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Anthropology Students and Faculty Attend AAPA Meeting in St. Louis

Graduating senior Abbey Stone presented at the Undergraduate Research Symposium at this year's American Association of Physical Anthropologists (AAPA) meetings in St. Louis. Abbey's project, funded by LUROP's Mulcahy Fellowship, examined dental microwear textures of a sample of individuals from Ft. Ancient. Although it was predicted they were dependent on maize agriculture, Abbey found the microwear was indicative of foraging dietary strategies.

AAPA attendees (L to R) Shelby Doubek, Dr. Kristin Krueger, and Abbey Stone

Several Anthropology faculty also attended the AAPA meeting, including Juliet Brophy, Kristin Krueger, and Anne Grauer. Dr. Brophy presented original research on “Morphometric analyses of maxillary and mandibular first molars of Pleistocene hominins” (Juliet K. Brophy, Darryl J. De Ruiter, Lee R. Berger, Steven E. Churchill, and Peter Schmid).