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Debra L. Martin, PhD
Associate Professor of Biological Anthropology


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2005 Martin, DL and Cerullo, M. Poster Presentation Feeding the Family in Troubled Times: Diet and Nutrition in Morelos, Mexico in the Age of NAFTA. Pan NSF-REU/AAAS Workshop "Growing Scientists," September 20-22, Washington, DC.
2004 Cope JM, Adler LM, Martin DL, and Potts, DT. Synergistic Musculoskeletal Attachment Sites in the Upper Extremity and Activity Patterns at Tell Abraq, United Arab Emirates, 2300 BC. Poster presented at the American Association of Physical Anthropology Annual Meetings, April 14-7, Tampa, Fl.
2004 Edwards J and Martin DL. Growing Old on Black Mesa: A New Look at Aging in the Past. American Journal of Physical Anthropology (Abstracts) 91. Poster presented at the American Association of Physical Anthropology Annual Meetings, April 14-7, Tampa, Fl.
2003 Cooper CC, Martin DL and Potts DT. Skeletal Markers of Occupational Stress in the Tibiae of an Adult Bronze Age Population. American Journal of Physical Anthropology (Abstracts) 79. American Association of Physical Anthropology Annual Meetings, April 23-6, Tempe AZ.
2003 Fan J, Ortner DJ, Frohlich B, and Martin DL. Brucellosis in Antiquity: An Analysis of Possible Cases of Brucellar Sacroiliitis. American Journal of Physical Anthropology (Abstracts) 94. American Association of Physical Anthropology Annual Meetings, April 23-6, Tempe AZ.
2002 Martin DL and Perez V. Presidential Session Organizer and Co-Chair Mass Graves, Civil Wars, Modern Catastrophes: Anthropologists and the Dead in (Un)imaginable Contexts. American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings, Nov. 20-4, New Orleans.
2002 Martin DL and Perez V. Revisiting the "Nature" of Violent Actions in Archaeological Populations: Examples from the Greater Southwest. Paper presented in The Biological Roots of Human Aggression, Revisited. American Anthropology Association Annual Meeting, Nov. 20-4, New Orleans.
2002 Martin DL, Fan J, Sanders M, White R. Poster Presentation The Old Ladies of Black Mesa: A 900 Year Chronicle of Diet and Health Recorded in Bone and Teeth. American Journal of Physical Anthropology (Abstract), American Association of Physical Anthropologists. April 10-13, Buffalo, NY
2001 Martin DL. Discussant "Rape, Rage, Evolution, Science and the Media" Conference: "Culture Goes Public: Anthropologists Speak Back on War, Race, Gender and Globalization" C Besteman and H Gusterson, organizers. October 19-21, MIT Cambridge, MA
2001 Martin DL. Presidential Session Organizer and Chair Dead Bodies and Violent Acts: Reexamining Perpetrators, Victims and Bystanders. AAA Executive Board Presidential Session. American Anthropological Association. Nov. 20-24, Washington, DC (review of session, Martin DL , Perez VR Anthropology News November 2001 pgs. 5-6).
2001 Martin DL. Paper Presentation Food, Women and Violence: An Archaeological Case Study. Food and Feminism Session organized by C Counihan. American Anthropological Association. Nov. 20-24, Washington, DC
2000 Martin DL. Panel Presentation Feminist Critiques of Anthropological Projects: Reflections on Recent Trends. American Association of Anthropologists, Nov. 15-18, San Francisco, CA
2000 Martin DL. Book Review Man Corn: Cannibalism and Violence in the Prehistoric American Southwest . American Antiquity 65(1): 199-201.
2000 Martin DL. Paper Presentation Trauma, Occupational Stress and Mortuary Treatment by Sex in the Southwest. Gender and Archaeology Conference. October 6-8, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff
2000 Martin DL, Stone PK, Barr-Dichiara M, Burgdorf S. Paper Presentation Strong Women in Marginal Places: Rates of Morbidity and Mortality for Ancestral Pueblo Populations." American Journal of Physical Anthropology (Abstract), American Association of Physical Anthropologists. San Antonio, TX
2000 Perez V, Martin DL. Co-Organizer and Chair Understanding Taphonomic Processes: New Techniques in Bioarchaeology. America Association of Physical Anthropologists. San Antonio, TX
1999 Martin DL, Stone PK, Parker N, Margolis M. Poster Presentation Paleodemography and Paleopathology of a Bronze Age Skeletal Population from Tell Abraq, United Arab Emirates. American Association of Physical Anthropology, April 26-10, Columbus, OH
1999 Perez V, Martin DL. Poster Presentation Cultural Modification of Bone: A Study of Cutmark Morphology, Location, and Orientation on Human Remains from La Quemada. American Association of Physical Anthropology April 26-30, Columbus, OH
1999 Martin DL. Invited Speaker Violence Against Women in the Ancient Southwest. Bodies of Evidence: Variability in Patterns of Violence on the Colorado Plateau. Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona, Feb. 3, Tucson, AZ
1998 Stone P, Perez VR, Martin DL. Video Review Science or Sacrilege: Native Americans, Archaeology and the Law. American Anthropologist 100(4):1022-1024.
1998 Martin DL. Paper Presentation Engendering Bioarchaeology: What's a Feminist Project? American Association of Anthropology December 2-6, Philadelphia PA
1998 Martin DL. Paper Presentation Health, Equality, Politics and Resources. International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (ICAES). July 26-30, Williamsburg VA
1998 Martin DL. Paper Presentation A Political-Economic Perspective Applied to Bioarchaeological Research. International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (ICAES). July 26-30, Williamsburg VA
1998 Martin DL, Stodder ALW, Goodman AH. Paper Presentation The American Southwest: Living on the Edge of Existence. American Association of Physical Anthropology.
1997 Martin DL. Paper Presentation Biological Indicators of Gender Differentiation and Inequality in the Southwest. Session entitled "Sex Roles and Gender Hierarchies in Southwestern Prehistory" Society for American Archaeology April 2-6. Nashville, TN
1997 Savoy LE, Martin DL. Paper Presentation Integrating Geology and Ethnoarchaeology to Teach About Human-Environment Interactions on the Colorado Plateau. Geological Society of America 29(6):A471.
1997 Martin DL. Paper Presentation Women's Bodies, Women's Lives: Sexual Division of Labor and Hierarchy in the Precontact Southwest. Symposium, "Sex Roles and Gender in Middle Range Societies: Engendering Southwestern Prehistory." School of American Research Advanced Seminar. March 2-6, Santa Fe, NM
1997 Martin DL. Invited Speaker The Women Who Came Before Us: Health and Healing in Historical Perspective. Featured speaker, Native Women's History Month, Fort Lewis College, March 23, Durango CO
1996 Akins NJ, Martin DL. Paper Presentation Owning the Sins of the Past: Historical Trends in the Analysis of Human Remains in the Southwest. Symposium, "Anthropological Dimensions of NAGPR" American Anthropological Association, Nov. 20-24, San Francisco, CA
1996 Martin DL, Akins NJ. Paper Presentation Reading Bones as Text: Women's Health and Labor in the Ancient Southwest. American Anthropological Association, Nov 20-24. San Francisco, CA
1996 Martin DL, Zihlman A. Co-Organizer and Chair Symposium, "Physical Anthropologists Examine Women's Bodies." American Anthropological Association, November 20-24, San Francisco, CA 22-25
1995 Martin DL. Paper Presentation Lives Unlived: The Political Economy of Violence Against Anasazi Women. Society for American Archaeology, May 3-5, Minneapolis, MN
1995 Martin DL. Organizer and Chair Symposium, "Women's Bodies, Women's Lives: Biological Indicators of Labor and Occupation." American Association of Physical Anthropologists, American Journal of Physical Anthropology (Abstract) Supl. 20: 31. March 28-April 1, Oakland, CA
1995 Wesson AL, Martin DL. Paper Presentation Women Carried Heavy Loads While Men Were Weaving: Precontact Sexual Division of Labor at Black Mesa, Arizona. American Journal of Physical Anthropology (Abstract) Supl. 20: 220. American Association of Physical Anthropology. March 28-April 1, Oakland, CA
1995 Martin DL, Akins NJ. Poster Presentation A Case of Metastatic Carcinoma from the La Plata Valley, New Mexico. Paleopathology Association, March 28, Oakland CA
1994 Martin DL. Paper Presentation Adaptation to Arid Environments: Paleopathology in the Arabian Peninsula. Arabian Seminar, Oxford University. July 25-28, Oxford, England
1994 Martin DL, Akins NJ Paper Presentation Exploring Patterns of Violence Against Women in the Prehistoric Southwest. Southwest Symposium, Arizona State University. January 7-8, Tempe, AZ
1994 Martin DL, Frayer D. Co-Organizer and Chair Symposium, Crime and Punishment: Violence in Past Societies. American Association of Anthropologists, Nov. 19-13, Washington, DC
1994 Martin DL. Paper Presentation The Political Economy of Violence Against Women in Prehistory. American Association of Physical Anthropologists. American Journal of Physical Anthropology (Abstract) Supl. 18: 137-138. April 1-4, Denver, CO
1993 Martin DL, Cameron C. Co-Organizer and Chair Presidential Symposium "Collaborative Approaches to Understanding the Past." Plenary Session, American Association of Anthropology. Dec. 2-5, Washington, DC
1993 Martin DL. Paper Presentation Health Profile for the La Plata Highway Skeletal Remains.Southwest Symposium. October 21-24, Farmington, NM
1993 Goodman AH, Martin DL. Paper Presentation The Biological Consequences of Inequality in Prehistory. ICAES Meetings. July 15-18, Mexico City, Mexico
1992 Martin DL. Paper Presentation Political-Economic Perspectives on Skeletal Biology and the American Southwest. Wenner-Gren Conference, "Political-Economic Perspectives in Biological Anthropology" Goodman AH, Leatherman TH, organizers. Nov. 2-5, Cabo San Lucas, Baja California, Mexico
1992 Martin DL, Nelson BA, Swedlund AC, Armelagos, GJ. Paper Presentation Demography and Health in the American Southwest. American Journal of Physical Anthropology (Abstract) Supl. 14:117-118.
1991 Martin DL, Seefeldt WD. Poster Presentation Prehistoric Obstetrics: Why Anasazi Women Die Young on Black Mesa, Arizona (AD 800-1150). American Association of Physical Anthropologists. American Journal of Physical Anthropology (Abstract) Supl. 12:125-126. April 2-6, Milwaukee, MN
1991 Goodman AH, Martin DL. Paper Presentation Nutrition and Health Consequences of Prehistoric Economic and Political Centralization in North America. American Association for the Advancement of Science. Feb. 23-25, Washington, DC
1990 Martin DL. Paper Presentation Demography and Health in the Prehistoric Southwest. Conference, "Understanding Complexity in the Prehistoric Southwest." Santa Fe Institute, October 1-5, Santa Fe, NM
1990 Martin DL. Paper Presentation Women and Children: Subgroups at Risk in the Transition to Agriculture. 6th Conference on Hunting and Gathering Societies, University of Alaska. May 27-June 1, Fairbanks, AK

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