Human Evolution 14:419-447.
Martin, Debra, Alan H. Goodman and George J. Armelagos. Skeletal Pathologies as
Indicators of Quality and Quantity of Diet. In The Analysis of Prehistoric Diets. Robert
Gilbert and James H. Mielke, eds. Pp. 227-279. Orlando: Academic Press.
1986 Goodman, Alan H., G. J. Armelagos, D. P. Van Gerven and J. Calcagno. Post-Mesolithic
Craniofacial and Dental Evolution in Sudanese Nubia. Science in Egyptology, R. David, ed.
Pp. 201-212. Manchester: University of Manchester Press.
Martin, D. L. and George J, Armelagos. Histological Analysis of Bone Remodeling in
Prehistoric Sudanese Nubian Specimens (350 BC-1100 AD). In Science in Egyptology, R.
David, ed. Pp. 385-397. Manchester: University of Manchester Press.
Greene, David L., Dennis P. Van Gerven and George J. Armelagos. Life and Death in
Ancient Populations: Bones of Contention in Paleodemography. Human Evolution 1(3)
193-207.
Armelagos, George J. The Evolution of the Lenten Meal. The New York Times. February
12, Section C, Page 12, Column 4.
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Clark, G. A., N. R. Hall, G. J. Armelagos, G. A. Borkan, M. M. Panjabi and F.T. Wetzel.
Poor Growth Prior to Childhood: Decreased Health and Lifespan in the Adult. American
Journal of Physical Anthropology 70:145-160.
Armelagos, George J. and Elizabeth Brewer. Review of Seeds of Change: Five Plants
that Transformed the World, Henry Hobhouse, Harper and Row . Washington Times Books
Magazine December 15, 1986:3-6.
1987 Armelagos, George J. Evolution of the Lenten Fast. In The Matilda Ziegler Magazine for
the Blind (in Braille) 8(2): 9-14. Reprinted of from The New York Times.
Armelagos, George J. Biocultural Adaptation, Food Preference and Food Aversion. In
Food and Evolution, M. Harris and E. Ross, eds. Pp. 579-594. Philadelphia: Temple
University Press.
1988 Goodman, Alan H. and George J. Armelagos. Childhood Stress, Cultural Buffering, and
Decreased Longevity in Prehistoric Populations. American Anthropologist, 90 (4): 936-944.
Farb, P., and G. J. Armelagos. Why We Eat the Way We Do. The Truth About Your Diet.
Mary Morris, ed. Pp. 27-46. New Canaan, Conn: William Mulvey Inc. Reprinted from
Consuming Passions: The Anthropology of Eating.
Armelagos, George J. and O. Donald Chrisman. Hyperostosis Frontalis Interna: A Nubian
Case. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 76(1): 25-28.
Horowitz, Sheryl and George J, Armelagos with Ken Wachter. On Generating Birth Rates
From Skeletal Populations. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 76(2): 189-196.
Baker, Brenda and George J. Armelagos. Origin and Antiquity of Syphilis: A Dilemma in
Paleopathological Diagnosis and Interpretation. Current Anthropology 29 (5): 703-737.
Goodman, Alan, R. Brooke Thomas, Alan C. Swedlund and George J. Armelagos.
Biocultural Perspectives on Stress in Prehistoric, Historical and Contemporary Population
Research. Yearbook of Physical Anthropology, 31: 169-202.
Keith, Margaret and George J. Armelagos. An Example of In Vivo Tetracycline Labeling:
Reply to Piepenbrink. Journal of Archaeological Science 15: 595-601.
1989 Armelagos, George J., M. Alcorn, D. P. Van Gerven, Barry Brenton and Debra Martin.
Factors Affecting Elemental Analysis and Isotopic Variation in Prehistoric Bone. In The
Chemistry of Prehistoric Human Bone. D. Price, ed. Pp.230-244. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press.
Price, T. D., G. J. Armelagos, J. E. Buikstra, M. P. Bumsted, B. S. Chisholm, J. E. Erikson,
J. B. Lambert, N. J. van der Merwe, M. J. Schoeninger, and A. Sillen. The Chemistry of
Prehistoric Human Bone: Recommendations and Directions for Future Study. In The
Chemistry of Prehistoric Bone, D. Price, ed. Chapter 11. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press.
Goodman, Alan and George J. Armelagos. Infant and Childhood Morbidity and Mortality
Risks in Archaeological Populations. World Archaeology 21(2): 225-243.
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Armelagos, George J. Alan H. Goodman, Dennis P. Van Gerven and James Calcagno.
Post-Pleistocene Facial Reduction, Biomechanics and Selection Against Morphologically
Complex Teeth: A Rejoinder to Macchiarelli and Bondioli. Human Evolution. 4(1): 1-7.
Schueler, Elizabeth and George J. Armelagos. Biological and Social Consequences of a
Nuclear War. In The Anthropology of War and Peace: Perspectives on the Nuclear Age.
Paul Turner and David Pitt, eds. Chapter 8, pp. 103-113. South Hadley: Bergin and
Garvey.
Martin, Debra, George J. Armelagos and Kay Henderson. The Persistence of Nutritional
Stress in Northeastern African (Sudanese Nubian) Populations. In African Food System in
Crisis: Part One: Microperspective, Food and Nutrition in History and Anthropology Series.
Rebecca Huss- Ashmore and S. Katz. Eds. Pp. 163-187. New York: Gordon and Breach.
Goodman, A. H. and G. J. Armelagos. Disease and Death at Dr. Dickson's Mounds. In.
In Applying Anthropology: An Introductory Reader. A. Podolefsky and P. J. Brown, eds
Pp.91-95. Mountain View, California: Mayfield Publishing Company. Reprinted from
Natural History Vol 94.
Coppa, Alfredo, George J. Armelagos and Rita Vargiu. Riduzione Dentale E Corporea
Nel Sudan Centrale Dal Mesolitico Al Periodo Cristano (VI millennio a. C. - I millennio d.
C.). Anthropologia Contemporanea 12 (4): 219-232.
1990 Hill, M. Cassandra and George J, Armelagos. An Evaluation of the Biocultural
Consequences of the Mississippian Transformation. In Towns and Temples along the
Mississippi. David H. Dye and Cheryl Anne Cox, eds. Chapter 2, pp 16-37. Tuscaloosa:
University of Alabama Press.
Armelagos, George J. Disease in Prehistoric Populations in Transition. In Disease in
Human Population in Transition. A. C. Swedlund and G. J. Armelagos, eds. Pp.124-142.
South Hadley: Bergin and Garvey.
Swedlund, Alan C., and George J. Armelagos. Introduction: Diseases in Populations in
Transition; Anthropological and Epidemiological Perspectives. In Disease in Human
Population in Transition. A. C. Swedlund and G. J. Armelagos, eds. Pp. 1-15. South
Hadley: Bergin and Garvey.
Swedlund, Alan C., and George J. Armelagos. Conclusions: Diseases in Populations in
Transition; Anthropological and Epidemiological Perspectives. In Disease in Human
Population in Transition. A. C. Swedlund and G. J. Armelagos, eds. Pp.359-362. South
Hadley: Bergin and Garvey.
Armelagos, George J., M. Ryan, and T. Leatherman. The Evolution of Infectious Disease:
A Biocultural Analysis of AIDS. American Journal of Human Biology 2(9) 353-363.
Hill, M. Cassandra Hill and George J. Armelagos. Porotic Hyperostosis in Past and
Present Perspective. In A Life in Science: Papers in Honor of J. Lawrence Angel. Scientific
Papers, Number 6. Jane Buikstra, ed. Pp. 52-63. Kampsville Illinois: Center for American
Archeology.
Bumsted, M. Pamela, June Brooker, Ramon Barnes, Thomas Boutton, George J.
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Armelagos, Juan Carlos Lerman and Klaus Brendel. Recognizing Women in the
Archeological Record. In Powers of Observation: Alternative Views in Archeology. Sarah
M. Nelson and Alice B. Kehoe, eds. Archeological Papers of the American Anthropological
Association 2:89-101.
Farb,P and G. J. Armelagos The Emerging Human Pattern. In 75 Readings. Developing
Reading Skills, 3rd. edition. Santi Buscemi and Charlotte Smith, eds. New York: McGraw-
Hill, Inc. Abridged from Chapter 2, Consuming Passions: The Anthropology of Eating.
Armelagos, George J. and Debra Martin. Advances in Paleopathology: A Biocultural
Approach to Understanding Osteoporosis in Prehistoric Populations. In Para Conocer al
Hombre: Homenaje Santiago Genoves. Luis Lara Tapia, ed. Pp 281-289. Mexico D. F.,
Universidad National Autonoma Mexico.
Coppa, A., S. M. Damadio, G. J. Armelagos, D. Mancinelli, and R. Vargiu. Paleobiology
and Paleopathology: A Preliminary Study of the Prehistoric Fishing populations of Ra's al-
Hamara 5 (Qurum, Sultantate of Oman, 3700-3200 BC). Anthropologia Contemporanea
13:329-336.
Farb, Peter and George J. Armelagos. Eating and Human Behavior. in., Culture and
Society: Social Science Reader. Carol Caldwell Roberts, ed . Pps. 51-55. Acton,
Massachusetts: Tapestry Press. Abridged from Comsuming Passions: The Anthropology
of Eating.
1991 Armelagos, George J., Alan H. Goodman and Kenneth Jacobs. The Origins of
Agriculture: Population Growth During a Period of Declining Health. In Cultural Change and
Population Growth: An Evolutionary Perspective. W. Hern. ed. Population and
Environment 13(1): 9-22.
Sillen, Andrew and George J. Armelagos. Introduction. Chemistry and Paleodiet. Journal
of Archaeological Sciences 18:225-226.
George J. Armelagos and Alfredo Coppa. Alla Scoperta Delle Malattie Antiche. Archeo
No 72: 116-118.
George J. Armelagos and Alfredo Coppa. Morte Sul Nilo. Archeo No 73 (March 1991):
122-124.
Keith, Margaret and George J. Armelagos. Naturally Occurring Antibiotics and Human
Health. The Anthropology of Medicine. Second edition. Lola Romanuuci-Ross, Daniel E.
Moerman and Laurence R. Tancredi, eds. Pp. 219-229. New York: Bergin and Garvey
Publishers.
Armelagos, George J. and Alan H. Goodman. The Concept of Stress and its Relevance
to Studies of Adaptation in Prehistoric Populations. In Human Ecology and Anthropology:
Lessons for the 21st Century. Collegium Anthropologicum. (Zagreb)15:45-58.
Armelagos, George J. Human Evolution and the Evolution of Human Disease. Ethnicity
and Disease. 1(1): 21-26.
1992 Armelagos, George J., Thomas Leatherman, Mary Ryan, and Lynn Sibley. Biocultural
Synthesis in Medical Anthropology. Medical Anthropology 14: 35-52.
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Goodman, Alan H. and George J. Armelagos. Disease and Death at Dr. Dickson's
Mound. In Applying Anthropology: An Introductory Reader. Second Edition. Aaron
Podolefsky and Peter Brown, eds. Mountain View, California: Mayfield Publishing
Company. Reprinted from Natural History, September 1990.
Goodman, Alan H., Debra L. Martin and George J. Armelagos. Health, Economic
Change, and Regional Political Economic Relations: Examples from Prehistory. MASCA 9:
51-59
Carlson, Catherine C., George J. Armelagos and Ann L. Magennis. In The Impact of
Disease on the Pre- and Post- Contact Populations in New England and the Maritimes.
Disease and Demography in the Americas. John Verano and Douglas Ubelaker, eds. Pp.
141-153. Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press.
Miller, R.L. G. J. Armelagos, S. Ikram, N. De Jonge, F. W. Krijer, A. N. Deedler.
Paleoepidemiology of Schistosoma infection in Mummies. British Medical Journal 304:
355-356.
Sibley, Lynn, George J. Armelagos and Dennis P. VanGerven. Obstetric Dimensions of
the True Pelvis in a Medieval Population from Sudanese Nubia. American Journal of
Physical Anthropology 89(4): 421-430.
Armelagos, George J. review of C.S. Larsen, R.M. Matter and D.L.Gebo. Human Origins:
The Fossil Record, Second Edition. Prospect Heights: Waveland Press, Inc.
1991,xii+207pp (paper) $14.95 in Human Biology
Armelagos, George J. Review of Postmortem Change in Human and Animal Remains: A
Systematic Approach. Marc S. Micozzi. Springfield: C.C. Thomas. Human Biology 4(5):
695-696
1993 Farb, Peter and George J. Armelagos. Understanding Society and Culture Through
Eating. In The Writers Express: A Paragraph and Essay Text and Readings. Kathleen T.
Mc Whorter, ed. Pp. 280-283. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. Abridged from Consuming
Passions: The Anthropology of Eating
Farb, Peter and George J. Armelagos. Understanding Society and Culture Through
Eating. In The Winston Reader. Bonnie Carter and Graig Skates, eds. Pp147-153. Fort
Worth: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc. Abridged from Consuming Passions: The
Anthropology of Eating.
Armelagos, George and Dennis P. Van Gerven. Paleopathologist as Detective: Disease
and Death in Prehistory. In Ela'Qua: Essays in Honor of Richard Woodbury. R. Brooke
Thomas and John W. Cole, eds. Pp. 269-283. Research Reports in Anthropology,
University of Massachusetts.
Armelagos, George J. and James O. Mills. Paleopathology as Science: the Contribution
of Egyptology. In Biological Anthropology and the Study of Ancient Egypt. W. Vivian
Davies and Roxie Walker, eds. Pps. 1-18. London: British Museum Press.
Rose, Jerome, George J. Armelagos and L. Stephen Perry. In Dental Anthropology of the
Nile Valley. W. Vivian Davies and Roxie Walker, eds. Biological Anthropology and the
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Study of Ancient Egypt. Pps. 61-74. London: British Museum Press.
Goodman, Alan H. and George J. Armelagos. Disease and Death at Dr. Dickson's
Mound. in Applying Anthropology. Fourth edition. Aaron Podolefsky and Peter Brown, eds.
Mountain View, California: Mayfield Publishing Company. Reprinted from Natural History,
September 1990.
Armelagos, George J. Racism and Physical Anthropology: Brues's Review of Barkann's
The Retreat of Scientific Racism. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 93(3):381-
383.
1994 Nelson, B.,D. Martin, A. Swedlund, P. Fish, G.J. Armelagos. Studies in Disruption:
Demography and Health in the Prehistoric Southwest. In Understanding Complexity in the
Prehistoric Southwest. G. Gummerman and Murray Gell-Man, eds. Sante Fe Institute
Studies in the Sciences of Complexity, Proc. Vol, XIV. Boston: Addison-Wesley.
Armelagos, George J. You Are What You Eat In Paleonutrition: The Diet and Health of
Prehistoric Populations. Kristin D.Sobolik, ed. Pp. 232-241. Carbondale: Center for
Archaeological Investigations, Occasional Paper No. 22. Carbondale: Southern Illinois
University
Miller, R. L., S. Ikiam, G. J. Armelagos, R. Walker, W. B. Haven, C.J. Saifer, D. Bassett,
M. Carrigan and S. M. Maret. Diagnosis of Pasmodium faciparum infections in Mummies
using the Rapid Manual Parasight TM -F Test. Transaction of the Royal Society of Tropical
Medicine and Hygiene 88:31-32
Armelagos, George J. and Alan C. Goodman. Dividing Humans by Race is Wrong Atlanta
Journal Constitution. Q2. October 2, 1994 (OpEd)
Goodman, Alan H. and George J. Armelagos. Disease and Death at Dr. Dickson's
Mound. In Applying Anthropology: An Introductory Reader. Third Edition. Aaron
Podolefsky and Peter Brown, eds. Mountain View, California: Mayfield Publishing
Company. Reprinted from Natural History, September 1990.
Armelagos, George J. Review of Human Paleopathology: Current Synthesis and Future
Options. Donald J. Ortner and Arthur C. Aufderheide, eds., Washington D.C.: Smithsonian
Press. Journal of Field Archeaology 21: 239-243.
Goodman, Alan C. and George J. Armelagos. The Study of Racial Differences The
Chronicle of Higher Education. XLI (2): B3. (Letter)
Armelagos, George J. Science, Race and The Bell Curve. Emory Report 47 (20): 2
1995 Farb, P. and Armelagos, G.J. The Pattern of Eating, In 75 Readings: An Anthology. 5th.
Edition. Santi Buscemi and Charlotte Smith, eds. Pp 283-288. New York: McGraw-Hill,
Inc. Abridged section of Chapter 10, The Wisdom of Cuisine, from Consuming Passions:
The Anthropology of Eating.
Goodman, Alan H., Debra L. Martin and George J. Armelagos. The Biological
Consequences of Inequality in Prehistory. Rivista di Antropologia (Roma) 73:123-131
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1996 Armelagos, George J. Race, Reason and Rationale. Review of Race, Evolution and
Behavior: A Life History Perspective by J. Philippe Rushton. Human Biodiversity: Genes,
Race and History by Jonathan Marks. (1995); The Evolution of Racism: Human Differences
and the Use and Abuse of Science by Pat Shipman. (1994) The Bell Curve: Intelligence
and Class Structure in American Life by Richard Hernnstein and Charles Murray.
Evolutionary Anthropology 4:103-109
Goodman, Alan H. and George J. Armelagos. Race, Racism and the New Physical
Anthropology. In Race and other Misadventures: Essays in Honor of Ashley Montagu in his
Ninetieth Year. L. Reynolds and L. Lieberman, eds. Pp. 174-186. Dix Hills, New York:
General Hall, Inc.
Farb, P. and Armelagos, G.J. The Pattern of Eating. In 75 Readings Plus. 3rd edition.
Santi Buscemi and Charlotte Smith, eds Pp 311-316. New York: McGraw-Hill, Inc.
Abridged section of Chapter 10, The Wisdom of Cuisine, from Consuming Passions: The
Anthropology of Eating.
George J. Armelagos. Cultura y Contacto: El Choque de Dos Cocina Mundiales.
Conquista y Comida: Consecuencias del Encuetro de Dos Mundos. J. Long, ed. Pp. 105-
129. Mexico City: UNHAM Press.
Armelagos, George J., Kathleen C. Barnes, and James Lin. Disease in Human Evolution:
The Re-Emergence of Infectious Disease in the Third Epidemiological Transition.
AnthroNotes 18(3):1-7
Blakey, Michael and George J. Armelagos. Comment on Hypoplastic area method for
analyzing enamel hypoplasia B. E. Ensor and J. D. Irish. American Journal of Physical
Anthropology 98:507-517
Goodman, Alan H. and George J. Armelagos. Disease and Death at Dr. Dickson's
Mound. In Applying Anthropology: An Introductory Reader. Fourth edition. Aaron
Podolefsky and Peter Brown, eds. Mountain View, California: Mayfield Publishing
Company. Reprinted from Natural History, September 1990.
1997 White, Christine D., and George J. Armelagos. Osteopenia and Stable Isotopes Ratios in
Bone Collagen of Nubian Female Mummies. American Journal of Physical Anthropology
103 (2): 185-199
Armelagos, George J., Paleopathology History of Physical Anthropology: An
Encyclopedia. F. Spencer, ed. Pp. 790-796, Vol. 2. New York and London: Garland
Publishing, Inc.
Armelagos, George J. Cockburn, T. Aidan (1912-1981). History of Physical
Anthropology: An Encyclopedia. F. Spencer, ed. Pp. 289, Vol. 1. New York and London:
Garland Publishing, Inc.
Armelagos, George J. Smith, (Sir) Grafton Elliot (1875-1937) History of Physical
Anthropology: An Encyclopedia. F. Spencer, ed. Pp. 955-957, Vol. 2. New York and
London: Garland Publishing, Inc.
Armelagos, George J. Disease, Darwin and Medicine in the Third Epidemiological
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Transition. Review of Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine.
Randolph M. Nesse and George C. Williams (1994). New York: Random House. 291 pp.
(cloth). Also published in 1996 as a Vintage Book. Also published in the United Kingdom in
1996 as Evolution and Healing: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine. Orion Press.
Evolutionary Medicine: Rethinking the Origins of Disease. By Marc Lappe. San Francisco:
Sierra Club Books. 1994. 255 pp. Evolution of Infectious Disease. By Paul W. Ewald.
Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. 1994. 298 pp. Man and Microbes: Diseases
and Plagues in History and Modern Times. By Arno Karlen. 1995. New York: G. P.
Putnam's Sons. Also published as a Touchstone Book, Simon and Schuster (paper).
Evolutionary Anthropology VI: 143-151.
1998 Baker, Brenda J. and George J. Armelagos. The Origin and Antiquity of Syphilis:
Paleopathological Diagnosis and Interpretation In Biological Consequences of the
European Expansion, 1450-1800. Kenneth F. Kipple and Stephen V. Beck, eds. Pp 1-35.
Brookfield Vt.: Ashgate/Variorum. Reprint from Current Anthropology 29 (5): 703-737.
Armelagos, George J. The Viral Superhighway The Sciences 38 (1): 24-29
Armelagos, George J. Introduction: Sex, Gender and Health Status in Prehistoric and
Contemporary Populations. In Sex and Gender in Paleopathological Perspective. A. Grauer
and P. Stuart-Macadam, eds. Pp. 1-10. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Armelagos, George J. Voici l'ere du Microbe-net : Vivons-nous une Troisieme Transition
Epidemiologoque? La Recherche. 314: 74-77 (Translation and reprint from The Viral
Superhighway. The Sciences)
Barrett, Ronald., Christopher W. Kuzawa, Thomas. McDade, and George J. Armelagos.
Emerging Infectious Disease and the Third Epidemiological Transition. Annual Review
Anthropology 27: 247-271. Palo Alto: Annual Reviews Inc.
Armelagos, George J. Mad Cows and Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies: The
Human Face of the Globalization of Disease. Evolutionary Anthropology VII: 77-80.
Armelagos, George J., and Alan H. Goodman. Race, Racism, and Anthropology. In
Building a New Biocultural Synthesis: Political-Economic Perspectives on Human Biology.
Alan H. Goodman and Thomas Leatherman, eds. Pp 359-377. Ann Arbor: University of
Michigan Press.
Ann Grauer and George J. Armelagos. Skeletal Biology of Hesban: A Biocultural
Interpretation. In The Necropolis of Hesban. A Typology of Tombs. Hesban 10. Douglas S.
Warerhouse, ed. Pp 107-131. Berrin Springs, MI: Andrews University Press.
Armelagos, George J., Kathleen C. Barnes, and James Lin. Disease in Human Evolution:
The Re-Emergence of Infectious Disease in the Third Epidemiological Transition. In
Understanding Humankind: The Best of Smithsonian Anthronotes. R.O. Selig and M.R.
London, eds. Pp. Chapter 8. Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution Press. Reprinted from
AnthroNotes 18 (3): 1-7
Armelagos, George J. Mad Cows and cannibals. The Sciences. 38(4):55 (response to
letter to the editor).
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Goodman, Alan H. and George J. Armelagos. Disease and Death at Dr. Dickson's
Mound. In Applying Anthropology: An Introductory Reader. Fifth edition. Aaron Podolefsky
and Peter Brown, eds. Mountain View, California: Mayfield Publishing Company. Reprinted
from Natural History, September 1990.
Armelagos, George J. Health and Disease in Prehistoric Populations in Transition. In
Understanding and Applying Medical Anthropology. Peter J. Brown, ed. New York:
McGraw Hill. Reprinted from Disease in Populations in Transition: Anthropological and
Epidemiological Perspective. South Hadley: Bergin and Garvey. 1990.
Armelagos, George J. Review of Aidan Cockburn, Eve Cockburn and Theodore A. Reyman's
Mummies, Disease & Ancient Culture. Journal Royal Anthropological Institute 5 (2): 282.
Armelagos, George J. Review of Clark Spencer Larsen's Bioarchaeology: Interpreting
behavior from the human skeleton. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press In Press
1999 Armelagos, George J. Egyptology and paleopathology. Encyclopedia of the Archaeology
of Ancient Egypt. K. Bard, ed. Pp.603-607 New York: Routledge.
Armelagos, George J., and Kathleen Barnes. The Evolution of Human Disease and the
Rise of Allergy: Epidemiological Transitions. Medical Anthropology 18 (2): 187-213.
Armelagos, George J. Redes planemias para los microbios. Mundo Cientifico. No. 197
(Enero) Pp. 57-61. Translation and reprint of The Viral Superhighway. From The Sciences
38 (1): 24-29 (1998)
Armelagos, George J. The Viral Super Highway. In Annual Editions: Physical
Anthropology 99/00, Eighth edition. Elvio Angeloni, ed. Chapter 36. New York: McGraw
Hill/Duskins. Reprinted from The Sciences, 38 (1): 24-29. January/February 1998.
Kathleen C. Barnes, George J. Armelagos and Steven Morreale. Darwinian Medicine and
the Emergence of Allergy. In Darwinian Medicine. Wenda R. Trevathan, E. O. Smith and
James J. McKenna, eds. Chapter 9. New York: Oxford University Press.
Goodman, Alan H. and George J. Armelagos, Disease and Death at Dr. Dickson’s
mounds. In Nutritional Anthropology: Biocultural Perspectives on Food and Nutrition. Alan
H. Goodman, Darna L. Dufour and Gretel H. Pelto, eds., Mountain View, California:
Mayfield Publishing Company. Reprinted from Natural History, September 1985.
Armelagos, George J. Review of Thomas M. Daniel’s The Captain of Death: The Story of
Tuberculosis. American Journal of Human Biology 11: 275-277.
2000 Smay, Diana B. and George J. Armelagos. Galileo Wept: A Critical Assessment of the
Use of Race in Forensic Anthropology. Transforming Anthropology 9 (2): 19-40.
Armelagos, George J. Take two beers and call me in the morning [or: …in 1500 years]
Ancient Nubians had a way with antibiotics. Natural History. April 2000.
Armelagos, George J. The Viral Super Highway in Annual Editions: Physical
Anthropology 99/00, Ninth edition. Elvio Angeloni, ed. Chapter 36 reprinted from The
Sciences, 38 (1): 24-29. January/February 1998.
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Armelagos, George J. The Viral Super Highway in Annual Editions: World Civilizations,
Ninth edition, volume II. Robert L. Lembright, ed. Chapter 35. New York: McGraw
Hill/Duskin. Reprinted from The Sciences, January/February 1998.
Farb, Peter and George Armelagos. Patterns of Eating. In The Quill Reader. Jocelyn
Siler, Kate Gadbow, Mark Medelevz, eds. Pp. 369-372. Fort Worth: Harcourt. Abridged
from Consuming Passions, The Anthropology of Eating
Farb, Peter and George Armelagos. Patterns of Eating. In The Quill Reader,The
Compact Edition. Jocelyn Siler, Kate Gadbow, Mark Medelevz, eds. Pp 263-266. Fort
Worth: Harcourt. Abridged from Consuming Passions, The Anthropology of Eating
Armelagos, George J. Feeding Frenzy: Atlanta Journal Constitution. May, 2000
Goodman, Alan H. and George J. Armelagos. Disease and Death at Dr. Dickson's
Mound. In Applying Anthropology: An Introductory Reader. Sixth edition. Aaron Podolefsky
and Peter Brown, eds. Mountain View, California: Mayfield Publishing Company. Reprinted
from Natural History, September 1990.
Armelagos, George J. The Viral Super Highway (reprinted from The Sciences,
January/February 1998.) in Science World. On Line.
http://www.findarticles.com/m2379/n1_v38/20136393/p1/article.jhtml
2001 Armelagos, George J. The Viral Super Highway in Annual Editions: Physical Anthropology
99/00, Tenth edition. Elvio Angeloni, ed. Chapter 36. New York: McGraw Hill/ Duskin.
Reprinted from The Sciences, January/February 1998.
Armelagos, George J. The Viral Super Highway. In Annual Editions: World Civilizations,
11 th edition, Volume II. Robert L. Lembright, ed. Chapter 35. New York: McGraw/Duskin.
Reprinted from The Sciences, January/February 1998
Brown, Ryan and George J Armelagos. Apportionment of Racial Diversity: A review.
Evolutionary Anthropology 10:15-20
Armelagos, George J., Kristi Kohlbacher, Kristy R. Collins, Jennifer Cook, and Maria
Karfield-Daugherty. Tetracycline Consumption in Prehistory. In Tetracyclines in Biology,
Chemistry and Medicine. M. Nelson, W. Hillen, and R.A. Greenwald, eds. Pp. 217-235.
Basil: Birkhauser Verlag AG.
Peter Farb and George Armelagos. Patterns of Eating. In 75 Readings Plus, Sixth Edition.
Santi V. Buscemi and Charlotte Smith,eds. New York: McGraw Hill. Abridged from
Consuming Passions: The Anthropology of Eating
Farb, Peter, and George Armelagos. Patterns of Eating. (Abridged from Consuming Passions: The
Anthropology of Eating. 1981). In 75 Readings Plus, 1 st Canadian Edition. S.V. Buscemi and C.
Smith, eds. New York: McGraw Hill- Ryerson Limited.
2002 Armelagos, George J. Diet and Evolution. Encyclopedia of Evolution. Mark Pagel, ed.
New York: Cambridge University Press.
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Armelagos, George J. and Peter J. Brown. The Body as Evidence; The Body of Evidence.
In The Backbone of History: Health and Nutrition in the Western Hemisphere.Pp. 593-602.
Richard Steckel and Jerome Rose, eds. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Peter Farb and George Armelagos. Patterns of Eating. In 75 Readings Plus, Sixth Edition.
Santi V. Buscemi and Charlotte Smith,eds. New York: McGraw Hill. Abridged from
Consuming Passions: The Anthropology of Eating
Armelagos, George J. The Viral Super Highway in Annual Editions: Physical Anthropology
02/03, Eleventh edition. Elvio Angeloni, ed. Chapter 40 New York: Mcgraw Hill/Duskins
reprinted from The Sciences, January/February 1998.
Armelagos, George J., Kathleen C. Barnes and James Lin. Disease in human evolution:
the re-emergence of infectious disease in the third epidemiological transition. In
Understanding Humankind: The Best of Smithsonian AnthroNotes. R.O. Selig and M.R.
London, eds. Pp. Chapter 8. Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution Press. Reprinted in
Biological Anthropology: An Introductory Reader. Richard Park, ed. Third Edition. New
York: McGraw-Hill Higher Education
Sibley, L., Sipe, T., Armelagos,G. J., Barret, K., Finley, E.P., Kamat, V., Loomis, A., Long,
P.J., Morreale, S., Quimby, C. Traditional birth attendant training effectiveness: a metaanalysis.
Unpublished technical report. Washington, D.C.: Academy for Educational
Development SARA Project. Traditional birth attendant training effectivenss: a metaanalysis.
World Bank Safe Motherhood Special Grants Program, United States Agency for
International Development (USAID) Bureau for Global Programs, Office of Population
(PRIME I Project), and USAID Bureau for Africa Office of Sustainable Development,
(Academy for Educational Development/SARA Project), p.107, Technical Report
2003 Goodman, Alan H. and George J. Armelagos. Disease and Death at Dr. Dickson’s
Mounds. In Applying Anthropology, Seventh Edition. Aaron Podolefsky and Peter J, Brown,
eds. Pp. 83-87. Mountain View, California: Mayfield Publishing Company. Reprinted from
Natural History, September 1985
Armelagos, George J. Bioarcheology as anthropology. In Archaeology is Anthropology.
Susan D. Gillespie and Deborah Nichols, ed. PP. 27-41. Archaeological Papers of the
American Anthropological Association Series, No 13.
Armelagos, George J. The Viral Super Highway in Annual Editions: Physical Anthropology
03/04, Twelfth edition. Elvio Angeloni, ed. Chapter 40 New York: Mcgraw Hill/Duskins
reprinted from The Sciences, January/February 1998.
Farb, Peter and George J. Armelagos. Patterns of Eating. Abridged from Consuming
Passions: The Anthropology of Eating. 1981. In Fiction/Non Fiction: A Reader and Rhetoric.
Garry Engkent and Lucia Engkent. Ontario: Thompson and Nelson
2004 Armelagos, George J. (2004). Emerging disease in the third epidemiological transition.
The Changing Face of Disease: Implications for Society. N. Mascie-Taylor, J. Peters and S.
T. McGarvey. Boca Raton, FL, CRC. Society for the Study of Human Biology Series, 43: 7-
23.
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Armelagos, George J. The Viral Super Highway reprinted from The Sciences, 38 (1): 24-29.
January/February 1998. In Annual Editions: Physical Anthropology 04/05, Chapter 36, Thirteenth
edition. E. Angeloni, ed.
Farb, Peter, and George Armelagos. Patterns of Eating. (Abridged from Consuming Passions: The
Anthropology of Eating. 1981). In 75 Readings Plus, Seventh Edition. S.V. Buscemi and C. Smith,
eds. New York: McGraw Hill.
Armelagos, George J. Evolutionist and Creationist at the Dinner Table. Evolutionary Anthropology
14 (2):1-3.
Armelagos, George J. Du Bois, Boas and Study of Race. Hamline Review. 28: 1-21
Armelagos, George J., Kathleen C. Barnes and James Lin. Reprint with update and slight
revisions. Disease in human evolution: the re-emergence of infectious disease in the third
epidemiological transition. In Understanding Humankind: The Best of Smithsonian AnthroNotes.
R.O. Selig and M.R. London, eds. Pp. Chapter 8. Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution Press.
(2004)
2005 Armelagos, George J., Kathleen C. Barnes and James Lin. Disease in human evolution: the reemergence
of infectious disease in the third epidemiological transition. In Understanding
Humankind: The Best of Smithsonian AnthroNotes. R.O. Selig and M.R. London, eds. Pp. Chapter
8. Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution Press. Reprinted in Biological Anthropology: An
Introductory Reader. Richard Park, ed. Fourth Edition. New York: McGraw-Hill Higher Education
Armelagos, George J. The Viral Super Highway reprinted from The Sciences, 38 (1): 24-29.
January/February 1998. In Annual Editions: Physical Anthropology 05/06, Chapter 36, Fourteenth
edition. E. Angeloni, ed. (2005)
Armelagos, George J., Peter J. Brown, and Bethany Turner. Evolutionary, historical and political
perspective on health and disease. Carole Browner and Betty Wolder Lewin, eds. Special Issue of
Social Science and Medicine. 60 (X): 1-11. Available on line.
Williams, Frank L’Engle , Robert L. Belcher and George J. Armelagos Forensic Misclassification of
Ancient Nubian Crania: Implications for Assumptions about Human Variation. Current
Anthropology. 46 (2): 340-347.
Armelagos, George J. and Kristin N. Harper. Genomics at the Origins of Agriculture, Part One.
Evolutionary Anthropology. 14 (2):68-77.
Armelagos, George J. and Kristin N. Harper. Genomics at the Origins of Agriculture.
Evolutionary Anthropology. Part Two. I4 (3):100-121
Schurr, Theodore G., Ben P. Donham, Steven C. Morreale, Catherine Panter-Brick, Donald L.
Dunham, George J. Armelagos, and Douglas C. Wallace. Genetic Diversity in Modern African
Populations and Its use for Reconstructing Ancient and Modern Population Movements. Pp. 169-
207. Biomolecular Archaeology: Genetic Approaches to the Past. David M. Read, Editor.
Occasional Paper no. 32. Carbondale: Center for Archaeological Investigation. Southern Illinois
University.
Armelagos, George J. and Kristin N. Harper. Disease Globalization in the Third Epidemiological
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Transition. In Globalization, Health and the Environment: An Integrated Perspective. Chapter 1.
Pp. 27-33. Greg Guest, ed. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press
Armelagos, George J. The Slavery Hypertension Hypothesis: A Commentary. Transforming
Anthropology 13 (2): 119-124.
Armelagos, George J., Kristin N. Harper and Paolo S. Ocampo. On the Trail of the Twisted
Treponeme: The Search for the Origins of Syphilis. Review Essay onThe Myth of Syphilis: The
Natural History of Treponematosis in North America. Mary Lucas Powell and Della Collins Cook,
editors. Gainesville: University Press of Florida. 2005. Cloth: $85.00 ISBN: 0-8130-2794-2. Florida
Museum of Natural History, Ripley P. Bullen Series. Evolutionary Anthropology 14:240-242
Maes, Kenneth and George J. Armelagos, Comment on Margaret Lock’s Eclipse of the Gene and
the Return of Divination with CA Comment. Current Anthropology 46 (Supplement):S63-S64.
2006 Armelagos, George J. The Viral Super Highway reprinted from The Sciences, 38 (1): 24-29.
January/February 1998. In Annual Editions: Physical Anthropology 06/07, Chapter 39, Fifteenth
edition. E. Angeloni, ed. (2006)
Turner, Bethany, Diana Smay and George J. Armelagos, To the Science, to the Living, to the
Dead: Ethics and Bioarchaeology. In George T. H. Ellison and Alan H. Goodman, (Eds). The Nature
of Difference: Science, Society and Human Biology. Pgs. 203-224. Miami: CRC/Francis and Taylor.
Society for the Study of Human Biology Symposium. Volume 44.
Barrett, Ronald., Christopher W. Kuzawa, Thomas. McDade, and George J. Armelagos. Emerging
Infectious Disease and the Third Epidemiological Transition. Annual Review Anthropology 27: 247-
271. Palo Alto: Annual Reviews Inc.!988. Reprinted in Health and Healing in Comparative
Perspective. Elizabeth D, Whitaker, Editor. Chapter 19, Pp193-211. Upper Saddle River, NJ:
Pearson Prentice Hall.(2006)
Farb, Peter and George Armelagos. Patterns of Eating. The Little Brown Reader, Marcia Stubbs,
Sylvan Barnet and William E. Cain, Eds. 10 Edition. New York: Longman (2006)
Armelagos, George J. and Kenneth Maes. Revisiting the Slavery Hypertension Hypothesis: A
response to Fatimah L. C. Jackson’s Commentary. Transforming Anthropology Vol 14: (1):71-80.
Maes, Kenneth and George J. Armelagos, Comment on Margaret Lock’s Eclipse of the Gene and
the Return of Divination with CA Comment. Current Anthropology 46 (Supplement):S63-S64.
Farb, Peter and George Armelagos, Farb, Patterns of Eating. In Marcia Stubbs, Sylvan Barnet and
William E. Cain (Ed.), The Little Brown Reader, 10th Edition (pp. ). New York: Longman (Published)
Excerpted and Reprinted from Consuming Passions; The Anthropology of Eating. Boston:
Houghton-Mifflin (1981)
2007 Armelagos, George J. The Viral Super Highway . In E. Angeloni (Ed.), Annual Editions: Physical
Anthropology 07/08, Sixteenth Edition (pp. Chapter 41). New York: McGraw-Hill. Reprinted from
The Sciences, 38 (1): 24-29. January/February 1998.
Farb, Peter and George Armelagos (2007). Patterns of Eating. In Marcia Stubbs, Sylvan Barnet
and William E. Cain (Ed.), The Little Brown Reader, 10th Edition (pp. ). New York: Longman.
Excerpted and Reprinted from Consuming Passions; The Anthropology of Eating. Boston:
Houghton-Mifflin (1981)
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Williams,Frank L’Engle and George J. Armelagos. Reply to Mark Hubbe and Walter A. Neves.
On the Misclassification of Human Crania: Are There Any Implications for Assumptions about
Human Variation? Current Anthropology 48 ( 2): 285-288
Frank L’Engle Williams, Robert L. Belcher, and George J. Armelagos. Comment on “On Meroitic
Nubian Crania, Fordisc 2.0, and Human Biological History” Current Anthropology 48 ( 3): 425-427
Armelagos, George J. The Viral Super Highway. In A. Podolefsky and P. Brown. Applying Cultural
Anthropology: An Introductory Reader. Seventh Edition (pp. Chapter 33). New York: McGraw-Hill.
Reprinted from The Sciences, 38 (1): 24-29. January/February 1998
2008 Turner, Bethany L., Kenneth Maes, Jennifer L. Sweeny and George J. Armelagos. Human
Evolution, Diet and Nutrition: Where the Body Meets the Buffet. In Trevathan, Wenda R., Smith,
E.O., McKenna, J.J. (Ed.), New Perspectives in Evolutionary Medicine (pp. 55-71). Oxford: Oxford
University Press.
Armelagos, George J. Biocultural Anthropology at its Origins: Transformation of the New Physical
Anthropology in the 1950s. Chapter 20, pg 269-282. In A. J. Kelso (Ed.), The Tao of Anthropology.
Gainesville: University of Florida Press.
Armelagos, George J. Devouring Ourselves. In Deborah Nichols and Patricia Crown (Ed.),
Multidisciplinary Approaches to Social Violence in the American Southwest. Tucson: University of
Arizona Press
Harper Kristin N., Paolo S. Ocampo, Bret M. Steiner, Robert W. George, Michael S. Silverman,
Shelly Boltin, Allan Pillay, Nigel J. Saunders, and George J. Armelagos. On the Origin of the
Treponematoses: A Phylogenetic Approach. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2 (1):e148,
Available on Line
http://www.plosntds.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pntd.0000148
Harper, Kristin N., Hsi Liu, Paolo S. Ocampo, Bret M. Steiner and George J. Armelagos. The
evolution of the acidic repeat protein (arp) gene in Treponema pallidum: implications for
pathogenicity and history. FEMS Immunology & Medical Microbiology. 53(3): 322-332
Farb, Peter and George Armelagos. Patterns of Eating. In Marcia Stubbs, Sylvan Barnet and
William E. Cain (Ed.), The Little Brown Reader, 11th Edition (pp. ). New York: Longman. Excerpted
and Reprinted from Consuming Passions; The Anthropology of Eating. Boston: Houghton-Mifflin
(1981).
Armelagos, George J. The Viral Super Highway. In E. Angeloni (Ed.), Annual Editions: Physical
Anthropology 08/09, Seventeenth Edition (pp. Chapter 40). New York: McGraw-Hill. Reprinted from
The Sciences, 38 (1): 24-29. January/February 1998
Armelagos, George J. The Viral Superhighway. In Elvio Angeloni, Mari Pritchard Parker and
Lauren Arensen (Ed.), Roundtable Viewpoints, Physical anthropology (pp. Chapter 6.1). New York:
McGraw-Hill. Reprinted from The Sciences, 38 (1): 24-29. January/February 1998
2009 Turner, Bethany L. George D Kamenov, John D Kingston and George J Armelagos.
Insights into Immigration and Social Class at Machu Picchu, Peru based on Oxygen,
Strontium and Lead Isotopic Analysis. Journal of Archaeological Science. 36(2):317-332
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Armelagos, George J. The Viral Super Highway. In E. Angeloni (Ed.), Annual Editions: Physical
Anthropology 09/10, Eighteenth Edition (pp. Chapter 37). New York: McGraw-Hill. Reprinted from
The Sciences, 38 (1): 24-29. January/February 1998
Armelagos, George J. The Viral Super Highway. In A. Podolefsky , P. Brown and Scott Lacy.
Applying Cultural Anthropology: An Introductory Reader. Eighth Edition, Chapter 30, Pp. 202-207).
New York: McGraw-Hill. Reprinted from The Sciences, 38 (1): 24-29. January/February 1998
Armelagos, George J. The Paleolithic Disease-scape, the Hygiene Hypothesis, and the Second
Epidemiological Transition. The Hygiene Hypothesis and Darwinian Medicine. Pg. 29-43. G. A.
Rock, ed. Birkhauser Publishing, Basel, Switzerland
Armelagos, George J., Alan H. Goodman, Kristin N. Harper and Michael L. Blakey . Enamel
Hypoplasia and Earlier Mortality: Bioarchaeological Support for the Barker Hypothesis. Evolutionary
Anthropology 18: 261-271.
2010 Armelagos, George J. Omnivore’s Dilemma: The Evolution of the Brain and the
Determinates of Food Choice. Journal of Anthropological Research 66(2):161-186.
Armelagos, George J. Health and Disease in Prehistoric Populations in Transition. In
Understanding and Applying Medical Anthropology. Second Edition. Peter J. Brown and
Ron Barrett ed. New York: McGraw Hill. Reprinted from Disease in Populations in
Transition: Anthropological and Epidemiological Perspective. South Hadley: Bergin and
Garvey. 1990.
Armelagos, George J. The Viral Super Highway. In E. Angeloni (Ed.), Annual Editions: Physical
Anthropology 10/11, Nineteenth Edition (pp. Chapter 38). New York: McGraw-Hill. Reprinted from
The Sciences, 38 (1): 24-29. January/February 1998.
Kristin N. Harper and George J. Armelagos. The Changing Disease-scape in the Third
Epidemiological Transition. The International Journal of Environmental Research and Public
Health 7 (2): 675-697
Nelson, Mark, Jeffery Hochberg, Andrew Dinardo, George J. Armelagos. Spectroscopic
Characterization of Tetracycline in Skeletal Remains of an Ancient Population from
Sudanese Nubia 350CE-550CE. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 143: 151-154
Armelagos, George J. and Kristin N. Harper. Emerging Infectious Diseases, Urbanization and
Globalization in the Time of Global Warming in The New Blackwell Companion to Medical
Sociology. Pp.291-311. William C. Cockerham, ed. . Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Publishing
Armelagos, George J. Review of Palaeopathology by Tony Waldron. Quarterly Review of
Biology.85 (2):215
Armelagos, George J.Review of Histories of American Physical Anthropology in the Twentieth
Century. Michael A. Little and Kenneth A.R. Kennedy, editors. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books.
Quarterly Review of Biology.85 (4): 486-487
Armelagos, George J. Creatures of the Flame Light and Heat in Human Evolution. Review of Fire:
The Spark That Ignited Human Evolution by Frances D. Burton University of New Mexico Press,
Albuquerque, 2009. And 2009. Evolutionary Anthropology 19: 158-160.
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Molly K. Zuckerman and George J. Armelagos. L. S. Penrose and the Study of Race. In
Research in Physical Anthropology: Essays in Honor of Professor L. S. Penrose. Sudip Datta
Banik Pp. 11-36. Merida: Unas letras Industria Editorial
Armelagos, George J. and Kenneth Maes. Contaminated cuisines and the omnivore’s dilemma.
Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition Newsletter. December 15, 2010.
http://foodanthro.wordpress.com/2010/12/15/contaminated-cuisines-and-theomnivore%E2%80%99s-dilemma/
Emily Esche, Amanda Mummert, Joshua Robinson and George J. Armelagos Cancer in Egypt
and Nubia. Anthropologie-International Journal of the Science of Man. XLIII (2-3): 133-139.
.
2011 Armelagos, George J. The Viral Super Highway. In E. Angeloni (Ed.), Annual Editions: Physical
Anthropology 11/12, Twentieth Edition (pp. Chapter 37). New York: McGraw-Hill. Reprinted from
The Sciences, 38 (1): 24-29. January/February 1998.
Molly K. Zuckerman, Bethany L. Turner and George J. Armelagos. Evolutionary Thought
in Paleopathology and the Rise of the Biocultural Approach. Pp. 34-57. Companion to
Paleopathology. Anne Grauer, editor. Oxford: Blackwood
Amber Campbell Hibbs, W. Evan Secor, Dennis P. Van Gerven, George J. Armelagos
Irrigation and Infection: The Immunoepidemiology of Schistosomiasis in Ancient Nubia.
American Journal of Physical Anthropology 145:290-298.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com.proxy.library.emory.edu/doi/10.1002/ajpa.21493/pdf
Molly K. Zuckerman and George J. Armelagos. The origins of the biocultural dimensions in
bioarchaeology. Social Bioarchaeology. Sabrina C. Agarwal and Bonnie Glencross, eds. Pp.15-43.
Malden, MA: Wiley Publishing
Harper, Kristin N., Molly K. Zuckerman, Megan L. Harper, John Kingston and George J.
Armelagos. The Origin and Antiquity of Syphilis Revisited: An Appraisal of Old World Pre-
Columbian Evidence for Treponemal Infection. Yearbook of Physical Anthropology 54:99-
133
Armelagos, George J. Histories of Scholars, Ideas, and Disciplines of Biological Anthropology and
Archaeology. Reviews in Anthropology. vol. 40, no. 2: 107-133
Amanda Mummert. Emily Esche, Joshua Robinson and George J. Armelagos. Stature and
Robusticity at Agricultural Transitions: Evidence from the Bioarchaeological Record. Economics &
Human Biology. 9: 284-301 On Line:
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2012 Armelagos, George J. Review of Potato: A Global History. By Andrew F. Smith. London,
Reaktion Books Ltd., 2011. 142 p, $15.95; Lobster: A Global History. By Elisabeth
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Townsend. London, Reaktion Books Ltd., 2011. 144p, $15.95; Dates: A Global History.
By Nawal Nasrallah. London, Reaktion Books Ltd., 2011. 136 p, $15.95; Ice Cream: A
Global History. By Laura B. Weiss. London, Reaktion Books Ltd., 176 p, $15.95. All four
titles the latest in the Edible Series and are distributed by the University of Chicago
Press. American Journal of Human Biology. 24 (1):90-92
Armelagos, George J. Anthropology and the Genographic Project. American Anthropologist 114
(1): 139-141.
Armelagos, George J., Molly K. Zuckerman, and Kristin N. Harper. Research by Documentary:
The Science behind Pre-Columbian Evidence of Syphilis in Europe. Evolutionary Anthropology.
21:50-57
Bethany Turner and George J. Armelagos. Diet, Residential Origins and Pathology at Machu
Picchu. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 149 (1): 71-73
Kristin N. Harper, Molly K. Zuckerman and George J. Armelagos. Correspondence: The 35 th
“Possible” Case of Old World, Pre-Columbian, Treponemal Disease: Of What Value? International
Journal of Osteoarchaeology.
Kristin N. Harper, Bethany Turner, Molly Zuckerman and George J. Armelagos. Primates,
pathogens, and evolution: a context for understanding emerging disease. Primates, Pathogens and
Evolution. Jessica Brinkworth and E. Pechenkina, eds. Primates, Pathogens and Evolution.
Developments in Primatology Series. New York: Springer Publishing
Armelagos, George J. Brain Evolution, the Determinates of Food Choice and the Omnivore’s
Dilemma. Critical Review of Food and Nutrition. In press
Molly Zuckerman, Kristin N. Harper and George J. Armelagos. Response to Cole and
Waldron’s “Letter to the Editor: Syphilis Revisited.” American Journal of Physical
Anthropology 149: 151-152
Kristin N. Harper, Robert D. Fyumagwa, Richard Hoare, Philemon N. Wambura, Dorian
H. Coppenhaver, Robert M. Sapolsky, Susan C. Alberts, Jenny Tung, Morris Kilewo,
Emmanuel K. Batamuzi, Fabian H. Leendertz, George J. Armelagos and Sascha Knauf.
Treponema pallidum infection in the wild baboons of East Africa: distribution and genetic
characterization of the strains responsible. PLoS ONE . In Press.
Goodman, Alan H. and George J. Armelagos, Disease and Death at Dr. Dickson’s
mounds. In Nutritional Anthropology: Biocultural Perspectives on Food and Nutrition. Alan
H. Goodman, Darna L. Dufour and Gretel H. Pelto, eds., Chapter 12. Second edition. New
York: Oxford University Press. Reprinted from Natural History, September 1985.
Armelagos, George J. The Viral Super Highway. In E. Angeloni (Ed.), Annual Editions: Physical
Anthropology 12/13, Twenty-first Edition (pp. Chapter 37). New York: McGraw-Hill. Reprinted from
The Sciences, 38 (1): 24-29. January/February 1998
Bethany Turner, Molly Zuckerman and Armelagos, George J. Anthropology of Food Choice.
Teaching Food in Anthropology: Experiences, Challenges and Techniques. Candice Swift, editor.
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Armelagos, George J. with John T. Woods, Jr. Where Lie the Remains of Button Gwinnett?
Georgia Backwaters.
2013 Armelagos, George J. and Mark Nathan Cohen. Preface. In Paleopathology at the Origins of
Agriculture. M. Cohen and G. J. Armelagos, eds. Pp. 193-214. Gainesville: University Press of
Florida. Reprinted from Paleopathology at the Origins of Agriculture. M. Cohen and G. J.
Armelagos, eds. Pp. 193-214. Orlando, Florida: Academic Press.
Martin, D. L., George J. Armelagos, Alan H. Goodman and Dennis P. Van Gerven. The Effects of
Socioeconomic change in Prehistoric Africa: Sudanese Nubia as a Case Study. In Paleopathology
at the Origins of Agriculture. M. Cohen and G. J. Armelagos, eds. Pp. 193-214. Gainesville:
University Press of Florida. Reprinted from Paleopathology at the Origins of Agriculture. M. Cohen
and G. J. Armelagos, eds. Pp. 193-214. Orlando, Florida: Academic Press.
Goodman, Alan H., John Lallo, George J. Armelagos and Jerome C. Rose. Health
Changes at Dickson Mounds (A.D. 950-1300). In Paleopathology at the Origins of
Agriculture. M. Cohen and G. J. Armelagos, eds. Pp. 271-305. Gainesville: University
Press of Florida. Reprint of Paleopathology at the Origins of Agriculture, M. Cohen and G.
Armelagos, eds. Pp. 271-305. Orlando, Florida: Academic Press.
Goodman, Alan H., Debra Martin, George J. Armelagos and George Clark. Indications of
Stress from Bones and Teeth. In Paleopathology at the Origins of Agriculture. M. Cohen
and G. J. Armelagos, eds. Pp. 13-49. Gainesville: University Press of Florida. In
Paleopathology at the Origins of Agriculture. M. Cohen and G. Armelagos, eds. Pp. 13-49.
Orlando, Florida: Academic Press.
Cohen, M. H. and G. J. Armelagos. Paleopathology at the Origins of Agriculture: Editor's
Summation. In Paleopathology at the Origins of Agriculture. M. Cohen and G. J.
Armelagos, eds. Pp. 585-601. Gainesville: University Press of Florida. From
Paleopathology at the Origins of Agriculture. Pp. 585-601. Orlando, Florida: Academic
Press.
George J. Armelagos. The Hygiene Hypothesis and the Second Epidemiological
Transition. In Moving the Middle to the Foreground: Revisiting the Second Epidemiological
Transition. Molly K. Zuckerman, ed.
George J. Armelagos. The Second Epidemiological Transition, Adaptation and the Evolutionary
Paradigm. In Moving the Middle to the Foreground: Revisiting the Second Epidemiological
Transition. Molly K. Zuckerman, ed.
George J. Armelagos and Kendra Sirak Analysis of Nutritional Disease in Prehistory: The History
of the Search for Scurvy and Other Specific Deficiencies. In Advances in the Paleopathology of
Scurvy: Physiological, Diagnostic, and Biocultural Perspectives. International Journal of
Paleopathology. John Crandall and Haagen Klaus, eds
Lynn M. Sibley and George J. Armelagos. The Midwife, the Barker Hypothesis and the Health of
Mothers and Infants. Journal of Midwifery and Woman Health
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C. Abstracts and Papers Presented
1962 Armelagos, George J. Nutrition and the Distribution of the ABO Blood Groups. Journal of the
Colorado-Wyoming Academy of Science 5 (3): 9 (Abstract).
1963 Armelagos, George J. and A. J. Kelso. Nutritional Factors as Possible Selective Agencies
in the Determination of ABO Blood Group Frequencies. Annual Meeting of the American
Anthropological Association, Chicago.
1964 Armelagos, George J., George Ewing and David L. Green Mesolithic Fossil Man
Discovery in the Sudan. Journal of the Colorado-Wyoming Academy of Science 5
(Abstract).
Armelagos, George J. Fossil Man Discovery from Wadi Halfa, Sudan (with Ewing and
Greene). Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologist, Mexico
City, June.
1965 Armelagos, George J. The Physical Anthropology of the Nile Valley (with Ewing, Greene
and Papworth). Abstracts, INQUA, 3:8, International Congress.
Armelagos, George J. Paleopathology of three Archaeological Populations. Journal of
the Colorado-Wyoming Academy of Science 6 (Abstract).
Armelagos, George J. Vital Statistics Based on the Skeletal Remains from Sudanese
Nubia. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 23:328 (Abstract).
Organizer. Future Work in Paleopathology: Symposium on Ancient Disease. Annual
Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Denver, November.
1966 Armelagos, George J. and David Carlquist. Physical Anthropology of the Uto-Aztecan
Problem. Invited paper for the Plenary Symposium on Uto-Aztecan Prehistory. Society for
American Archaeology and Great Basin Anthropological Conference, Reno, May 5-7.
Armelagos, George J. Frequency of Dental Caries in Four Archaeological Populations
from Sudanese Nubia. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 25:210 (Abstract).
1967 Armelagos, George J. Physical Anthropology and Man-Made Lakes. Invited paper for the
Symposium on River Basin Development in Africa and Southeast Asia: New Opportunities,
Responsibilities, and Difficulties for Anthropology, held at the Meeting of the Society for
Applied Anthropology, Washington, D.C., May 5.
Armelagos, George J. Demographic Patterns and Cultural Change in Sudanese Nubia.
Invited paper for the Symposium on Paleodemography, Disease and Human Evolution
(organized by J. L. Angel), American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting,
Washington, D.C.
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1968 Armelagos, George J. The Use of Ethnohistorical data in Paleopathology. Invited paper
for Symposium on Ethnohistory, Joint Meeting of the Southwestern Anthropological
Association and the California Archaeological Society, San Diego, April.
Armelagos, George J., John R. Dewey and Murray H. Bartley. Criba Orbitalia in
Prehistoric Populations from Sudanese Nubia. American Journal of Physical Anthropology
29:130 (Abstract).
Armelagos, George J., and Jon R. Dewey. Human Response to Infectious and
Degenerative Diseases. Invited paper for the Special Symposium on Pleistocene Man-
Environment Relationships, American Institute of Biological Sciences, Columbus, Ohio,
September 5.
Armelagos, George J., Alan C. Swedlund and R. Maxwell. Estimates of Differential
Mortality from Nubian Cemeteries. Invited paper for the Symposium on Culture and
Populations (arranged by Steven Polgar and Moni Nag) for the American Anthropological
Association, Seattle, Washington, November.
1969 Armelagos, George J. Bone Growth and Development in Prehistoric Nubia. Symposium
on the Population Biology of Early Egyptians, organized by the University of Turin and the
British Museum (Natural History), Castle Montaldo, Turin, Italy, April 16-18.
Armelagos, George J., Dennis P. Van Gerven and Alan C. Swedlund. Use of Skeletal
Analysis in the Reconstruction of Culture History. Invited paper for the Symposium on
African Archaeology. African Studies Association, Montreal, October 15-18.
1971 Armelagos, George J. and Dennis P. Van Gerven. Present Status of Paleopathology.
Society for American Archaology, Norman, Oklahoma.
Salzmann, Z and George J. Armelagos. Rasova Klasifikace v Soucasne Antropologii
Spojenych Statu. [Racial Classification in Contemporary Anthropology in the United States].
Eleventh Congress of Czechoslovak Anthropologist, Presov, Slovakia, September 13-15.
1972 Armelagos, George J., and Jerome C. Rose. Factors Contributing to Antemortem Tooth
Loss in Populations from Prehistoric Nubia. American Association of Physical
Anthropologists, Lawrence, Kansas, April 18. American Journal of Physical Anthropology
37:418 (Abstract).
Vangerven, Dennis P. and Armelagos, George J. Contributions of Size and Shape
Variation to Patterns of Sexual Dimorphism of the Human Femur. American Association of
Physical Anthropologists, Lawrence, Kansas, April 18. American Journal of Physical
Anthropology 37:454 (Abstract).
1973 Armelagos, George J. and Jerome C. Rose. The Population Approach to the Analysis of
Dental Microdefects in Prehistoric Populations. Forty-Second Annual meeting of the
American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Dallas, April 12-14. American Journal of
Physical Anthropology 40:149 (Abstract).
1974 Armelagos, George J. and Alan McArdle. Population, Disease and Evolution. American
Association of Physical Anthropologists Meeting, Amherst, Massachusetts. American
Journal of Physical Anthropology 41(3): 493 (Abstract).
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Armelagos, George J., Alan C, Swedlund and James Moore. Paleoepidemiological
Analysis of Disease in Prehistoric Populations. Thirty-Ninth Meeting of the Society for
American Archaeology, Washington, D.C.
Moore, James, Alan C. Swedlund and George J. Armelagos. Analysis of Mortality in
Archaeological Populations. Thirty-Ninth Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology,
Washington, D.C.
1975 Armelagos, George J. and John Lallo. Infectious Disease and Mortality of the Dickson
Mounds Population (A.D. 1000-A.D. 1350). Forty-Fourth Annual Meeting of the American
Association of Physical Anthropologists, Denver. American Journal of Physical
Anthropology 42:313 (Abstract).
Armelagos, George J., Alan C. Goodman and Kenneth H. Jacobs. The Role of Infectious
and Nutritional Disease in Population Growth. Seventh Annual Meeting of the American
Anthropological Association.
1976 Armelagos, George J., and Dennis P. Van Gerven. The Synthetic Theory of Evolution and
the Study of Race. Sixteenth Annual Meeting of the Northeast Anthropological Association,
Wesleyean University, Middletown, Connecticut.
Armelagos, George J., and Phillip S. Katz. Disease and Pluralism. Sixteenth Annual
Meeting of the Northeast Anthropological Association, Wesleyan University, Middletown,
Connecticut.
Armelagos, George J., and David L. Greene. The Evolution of the Wadi Halfa Mesolithic
Population. Forty-Fifth Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical
Anthropologists, St. Louis, Missouri. American Journal of Physical Anthropology
44(1):181-182 (Abstract).
Armelagos, George J., David S. Carlson, Richard Meindl, and Dennis P. Van Gerven.
Recent Trends in Skeletal Biology, Paleoanthropology, and Human Biology (with Carlson,
Meindl, and Van Gerven). Invited paper presented at the Symposium on Current Trends in
Human Biology, Human Biology Council, St. Louis, Missouri, April.
Armelagos, George J. Population Studies in Archaeology in Horizons of Population
Anthropology: Needed Research and Its Findings. Organized by M. Nag and S.
Scrimshaw. American Association of Physical Anthropologists Meeting, Washington, D.C.,
November.
1977 Armelagos, George J., John Lallo and Jerome Rose. The Paleoepidemiology of the
Dickson Mounds Population. Forty-Sixth Annual Meeting of the American Association of
Physical Anthropologists, Seattle. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 47(1):113
(Abstract).
Armelagos, George J., David S. Carlson, and Dennis P. Van Gerven, Meroitic Population
Biology: Prospects for Future Research. Third International Meroitic Conference, Toronto.
Armelagos, George J, and Phillip S. Katz. Health and Disease in America. Atlanta 2000
Conference, Atlanta, Georgia.
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1978 Armelagos, George J. Bones, Bodies and Disease: Paleopathology of Ancient
Populations. Keynote Address, Canadian Association of Physical Anthropologists,
Niagara-on-the-Lake, Canada.
Martin, Debra and George J. Armelagos. Degenerative Joint Disease of the Long Bones
in Dickson Mounds (with Martin). Arthritis: Modern and Ancient Evidence. Henry Ford
Hospital.
1979 Armelagos, George J. Technology, Health and Disease in America: An Ecological
Perspective. Keynote Address, Conference on Technology, Health and the Environment,
Wayne State University, Detroit.
Martin, Debra, Rebecca Huss-Ashmore and George J. Armelagos. Techniques in
Paleohistology. Symposium on Science and Egyptology, Manchester, England, June.
Martin, Debra L. and George J. Armelagos. Morphometrics of Compact Bone: An
Example from Sudanese Nubia (with Martin). Forty-Eighth Annual Meeting of the American
Association of Physical Anthropologists. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 50(3):
462-463 (Abstract).
Martin, Debra, James H. Mielke, Richard Meindl, and George J. Armelagos. Nutritional
Stress in Prehistoric Populations from Sudanese Nubia. Second Annual Meeting of the
International Association of Egyptologists, Grenoble, France.
1980 Armelagos, George J., Pamela Bumsted and Debra Schindler. Skeletal Biology and
Biocultural Adaptation in the Northeast. Conference on Foundations of Northeast
Archaeology, Albany, New York.
Armelagos, George J. Disease in Prehistoric Nubia. New York Academy of Sciences,
New York, November.
Armelagos, George J. Disease and Adaptation in Prehistoric Nubia. Conference on the
Origins and Early Development of Food Producing Cultures in Northeastern Africa.
Armelagos, George J and Kenneth H. Jacobs. The Demography of Prehistoric Nubia
Invited paper in Symposium on The Anthropology and Archaeology of Death. University of
London, England.
Armelagos, George J., and Alan H. Goodman. The Use of Skeletal Material for the
Analysis of Stress in Archaeological Populations. Forty-fifth Annual Meeting of the Society
for American Archaeology.
Armelagos, George J. Skeletal Biology of Hesbon: A Biocultural Interpretation. Hesbon
Symposium, Andrews University.
Jacobs, Kenneth H., and George J. Armelagos. Les Maladies des Neandertaliens: Le
Role de la Paleopathologie dans L'interpretation d'une Adaptation Prehistorique (with
Jacobs). Papers on Paleopathology. Third European Members Meeting, Paleopathology
Association. Caen, France. p.C10.
1981 Armelagos, George J. Diet and Disease in Prehistory: An Overview. M.I.T. Center for
Materials Research in Archaeology and Ethnology.
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Armelagos, George J., and C. Owen Lovejoy. Trends in Skeletal Biology (1930-1950)
(with Lovejoy). American Association of Physical Anthropologists. American Journal of
Physical Anthropology (Abstract).
1982 Martin, Debra, Alan C. Swedlund and George J, Armelagos. Population Dynamics,
Resource and Skeletal Biology on Black Mesa (with Martin and Swedlund). Seminar on
Black Mesa Archaeology. School of American Research, Santa Fe, March 8-12.
Armelagos, George J. Microbes, Medicine and the Human Condition. Science and the
Human Condition Series, Worcester State College, February 10.
1983 Armelagos, George J. Implication of Skeletal Analysis for Bioarchaeology. Twenty-third
Annual Meeting of Northeast Anthropological Association, Syracuse, New York.
Martin, Debra and George J. Armelagos. Paleophysiological Aspects of Bone Remodeling
and Mineralization (with Martin). American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting,
Chicago, November 17.
Armelagos, Geoge J. Consuming Passions: The Search for the Origin of American
Foodways. Federation of Historical Societies. Rensselaer, New York, October 14.
Armelagos, George J Skeletal Indicators of Nutritional Stress in Prehistoric Populations.
Cambridge University, England, April.
Armelagos, George J Paleopathology and Nutrition. Institute of Archaeology. University
of London.
Armelagos, George J Health and the Human Condition. University of Utah Anthropology
Department. Diamond Jubilee Lecture. Salt Lake City, Utah, April.
1984 Armelagos, George J Paleopathology as Science. American Association for the
Advancement of Science, New York. May 22.
Armelagos, George J Advances in Paleopathology. Greek Anthropological Association,
Athens.
Prehistoric Variability of Metal and 13C/12C Content in Bone (with Bumsted, Button and
Barnes). International Congress of Ethnography and Anthropological Science. Vancouver,
B.C., August 21.
Armelagos, George J Diet and Disease in Prehistory. Oxford University. Oxford,
England, April.
Armelagos, George J Biocultural Adaptation, Food Preferences and Food Aversion.
Wenner-Gren International Symposium on Food Preferences and Aversions. Cedar Key,
Florida, October 30.
Marrocco, Guy and George J. Armelagos. Tumors in a Nubian Population. Eleventh
Annual Meeting of the Paleopathology Association. Philadelphia, April 14.
Schawelson, Deanna, Debra Martin and George J. Armelagos. Hydrocephalus in an
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X-group Sudanese Nubian Population. Science in Egyptology Symposium, Manchester,
England, June 26.
Goodman, Alan H., Dennis P. Van Gerven and George J. Armelagos. Post-Mesolithic
Facial Reduction in Sudanese Nubia. Science in Egyptology Symposium. Manchester,
England, June 27.
Grauer, Anne, Guy Marrocco and George J. Armelagos. Malignant Neoplasms in
Sudanese Nubia. Science in Egyptology Symposium. Manchester, England, June 27.
Armelagos, George J. and L. Marshall. Paleopathology as Science: The Contributions of
Egyptology (with Marshall). Science in Egyptology Symposium. Manchester, England,
June 27.
Conroy, R. Glen Brown and George J. Armelagos. A Method for Collagen Analysis of
Archaeological Bone (with Conroy and Brown). Science in Egyptology Symposium.
Manchester, England, June 28.
Martin, Debra and George J. Armelagos. Paleophysiological Aspects of Bone
Remodeling and Growth Arresting in Prehistoric Sudanese Nubians 350 B.C.-1300 A.D.)
(with Martin). Science in Egyptology Symposium. Manchester, England, June 28.
Armelagos, George J. Paleopathology as Science: Credible Approaches to
Non-experimental Sciences Symposium. American Association for the Advancement of
Science Meeting. New York.
Armelagos, George J. You Are What You Eat. Keynote Address. National Conference
on Food Data Bank Evaluation. Amherst, Massachusetts, June 19.
Armelagos, George J. Food Patterns and Human Adaptation. Instituto de
Investigaciones Antropologias, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico. Mexico City,
March 15.
Armelagos, George J. Multiple Stress Indicators of Disease in Prehistoric Populations.
Instituto de Investigaciones Antropologias, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico.
Mexico City, March 15.
Armelagos, George J, Disease and Death in Prehistory. Instituto de Investigaciones
Antropologias, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico. Mexico City, March 15.
Armelagos, George J. Advertising and Food Choice. Philadelphia Dietetic Association.
Philadelphia, September 11.
Armelagos, George J. Diet and Disease in Prehistory. Ecology Seminar, Columbia
University. New York, September 26.
Armelagos, George J. Populations and the Transition to Food Production (series of four
lectures). Southern Illinois University, October 22-25.
Armelagos, George J. Recent Advances in Paleopathology: Bones, Bodies, and Disease
(public lecture). University of Tennessee, Knoxville, November 6-8.
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Host. Ethnomedicine and Biomedicine Be Integrated? Medical Anthropology Round Table,
Medical Anthropology Unit, American Anthropological Association, November 14.
1985 Armelagos, George J. Social and Biological Factors in Food Choice. Invited Participant.
Current Research in Culinary History: Sources, Topics and Methods. Conference
sponsored by Schlesinger Library and Culinary Historians of Boston. Cambridge,
Massachusetts, June 14-16.
Armelagos, George J. Long Bone Growth in Archaeological Populations (with Magennis,
Goodman, Martin and Hummert). Fourth International Congress of Auxology. Montreal.
Abstract published in Annals of Human Biology 12, Supplement 1:79
Armelagos, George J. Diet and Disease in the Mississippian Period. Conference on
Towns and Temples along the Mississippi. Invited participant. Memphis State University,
October 16.
Armelagos, George J. Consuming Passions: An Anthropology of Food. Theme lecture.
Annual Meeting Sigma Xi. Memphis, October 17.
Alan C. Swedlund and George J. Armelagos. Co-organizer. Ninety-fifth International
Wenner-Gren Conference. Disease in Populations in Transition. Rancho Encantado,
Santa Fe, New Mexico, October 17-26.
Armelagos, George J Diet and Disease in Prehistory. Disease in Populations in
Transition. Wenner-Gren Conference. Rancho Encantado, Santa Fe, New Mexico,
October 18.
Armelagos, George J., and Debra L. Martin. Persistence of Nutritional Deficiencies in
Archaeological Populations. Invited Session. Ecological and Nutritional Monitoring:
Traditional and Contemporary Approaches. S. Katz and R. Huss-Ashmore, organizers.
84th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropology Association. Washington, D.C.,
December 5.
Armelagos, George J. Biocultural Consequences of Nuclear Winter. Invited Session. a
Discussion of the Anthropology of Human Survival. M. P. Bumsted, organizer. 84th Annual
Meeting of the American Anthropological Association. Washington, D.C., December 6.
Discussant. Teaching Strategies in Biological Anthropology. M. Coheen, organizer. 85th
Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association. Washington, D.C.,
December 7.
Goodman, Alan H. and George J. Armelagos. Within Dentition Differences in
Susceptibility to Enamel Hypoplasia (with Goodman). Fourth International Congress of
Auxology. Montreal. Abstract published in Annals of Human Biology 12, Supplement 1.
Martin, Debra and George J. Armelagos. Premature Osteoporosis in Children and Young
Adults from Prehistoric Sudanese Nubia. Fourth International Congress of Auxology.
Montreal. Abstract published in Annals of Human Biology 12, Supplement 1:60.
Armelagos, George J The Cultural Basis of Diet. Invited lecturer. Food, Famine and
Agricultural Development. Institute of World Affairs. Salisbury, Connecticut, July 2.
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1986 Armelagos, George J., Michael Alcorn and Debra L. Martin. Factors Affecting Elemental
and Isotopic Variation in Prehistoric Human Skeletons. Bone Chemistry and Past Behavior.
School of American Research Advanced Seminar. Santa Fe, New Mexico, March 2-9.
Armelagos, George J Teaching Physical Anthropology. Centennial of the First
Undergraduate Class Taught in Anthropology. University of Vermont, April 4.
Armelagos, George J Technology and Food Choice. Conference of Technology and
Food. Los Alamos National Laboratory. Los Alamos, New Mexico, April 7,8.
Discussant. Symposium, Demography: In Memory of Melisa J. Knauer. 55th Annual
Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropology. Albuquerque, New Mexico,
April 11.
Discussant. Symposium on Nubian Skeletal Research, the Last Twenty Years and
Perspectives for the Future. 55th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical
Anthropologists. Albuquerque, New Mexico, April 19.
Armelagos, George J. Invited Participant. The Treatment of Human Skeletal Remains.
Plenary session. 51st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. New
Orleans, April 24.
Armelagos, George J Employment in Physical Anthropology. Workshop for students.
85th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association. Washington, D.C.,
December 5.
Armelagos, George J. Diet and Disease in Ancient Nubia. Annual Meeting of the
American Association of Physical Anthropology. Abstract published in American Journal of
Physical Anthropology 69(2): 172
Diet, Disease, and Death: Analysis of the Black Mesa Skeletal Remains (with Martin and
Magennis). Programs and Abstracts of the 51st Annual Meeting of the Society for
American Archaeology: p. 109.
1987 Armelagos, George J and Elizabeth Brewer, Food, Power and Women. Northeast
Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Amherst, Massachusetts, March.
Armelagos, George J. Biocultural Aspects of Food Choice: An Evolutionary Perspective.
Natick Chapter, U. S. Army Research and Development Command, Natick,
Massachusetts, March 12.
Invited participant. World Affairs Conference, Boulder, Colorado: April 6-10.
Armelagos, George J. Consuming Passions: The Anthropology of Eating. Annual Lecture
Series, School of American Research, Santa Fe, New Mexico, May 12.
Armelagos, George J., and Lynn M. Sibley. Diet and Longevity: Myth and Reality (with
Sibley). Invited paper. Ross Laboratories Symposium on the Nutritional and Dietary Status
of the Elderly. Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropology.
Abstract published in American Journal of Physical Anthropology 72(2):175.
Armelagos, George J., Elizabeth Schueler and Elizabeth Brewer. Social and Biological
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Consequences of Nuclear Winter.. Invited paper for Civilization and Rapid Climate
Change, Calgary Institute for Humanities, University of Calgary, August.
Armelagos, George J. and M. Cassandra Hill. Porotic Hyperostosis in Past and Present
Perspective. In J. Lawrence Angel: Contributions to Anthropology. (with Hill) Invited paper in
Symposium organized by J. E. Buikstra. Paper presented at the 80th Annual Meeting of the
American Anthropological Association. Chicago, Ill. Nov. 1987. Abstract published In
Abstracts of the 80th Meeting. p.76.
Armelagos, George J., Elizabeth Scheuler and Elizabeth Brewer. Biological and Social
Responses to Nuclear Winter. In Natural Disasters Scaled Against Nuclear Winter:
Archeological and Other Approaches. Symposium organized by Payson Sheets. Paper
presented at the 86th Annual Meeting of the American Anthroplogical Association. Chicago,
Ill. Nov. 1987. Abstract published In Abstracts of the 80th Meeting. p.152.
Discussant. Late Glacial and Postglacial Adaptive Changes in Europe: Recent Research
Perspective. Symposium organized by David Frayer. The 80th Annual Meeting of the
American Anthroplogical Association. Chicago, Ill. Nov. 1987.
1988 Armelagos, George J., And Alan H. Goodman. Population Interaction, Political Economy
and Health Changes: A Bioarcheology Example. Economic History Association. Detroit,
Michigan
Armelagos, George J., Alan H. Goodman and Kenneth H. Jacobs. The Origins of
Agriculture: Population Growth During a Period of Declining Health, Economic History
Association.
Armelagos, George J. Indicators of Nutritional and Disease Stress in Prehistory in the
Colloquiam on Population Growth, Disease, and the Origin of Agriculture Rutgers
University. October 21, 1988.
Armelagos, George J. Food and Culture, Pillsbury Food Company. Minneapolis, MN.
Armelagos, George J. The Anthropology of AIDS Invited paper for The Nature of Analysis
in Medical Anthropology. Wenner-Gren Conference. Hotel do Guincho, Lisbon, Portugal
Armelagos, George J. Dietary Reconstruction in Prehistory Second Advanced Seminar
on Paleodietary Reconstruction. Capetown, South Africa.
Armelagos, George J. Osteoporosis in Prehistory in From Menopause to Osteoporosis,
WHO, Geneva. June 1988.
Armelagos, George J. and Lenore Barbian. Patterns of Sexual Dimorphism as an
Indicator of Behavioral and Nutritional Status. In Sexual Dimorphism in Humans and their
Ancestors. Symposium organized by Andrew Kramer. 87th Annual meeting of the American
Anthropological Association. November 20, 1988. Phoenix. Abstract published. Abstracts of
the 87th Annual Meetings. p. 245
Goodman, Alan H., Debra Martin and George J. Armelagos. Health, Life-Style Change
and Political Economy: Lessons from Prehistory (With Goodman and Martin). In Biological
Approaches to Health and Life-style. Symposium organized by R. Huss-Ashmore. 87th
Annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association. November 20, 1988.
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Phoenix. Abstract published. Abstracts of the 87th Annual Meeting, p.67.
Armelagos, George J., Thomas Leatherman, Mary Ryan and Lynn M. Sibley. The
Ecological Perspective in Medical Anthropology. In Integrated Biological and Cultural
Perspectives in Medical Anthropology: Problems and Prospects. Invited Symposium
Organized by Paul Brown and George J. Armelagos. 87th Annual meeting of the American
Anthropological Association. November 20, 1988. Phoenix. Abstract published. Abstracts of
the 87th Annual Meeting. p. 155.
Armelagos, George J. The Anthropology of Eating in the Symposium: Cuisines and
Culture: Foodways in the 17th Century Delaware Valley. Department of Public Programs.
Smithsonian Institution. December 2, 1988.
1989 Armelagos, George J., M. Ryan. C. Morse. The Evolution of Infectious Disease. invited
paper for the symposium on Aids and Human Biocultural Evolution.. Organized by A.R.
Frisancho and R. Garruto. Human Biology Council. April 4, 1989. Abstract published.
American Journal of Human Biology 1(1): 129.
Martin, D. L, A. P.Mcneal and G. J. Armelagos. Osteoporosis and Race: Prehistoric and
Historic Data From Diverse Ethnic Populations The 56th Annual Meeting. American
Association of Physical Anthropology. San Diego, CA. April 7, 1989.
Armelagos, G. J., and A. Coppa Nutritional Stress Indicators in Prehistory Instituto Italiano
Di Antropologia. Citta Universitari. Roma, April 21, 1989.
Armelagos, Giorgio, Death and Disease in Prehistory, Seminario di Faculta, Facolta di
Scienze, Mathematiche, Fisiche e Naturali, Universita Degli Studi di Roma la Sapienza,
Rome. April 27, 1989.
Armelagos, George, Seminario di Studi di Antropologia Fisica Simulataneous Translation.
Institue for the Study of Anthropology. Il Comune di Sain-Vincent. Terme Fons Salutis,
Saint Vincent. Italy.
Armelagos, George, Diet and Disease in Prehistory: Paleopathology as a Science Sezione
di Antropologia, Dipartimento di Scienze del Comportamento Animale. Univerita di Pisa.
May 15, 1989.
Coppa, A., G. J. Armelagos and D. L. Martin, Osteoporosis, Evolution and Pathology,
Fourth International Meeting of the Adriatic Society of Pathology, Ravenna, Italy, June 4-7,
1989.
1990 Armelagos, George . Population Growth in the Neolithic Period in Invited Symposium,
Culture Change and Population Growth. Warren Hern, Organizer. Annual Meeting of the
American Association for the Advancement of Science. February 19, 1990. New Orleans
Louisiana.
Armelagos, George J. The Evolution of Disease. Symposium on Health and the Human
Condition. Anthropological Society of Washington. P. Ginhart Organizer. January 27, 1990.
Washington D, C.
Damadio, S., Coppa, A., Mancinelli, Vargiu, R., Doro Garetto,T. and G. Armelagos
Paleobiology and Paleopathology of the Fisherman from Ra's Al-Hamra (RH5, Qurum,
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Sultanate of Oman, 3750-3200 BC.) Fifty-Ninth Annual Meeting of the American
Association of Physical Anthropologists. Miami, Florida. Abstract published in the American
Journal of Physical Anthropology 81(2):212
Coppa, A. R. Vargiu and Armelagos, G. Dental and Body Reduction in Sudan from
Mesolithic to Christian Period (VIth Millenium BC-Ist Millenium AD) Fifty-Ninth Annual
Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists. Miami, Florida. Abstract
published in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology Vol 81(2):208.
Disscussant: Symposium: The Frankfort Pan troglodytes verus Cranial Collection:
Resources for the Study of Variation, Reference for the Study of Evolution. Fifty-Ninth
Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists. Miami, Florida.
Armelagos, George J. Bones of Contention: Conflicting Claims to Cultural Property:
Public or Private Domain. Ethics In Anthropology. Hunter College. New York. April 28, 1990
Discussant: Symposium: Disease and Demographic Collapse in the Spanish Borderlands.
Fifty-Ninth Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists.
Miami, Florida.
Discussant: Symposium: Thinking About Eating. Organized by Christine A, Hastorf and
Sissel Johannessen. Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Las Vegas,
Neveda. April 21,1990.
Invited Participant. American Indian Population History Conference. D'Arcy American
Indian Center. Frederick Hoxie, Organizer. Newberry Library. Chicago, Illinois. March 22-
28, 1990. Workshop Leader, Paleoepidemiology of prehistoric Populations. Workshop
Leader, Diet and Disease in Prehistory.
Armelagos, George J. Bioarchaeology and African Prehistory in What is the future of
Archaeology in Africa? Society of Africanist Archaeologists. Biennial Conference.
Gainesville, Florida. March 22, 1990.
Swedlund, Alan C., Laurie McCleod and George J. Armelagos. The Dyspepsia
Generation: Medical Practices in the Early 19th Century as Revealed in the Works of
Steven West Williams Dublin Seminar. Deerfield Massachusetts. June, 1990.
Armelagos, George J. Dietary and Disease Adaptation in Prehistory and The Evolution of
Disease in Human Populations. Department of Anthropology, University of Utah. Salt Lake
City, Utah. May 3, 5, 1990.
Armelagos, George J., M. Donnelly, and A. H. Goodman. Disease and Tropical
Urbanization American Anthropological Association Meeting. New Orleans.
Discussant. Culture in Process: Factors Shaping Continuity and Change. Session
organized by Robert Borofsky. Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association
Meeting. November 29,1990.
Armelagos, George J., and Kathleen Barnes. Evolution of Disease in Human Populations
American Anthropological Association Meeting. New Orleans.
Armelagos, George J. A Bioarchaeological Approach to the Study of Prehistoric Skeletal
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Populations: Examples from Sudanese Nubia Biological Anthropology and the Study of
Ancient Egypt. Bioanthropological Foundation and The Department of Egyptian Antiquities.
British Museum. London. July 4-6, 1990.
Rose, Jerome C., George J. Armelagos and L. Stephen Perry Dental Anthropology of the
Nile Valley. Biological Anthropology and the Study of Ancient Egypt. Bioanthropological
Foundation and The Department of Egyptian Antiquities. British Museum. London. July 4-6,
1990.
Discussant. Friedrich Rosing. Possible Future Directions of the Bioanthropology of Egypt.
Biological Anthropology and the Study of Ancient Egypt. Bioanthropological Foundation
and The Department of Egyptian Antiquities. British Museum. London. July 4-6, 1990.
Invited Participant. The Evolution of Disease, The Organization and Evolution of
Prehistoric Southwestern Society G. Gummerman and Murray Gell-Man, organizers, Santa
Fe Institute. Santa Fe, New Mexico. October 3-6, 1990.
Organizing Committee. Session Chairman. Sixth International Conference on Hunting and
Gathering Societies. University of Alaska. Fairbanks, Alaska. May 27- June 1.
Armelagos, George J. Disease and Adaptation in Ancient Nubia. Medical Geography and
Anthropology Section. Institute for the History of Medicine. Toronto, Canada. December 16,
1990.
1991 Armelagos, George J. Pathology. The Conference on the Recordation of Skeletal
Material. Field Museum of Natural History. Chicago. January 24-25, 1991.
Goodman, Alan H. Armelagos, George J. and D. L. Martin. Nutrition and Health
Cosequences of Prehistoric Economic and Political Centralization in North America The
Deterioration of Human Health in Economic and Political Development: From Ancient Egypt
to 20th Century U.S.A. A. Roosevelt, organizer. American Association for the
Advancement of Science, Annual Meeting. Washington D. C. February 17, 1991.
Armelagos, George J. Invited participant. Feast And Famine Symposium. October 18.
Sacred or Sensual? New World Foods as Symbols Symposium. October 19. Good as
Gold:Foods the Americas Gave the World. Smithsonian Institution Quincentenary
Symposium. National Museum of American History and National Museum of Natural
History. Washington D. C.
Armelagos, George J. Dead Men and Women do Tell Tales: The Study of Diet and
disease in Ancient Populations Annual Loyola University Science Lecture. Sponsored by
the Division of Mathematics and Natural Science and the Chardin Anthropology Club.
November 19,1991. Loyola University, Chicago.
Armelagos, George J. The Evolution of Human Diet Nutrition Conference. M and M.
Mars. Mt. Arlington New Jersey. November 21,1991
1992 Martin, D. L.,Nelson, B. A., Swedlund, A. C., Fish, P. R. and G. J. Armelagos. Studies in
Disruption: Demography and Health in the Prehistoric Southwest. 1992 Annual Meeting of
the American Association of Physical Anthropologist, Las Vegas, Neveda.
Armelagos, George J. Diet, Disease and Adaptation in Ancient Nubia: A Biocultural
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Synthesis. Emory University, Atlanta. February 7, 1992.
Armelagos, George J., and Christine White, Food, Diet and Prehistoric Population
American Anthropological Association Meetings. Chicago.
Armelagos, George J. The Geography of Disease in Pre-Columbian America. Invited
Contribution. Discovering The Changing Americas. 27th International Geographical
Congress. Washington, D. C. August 10, 1992.
Armelagos, George J. Culture and Contact: The Collision of Two World Cuisines. Invited
Paper. Symposio 1482: El Encuento de los Comidas, Puebla, Mexico. July 7, 1992,
1993 Goodman, Alan and George J. Armelagos, The Biological Consequences of Inequality in
Prehistory. 13th International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences.
Mexico City. 31 August 1993
Goodman, Alan and George J. Armelagos. Race, Racism and the 'New ' Physical
Anthropology. 13th International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences.
Mexico City. 31 August 1993
Armelagos, George J. and Kathleen Barnes. Allergy, Evolution and Darwinian Medicine
92nd Meeting of the American Anthropologoical Association. Washington D.C. November
17-21, 1993. Abstract published in Abstracts : 92nd Annual Meeting. p.98. American
Anthropologoical Association
Armelagos, George J., Bones, Bodies and Disease: Trends in Skeletal Biology In vited
Participant. Simpoio Internationale on 1893-1993: Cent'anni di Antropologia all'Universita di
Roma la Sapienza -prospettive dell'Anthropologia in vista dell prossimo millennio.
(Celebration of the 100th anniversery of Italian Antropological Intitute. Centro Congressi di
Ateneo, Rome. 17 December 1993.
1994 Armelagos, George J. Race, Racism and Anthropology, Invited Speaker. Plenary Talk.
American Association of Physical Anthropology. Denver. April 1994
Armelagos, George J. and Alan H. Goodman. The Case Against Race Southern
Anthropological Association Meeting. Atlanta, April 1994.
Goodman, Alan H. and George J. Armelagos. Race, Racism and the New Physical
Anthropology of the 1950s and 1990s. Invited paper for Social and Political Economic
Perspectives in Biological Anthropology. Symposium. American Association of Physical
Anthropology. Denver.
Armelagos, George J. What Does the Past Tell us About Food and Diet? Invited speaker.
Designer Foods II Conference. May 23, 1994. Washington D.C.
Armelagos, George J. Whats For Supper? The Evolution of Food Choice. Health and
Pleasure at the Table. Contemporary Challenges in Food and Food Services and Food
Service Marketing. Montreal. May 25, 1994.
Panelist. The State of Taste. The Evolution of Food Choice. Health and Pleasure at the
Table. Contemporary Challenges in Food and Food Services and Food Service Marketing.
Montreal. May 24, 1994.
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Discussant. Race, Gender, Class and the Biocultural Perspective: Celebrating 25 Years
of Anthropology at Massachusetts. Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological
Association. Atlanta, Georgia.
Discussant. Do Molecular Genetic Studies of human Variation Reify Racial Categories?
Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association. Atlanta Georgia.
Alan Goodman and George J. Armelagos. The Persistence and Reemergence of the
Race Concept in Physical Anthropology. In Race and Other Misadventures: Papers in
Honor of Ashley Montagu in his 89th year. Annual Meeting of the American
Anthropological Association. Atlanta Georgia.
Armelagos, George J. Biology, Culture and the Evolution of Food Choice. Distinguished
Lecture. General Anthropology Division. Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological
Association. Atlanta, Georgia.
Discussant. American Anthropological Association Plenary Session: Public Policy Forum.
Rethinking Race and Ethnic categories in Federal Statistics: The Office of Management
and Budget Directive 15 (Race and Ethnic Standardization for Federal Statistics and
Administrative Reporting. Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association.
Atlanta Georgia.
Participant. Anthropological Collaboration with Public Health. CDC/AAA workshop on
Race/ Ethnicity as Scientific categories. Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological
Association. Atlanta Georgia.
Armelagos, George. Bones Bodies and Disease: Paleopathology at the Aegean Interface.
Science and the Aegean interface. R. Herz, organizer. American Association for the
Advancement of Science.
1995 Armelagos, George J. Evolution and the Emergence of infectious Disease. In Levin, B.
R., G. J. Armelagos and R. Krause, Co -Organizers, Genetic Diversity, Evolution and the
Emergence and Reemergence and Control of Infectious Disease. American Association
for the Advancement of Science. Atlanta, Georgia. Feb.19,-20,1995.
Levin, B. R., G. J. Armelagos and R. Krause. Co -Organizers, Genetic Diversity, Evolution
and the Emergence and Reemergence and Control of Infectious Disease. American
Association for the Advancement of Science. Atlanta, Georgia. Feb. 19, 20 1995.
1996 Armelagos, George J. The Case Against Race The Field Museum. Chicago, Illinois. April
9,1996.
Armelagos, George J., Race is the Issue, You Don't Look Like Me, The Nuveen Forum at
the Field Museum. Center for Cultural Understanding and Change. Chicago, Illinois. April
9. 1996. Race and Racism. Clark Symposium. Dickinson College. Carlyle, Pa.
Armelagos, George J., James Lin and Kathleen Barnes. Emerging Disease in the Third
Epidemiological Transition. Emerging Disease and Reemerging Diseases; Sociocultural
and Biocultural approaches. Johannes Sommerfeld and Sandra lane, Organizers.
American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting. Washington, D.C. November.
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Discussant. African Burial Ground Symposium. American Anthropological Association
Annual Meeting. Washington, D.C. November.
Armelagos, George J. Diet and Disease in Ancient Nubia. Smithsonian Institution. March
18.
1997 Armelagos, G. J., and B. J. Baker. New World origin of treponemal infection (Abstract).
American Journal of Physical Anthropology Supplement 24:68.
Collins, K. R., and G. J. Armelagos. Prevalence of tetracycline labeling in X-Group
population (350-550 CE) from Sudanese Nubia (Abstract). American Journal of Physical
Anthropology Supplement 24:94.
Davis, A., E. Secor, and G. J. Armelagos. Prevalence of schistosomiasis in an ancient
Nubian X-Group population (Abstract). American Journal of Physical Anthropology,
Supplement 24:99.
Duran, P., S. Upadhya, and G. J. Armelagos. Analysis of statute and sexulal dimorphism
in two ancient Sudanese Nubian populations (Abstract). American Journal of Physical
Anthropology Supplement 24:102.
Lane, J. S., and G. J. Armelagos. Spina bifida occulta in ancient Sudanese Nubian
populations (Abstract). American Journal of Physical Anthropology Supplement 24:151.
Trivers, K. F., and G. J. Armelagos. Double zonal osteons and HDI bodies in bone
remodeling and modeling in ancient Nubia (Abstract). American Journal of Physical
Anthropology Supplement 24:229-230.
Armelagos, George J. Race in the world of anthropology. Presidential Seminar. American
Anthropological Association Annual Meeting. November 1997. Washington D.C.
Armelagos, George J. Emerging disease in the third epidemiologic transition: The value
added integrative research. Symposium on Value Added Research. American
Anthropological Association Annual Meeting. November 1997. Washington D. C.
1998 Discussant. Paleopathology 1. The Backbone of History: Health and Disease in Western
Hemisphere. Symposium. Sixty-seventh Annual Meeting American Association of Physical
Anthropologist. Salt Lake City, Utah. April 1, 1998.
Kolbacher, Kristi, Kyle Roux and George J. Armelagos. Quatification and extraction of
tetracycline in ancient Nubian bone from the X-Group period (350-550 CE). Sixty-Seventh
Annual meeting American Association of Physical Anthropologist. Salt Lake City, Utah. April
2, 1998.
Jackson, Mollie and George J. Armelagos. Did syphilis exist in India before 1492? A
rebuttal to Rao and Vasulu. Sixty-Seventh Annual meeting American Association of
Physical Anthropologist. Salt Lake City, Utah. April 2, 1998.
Discussant. North American Treponematosis: A Natural History. Sixty-Seventh Annual
meeting American Association of Physical Anthropologist. Salt Lake City, Utah. April 2,
1998.
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Discussant. Paper entitled, Present at the inception: Robert Blakely and the Birth of
Bioarchaeology Bioarchaeology in the Eastern Woodlands: Papers in Honor of Robert L.
Blakley. Southeastern Archaeological Conference. Greenville, S.C. November 14,1998
Armelagos, George J., Race, Type and Stereotype. Annual meeting of the American
Anthropological Association. Philadelphia, PA. December 10, 1998.
White, Christine and George J. Armelagos. Nitrogen Isotopes ratios as indicators of
osteopenia in bone collagen of Nubian Mummies. Fourth Canadian Connective Tissue
Conference. London Ontario. 1998.
1999 Armelagos, George J. (Principal speaker). Archeological Evidence of Tetracycline Effects
on Ancient Bone. Gordon Conference. Non-antibiotic Properties of tetracycline and other
Antibiotics. Robert H. Greenwald, Organizer. Proctor Academy, Andover New Hampshire.
(July 11, 1999-July 16, 1999.
Armelagos, George J., Alan H. Goodman and Diana Smay. Subsistence shift in prehistory
and the change in diet and disease stress at weaning. In the symposium: The food of love,
the love of food: new directions in the study of food and fitness. Dan Sellen, Organizer.
HBES Meeting. Salt Lake City. June 2, 1999- June 6, 1999.
Armelagos, George J. Disease and death in human evolution. 13th Congress Of the
Italian Anthropological Association (A.A.I.). Rome and Sabaudia 4-8 October 1999.
Abstract: Attualita dell'Antropologia Ricera e Insegnamento nel XXI secolo. P.16.
Armelagos, George J. Road to the Viral Superhighway: Diet and Disease in Prehistory.
The Fifth Annual James A Gavin and Margaret S. Gavin Memorial Lecture. University of
Missouri. October 30, 1999.
Armelagos, George J. Time, Travel and the Evolution of Emerging Disease. Presidential
Symposium. Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association. Chicago,
Illinois. November 17, 1999.
Discussant. The Anthropology of Aging. Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological
Association. Chicago, Illinois. November 17, 1999.
2000 Armelagos, George J. Cultural differences and diversity in food choice. (Invited Speaker).
International Life Sciences Institute. Don CeSar Beach Resort. St. Petersburg Florida.
January 24-26, 2000.
Armelagos, George J. Bioarchaeology as anthropology. Invited symposium paper.
Symposium: Archaeology is anthropology. Society for American Archaeology. Deborah L.
Nichols, Rosemary A. Joyce and Susan D. Gillespie, Organizers. Philadelphia, PA. April
13, 2000
Discussant. The New York African Burial Ground Project, 2000. American Association of
Physical Anthropologist, Annual Meeting. San Antonio, Texas. April 14, 2000.
Thompson, A. and G.J. Armelagos. Porotic hyperostosis, tetracycline and alcohol use in an
ancient population. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 111, Supplement 30. (Abstract)
American Association of Physical Anthropologist, Annual Meeting. San Antonio, Texas.
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April 13, 2000.
Armelagos, G. J. L. M. Sibley and D. L. Martin, Women in ancient Nubia: Birth, babies,
beer and bread. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 111, Supplement 30.
(Abstract). American Association of Physical Anthropologist, Annual Meeting. San Antonio,
Texas. April 13, 2000.
Krafeld-Daugherty, M and G.J. Armelagos. Tetracycline labeling and bone preservation in
ancient Nubian populations. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 111, Supplement
30. (Abstract). American Association of Physical Anthropologist, Annual Meeting. San
Antonio, Texas. April 15, 2000.
Han, A, G.J. Armelagos, K.Collins, K. Kohlbacher. Tetracycline protects against trabecular
bone loss in ancient Nubian populations. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 111,
Supplement 30. (Abstract). American Association of Physical Anthropologist annual
meeting. San Antonio, Texas. April 15, 2000.
Armelagos, George J. and Peter J. Brown. Health, Disease and Inequality in Prehistory.
Invited Paper. Presidential Symposium. Struggling for health. C. Browner, Organizer and
Chair. San Francisco, California. November 2000.
2001 Calcagno, J. M. and Armelagos, G. J. How typological are populational studies:
Bioarcheology and Nubia. Invited paper for the Populational Studies: Dead or Alive
Symposium, Chaired by K. Fuller and R. Caspari. Kansas City, March 30, 2001. Meeting of
the American Association of Physical Anthropologist. American Journal of Physical
Anthropology, Supplement 32: 47 (Abstract)
Armelagos, G. J. and J. M. Calcagno. How typological are populational studies: Genetics
and Race. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, Supplement 32: 33. Invited paper
for the Populational Studies: Dead or Alive Symposium, Chaired by K. Fuller and R.
Caspari. Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologist, Kansas City,
March 30, 2001
Discussant. Adjustments to Coastal Environments. Symposium. Seventieth Meeting of
the American Association of Physical Anthropologist. Kansas City, March 30, 2001.
Discussant. Multidisciplinary approaches to social violence in the Prehispanic American
Southwest. Society for American Archeology. April 19, 2001
2002 Belcher, R., F. Williams, and G. J. Armelagos. Misidentification of Meroitic Nubians Using
Fordisc 2.0. (Abstract). American Journal of Physical Anthropology Supplement 34:42.
American Association of Physical Anthropologist meeting. Buffalo,NY
Leathers, A., J. Edwards, and G. J. Armelagos. Assessment of Classification of Crania
Using Fordisc 2.0: Nubian X-Group Test. (Abstract). American Journal of Physical
Anthropology Supplement 34:99-100. . American Association of Physical Anthropologist
meeting. Buffalo,NY
Armelagos, G. J., J. Calcagno, A. Coppa, and R. Vargiu. Changes in the Nubian
Craniofacial Morphology and Dentition: Evaluating the Case for Population Discontinuity.
(Abstract) American Journal of Physical Anthropology Supplement 34:38, American
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Association of Physical Anthropologist meeting. Buffalo, NY
S. J. Shah and G. J. Armelagos. Influence of Skin Pigmentaion as a Risk Factor for
Osteoporosis. (Abstract) American Journal of Physical Anthropology Supplement 34:139.
.American Association of Physical Anthropologist meeting. Buffalo, NY
Trevor Stokol and George J. Armelagos. Tetracycline in a Meroitic Population (0 CE-250
CE) from Sudanese Nubia. (Abstract) American Journal of Physical Anthropology
Supplement 34:149. American Association of Physical Anthropologist meeting. Buffalo, NY
R. A. Brown and George J. Armelagos. Race and Athletic Ability. (Abstract) American
Journal of Physical Anthropology Supplement 34:49. . American Association of Physical
Anthropologist meeting. Buffalo, NY
Armelagos, George J., Bethany Turner and Diana Smay. Bones of Contention: Ethics,
Race and Skeletal Biology. Society for the Study of Social Biology. London, September 21,
2002
2003 Armelagos, George J. The Road to the Viral Superhighway. Western Michigan University.
Anthropology Department. Visiting Scholars and Artists Program. October 24, 2003
Armelagos, George J. Diet and Disease in Prehistory. Anthropology Department. Visiting Scholars
and Artists Program Western Michigan University. October 24, 2003
Armelagos, George J. The Myth of race; The Reality of Racism Western Michigan University.
Public Lecture. Visiting Scholars and Artists Program. October 23, 2003
Armelagos, George J. Emerging Disease in the Third Epidemiological Transition. American
Anthropological Association. New Orleans. November 21, 2002.
Armelagos, George J. and Dennis P. Van Gerven, A Century of Race, Physical Anthropology in
the 1900s. Invited paper, Symposium organized by Amber Wutich and Lance Gravlee and
Measuring Race and Ethnicity in Anthropology and Beyond. Society for the Study of Applied
Anthropology. March 2, 2003.
Armelagos, George J. and D. P. Van Gerven. Why Has Skeletal Biology Remained Typological?
Paper presented at the Seventy-Second Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical
Anthropology. Abstract published in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 120 (S36): 60.
C. W. Herrington and George J. Armelagos. Sexual dimorphism in Meroitic, X-Group, and
Christian populations from Sudanese Nubia. Paper presented at the Seventy-Second Annual
Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropology. Abstract published in the American
Journal of Physical Anthropology. 120 (S36) 113.
E. A Quinn, J. Kingston, G. J. Armelagos, and D. P. Van Gerven. Age Variation in Isotopic abd
histological profiles in the Kulubnarti R Group (1000 CE-1660 CE) from Sudanese Nubia. Paper
presented at the Seventy-Second Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical
Anthropology. Abstract published in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 120 (S36)
:172-173.
Discussant. George J. Armelagos. Contagion and Conflict. Ronald L. Barrett, organizer. American
Anthropological Association Meeting. Chicago
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Discussant. George J. Armelagos. Exploring the Nature of Human Biological Diversity: Myth and
Reality. Presidential Symposium.American Anthropological Association Meeting. Chicago
Armelagos, George J. The Evolution of Food Choice: Where the Gut Meets the Brain. Hampshire
College’s Culture, Brain and Development Series. Hampshire College, Amherst, Massachusetts.
November 7, 2003.
Armelagos, George J. Race and Racism. Berry College, Rome, Georgia. December 2, 2003
2004 Armelagos, George J., Daryl White and Kristin N. Harper. Organizers for Key Symposium.
Globalization and the Emergence of Disease. Southern Anthropological Society. Decatur, Georgia.
March 19, 2004.
Armelagos, George J. Globalization and the emergence of Disease. Key Symposium.
Globalization and the Emergence of Disease. Southern Anthropological Society. Decatur, Georgia.
March 19, 2004.
Armelagos, George J. Evolution of Food Choice and the Dual Income Family. Society of Economic
Anthropology. Atlanta, Georgia. April 22, 2004
Turner, B. L.,J. D. Kingston, G. J. Armelagos and J. T. Milanich Isotopic Analysis of life History and
Social Stratification at two Wheeden Island Mound Sites in Central Florida. Annual Meeting of the
American Association of Physical Anthropologist meeting. Tampa, Florida. Abstract. American
Journal of Physical Anthropology 123 (S38): 197.
Quinn, E. A., J. D. Kingston and G. J. Armelagos. Developmentally Mediated Intra-Individual
Variation in Inorganic Stable Isotopes. Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical
Anthropologist meeting. Tampa, Florida. Abstract. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 123
(S38): 163.
2005 Armelagos, George J. Emerging Disease and Globalization. Workshop. Global Government
Health Partners. Government Chief Nursing Officers Institute and Network Meeting. Power,
Partnershipand Presenting Nursing’s Cases. Emory University School of Nursing. June 23, 2004
Armelagos, George J. The Flintstones to the Jetsons: Changing Lanes on the Vaccine
Superhighway en route to the Third Epidemiological Transition" Vaccine DinnerClub. Emory
University. February 2, 2005.
Armelagos, George J. Misapplication of Biological Anthropology to Weight Restriction Diets: Eat
Right 4 Your Type: Society for Applied Anthropology, Annual Meeting. Sante Fe. April 8, 2005
Armelagos, George J. A course on race and racism: From conception to completion. Department
of Anthropological Sciences. Stanford University. April 28, 2005
Armelagos, George J. Emerging Disease in the Time of Globalization: The Road to Viral
Superhighway. Infectious Disease Symposium. School of Public Health. Emory University. May 5,
2005.
Harper, Kristin N., Paolo S. Ocampa, Bret M. Stiener, Robert W. George, and George J.
Armelagos. Evolutionary Genetics of Treponema pallidum: Phylogeny, Origins, and Possible
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functional Differences. Evolution 2005. Meeting of the Society for the Study of Evolution, Society for
Systemic Biologists, and The American Society of Naturalist. Anchorage, AL. June 11, 2005.
Armelagos, George J. Biology, Culture and the Biocultural Approach: Separations and Syntheses
Over Five Decades. Viking Fund Medal Lecture. City University of New York Graduate Center and
the Wenner-Gren Foundation. New York. October 17, 2005
Armelagos, George J. and Kristin N. Harper. Genomics at the Origins of Agriculture. PBEE
Seminar. Emory University. October 28, 2005.
Armelagos, George J. Biocultural Anthropology: Guardian of the Sacred Bundle or Defender of an
Integrative Perspective? Biological Anthropology Section, Distinguished Lecture. American
Anthropology Association. Washington, DC. December 1,2005.
Armelagos, George J. and Kenneth Maes. Race, Racism, Health and Anthropology. Executive
Committee Invited Symposium. The Past, the Present and Future of Race and Health in
Anthropological Perspective. American Anthropology Association. Washington, DC. December
1,2005.
Armelagos, George J Discussant. The Evolution of Cuisine. American Anthropology Association
Annual Meeting. Washington, DC. December 1,2005.
2006 Ocampo, P. S, H. Liu, K.N. Harper, R.W. George, G.J. Armelagos, B.M. Steiner. Towards a
solution to the syphilis enigma: trends in the arp gene suggest evolutionary relationships of the
treponemes differentiates pathogenic treponemes. Annual Meeting of American Association of
Physical Anthropology. Anchorage, Alaska. April 2006.
Harper,K. N., P.S. Ocampo, B.M. Steiner, R.W. George, M.S. Silverman, S. Bolotin, A. Pillay, G.J.
Armelagos. The origin of syphilis: a phylogenetic approach suggesting New World origin. Annual
Meeting of American Association of Physical Anthropology. Anchorage, Alaska. April 2006.
Ocampo, P. S, H. Liu, K.N. Harper, R.W. George, G.J. Armelagos, B.M. Steiner. Towards a
solution to the syphilis enigma: trends in the arp gene suggest evolutionary relationships of the
treponemes differentiates pathogenic treponemes. Annual Meeting of American Association of
Physical Anthropology. Anchorage, Alaska. April 2006.
Armelagos, George J. Biology, Culture and the Biocultural Approach: Separations and Syntheses
Over Five Decades. Viking Fund Medal Lecture. City University of New York Graduate Center and
the Wenner-Gren Foundation. New York. October 17, 2005
Armelagos, George J. Biocultural Anthropology: Guardian of the Sacred Bundle or Defender of an
Integrative Perspective? Biological Anthropology Section, Distinguished Lecture. American
Anthropology Association Annual Meeting. Washington, DC. December 1,2005.
Armelagos, George J. and Kenneth Maes. Race, Racism, Health and Anthropology. Executive
Committee Invited Symposium. The Past, the Present and Future of Race and Health in
Anthropological Perspective. American Anthropology Association Annual Meeting, Washington,
DC. December 1,2005.
2007 K. Harper, H. Liu, B. M. Steiner, R. W. George, M. S. Silverman, S Bolotin, A Pillay, NJ Saunders,
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P. S Ocampo, and G. J. Armelagos, The Origin and Evolution of the Treponematoses: A
Phylogenetic Approach, Evolution 2007 Meeting: Christchurch, New Zealand (June 16-20),
Contributed Paper. Joint Meeting of the Society for the Study of Evolution, American Society of
Naturalists and the Society of Systematic Biologists
K. Harper, H. Liu, B. M. Steiner, R. W. George, M. S. Silverman, S Bolotin, A Pillay, NJ Saunders,
PS Ocampo, and G. J. Armelagos, Repeat types in the acidic repeat protein (arp) of Treponema
pallidum differentiate the subspecies of T. pallidum and suggest possible roles for the protein. ,
ISSTDR 2007 Meeting.: Seattle, Washington (July 29-August 1, 2007), Contributed Paper.
International Society for Sexually Transmitter Diseases
Campbell, Amber R. and George J. Armelagos, Assessment of FORDISC 3.0's Accuracy in
Classifying Individuals from W. W. Howell's Populations and Forensic Data Bank, American
Association of Physical Anthropologists: Philadelphia (March 30, 2007), Contributed Poster
(Presented). Abstract: American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 2007. Volume 132 (S44):83-84
Easton, Whitney L., John T. Woods and George J. Armelagos, Black Populations on St.
Catherines Island, Georgia, 1760-1930, American Association of Physical Anthropology:
Philadelphia (March 30, 2007), Contributed Poster (Presented). Abstract: American Journal of
Physical Anthropology. 2007. Volume 132 (S44);103-104
Naar, Nicole A. and George J. Armelagos, Directive 15 OMB, bureaucratic race and science, The
American Association of Physical Anthropologist: Philadelphia (March 29, 2007), Contributed Paper
(Presented). Abstract: American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 2007 Volume 132(S44):176
George J. Armelagos, Political Economy and Biocultural Anthropology, American Anthropology
Association: San Jose (November 16, 2007), Invited Paper (Presented). Symposium: Biocultural
Anthropology: Half-Century Contributions of Jack Kelso
George J. Armelagos, Emerging Disease in a Time of Globalization, Dialogue Between Social
and Biological Sciences: Honolulu, Hawaii (February 27, 2007), Invited Paper (Presented)
George J. Armelagos, Race and Racism, University of Georgia, Department of Anthropology:
Athens, Georgia (February 27, 2007), Invited Talk (Presented)
George J. Armelagos, The Globalization of Disease, University of Georgia, Department of
Anthropology
2008 George J. Armelagos, Kristin Harper and Molly Zuckerman. The Syphilis Enigma: Science By
Documentary, Paleopathology Association Meeting: Columbus, Ohio (April 9, 2008), Contributed
Paper.
Kristin Harper, Molly Zuckerman, Hsi Liu, Bret Steiner, Robert George, Michael Silverman, Shelly
Bolotin, Allan Pillay, Nigel Saunders, Paolo Ocampo, and George J. Armelagos, The Origin of the
Treponematoses (Syphilis, Yaws, and Endemic Syphilis): A Phylogenetic Approach.,
Paleopathology Association Meeting: Columbus, Ohio (April 9, 2008), Contributed Paper
(Presented).
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Paolo S. Ocampo, Kristin N. Harper, Molly K. Zuckerman, and George J. Armelagos, The Syphilis
Enigma: Bones of Contention, Paleopathology Association Meeting: Columbus, Ohio (April 9,
2008), Contributed Paper.
Molly K. Zuckerman, Kristin N. Harper, Megan L. Harper, Anthea Boylston, and George J.
Armelagos, The Origin and Antiquity of Syphilis Revisited: An Appraisal of Old World Pre-
Columbian Evidence for Treponemal Infection, Paleopathology Association Meeting: Columbus,
Ohio (April 9, 2008), Contributed Paper.
B.L. Turner, M.K. Zuckerman, B.A. Carlson, J.D. Kingston, G.J. Armelagos , D.R. Hunt, T.
Amgalantugs, and B. Frohlich, Prisoners of war or victims of raids? Population dynamics and their
relationship to dynastic upheaval in southern Mongolia c. 1300- 1350 AD. , American Association
of Physical Anthropology Annual: Columbus, Ohio (April 11,2009), Contributed Paper
M.K. Zuckerman, B.L. Turner, B.A. Carlson, J.D. Kingston, G.J. Armelagos, D.R. Hunt, T.
Amgalantugs and B. Frohlich, Diet and Disease in Times of War: Analysis of Mummified Human
Remains from Southern Mongolia c. 1300-1350 AD., American Association of Physical
Anthropology Annu: Columbus, Ohio (April 11, 2008), Contributed Paper.
George J. Armelagos, Biocultural Aspects of the Landscapes of Violence, Landscapes of
Violence: Amherst, MA (April 5, 2008), Invited Paper (Presented)
George J. Armelagos, Road to the Viral Superhighway: Emerging Disease in the Time of
Globalization, Centennial Symposium: The Evolution of Public Health: East Lansing, MI (April 21,
2008), Invited Paper.
2009 Armelagos, G. J., K. N. Harper and G. A. Rook The Paleolithic Disease-scape, the Hygiene
Hypothesis, and the Second Epidemiological Transition. Annual Meeting of American Association
Physical Anthropologist. Chicago, Illinois.
Kristin N. Harper, Molly K. Zuckerman and George J. Armelagos. The Influence of Time,
Geography, and Discipline upon Theories Concerning the Origin of Syphilis. Annual Meeting of the
Paleopathology Association. Chicago, Illinois.
M.K. Zuckerman, J.S. Solomon, and G.J. Armelagos. Sex and syphilis: hypotheses on
the influence of steroidal hormones on secondary and tertiary stage osseous
manifestations in acquired syphilis. Annual Meeting of the Paleopathology Association.
Chicago, Illinois.
B.W. Munzer, M.G. Levy and G. J. Armelagos. Measurements of moments of inertia in an nax
population (350-550 ce) from Sudanese nubia: activity determination and trabecular bone
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architecture. Annual Meeting of the Paleopathology Association. Chicago, Illinois.
K. Marklein, M. Zuckerman and G.J. Armelagos. Consequences of atlanto-occipital assimilation in
an the early Sudanese Nubian Christian population (550-800 CE. Annual Meeting of the
Paleopathology Association. Chicago, Illinois.
Armelagos, George J. and Helaina L. Klein. Quadriplegia in a hydrocephalic child from Sudanese
Nubia (350-550 ce): a paleoneurological analysis. Annual Meeting of the Paleopathology
Association. Chicago, Illinois.
K. Anderson, K. Marklein, A. R. Campbell and G.J. Armelagos. Pelvic sexual dimorphism in three
Sudanese Nubian populations from 350 BCE to 1350 CE. Annual Meeting of the Paleopathology
Association. Chicago, Illinois.
B. L. Turner, J. D. Kingston and George J. Armelagos. Diet versus Local: Isotopic Suportfor
Causal Roles in Pathological Conditions at Machu Picchu, Peru. Annual meeting of the American
Association Physical Anthropology. Chicago, Illinois.
Armelagos, George J. The Omnivore’s Dilemma: The Evolution of the Brain and the Determination
of Food Choice. XXIX Journal of Anthropological Research Distinguished Lecture. University of
New Mexico. November 5, 2009.
Armelagos, George J. Genomics at the Origin of Agriculture. Department of Anthropology,
University of New Mexico. November 7, 2009.
Armelagos, George J. Myth of Race; The Reality of Racism. Annual Meeting of the American
Anthropological Association. Philadelphia, PA. December 2, 2009.
Molly Zuckerman, George J. Armelagos and Kristin N. Harper. Making Sex Less Dangerous.
Evaluating the Evolution of Virulence. Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association.
Philadelphia, PA. December 2, 2009
2010 Molly K. Zuckerman and George J. Armelagos. Treponemal Infection in Skeletal Samples from
Ancient Egypt and Sudanese Nubia. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Paleopathology
Association. Albuquerque, New Mexico. April 13, 2010
George J. Armelagos, Amanda Thompson, Amber R. Campbell and Jeffery Edwards.
Tetracycline and Anemia in Ancient Sudanese Nubian populations. Paper presented at the annual
meeting of the Paleopathology Association. Albuquerque, New Mexico. April 13, 2010
Kelsey B Anderson, Molly K. Zuckerman, and George J Armelagos. Evaluation of the Person
Years Construct as a Method of Examining Disease Prevalence in the Nubian Population. Paper
presented at the annual meeting of the Paleopathology Association. Albuquerque, New Mexico.
April 13, 2010
Hillary Olivier, Amber Campbell, and George J. Armelagos. Diagnosis of Schistosomiasis in
Nubian Mummies: Comparing Circulating Anodic Antigen Assays Using Cranial Content and Skin.
Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Paleopathology Association. Albuquerque, New
Mexico. April 13, 2010
Kathyrn E. Marklein, Sherry C Fox, Molly K Zuckerman, George J Armelagos, T. Kokkoliou. Τα
Οστα Μιλουν: Preliminary Analyses of Classical and Hellenistic Period (490-146 BCE) Burials from
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Athens, Greece. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Paleopathology Association.
Albuquerque, New Mexico. April 13, 2010
Bethany L. Turner and George J. Armelagos. Beyond small guts and thrifty genes: The evolution
of human diet. Southeastern Evolution and Ecology Conference. March 26, 2010. Atlanta, Georgia.
George J. Armelagos and Kristin N. Harper. Primates, pathogens, and evolution: A context for
understanding emerging disease. Annual meeting of the American Association Physical
Anthropology. Albuquerque, New Mexico .
2011 George J. Armelagos. Scars of Past Stress, Impact on Later Development: The Barker Hypothesis
Evidence from Prehistory. American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting. Montreal,
Canada. November 18, 2011.
IX. PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY
Research in Prehistoric Archaeology in the Aswan Dam Area, Villa Servelloni, Bellagio
(Como), Italy, July 24-28, 1964.
Attended Wenner-Gren Symposium, The Origin of Man, Chicago, January, 1964.
Participant, Symposium on Human Paleopathology. National Academy of Science,
Washington, D. C., January, 1965.
Participant, Pathobiology Conference. Sponsored by the University of Colorado, Aspen,
August 1965.
Invited Participant, Population Biology of Early Egyptians. Sponsored by the University of
Turin and the British Museum (Natural History). Castle Montaldo, Turin, Italy, April 16-18,
1969.
Faculty Advisor for the Northeast Undergraduate Conference on Bioethics, Amherst,
Massachusetts, April 9-11, 1976.
American Anthropological Association Visiting Scientist Program, 1976.
Consultant, Special Study Section, Anthropology, National Institutes of Health, 1977.
Advisory Committee for Behavioral and Neural Sciences, Panel, National Science
Foundation, 1976-79.
Invited Participant, National Academy of Science-National Research Council, Food and
Nutrition Board's Committee on International Nutrition. Workshop on Functional Definition
of Nutritional Status, Washington, D.C., July 18-21, 1977.
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Participant, Third International Meroitic Conference, Toronto, Canada, November 1977.
Alternatives for America Conference. Sponsored by Atlanta 2000 Environmental
Protection Agency and Threshold, Inc., Atlanta, Georgia, November 16-19, 1977.
Invited Participant. George H. Hudson Symposium on Biosocial Mechanisms in Population
Regulation, Plattsburgh, New York, April 15-17, 1978.
Invited Participant. Origin and Early Development of Food Producing Cultures in
Northeastern Africa. Polish Academy of Science, Poznan, Poland, 1980.
Advisory Council, Little Salt Spring Research Foundation, North Point, Florida, 1980.
Invited Participant, Seminar on the Anthropology and Archaeology of Death, University of
London, England, June 1980.
Consultant for Anthropological Concepts of Human Diversity in Secondary Social Studies
Curricula Conference. NSF sponsored. Memphis State University, Memphis, Tennessee,
June 3-4, 1980.
Director, Save Our Senior Committee, New York City, 1980.
Seated - Curriculum Committee. Committee on Nutritional Anthropology, 1981.
Student Award Committee, W. H. Rivers Prize, Society for Medical Anthropologists.
Interport Lecturer. Semester at Sea (University of Pittsburgh), Cadiz, Spain to Athens,
Greece.
Participant, Wenner-Gren Foundation International Symposium on Food Preferences and
Aversions (M. Harris and E. Ross, organizers). Cedar Key, Florida, October 23-30, 1984.
Co-chaired Workshop. Infectious Diseases of the Skeleton. Eleventh Annual Meeting of
the Paleopathology Association, April 14, 1984.
Member, Visiting Committee on Human Origins. Stanford University. November 1986.
Consultant, Florida State University, Windover Archaeological Project, 1987.
Consultant, Dade County Historic Preservation Division, Cutler Fossil Site.
Consultant, History of the Future. Five part television series. INCA Corp.
Consultant, Feast of the Gods. Television series. WRTV. Michigan State University.
Organized the Medical Anthropology Roundtables Luncheon. 87th Annual meeting of the
American Anthropological Association. November 18, 1988. Phoenix.
Organized the Medical Anthropology Roundtables Wine and Cheese. 87th Annual meeting
of the American Anthropological Association. November 17, 1988. Phoenix.
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Member. The J. T. Staley Prize selection committee. School of American Research.
January 21, 1990. March 15, 2006 Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Organizing Committee. Sixth International Conference on Hunting and Gathering Societies.
University of Alaska. Fairbanks, Alaska. May 27- June 1.
Organization Committee. The Etruscans: Skeletal Biology and Their Way of Life. Institute
for the Study of Man. University of Florence. Meeting held at the Sant'Agostino Cultural
Center, Cortona, Italy
Session Organizer and Chairman: Past and Present Health and Nutrition Patterns. Sixth
International Conference on Hunting and Gathering Societies. University of Alaska.
Fairbanks, Alaska. May 27- June 1.
Southern Anthropological Association. Co-Chair, Local Arrangements Committee. St.
Augustine Florida. April 1992
Selection Committee. Annual Metting of American Association of Physical Anthropology.
Las Vegas, 1992. Toronto, 1993.
Member of the International Scientific Committee of the 3rd Colloquio Europeo di
Etnofarmacologia and the 1st Conferenza Internazionale di Antropolgia e Storia della
Salute e delle Malattie. Genova, Italy, 1996.
Evaluation Committee. Department of Anthropology, Stanford University, 1997.
Evaluation Committee. Department of Anthropology, Brooklyn College. 1997.
School Of American Research Resident Scholars Selection Committee. Santa Fe. January
25-30, 1998
The Future of Anthropology. Santa Fe. School Of American Research. January 26th, 1998
Local Arrangements. Southern Anthropology Society Annual Meetings. Decatur, Georgia.
March 18 -20, 2004
X. GRANTS
Undergraduate Equipment and Material. Grant made to the Utah Planning Board from the
Office of Education (Department of Health, Education and Welfare). $10,302 (Matching
$5,156), August 1966.
Preliminary Study of Prehistoric Bone Growth and Development. National Institute of
Health, Public Health Service, February 1967 to January 31, 1968, $33,000.
The Reconstruction of Prehistoric Great Basin Food Utilization from Coprolite Analysis,
$9,000. National Science Foundation. Co-principal Investigator with Kimball T. Harper,
Department of Botany, University of Utah, 1968.
Immunological Study of Bone, $1,012. University of Utah Biomedical Research Grant,
1968.
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Faculty Growth Grant. University of Massachusetts, Summer 1970.
Pathology of Dickson Mounds Skeletons, $513. University of Massachusetts Biomedical
Research Grant, 1970-1971.
Stylistic and Demographic Analysis of a New England Cemetery, $450. Faculty Research
Grant, University of Massachusetts, 1971-1972.
Cranial Variation in Nubia. Faculty sponsor for David Carlson, $2,000. Wenner-Gren
Foundation for Anthropological Research, 1973.
Stable Isotopes and Nutrition in Human Adaptation. Submitted to National Institute of
Health, $168,043. Approved but not funded. 1979.
Carbon Isotope Composition of Skeletal Material and Paleonutrition Implications of a
Prehistoric Indian Group, $2,929. NIH Biomedical Grant RR07048-14, 1979.
The Morphology and Pathology of Vertebrae from the Dickson Mounds Archaeological
Populations, $1,700. NIH Biomedical Grant RR07048-14, 1979.
Equipment for Improvement of Teaching of Human Adaptability and Evolution. University
of Massachusetts Equipment Grant, $1,991. 1980.
13C Composition, Paleonutrition and Human Adaptation. National Science Foundation.
BNS 8016652. Faculty sponsor for M. Pamela Bumsted. $10,000. 1980.
Environmental and Behavioral Determinants of Postcranial Variability in European Upper
Pleistocene Hominids. Faculty sponsor for Kenneth H. Jacobs. National Science
Foundation. BNS 8016652. $5,000. 1980-1981.
Agricultural Energy Flow in a Seasonal Arid Environment. Wenner-Gren Foundation for
Anthropological Research. Faculty sponsor for Rebecca Huss-Ashmore. $3,873. 1980.
The Effects of Nutrition on Premature Osteoporosis in a Prehistoric Population from
Sudanese Nubia, $4,794. NIH Biomedical Grant, RR07048-17. 1983.
Ecology and Development in the Caribbean. National Wildlife Federation. Faculty sponsor
for Barbara Johnston. $2,000. 1983.
Disease in Populations in Transition. International Wenner-Gren Symposium (with
Swedlund). Rancho Encantada, Santa Fe, New Mexico. October 1985.
Ethnocultural Influences on Chronic Pain Reception and Disease. National Science
Foundation, BNS 8765615. Principal investigator, faculty sponsor for Maryann Bates.
$14,663. 1987.
Minority Graduate Education Fellowship. For Mark Mack. Smithsonian Institution. $6000.00.
1990, 1991, 1992.
National Science Foundation. Dissertation Award to Kearsley A. Stewart. Socio-economic
Determinants of Adolescent pregnancy in Uganda. SBR-9632207. $12,111.
Wenner-Gren Foundation. Award to Kearsley A. Stewart. Socio-economic Determinants of
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Adolescent pregnancy in Uganda. $10,656
XI. DEPARTMENTAL AND UNIVERSITY ACTIVITIES
Emory University
Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Anthropology, 1994-1997
Executive Committee, Department of Anthropology, 1995-1997, 1999-2000
Graduate Admissions Committee, Department of Anthropology, 1993, 1997
Committee Member. Computer and Information Technology Committee. 1996,1997
Population Biology, Ecology and Evolution Program. Executive Committee. 1996-1999
Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Anthropology, 1999-2000
Curriculum Committee, Department of Anthropology, 1999-2000
University Research Committee, 1999- 2003
Center for Disease Ecology. Lecture Committee, 2000
Curriculum Committee, Emory College, 2001-2002, Chair, Social Science subsection, 2003-2004,
2004-2005.
ExOfficio member, NBB Executive Committee, 2003-2006
Ad Hoc Committee, Promotion Committee, Department of Classics, 2005
Emory University. Strategic Plan ImplementationTeam; Confronting the Human Condition and
Experience Committee. Co-Chair. Strategic Planning Committee. Race and Differences.
University of Florida
Graduate School. Advisory Council for Minority Programs. Sept. 1990-
University of Massachusetts: Departmental
Graduate Committee: 1967-68, 1968-69, 1974-75; Co-Chair: 1973-73.
Curriculum Committee: 1969-70.
Undergraduate Committee: 1971.
Personnel Committee: 1969-70 (Alternate), 1970-71, 1971-72, 1975-77, 1979-80; Chair:
1977, 1982.
Space Utilization Committee: 1971; Chair: 1973-75.
Chair Search Committee: 1972, 1974.
Liaison for Center for Instructional Resources and Improvement: 1973.
Department Liaison to Sigma Xi: 1973.
Director of Undergraduate Studies: 1977.
Executive Committee: 1977.
Publications Committee: 1982-86; Chair, 1986.
Honors Coordinator: 1983, 1984.
Affirmative Action Officer: 1984.
Chair, Evaluation Committee: 1986- .
Woodbury Scholarship Award Committee: 1985-1988.
University of Massachusetts: School
Committee on Divisional Majors, Social and Behavioral Sciences: 1970-71, 1973.
Executive Committee, Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences (Elected): 1971-72,
1977-79, 1982, 1984; Chair: 1986, 1988.
Committee for the Study of Computer Utilization in Social and Behavioral Sciences:
1971-72.
Dean of the Faculty of Social and Behavioral Search Committee: 1984.
University of Massachusetts: University
Faculty Senate: 1970-72, 1976-79.
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Orchard Hill Residential College Review Committee: 1973.
Distinguished Teaching Award Committee: 1973-75, 1985-87.
Graduate Student Selection Subcommittee, Chair: 1987.
Academic Matters Committee of Faculty Senate: 1975-77.
Health Care Systems Committee: 1975-77.
Honors Council: 1975-77.
Ad Hoc Committee on Academic Program Review: 1977.
Ad Hoc Committee to Evaluate Acting Dean of Behavioral and Social Sciences: 1978.
University Faculty Publication Advisory Committee: 1984-85.
Contact Editor Search Committee: 1984.
Faculty Senate, Academic Priorities Committee: Chair, elected 1984-88.
Committee for Program and Budget Analysis for Administrative Support of Research:
1987.
Campus Planning Committee: 1985-88.
Distinguished Faculty Lecture Series Selection Committee: 1986-89.
Five-College
Archaeological Advisory Committee. Smith College:1983- 89.
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