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Meeting Supplement 2004 Program of the Seventy-Third Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists to be held at The Hyatt Regency Hotel Tampa, Florida April 14 to April 17, 2004 AAPA Scientific Program Committee: John H. Relethford Chair and Program Editor James Calcagno William L. Jungers Lyle Konigsberg Karen Rosenberg Theodore G. Schurr Lynette Leidy Sievert Dawnie Wolfe Steadman Joan Stevenson Karen B. Strier Jennifer Thompson Christina Torres-Rouff, Program Assistant Edward Hagen, Computer Programming Local Arrangements Committee: Lorena Madrigal (Chair) David Himmelgreen Robert Tykot Curtis Weinker and many other student volunteers 2 Message from the Program Committee Chair The 2004 AAPA meeting, our seventy- As in the past, we will meet in conjunc- third annual meeting, will be held at the tion with a number of affiliated groups in- Hyatt Regency Hotel in Tampa, Florida. cluding the American Association of Anthro- There will be 644 podium and poster presen- pological Genetics, the American Der- tations in 38 sessions, with a total of almost matoglyphics Association, the Dental An- 1,250 authors participating. The program thropology Association, the Human Biology includes eight podium symposia and one Association, the Paleopathology Association, poster symposium on a variety of topics: and the Primate Biology and Behavior In- Melanesian genetics, ecological immunity, terest Group. The Paleopathology Associa- paleoanthropological research in Asia and at tion has its meeting on Tuesday, April 13 the Asian frontiers, special senses in pri- and Wednesday. April 14. The Human Biol- mates, quantitative trait loci, life history ogy Association will meet on Wednesday, and energetics, and pregnancy. The program April 14 and Thursday, April 15. also includes the Second Annual Wiley-Liss Symposium; this year’s topic is the study of The following pages provide a map of human biology and globalization in Latin the Hyatt Regency Hotel; a summary table America, and includes talks by a number of of conference events; a daily conference distinguished colleagues from Latin Amer- schedule, including meetings of affiliated ica. associations, editorial boards, workshops, and various business meetings; a detailed As in past years, this year’s meetings listing of AAPA poster and podium sessions; reflect the international nature of our meet- the abstracts of the presentations; and an ings. Roughly 21 percent of the senior au- index of the authors showing the session thors live outside the United States, repre- numbers of their presentations. senting 27 nations. The largest representa- tion is from the United Kingdom, Canada, AAPA activities commence on Wednes- Germany, Japan, Austria, Italy, Russia, day evening, April 14, with a panel discus- Belgium, and Australia. Our meeting also sion organized by our Career Development serves as an important avenue for presenta- Committee on “A First-hand Look at the tion of student research; roughly 40 percent Job-Search Process,” where successful appli- of all first authors are students. cants for a variety of recent jobs will give their insights into the job-search process. This is the third year that we have used This event will be followed by our annual an online registration system for payment of reception. Poster and podium sessions begin registration fees and submission of ab- Thursday morning and continue through stracts. As was the case for the past two Saturday afternoon. years, we have put together a searchable on- line database of the abstracts in this issue, The plenary session, held on Thursday which are available at the AAPA web site: evening, is an event entitled “A Funny Thing http://www.physanth.org. By entering key Happened on the Way to the Podium,” where terms, you can explore the contents of the three distinguished scholars (John Blangero, entire meeting supplement to find presenta- Milford Wolpoff, and one additional speaker tions on topics of special interest to you. The to be named) will each present a talk for search engine allows you to obtain abstracts which we have prepared a set of random, and determine when and where specific unrelated, and irrelevant slides. Come see posters and papers will be presented. how fast the speakers can think on their feet! Our annual luncheon on Friday fea- 3 tures Clyde Snow speaking on “Adventures Contents in the Bone Trade.” Our annual business meeting is on Friday evening. On Saturday evening, we will have our Student Awards Message From the Program Reception. Committee Chair..............................2 We acknowledge the generous support Hyatt Regency Hotel for the 2004 meetings that has been pro- vided by the following donors: Meeting Rooms................................4 · Department of Anthropology, University The Conference at a Glance ...........5 of South Florida · College of Arts and Sciences, University Conference Schedule......................8 of South Florida · Office of the Provost and Vice President AAPA Poster and Podium for Academic Affairs, University of South Presentation Schedule....................14 Florida · Department of Pathology and Laboratory Abstracts of AAPA Poster and Medicine, University of South Florida Podium Abstracts............................50 School of Medicine · C.A. Pound Human Identification Labo- Author/Session Index......................217 ratory, University of Florida · Integrated DNA Technologies, Inc., Coralville, IA On the cover: St. Joseph Bay, Gulf County, · Bone Clones, Canoga Park, CA Florida, location of of a small Woodland period shell midden, and, in the distance, a Middle Florida Association of Medical Examin- · Woodland (AD 300-600) burial mound. Image ers courtesy of Nancy White, University of South · Alvin and Barbara Wolfe Florida. The AAPA Program, Local Arrange- ments, and Executive Committees cordially invite you to our seventy-third annual meet- ing. We look forward to seeing you in Tampa. John H. Relethford AAPA Vice President and Program Committee Chair 4 Hyatt Regency Tampa Hotel 5 The Conference at a Glance (Note: Regency Ballroom and Buccaneer Suites are configured differently depending on day and event) Tue Morning Tue Afternoon Tue Evening Wed Morning Wed Afternoon Wed Evening Regency 1 PPA Poster PPA Poster Session Session; HBA poster session Regency 2 AAPA Career Development, 6 – 7:45 pm Regency 3 Regency 5 Regency 6 Regency 7 Buccaneer A PPA Workshop PPA Podium PPA Podium PPA Podium Session Session Session Buccaneer B PPA Workshop Buccaneer C HBA Podium HBA Poster Session Session Buccaneer D Galleria A PPA Registration, 8 am – 5 pm HBA Registration, 8 am – 5 pm PPA Registration 8 – 10 am Galleria B HBA Registration, 8 am – 5 pm AAPA Registration, 9 am – 5 pm Hyde Park HBA Executive AJPA Editorial Board Meeting, noon – HBA Student Reception Committee 2 pm 5 – 7 pm dinner, 6 – 10 pm Outside AAPA Reception, 8 – 11 Esplanade pm City Center AJHB Editorial and Patio Board breakfast, 7:30 – 9 am Garrison Human Biology AAPA Executive Committee Meeting, Editorial Board 8 am – 6 pm Dinner, 6 – 8 pm Esplanade Book Exhibitors, 8 am – 5 pm Suite Channelside 1 Press/job Press/job Press/job Press/job Interviews interviews interviews interviews Channelside 2 Speaker Ready Speaker Ready Speaker Ready Speaker Ready Key to acronyms: AAAG American Association of Anthropological Genetics AAPA American Association of Physical Anthropologists ADA American Dermatoglyphics Association AJHB American Journal of Human Biology AJPA American Journal of Physical Anthropology DAA Dental Anthropology Association HBA Human Biology Association JHE Journal of Human Evolution NCSE National Center for Science Education PPA Paleopathology Association 6 The Conference at a Glance (continued) Thurs Morning Thurs Afternoon Thurs Evening Fri Morning Regency 1 Session 1. Human Biol. I Session 8. Primate Evol. I Session 15. Primate Be- Posters, 8:30 am – noon Posters, 1:30 – 5 pm hav. II Posters, 8:30 am – Session 2. Mol. Biol. Session 9. Human & Pri- noon Genet. Posters, 8:30 am – mate Brain Evol. I Posters, noon 1:30 – 5 pm Session 3. Population Session 10. Primate Biology Genet. I posters, 8:30 am II Posters, 1:30 – 5 pm - noon Regency 2 Session 4. Skeletal Biol. Session 11. Hominid Evol. HBA reception 7:30 – Session 16. Symposium: I, 8 am - noon II, 1 – 5 pm 10:30 pm Paleoanth. Research in East & Southeast Asia, 8 am - noon Regency 3 Session 17. AAPA/HBA Symposium: Ecological Immunology, 8 – 11:45 am Regency 5 Session 5. Hominid Evol. Session 12. Symposium: AAPA Plenary Session, I, 8 am – noon Island Melanesian Genetic 6:15 – 7:45 pm Regency 6 Diversity, 1 – 4:30 pm Regency 7 Session 6. Primate Biol. I, Session 13. Primate Behav. 8– 11:30 am I, 1 – 5 pm Buccaneer A HBA Plenary Session HBA Plenary Session, 2 – 4 DAA Business Meeting, Session 18. Primate Evol. pm 7:45 – 8:45 pm II, 8 am – noon Buccaneer B Raymond Pearl Lecture, 4– HBA Business Meeting, 5 pm 5:30 – 6:30 pm Buccaneer C Session 7. Dental Anth. I, Session 14. Paleopath. I, 1 – AAAG Business Meeting, Session 19. Population 8– 11:15 am 4:30 pm 7:45 – 8:45 pm Genet. II, 8 am – noon Buccaneer D Primate Biology/Behavior Interest Group Meeting, 7:45 – 8:45 pm Galleria A Galleria B AAPA Registration, 8 am – 8 pm AAPA Registration Hyde Park NCSE Lunch Meeting, 12 – ADA Business Meeting, 1:30 pm 7:45 – 8:45 pm City Center HBA Lunch, noon – 1:30 Wiley-Liss Reception, and Patio pm 8:30 – 10:30 pm Garrison Book Exhibitors, 8 am – 5 pm Book Exhibitors Esplanade Book Exhibitors, 8 am – 5 pm Book Exhibitors Suite Channelside 1 Press/job interviews Press/job interviews Press/job interviews Press/job interviews Channelside 2 Speaker Ready Speaker Ready Speaker Ready Speaker Ready 7 For a schedule of all conference events, see page 8. For a detailed listing of individual AAPA poster and podium presentations, see page 14. Fri Afternoon Fri Evening Sat Morning Sat Afternoon Regency 1 Session 20. Poster Sym- Session 26.
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