Background:
I am a biological anthropology PhD student at The University of Iowa. I completed my MA in the Spring of 2006 (MA paper titled “Health Status in Prehistoric Portugal: Dental Pathology and Childhood Mortality Patterns from the Late Neolithic burials of Feteira (Lourinhã)). I am interested in the relationship between social complexity and childhood health in prehistory, and, in my current research project, I am analyzing skeletal remains from Neolithic, Copper Age, and Bronze Age burials in Iberia.