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I am a skeletal biologist with specific interests in bioarchaeology, forensic anthropological methods, long bone biomechanics, and secular change. My research primarily concerns developing and testing methods that can be used to reconstruct demographic information (i.e., age, sex, ancestry, and stature) and behavior (activity) patterns in past and present populations using skeletal morphology. Much of my research involves testing questions about how long bone cross-sectional geometry can be used to reconstruct behavior in archaeological populations and biological profiles in medicolegal investigations. Secondarily, I seek to gain knowledge of how and why the skeleton changes through time in populations. The ultimate purpose of my research is to expand our understanding of the archaeological record and develop accurate biological profiles in medicolegal investigations.
Grants
Forensic Science Foundation's Acorn/Lucas Research Grant. 2009. Dimorphism in Auricular Surface Medial Projection. PI: Daniel Wescott. $780 awarded.
University of Missouri Research Council Grant (2008). Bioarchaeology of the Shiloh Cemetery (23CY593): Life and Death of African Americans in Mid-Missouri between 1838 and 1876. PI: Daniel Wescott. $7191 approved.
University of Missour Research Board Grant (2008-2009). Secular Change in Long Bone Strength and Shape Indices in the United States from 1800 - 1980. PI: Daniel Wescott. $26,700 awarded.
University of Missouri Summer Research Fellowship (2008). Secular Change in Long Bone Length and Cross-Sectional Shape in the United States. PI: Daniel Wescott. $7,000 awarded.
The State Historical Society of Missouri Richard S. Brownlee Fund (2007). The Iron Coffin from MacPhela: An Interdisciplinary Effort to Reconstruct the History of an Early Settler of Lexington, Missouri. PI: Daniel Wescott. $450 awarded.
University of Missouri Research Council Grant (2006). Secular change in femur diaphyseal strength and shape in the United States. PI: Daniel Wescott. $3451 awarded.
University of Missouri Big 12 Faculty Fellowship (2005). Osteological analysis of human remains from the battle of Resaca de la Palma, 1846. PI: Daniel Wescott. $2110 awarded.
University of Missouri Department of Anthropology Research Incentive (2005). Ontogeny of femur subtrochanteric shape. PI: Daniel Wescott. $1500 awarded.
University of Missouri Alumni Association Dr. Richard Wallace Research Incentive Grant (2005). Investigating Student Misconceptions about Evolution. PI: Daniel Wescott. $1270 awarded.
University of Missouri Research Council Grant (2004). Ontogeny of femoral and humeral diaphysis geometry. PI: Daniel Wescott. $5418 awarded.
Educational Technology at Missouri Academic Transformation Grant (2003-2004 academic year). Academic transformation of Anthropology 149/150. PI: Carol V. Ward, Co-I: Lisa Sattenspiel and Daniel Wescott. $4000 awarded.
Sigma Xi Grant-in-Aid of Research (1999). Sexual dimorphism and secular change in the asymmetry of humeral and femoral cross-sectional geometry in a Northern Plains tribe. PI: Daniel Wescott. $800 awarded.
William M. Bass Endowment Research Grant (1999). Investigating morphological variation in the cranial base of American blacks and whites using geometric morphometry. PI: Daniel Wescott. $793 awarded.
Forensic Sciences Foundation’s Acorn/Lucas Research Grant (1997). Sex and race variation in the second cervical vertebra. PI: Daniel Wescott. $500 awarded.
Nancy Berner Research Fund Grant (Spring 1996). Effect
of age on sexual dimorphism in the adult cranial base and upper cervical
region. $500 awarded.
Current Research
Secular Trends in Long Bone Cross-Sectional Strength and Shape in the US: 1800-1985.
Ontogeny of Long Bone Morphology. Collaborators: Deborah Cunningham and Douglas Ubelaker
Bioarchaeology of the Shiloh Cemetery (23CY593): Life and Death of African Americans in Mid-Missouri between 1838 and 1876. Collaborators: Stephanie Child and Michael Moramarco
The Iron Coffin from MacPhela Cemetery: An Interdisciplinary
Effort to Reconstruct the History of an Early Settler of Lexington, Missouri. Collaborators:
Stephanie Golda, Jeff Nichols, Mark Spigelman, Chris Long, Robert Tykot,
and Margaret Streeter