Darlene Weston

Assistant Professor, Dept. of Anthropology, ANSO 1207

Associated Scientist, Dept of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany

Research Interests

I am a human osteoarchaeologist with my primary research interests being in palaeopathology, palaeodemography, and funerary archaeology.  Current projects include looking at palaeodemography, disease, and mobility in the Caribbean (in conjunction with Dutch colleagues from Leiden University), the analysis of a medieval British Black Death cemetery population (in conjunction with British colleagues from the University of Bradford), and the analysis of a Late Minoan/Early Mycenaean cemetery in Crete (in conjunction with the Greek Ministry of Culture and the Holley Martlew Archaeological Foundation). 

 

Selected Publications:

Haensch S, Bianucci R, Signoli M, Rajerison M, Schultz M, Kacki S, Vermunt M, Weston DA, Hurst D, Achtman M, Carniel, E, Bramanti B.  2010.  Distinct clones of Yersinia pestis caused the Black Death.  PLoS Pathogens 6(10):e1001134.doi:10.1371/journal.ppat.1001134.

Hublin J-J, Weston D, Gunz P, Richards M, Roebroeks W, Glimmerveen J, Anthonis L.  2009.  Out of the North Sea:  the Zeeland Ridges Neandertal.  Journal of Human Evolution 57:777-785.

Weston DA.  2009.  Paleohistopathological analysis of pathology museum specimens:  can periosteal reaction microstructure explain lesion etiology?  American Journal of Physical Anthropology 140:186-193.

Weston DA.  2008.  Investigating the specificity of periosteal reactions in pathology museum specimens.  American Journal of Physical Anthropology 137:48-59.

Falys CG, Schutkowski H and Weston DA.  2006.  Auricular surface ageing – worse than expected?  Results from a blind test using a documented skeletal collection.  American Journal of Physical Anthropology 130:505-513.

Falys CG, Schutkowski H and Weston DA.  2005.  The distal humerus – a blind test of Rogers’ sexing technique using a documented skeletal collection.  Journal of Forensic Sciences 50 (6):1-5.

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