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Debra L. Martin, PhD
Associate Professor of Biological Anthropology


Publications

Publications - Books, Monographs, and Edited Volumes

2001 Martin DL, Akins NJ, Goodman AH, Toll, W, Swedlund AC. Harmony and Discord: Bioarchaeology of the La Plata Valley. Santa Fe: Museum of New Mexico Press
1997 Martin DL, Frayer D eds. Troubled Times: Evidence for Violence and Warfare in the Past New York: Gordon and Breach (War and Society Series Volume VI)
1991 Martin DL, Goodman AH, Armelagos GJ, Magennis AL. Black Mesa Anasazi Health: Reconstructing Life from Patterns of Death and Disease. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press
1984 Goddard N, Martin, DL eds. Teaching About Culture and Reproduction, Women's Studies Quarterly Vol. XII(4)
1981 Martin DL, Bumsted MP eds. Biocultural Adaptation: Comprehensive Approaches to Skeletal Analyses. Amherst, Mass.: Department of Anthropology Research Report No. 20

 

 

 

 

 

Publications - Journal Articles and Book Chapters

in press Perez, VR, Nelson, BA and Martin, DL. Veneration or Violence? A Study of Variations in Patterns of Human Bone Modification at La Quemada. In: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Social Violence in the Prehispanic Southwest Crown, P. and Nichols, D eds. University of Arizona Press.
in press

Martin, DL, Akins NJ, Crenshaw, B, Stone, PK. Inscribed on the Body, Written in the Bones: The Consequences of Social Violence at La Plata. In: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Social Violence in the Prehispanic Southwest Crown, P. and Nichols, D eds. University of Arizona Press.

2006 Martin, DL, Goodman, AH. Health Conditions Before Columbus: Paleopathology of Native North Americans. In: Health and Healing in Comparative Perspective, ED Whitaker, ed. Prentice Hall, New Jersey. Pp. 211-216.
2004 Cope JM, Berryman AC, Martin DL, and Potts DT. Robusticity and Osteoarthritis at the Trapeziometacarpal Joint in a Bronze Age Population from Tell Abraq, U.A.E. American Journal of Physical Anthropology.
2003 Martin DL and Horowitz, S. Anthropology and Alternative Medicine: Orthopedics and the Other. Techniques in Orthopaedics 18(1): 130-8.
2003 Sananman EM, Martin, DL, Kaku, T. Childbirth in Japan Compared with Childbirth in the USA. Memoirs Kyushu Univ. School of Health Sciences. 1:15-22.
2002 Kuckelman KL, Lightfoot RR, Martin DL. The Bioarchaeology and Taphonomy of Violence at Castle Rock and Sand Canyon Pueblos, Southwestern Colorado. American Antiquity 67:486-513.
2002 Goodman AH, Martin DL. Reconstructing Health Profiles from Skeletal Remains. In: The Backbone of History: Health and Nutrition in the Western Hemisphere Steckel RH, Rose JC, eds. England: Cambridge University Press. Pp 11-60.
2002 Stodder ALW, Martin DL, Goodman AH, Reff DT. Cultural Longevity in the Face of Biological Stress: The Anasazi of the American Southwest. In: The Backbone of History: Health and Nutrition in the Western Hemisphere Steckel RH, Rose JC, eds. England: Cambridge University Press. Pp 481-505.
2002

Martin DL, Goodman AH. Health Conditions Before Columbus: Paleopathology of Native North Americans. Western Journal of Medicine 176(1):65-68

2001

Martin DL, Perez, VR Dead Bodies and Violent Acts. Commentary. Anthropology News 42 (7): 8-9.

2001 Martin DL, Akins NJ. Unequal Treatment in Life as in Death: Trauma and Mortuary Behavior at La Plata (AD 1000-1300). Ancient Burial Practices in the American Southwest. Mitchell DR, Brunson-Hadley JL eds. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. Pp. 223-248
2000 Dongoske KE, Martin DL, Ferguson TJ. Critique of the Claim of Cannibalism at Cowboy Wash. American Antiquity 65(1): 179-190
2000 Martin DL, Goodman AH. Health Conditions Before Columbus: The Paleopathology of Native North Americans. In: American Indian Health: Innovations in Health Care, Promotion, and Policy Rhoades ER ed. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. Pp. 19-40
2000 Martin DL. Bodies and Lives: Biological Indicators of Health Differentials and Division of Labor by Sex. In: Women and Men in the Prehistoric Southwest: Labor, Power and Prestige. Crown P ed. Santa Fe: School of American Research Press. Pp. 267-300
2000 Kuckelman KA, Lightfoot RR, Martin DL. Changing Patterns of Violence in the Northern San Juan Region. Kiva 66 (1):147-165.
1999 Goodman AG, Martin DL. The Potential Pitfalls of Evolutionary Medicine: Forager Peoples in Theory and in Reality. In: Food and Body. Guerci A ed. Genoa, Italy: Erga Edizionii. Pp. 90-104.
1998 Martin DL. Owning the Sins of the Past: Historical Trends in the Study of Southwest Human Remains. In: Building a New Biocultural Synthesis: Political-Economic Perspectives in Biological Anthropology. Goodman AH, Leatherman L eds. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. Pp. 171-190
1997 Martin DL. Violence Against Women in a Southwestern Series (AD 1000-1300). In: Troubled Times: Violence and Warfare in the Past. Martin DL, Frayer D eds. New York: Gordon and Breach. Pp. 45-75
1995 Goodman AH, Martin DL, Armelagos GJ. The Biological Consequences of Inequality in Prehistory Rivista di Antropologia Vol. 73: 30-45

1995

Martin DL, Goodman AH. Demography, Diet and Disease in the Transitional Basketmaker III/ Pueblo I Period. In: Studies in Ridges Basin Archaeology. Smiley FE, Gregg SA eds. Arizona: Animas/La Plata Manuscript Series Research Paper No. 4. Pp.1-48
1994 Nelson BA, Martin DL, Swedlund AC, Fish PR, Armelagos GJ. Studies in Disruption: Demography and Health in the Prehistoric American Southwest. In: Understanding Complexity in the Prehistoric Southwest. Gumerman G. Gell-Mann M eds. Santa Fe Institute Studies in the Sciences of Complexity, Proceedings Volume XVI. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley. Pp. 59-112
1994 Martin DL. Patterns of Diet and Disease: Health Profiles for the Prehistoric Southwest. In: Themes in Southwest Prehistory. Gumerman GJ ed. Santa Fe: School of American Research Press. Pp. 87-108
1992 Goodman AH, Martin DL, Klein CP, Peele MS, Cruse NA, McEwen LR, Saeed A, Robinson BM. Cluster Bands, Wilson Bands and Pit Patches: Histological and Enamel Surface Indicators of Stress in the Black Mesa Anasazi Population. Journal of Paleopathology Monograph Publication 2:115-127
1992 Goodman AH, Martin DL, Armelagos GJ. Health, Economic Change and Regional Political Economic Relations: Examples from Prehistory. MASCA Research Papers in Science and Archaeology 9:51-60
1992 Stodder ALW, Martin DL. Native Health and Disease in the American Southwest Before and After Spanish Contact. Disease and Demography in the Americas: Changing Patterns Before and After 1492. Ubelaker DH, Verano JW eds.Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press. Pp. 55-73
1991 Martin DL. Bone Histology and Paleopathology: Methodological Considerations. In: Human Paleopathology: Current Syntheses and Future Options Ortner DJ, Aufderheide AC eds. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press. Pp. 55-59
1989 Martin DL, Armelagos GJ, Henderson KA, "The Persistence of Nutritional Stress in Northeastern African (Sudanese Nubian) Populations. In: Famine in Africa: Microperspectives. Vol I. Huss-Ashmore R, Katz S, eds. London: Gordon, Breach. Pp. 185-209
1989 Armelagos GJ, Brenton B, Alcorn M, Martin DL, VanGerven DP. Factors Affecting Elemental and Isotopic Variation in Prehistoric Human Skeletons. In: Bone Chemistry of Past Populations. Price TD ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. 230-244
1987 Martin DL, Magennis AL, Rose JC. Cortical Bone Maintenance in an Historic Afro-American Cemetery from Cedar Grove, Arkansas. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 74:255-264
1987 Hurley MM, Martin DL, Raisz LG. Changes in Ethanol Concentration During Incubation in Multiwell Tissue Culture Trays. Proceedings Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine 186:139-141
1986 Martin DL, Armelagos, GJ. Histological Analysis of Bone Remodeling in Prehistoric Sudanese Nubia. Science and Egyptology. David RA ed. Manchester, England: Manchester University Press. Pp. 389-398
1985 Martin, DL, Armelagos GJ. Skeletal Remodeling and Mineralization as Indicators of Health: An Example from Prehistoric Sudanese Nubia. Journal of Human Evolution 14:527-537
1985 Magennis AL, Martin DL, Rubens L. Human Osteological Remains. In: Excavations on Black Mesa 1983 Christianson AL, Perry WJ eds. Carbondale, Illinois: Center for Archaeological Investigations Press. Pp. 445-450
1985 Martin DL, Piacentini C, Armelagos GJ. Paleopathology of the Black Mesa Anasazi: A Biocultural Approach. In: Health and Disease in the Prehistoric Southwest. Merbs CF, Miller RJ eds. Tempe, Arizona: Arizona State University Anthropological Research Papers No. 34. Pp. 104-114
1985 Martin DL, Goodman AH, Armelagos GJ. Skeletal Pathologies as Indicators of Quality and Quantity of Diet. The Analysis of Prehistoric Diets. Gilbert R, Mielke J eds. New York: Academic Press. Pp. 227-279
1984 Magennis AL, Martin DL. Osteological Remains from Excavated Sites. In: Excavations on Black Mesa 1982 Nichols DL, Smiley FE. eds. Carbondale, Illinois: Center for Archaeological Investigations Press. Pp. 805-811
1984 Martin DL, Armelagos GJ, Goodman AH, Van Gerven DP. The Effects of Socioeconomic Change in Prehistoric Africa. Paleopathology at the Origins of Agriculture Cohen MN, Armelagos GJ eds. New York: Academic Press. Pp. 193-214
1984 Goodman AH, Martin DL, Armelagos GJ. Indications of Stress from Bone and Teeth. In: Paleopathology at the Origins of Agriculture. Cohen MN, Armelagos GJ eds. New York: Academic Press. Pp.13-49
1984 Armelagos GJ, Van Gerven DP, Martin DL, Huss-Ashmore R. Effects of Nutritional Change on the Skeletal Biology of Northeast African (Sudanese Nubian) Populations. In: From Hunter to Farmers Clark JD, Brandt SA eds. Berkeley: U. of California Press. Pp.132-146
1984 Martin, DL, Horowitz S. An Anthropological Framework for Examining Reproduction and Sexuality. Women's Studies Quarterly XII(4):19-22
1983 Martin DL, Piacentini C. Osteological Recovery: Summary of Analyses. In: Excavations of Black Mesa 1981. Smiley FE, Nichols DL, Andrews PP eds. Carbondale, Illinois: Center for Archaeological Investigations Press. Pp. 501-505
1982 Armelagos GJ, Huss-Ashmore RA, Martin DL. Morphometrics as Indicators of Dietary Stress in Prehistoric Sudanese Nubia. MASCA Research papers in Science and Archaeology 2(1):22-26
1981 Martin DL, Armelagos GJ, Mielke J, Miendl, R. Dietary Stress in Prehistoric Populations from Sudanese Nubia. Bull. Mem. Soc. Anthrop. Paris Serie XIII:307-319
1981 Armelagos, GJ, Jacobs, K, Martin, DL, "Death and Demography in Prehistoric Nubia. In: Mortality and Immortality: The Anthropology and Archaeology of Death. Humphries S, King H eds. London: Academic Pres Pp. 35-58
1981 Martin, DL. Microstructural Examination: Potential for Skeletal Analyses. In: Biocultural Adaptation: Comprehensive Approaches to Skeletal Analyses. Martin DL, Bumsted P eds. Amherst, Mass.: Department of Anthropology Research Reports No.20. Pp.96-112
1980 Martin DL, Goodman AH, Armelagos, GJ. On the Use of Microstructural Bone for age Determination. Current Anthropology 22:437-438
1980 Bassett E, Kieth M, Armelagos GJ, Martin DL, Villanueva T. Tetracycline-labeled Bone from Ancient Sudanese Nubia. Science 209:1531-1534
1979 Martin DL, Armelagos GJ, King J. Degenerative Joint Disease of the Long Bones from Dickson Mound. Henry Ford Hospital Medicine Journal 27:60-64
1979 Martin DL, Armelagos GJ. Morphometrics of Compact Bone: An Example from Sudanese Nubia. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 51, 571-578
1979 Martin DL, Armelagos GJ. Paleoepidemiological Methods and Porotic Hyperostosis. Paleopathology News 23, 14-17

 

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