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2017 Final Program AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PHYSICAL 2017 ANTHROPOLOGISTS FINAL PROGRAM 86TH ANNUAL MEETING APRIL 19 – 22, 2017 • NEW ORLEANS, LA High-Quality Results Withstand the Test of Time BoothBooth 44 Radiocarbon Dating Since 1979 PROGRAM OF THE 86TH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGISTS APRIL 19 – 22, 2017 To be held at the New Orleans Marriott 555 Canal Street New Orleans, LA 70130 AAPA Scientific Program Committee J. Josh Snodgrass, Chair Rebecca R. Ackermann Haagen D. Klaus Laurie Reitsema Benjamin M. Auerbach Britney Kyle Christopher A. Schmitt Eric J. Bartelink Kristin L. Krueger Lauren Schroeder Deborah Blom Joanna E. Lambert Maja Šešelj Juliet K. Brophy Kristi L. Lewton Liza J. Shapiro Habiba Chirchir Scott D. Maddux Jon Stieglitz Anthony DiFiore Felicia C. Madimenos Jay T. Stock Elizabeth A. DiGangi James J. McKenna Nelson Ting Geeta Eick Elizabeth M. Miller Larry Ulibarri Dan T.A. Eisenberg Magdalena Muchlinski Samuel S. Urlacher Omer Gokcumen Robin G. Nelson Erin R. Vogel Yohannes Haile-Selassie Jill D. Pruetz Vicki L. Wedel Ashley S. Hammond Jennifer A. Raff Julie Wieczkowski M. Geoffrey Hayes David A. Raichlen Todd R. Yokley Rachel L. Jacobs Amy Rector Verrelli AAPA Conference Program 1 AAPA Meetings Director Lori Strong, Burk & Associates, Inc. New Orleans Advance Team Leslie C. Aiello Omer Gokcumen Heide Rohland Susan C. Antón Anne L. Grauer Christopher A. Schmitt Anthony DiFiore Trenton W. Holliday Lori Strong Program Assistant Julia DiFiore Rue Local Arrangements Committee Trenton Holliday (Chair) Katharine M. Jack Robert G. Tague Juliet K. Brophy Ginesse A. Listi John W. Verano Teresa V. Wilson THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS 2 86th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists TABLE OF CONTENTS Message from the VP & Program Chair . 5 Events . 9 Exhibitor Listing. 17 Marriott Hotel Floor Plans. 24 Conference Schedule Day-By-Day . 28 AAPA Presentation Schedule . 33 Wednesday Evening. 33 Thursday Morning . 37 Thursday Afternoon . 54 Friday Morning . 70 Friday Afternoon . 86 Saturday Morning. 101 Saturday Afternoon . 117 Author/Session Index. 132 KEY TO ACRONYMS AAAG – American Association of Anthropological Genetics AAPA – American Association of Physical Anthropologists AJHB – American Journal of Human Biology AJPA – American Journal of Physical Anthropology COD – AAPA’s Committee on Diversity DAA – Dental Anthropology Association HBA – Human Biology Association JHE – Journal of Human Evolution PAWMN – AAPA Physical Anthropology Women’s Mentoring Network PPA – Paleopathology Association AAPA Conference Program 3 UNIVERSITY PRESS Of NEW JOURNALs FLORIDA Bioarchaeology International provides rigorous peer-reviewed publication of sub- stantive articles in the growing fi eld of bioarchaeology. Submissions from around the globe using varying scales of analysis Bioarchaeology that focus on theoretical International and methodological issues in the fi eld are SABRINA C. AGARWAL AND BRENDA J. BAKER, encouraged. EDITORSINCHIEF Bones of Complexity Colonized Bodies, Bioarchaeological Case Worlds Transformed bioarchaeologyinternational.com Studies of Social Toward a Global Organization and Bioarchaeology of Skeletal Biology Contact and Colonialism Forensic Anthropology HAAGEN D. KLAUS, MELISSA S. MURPHY AND AMANDA R. HARVEY, AND HAAGEN D. KLAUS, EDS. NICHOLAS V. PASSALACQUA, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF MARK N. COHEN, EDS. Hardcover $120.00 $75.00 ANGI M. CHRISTENSEN AND JOSEPH T. HEFNER, Hardcover $100.00 $60.00 ASSOCIATE EDITORS This new journal is devoted to the advancement of the science and professional development of forensic anthropology and will publish on topics NOW IN PAPER in, or closely related to, forensic osteology, skel- Bioarchaeology and etal biology, modern human skeletal variation, Climate Change and forensic archaeology. A View from South Asian Prehistory Forthcoming 2018 GWEN ROBBINS SCHUG Paper $19.95 $15.00 University Press of Florida is actively seeking Island Shores, submissions for the following series: Distant Pasts Archaeological and BIOARCHAEOLOGICAL INTERPRETATIONS Multiethnicity Biological Approaches OF THE HUMAN PAST: LOCAL, REGIONAL, and Migration to the Pre-Columbian Settlement of the AND GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES at Teopancazco Caribbean Investigations of a EDITED BY CLARK SPENCER LARSEN Teotihuacan SCOTT M. FITZPATRICK Neighborhood Center AND ANN H. ROSS, EDS. Letters of inquiry should be addressed to director Paper $26.95 $18.00 LINDA R. MANZANILLA, ED. Meredith Morris-Babb at [email protected] .edu. Hardcover $89.95 $45.00 Visit our booth! • View more books at upress.u .edu/AAPA17 • Use discount code AAPA17 800.226.3822 • CONNECT WITH US at upress.u .edu/subscribe AAPA17_ProgramAd.indd 1 3/14/2017 9:37:00 AM MESSAGE FROM THE VP & PROGRAM CHAIR t is my pleasure to welcome you to the 2017 meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists. This year’s meeting is our 86th, and will be held in New Orleans at the Marriott French Quarter. Our programming officially begins on Wednesday, April 19th, with the Committee on Diversity Undergraduate Research Symposium (open to everyone from 6-8 pm) and the Opening Reception (8-11 pm). This year we will Ikick off the main scientific program early with three invited Plenary Poster Sessions on Wednesday evening. These sessions address the practice and ethics of working with ‘vulnerable’ populations, integrating research into teaching, and training the next gener- ation. These poster sessions will run from 8-11 pm just down the hall from the Opening Reception. Several special committee initiatives occur before and during the meetings. Among these are: the NSF-funded 2nd annual Committee on Diversity IDEAS (Increasing Diversity in Evolutionary Anthropology) workshop, which will be held all day Wednesday and supports 16 student scholars participating in the AAPA meeting; local school site visits and a Saturday educators workshop by the Education Committee; Friday’s Career Development Panel (How to get funding in anthropology: A workshop on grantsmanship); and, a Thursday lunch event on mental health (Ending the Silence on Mental Health in Biological Anthropology). Nearly all the AAPA Committees meet or have an activity at some point during the meetings—check out the new app for their times and locations! Speaking of the app, thanks to Ed Hagen for developing our meetings app—available for Android and Apple! This year’s program includes a record 1300 scientific presentations which will be presented in podium or poster sessions on Wednesday evening or during one of the three full days of the meeting. The 71 sessions include 7 invited podium symposia, 21 invited poster symposia, 17 contributed podium sessions, and 26 contributed poster sessions. One particularly exciting event that is new this year is the Up Goer Five PhysAnth Edition, which has been organized by Kim Valenta and Katherine H. Bannar-Martin. It is a series of nine 5-minute talks that challenge presenters to effectively communicate their research by using only the top 1000 most common words in the English language. This session takes place on Saturday afternoon from 4:45-5:30 pm, and clearly it can’t be missed! Our extensive program includes an impressive international group of scientists with authors from all over the world including Europe, Latin America, Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Australia! We are pleased to be joined this year by the Paleopathology Association (PPA), the Human Biology Association (HBA), the American Association for Anthropological Genetics (AAAG), and the Dental Anthropology Association (DAA). Due AAPA Conference Program 5 to the size of our meetings we chose to contract with a second hotel—the Westin New Orleans Canal Place, located a short two blocks from the Marriott. This location will host all PPA and HBA events. The Wiley Symposium this year is a Saturday morning podium session, Humans as Holobionts: The Microbiome as a Biological System in Human Evolution, organized by Stephanie Schnorr and Meagan Rubel. Our joint AAPA-HBA session, which will be held on Friday morning, is the podium session Human Biology: Evolutionary Perspectives on Reproduction, Development, and Health, chaired by Aaron D. Blackwell. The joint AAPA- AAAG session this year will be held on Thursday afternoon, and is an invited podium symposium titled Collaborations across Anthropology and Genetics: Examples of Transdisciplinary Work. It is organized by Connie J. Mulligan and Catherine Panter-Brick. Finally, the joint AAPA-PPA session, Bioarchaeology of Transition: Health and Changing Environments, organized by Brittany S. Walter and Sharon N. DeWitte, will be held on Thursday morning. The significant number of abstracts submitted necessitated substantial changes to the program—our only alternative to rejecting a large number of abstracts. The biggest change is that we will be hosting two contributed poster sessions per day (each of which includes several of its own sessions). We will be presenting a morning session from 8 am-1 pm (with authors present 12:30-1 pm) and an afternoon session from 1:30-6 pm (with authors present 1:30-2 pm); the Saturday schedule is a bit different (see below). Another key change is that the afternoon podium and invited poster sessions begin at 2:30 pm; this allows for an assortment of lunchtime events and workshops. This year we had planned to transition away from our traditional AAPA Luncheon on Saturday (because of the high cost of the lunch) in favor of returning to holding a Plenary Lecture. However, the announcement of the March for Science in Washington, DC on Saturday, April 22, and its associated march in New Orleans at 1 pm, led us (in consultation with this year’s planned speaker, Tony DiFiore), to cancel the Plenary Lecture and to instead reserve time so our conference attendees can march if they choose. We will convene at 12:30 pm in Bissonet where incoming president Leslie Aiello will give brief remarks and then lead a procession the 8 blocks to the start of the march. To accommodate Saturday’s march, morning contributed poster sessions will conclude at 12:30 pm (with authors present 12-12:30); afternoon contributed poster sessions will begin at 2:30 pm with authors present from 5:30-6 pm.
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