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PATRICIA MARIE LAMBERT
Vita–July 30, 2015
Office of the Dean, College of Humanities and Social Sciences
Utah State University
Logan, UT 84322-0700
Office: (435) 797-2603 / Fax: (435) 797-1240
[email protected]
EDUCATION
1997
1994
Postdoctoral Fellow, NMNH, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
Ph.D. Anthropology. University of California, Santa Barbara
Dissertation Thesis: War and Peace on the Western Front: A Study of Violent Conflict
and its Correlates in Prehistoric Hunter-gatherer Societies of Coastal Southern
California. University of California at Santa Barbara. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor.
1989
1980
M.A. Anthropology. University of California, Santa Barbara
B.A. Physical Anthropology, Honors. University of California, Santa Barbara
PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS AND APPOINTMENTS
2010200720142012201120062012-14
2004-09
2002-07
1996-02
1994-96
1994
1991-93
1989-90, 92
1989-90
1985-86
1982-83
Associate Dean of Research and Graduate Studies, College of Humanities and Social
Sciences, USU
Professor. Anthropology Program, Utah State University
Corresponding Member, Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny
(CARTA), Salk Institute for Biological Studies, University of California, San Diego
Executive Director, Museum of Anthropology, USU
Director, Mountain West Center for Regional Studies, USU
Associate, Anthropology Department, Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History
Program Director, Anthropology Program, USU
Program Director. Anthropology Program, USU. Successful Program Initiatives:
 M.S. Degree Program in Anthropology
 Distance Minor in Anthropology with new Distance faculty line (2008)
 Founding of USU Archaeological Services, Inc.
 Museum of Anthropology: USU Funded Curator position (2008)
Associate Professor. Anthropology Program, Utah State University
Assistant Professor. Anthropology Program, Utah State University
Visiting Research Instructor, Department of Anthropology/Research Laboratories of
Archaeology, UNC-Chapel Hill
Lecturer. Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Graduate Student Researcher: Repatriation Project. Dept. Anthropology, UCSB
Lecturer. Department of Anthropology, UCSB
Assistant Coordinator, Central Coast (Archaeological) Information Center, UCSB
Archaeology Field/Lab Tech, Far Western Archaeological Research Group, Davis, CA
Assistant Curator, Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, California
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PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
20142014-2017
20142010-12
2009-10
2009-10
20082008
2007-08
2006-2009
2006-2009
2002-08
2005
2004-05
2002-2003
2001-2002
2000-2008
20002000-04
1998
Inaugural Editorial Board, Evolutionary Psychological Science
Electorate Nominating Committee, AAAS
Annual Meeting Symposium Proposal Reviewer, AAAS
Panelist, The Wenner Gren Foundation, New York
Repatriation Committee (Chair), American Association of Physical Anthropologists
2010 AAPA position statement on CUHR Final Rule, May 2010.
Panelist, National Science Foundation
Inaugural Editorial Board, California Archaeology
Panelist, School of Advanced Research, Santa Fe
Panelist, National Science Foundation
Executive Committee, American Association of Physical Anthropologists (AAPA)
AAPA Nominations Committee Chair
Associate Editor, American Journal of Physical Anthropology.
Society for American Archaeology (SAA) Annual Meeting Program Committee
Panelist, National Science Foundation
AAPA Annual Meeting Student Prize Committee: 2002, 2003 meetings
AAPA Annual Meeting Program Committee: 2001, 2002 meetings
AAPA Repatriation Committee
2007 Presented AAPA position statement at NPS Consultation Meeting on NAGPRA
regulations for unclaimed human remains, Washington, D.C.
2005 Presented AAPA testimony before U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs,
Washington, D.C.
2005 Presented AAPA position statement at National Park Service Consultation
Meeting on NAGPRA regulations for unclaimed human remains, Albuquerque
2000 Represented AAPA at NAGPRA Review Committee Meeting, Juneau
1999 Represented (with C. S. Larsen) AAPA at NAGPRA Review Committee
Meeting, Salt Lake City
Forensic Consultant, Cache County Sheriff, City of Logan Police Dept., USU Police
Native American Remains Review Committee, Div. of Indian Affairs, State of Utah
AAPA Annual Meeting Local Arrangements Committee, Salt Lake City
Granting Agencies/Institutions Reviewed for
California Sea Grant Program, Guggenheim Foundation, Israel Science Foundation, National Geographic
Society, NSF, Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada, Wenner Gren Foundation
Professional Journals Reviewed for
American Anthropologist, American Antiquity, American Journal of Human Biology, American Journal
of Physical Anthropology, Bioarchaeology of the Near East, California Archaeology, Current
Anthropology, Environmental Health Perspectives, Ethnohistory, Historical Archaeology, International
Journal of Osteoarchaeology, International Journal of Paleopathology, Journal of Anthropological
Archaeology, Journal of Archaeological Research, Journal of Archaeological Science, Journal of
California and Great Basin Anthropology, Journal of Human Evolution, Kiva, Latin American Antiquity,
PLoS ONE, Science, Southeastern Archaeology
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Publishing Houses Reviewed for
Academic Press, Cambridge University Press, Mayfield Publishing, McGraw-Hill, Oxford University
Press, Prentice-Hall, Smithsonian, University of Alabama Press, University Press of Florida, University
of Utah Press, Wadsworth/Thomson Learning, Wiley-Liss, W. W. Norton and Company
EXTERNAL CONTRACTS, GRANTS, AND AWARDS
2014 Certificate of Excellence in Reviewing, International Journal of Paleopathology, for 2013.
2012 Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
2011-12 CPCESU Modification to Agreement #H1200-09-0005, Complete Bioarchaeological Analyses
of Human Remains from San Miguel Island, California. Channel Islands National Park ($9072)
2010-13 NSF Grant #0960077: MRI-R2 Consortium: Acquisition of Multi-Scalar Spatial Data Collection,
Analysis, and Visualization Instruments, B. Pitblado, P. Lambert, E. Jones, C. Morgan, and K.
Cannon. Assumed PI role in 2012. ($418,251).
2010-13 CPCESU Agreement #H1200-09-0005, Complete Bioarchaeological Analyses of Human
Remains from San Miguel Island, California. Channel Islands National Park ($10,838)
2006-8 NSF Grant #0623356: A bioarchaeological test of warfare causation models in the Santa Barbara
Channel Area of California ($49,025)
2001 Utah Div. Forestry, Fire, & State Lands contract, Co-P.D. w/Simms, P.I. ($14,973)
2000-1 The Wenner-Gren Foundation Research Grant #6623, NY ($20,000)
1996 Fellow, National Museum of Natural History. Smithsonian Postdoctoral Fellowship Award
($25,000)
INTERNAL CONTRACTS, GRANTS AND AWARDS
2009 WGRI Travel Award, USU ($500)
2006 USU Innovation Fund Grant, S. Simms, P. Lambert and B. Pitblado ($80,400).
2006 HASS Travel Award, USU ($934)
2003 HASS Faculty Research Grant, USU ($1360)
2002 Researcher of the Year, College of Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences, USU
2000 Women and Gender Research Institute Travel Award, USU ($550)
1999 AAUW Emerging Scholar Award, USU
1998 Curricular Enhancement Grant and Matching Departmental Grant, USU ($3000)
1998 Women and Gender Research Institute Travel Award, USU ($319)
1998 USU New Faculty Research Grant ($14,964)
1990, 2 Andrew Isbell Award, UCSB ($1500)
1990 Social Sciences/Humanities Research Grant, UCSB ($1500)
1989-2 Regents Fellowship Award, UCSB
PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS:
Lambert, P. M. (Editor & Author)
2000 Bioarchaeological Studies of Life in the Age of Agriculture: A View from the Southeast.
University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa.
 Author: Chapter 1: Introduction, pp. 1-5
 Author: Chapter 10: Life on the periphery: health in farming communities of interior North
Carolina and Virginia, pp. 168-194.
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ARTICLES / VOLUME CHAPTERS:
In Preparation:
Lambert, P. M.
n.d. Ethics in the study of human skeletal remains. In Biological Anthropology of the Human Skeleton,
3rd Edition, edited by M. Anne Katzenberg and Anne L. Grauer. Wiley-Blackwell, New Jersey.
Lambert, P. M. and M. Welker
n.d. Agricultural transitions and traumatic injury risk: the Southeast and beyond. Paper to be
submitted to American Journal of Physical Anthropology.
In Press:
Lambert, P. M.
2016 Indigenous Warfare in North America. In The Cambridge History of War, Volume One: War and
the Ancient World, edited by Burkhard Meissner, Kurt Raaflaub, Oliver Schmitt and Robin Yates.
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.
Griffin, M. C., P. M. Lambert, and E. Driscoll Monahan
2016 Regional biodistance in the Late Mississippian of northwest Georgia. In Bioarchaeology of the
Southeast: Bridging Bones and Behavior, edited by Shannon Chappell Hodge and Kristrina A.
Shuler. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa.
Published:
Lambert, P. M.
2014 Violent injury and death in a prehistoric farming community of southwestern Colorado: the
osteological evidence from Sleeping Ute Mountain. In The Routledge Handbook of the
Bioarchaeology of Human Conflict: ‘Traumatized Bodies’ from Early Prehistory to the Present,
edited by Martin J. Smith and Christopher Knusel. Routledge Press, Taylor and Francis, Oxford.
Kennett, D. J., P. M. Lambert, J. R. Johnson, and B. Culleton
2013 Sociopolitical Effects of Bow-and-Arrow Technology in Prehistoric Coastal California.
Evolutionary Anthropology 22:124-132.
Lambert, P. M.
2012 Chapter 17: Phillip L. Walker (1947-2009). In The Global History of Paleopathology, edited by J.
Buikstra and C. Roberts, pp. 132-140. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
2012 Ethics and issues in the use of human skeletal remains in paleopathology. In Companion to
Paleopathology, edited by A. Grauer, pp. 17-33. Wiley Blackwell, New York
2012 War histories in evolutionary perspective: Insights from prehistoric North America. In The
Oxford Handbook of Evolutionary Perspectives on Violence, Homicide, and War, edited by T.
Shackelford and V. Weekes-Shackelford, pp. 325-338. Oxford University Press, New York.
Lambert, P. M., C. M. Gagnon, B. R. Billman, M. A. Katzenberg, J. Carcelén and R. H. Tykot
2012 Bone chemistry at Cerro Oreja: A stable isotope perspective on the development of a regional
economy in the Moche Valley, Peru during the Early Intermediate period. Latin American
Antiquity 23:144-166.
Lambert, P. M.
2009 Health vs. fitness: competing themes in the origins and spread of agriculture? Current
Anthropology 50:5:603-608
2009 In memoriam: Phillip L. Walker. Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology 29:1:1-10.
Larsen, C.S. and P. M. Lambert
2009 Obituary: Phillip L. Walker (1947-2009). American Journal of Physical Anthropology 141:1-2.
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Lambert, P. M.
2008 Biological impacts of agriculture on human populations. Encyclopedia of Archaeology, ed. D. M.
Pearsall, pp. 115-123. Academic Press, San Diego.
2007 The osteological evidence for indigenous warfare in North America. In North American
Indigenous Warfare and Ritualized Violence, edited by R. J. Chacon and R. Mendoza, pp. 202221. University of Arizona Press, Tucson.
2007 Ethnographic and linguistic evidence for the origins of human trophy-taking in California. In The
Taking and Displaying of Human Trophies by Amerindians, edited by R. J. Chacon and D. H.
Dye, pp. 65-89. Springer, New York.
2006 Infectious diseases among enslaved African Americans at Eaton’s Estate, Warren County, North
Carolina, 1830-1850. Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz 101:(Sup.II):107-117
Buzon, M., J. T. Eng, P. M. Lambert, and P. L. Walker
2005 Bioarchaeological methods. In Handbook of Archaeological Methods, edited by H. D. G.
Maschner and C. Chippindale, pp. 871-918. Altamira Press, Walnut Creek, CA.
Lambert, P. M.
2005 Comment. “The origins and role of the Moche (AD 1-750) human sacrificial victims: a
bioarchaeological perspective,” by Richard C. Sutter and Rosa J. Cortez. Current Anthropology
46:4:538.
Walker, P. L., P. M. Lambert, M. Schultz, and J. M. Erlandson
2005 The evolution of treponemal disease in the Santa Barbara Channel Area of Southern California.
In Debunking the Myth of Syphilis, The Natural History of Treponematosis in North America,
edited by M. L. Powell and D. C. Cook, pp. 281-305. University Press of Florida, Gainesville.
Byock, J., P. Walker, J. Erlandson, P. Holck, J. Eng, M. Tveskov, M. Sigurgeirsson, P. Lambert, M.
Moss, A. Byock, H. Fyllingen, K. Prizer, M. Reid, and D. Zori
2003 A Viking age farm, church, and cemetery at Kirkjuhóll, Mosfell Valley, Iceland. Antiquity 77
(297): Project Gallery.
Smith, S., B. Benson, and P. M. Lambert
2003 An apparent case of treponemal disease in a human burial from the northern Great Salt Lake.
Utah Archaeology 17:95-108.
Lambert, P. M.
2002 Bioarchaeology at Coweeta Creek: continuity and change in native health and lifeways in
protohistoric western North Carolina. Southeastern Archaeology 21:36-48.
2002 Rib Lesions in a prehistoric Puebloan sample from Southwestern Colorado. American Journal of
Physical Anthropology 117:281-292.
2002 The archaeology of war: a North American perspective. Journal of Archaeological Research
10:207-241.
Griffin, M. C., P. M. Lambert, and E. I. Monahan Driscoll
2001 An assessment of biological relationships for Native American populations of Spanish Florida. In
Bioarchaeology of La Florida: Human Biology in Northern Frontier New Spain, edited by C. S.
Larsen, pp. 226-273.University Press of Florida, Gainesville.
Lambert, P. M.
2001 Auditory exostoses: a clue to gender in prehistoric and historic farming communities of North
Carolina and Virginia. In Archaeological Studies of Gender in the Southeast, edited by J.
Eastman and C. Rodning, pp.152-172. University Press of Florida, Gainesville.
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Billman, B. R., P. M. Lambert, and B. Leonard
2000 Warfare, cannibalism, and drought on the Colorado Plateau in the twelfth century A.D.
American Antiquity 65:145-178.
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2004 Reprinted in Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Issues in
Anthropology, 3rd Edition, edited by K. M. Endicott and R. L. Welsch. McGraw Hill/
Dushkin, Columbus, OH.
Lambert, P. M., B. R. Billman, and B. Leonard
2000 Explaining variability in mutilated human bone assemblages from the American Southwest: a
case study from the southern piedmont of Sleeping Ute Mountain, Colorado. International
Journal of Osteoarchaeology 10:49-64.
Lambert, P. M., B. L. Leonard, B. R. Billman, R. A. Marlar, M. E. Newman, and K. J. Reinhard
2000 Response to critique of the claim of cannibalism at Cowboy Wash. American Antiquity 65:397406.
Marlar, J. E., R. A. Marlar, K. J. Reinhard, B. L. Leonard, and P. M. Lambert
2000 Microscopic and molecular evidence for the human origin of the coprolite from the “cannibalism”
site at Cowboy Wash (5MT10010). Southwestern Lore 66:14-22.
Marlar, R. A., B. L. Leonard, B. R. Billman, P. M. Lambert, and J. E. Marlar
2000 Biochemical evidence of cannibalism at a prehistoric Puebloan site in southwestern Colorado.
Nature 407:74-78.
Lambert, P. M.
1997 Patterns of violence in prehistoric hunter-gatherer societies of coastal southern California. In
Troubled Times: Violence and Warfare in the Past, edited by D. L. Martin and D. W. Frayer, pp.
77-109. War and Society, Vol. 6. Gordon and Breach Publishers, Amsterdam.
Walker, P. L., D. C. Cook, and P. M. Lambert
1997 Skeletal evidence for child abuse: a physical anthropological perspective. Journal of Forensic
Sciences 42:196-207.
Lambert, P. M.
1993 Health in prehistoric populations of the Santa Barbara Channel Islands. American Antiquity
58:509-522.
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2004 Reprinted in Prehistoric California: Archaeology and the Myth of Paradise,
edited by L. M. Raab and T. L. Jones, pp. 99-106 (2004). Univ. of Utah Press, Salt Lake
City.
Lambert, P. M., and P. L. Walker
1991 The physical anthropological evidence for the evolution of social complexity in coastal southern
California. Antiquity 65:963-73.
Walker, P. L., and P. M. Lambert
1989 Skeletal evidence for stress during a period of cultural change in prehistoric California. Advances
in Paleopathology, Journal of Paleopathology: Monographic Publication 1. Marino Solfanelli,
Chieti, Italy.
Walker, P. L., P. M. Lambert, and M. DeNiro
1989 The effects of European contact on the health of California Indians. In Columbian Consequences
I: Archaeological and Historical Perspectives on the Spanish Borderlands West, edited by D. H.
Thomas, 349-364. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C.
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Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Book, 1989.
Walker, P. L., J. R. Johnson, and P. M. Lambert
1988 Age and sex biases in the preservation of human skeletal remains. American Journal of Physical
Anthropology 76:183-188.
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ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES:
1996 Analysis of Animal Remains. In The Oxford Companion to Archaeology, edited by B. Fagan, pp.
33-34. Oxford University Press, New York.
1996 Analysis of Human Remains. In The Oxford Companion to Archaeology, edited by B. Fagan, pp.
327-329. Oxford University Press, New York.
1996 Reconstruction of Diet. In The Oxford Companion to Archaeology, edited by B. Fagan, pp. 174175. Oxford University Press, New York
1996 Tourism. In The Oxford Companion to Archaeology, edited by B. Fagan, pp. 716-717. Oxford
University Press, New York.
BOOK REVIEWS:
In Press:
Lambert, P. M.
2015 Book Review. Embattled Bodies, Embattled Places: War in Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica and
the Andes. Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C. American Journal of Physical Anthropology.
Published:
Lambert, P. M.
2009 St. Martin’s Uncovered: Investigations in the Churchyard of St. Martin-in-the-Bull-Ring, by
Megan Brickley, Simon Buteux, Josephine Adams, and Richard Cherrington. Oxford: Oxbow
Books. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 19: 568-570.
2008 The Archaeology of Warfare: Prehistories of Raiding and Conquest, edited by E. Arkush and M.
W. Allen. American Anthropologist 110:3:384.
2002 Man Corn, by C. G. Turner, II, and J. A. Turner. American Journal of Physical Anthropology
119:294-296.
2001 Foraging, Farming, and Coastal Biocultural Adaptation in Late Prehistoric North Carolina, by
D. L. Hutchinson. Journal of Field Archaeology 28:462-464.
2000 Bioarchaeology of the South Central United States, edited by J. Rose. American Antiquity
65:592-593.
2000 Prehistoric Warfare in the American Southwest, by Steven LeBlanc. American Anthropologist
102:166-167.
1997 Bioarchaeology of the Stillwater Marsh: Prehistoric Human Adaptation in the Western Great
Basin, by C. S. Larsen and R. L. Kelly. Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology
19:145-147.
1996 In the Wake of Contact: Biological Responses to Conquest, edited by C. S. Larsen and G. R.
Milner. Wiley-Liss, New York. SAS Bulletin 19:1/2:6-7.
PUBLISHED/UNPUBLISHED TECHNICAL REPORTS & MONOGRAPHS:
Patricia M. Lambert, Susan Kuzminsky, Sabrina Sholts, Phillip L. Walker, Rebecca Richman, and Jon M.
Erlandson
2015 Biological Analysis of the Tuqan Man Remains: A 9500 Year Old Paleoamerican Skeleton from
CA-SMI-608, San Miguel Island, California. Report prepared for the Channel Islands National
Park, Ventura, California. (Peer-reviewed)
Simms, S. R., and P. M. Lambert
2007 A prehistoric Anasazi Burial from the Sand Flat Site (42Gr2682) near Moab, Utah. Report to the
Utah School and Institutional Trust Lands Administration, Salt Lake City, UT.
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Lambert, P. M.
2005 Report on mammal bone found at the Bear River Bridge construction site, U.S. 91, June 22, 2005.
Prepared for Kleinfelder, 2315 S. Cobalt Point Way, Meridian, ID 83642.
Lambert, P. M.
2005 Human skeletal remains (5MT8651). In The Puebloan Occupation of the Ute Mountain Piedmont
Volume 4: Multicomponent habitation sites: Part 1, edited by Brian R. Billman and Christine K.
Robinson, pp. 2.164-2.166. Soil Systems Publications in Archaeology No. 22, pp. 2.164-2.166.
Lambert, P. M.
2005 Human skeletal remains (5MT9942, 5MT9943). In The Puebloan Occupation of the Ute
Mountain Piedmont Volume 4: Multicomponent habitation sites: Part 2, edited by Brian R.
Billman and Christine K. Robinson. Soil Systems Publications in Archaeology No. 22, pp. 4.1954.197, 5.226-5.229.
Lambert, P. M.
2003 Human skeletal remains (5MT9924, 5MT9933, 5MT10010). In The Puebloan Occupation of the
Ute Mountain Piedmont: Late Pueblo II to Early Pueblo III, Early Pueblo III, and Late Pueblo III
Habitation Sites: Parts 1 and 2, edited by Brian R. Billman and Christine K. Robinson. Soil
Systems Publications in Archaeology, No. 22, Vol. 3. Soil Systems, Inc., Phoenix.
Lambert, P. M., and S. R. Simms
2003 Archaeology and Recovery of Prehistoric Human Remains Near Willard Bay, Utah. Utah State
University Contributions to Anthropology No. 33, Logan, Utah.
Simms, S. R., and P. M. Lambert
2002 Archaeology and Recovery of Prehistoric Human Remains Near Willard Bay, Utah. Report
prepared for the Utah Division of Forestry, Fire, and State Lands, Salt Lake City.
Lambert, P. M.
2001 Cerro Oreja Bioarchaeology Project: Status Report 2001. Report prepared for the Instituto
Nacional de Cultura, La Libertad, Peru.
Petersen, L. S., and P. M. Lambert
2000 Osteological Analysis of Burial AS-28 from 42UT786, Utah County. Report prepared for the
State of Utah School and Institutional Trustlands Administration, Salt Lake City, Utah.
Lambert, P. M.
1999 Human Remains. In Environmental and Bioarchaeological Studies of the Ute Mountain Ute
Piedmont, edited by Brian R. Billman, pp. 111-161, 203-236. Soil Systems Publications in
Archaeology 22 (5). Soil Systems, Inc., Phoenix.
Hansen, E., S. J. Smith, P. M. Lambert, and M. Umlauf
1997 Bioarchaeological Analyses. In The Archaic Period Occupation of the Ute Mountain Ute
Piedmont, edited by B. R. Billman, pp. 181-230. Soil Systems Publications in Archaeology, No.
21. Soil Systems, Inc., Phoenix.
Davis, R. P .S., P. M. Lambert, V. P. Steponaitis, C. S. Larsen, and H. T. Ward
1996 NAGPRA Inventory of the North Carolina Collection. Research Laboratories of Archaeology,
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Lambert, P. M.
1995 Human Skeletal Remains from ON-235. Report prepared for Archaeological Research
Consultants, Durham, NC.
1993 Inventory of Human Skeletal Remains and Associated Funerary Objects (339 pp.). Ms. on file.
Dept. of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Barbara.
1992 Non-fish Vertebrate Faunal Remains from SBA-48. Report prepared for Wilcoxon
Archaeological Consultants, Goleta.
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1991 Human Skeletal Remains from the Big Sur Coast. Report prepared for Cultural Resources
Facility, Department of Anthropology, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park.
Walker, P. L., and P. M. Lambert
1991 Human Skeletal Remains from the Historic Cemetery at Seccombe Lake Park, San Bernardino,
California. Report prepared for the City of San Bernardino, CA.
Lambert, P. M.
1991 Analysis of Mammalian, Avian, and Reptilian Remains from SBA-31. Report prepared for
Wilcoxon Archaeological Consultants, Goleta.
1991 Archaeological Remains from SLO-801. On file with the author. Report prepared for Robert
Gibson, Archaeologist, San Luis Obispo, California.
Singer, C. A., P. M. Lambert, and J. E. Atwood
1990 Archaeological Investigations at CA-SLO-408 in the City of Arroyo Grande, San Luis Obispo
County, CA. Report prepared for Trans King/Midas Muffler, 509 Grand Ave, Arroyo Grande, CA
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY MEMBERSHIPS
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
American Association of Physical Anthropologists (AAPA)
Paleopathology Association
Society for American Archaeology (SAA)
Society for California Archaeology (SCA)
Southeastern Archaeological Conference (SEAC)
PROFESSIONAL MEETING PAPERS, PANELS, AND SYMPOSIA
PANELS AND SYMPOSIA
Lambert, P. M.
2013 Symposium Discussant: Violence and Warfare among Hunter-Gatherers. Symposium accepted
for the 78th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Honolulu, Hawai’i.
2011 Forum Discussant: Two Decades of NAGPRA: Reflections and Prospects. 76th Annual Meeting
of the Society for American Archaeology, Sacramento.
2010 Panel Discussant: Skeletons Are People Too: Insights into the lives of past peoples gained from
skeletal analyses, a symposium organized by Derinna Kopp and Ron Rood for the Great Basin
Anthropological Conference, Ogden, Utah.
2005 Panel Moderator: What’s the problem in bioarchaeology. 70th Annual Meeting of the Society for
American Archaeology, Salt Lake City.
Billman, B. R., P. M. Lambert, and B. Leonard
1997 Debating Anasazi Cannibalism: Recent Evidence from the Northern San Juan Basin. Symposium
organized for the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Nashville.
Lambert, P. M., and H. D. G. Maschner
1997 Why Men Kill: Males, Coalitions, and the Origins of War. Symposium organized for the 96th
Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, D.C. (Chair)
Lambert, P. M.
1996 Bioarchaeological Studies of Life in the Age of Agriculture: A View from the Southeast.
Symposium organized for the 65th Meeting of the American Association of Physical
Anthropologists, Durham, NC. (AJPA Supplement 22).
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SYMPOSIA PAPERS
Kennett, D., P. Lambert, J. Johnson and B. Culleton
2012 A Prehistoric Arms Race on the Northern Channel Islands of California. Paper presented at the
77th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Memphis, TN.
Lambert, P. M.
2012 Trauma in cross-cultural perspective: a comparative bioarchaeological study of prehistoric trauma
in the Americas. Poster presented at the 81st annual meeting of the American Association of
Physical Anthropologists, Portland, OR. (AJPA 147, Supplement 54:188 ).
Lambert, P. M.
2009 The bioarchaeological record of war in prehistoric North America: the data, patterns, and
interpretive challenges. Paper presented at the 36th Annual Meeting of the Paleopathology
Association, Chicago.
2004 Human Trophy Taking in California. Paper presented at the 69th Annual Meeting of the Society
for American Archaeology, Montreal.
2003 Osteological Evidence for North American Warfare. Paper presented at the 102nd Annual Meeting
of the American Anthropological Association, Chicago.
2002 Osteological Evidence for Cannibalism on the Southern Piedmont of Sleeping Ute Mountain,
Colorado. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting, Arch. Society of New Mexico, Farmington.
Lambert, P. M., and P. L. Walker
2001 The Challenges of Coastal Diversity: A California Perspective on Cultural Innovation and
Change. Paper presented at the 66th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology,
New Orleans.
Leonard, B. L., P. M. Lambert, and R A. Marlar
2001 Cannibalism, Witch-killing, Parsimony, and Empiricism. Paper presented at the 66th Annual
Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, New Orleans.
Lambert, P. M.
1999 Continuity and Change: The Early Historic Population at Coweeta Creek. Paper presented at the
56th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Pensacola, Florida.
1999 The Epidemiology of Treponemal Disease in North Carolina and Southern Virginia During the
2nd Millennium A.D. Paper presented at the 68th Annual Meeting of the American Association of
Physical Anthropologists, Columbus, Ohio. (AJPA Supplement 28:178) (Invited paper)
1999 Raiders and Traders: Warfare, Trade, and the Evolution of Complex Society in Coastal Southern
California. Paper presented at 4th Biennial Complex Societies Meeting, San Diego.
Larsen, C. S., T. H. Schmidt-Schultz, M. Schultz, and P. M. Lambert
1999 Infant Diseases in Pre-Columbian North American Southeast. Paper presented at the 68th Annual
Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Columbus, Ohio.
(AJPA Supplement 28:179)
Lambert, P. M.
1998 Warriors, Traders, and Fishermen: Evolutionary Ecological Perspectives on War and Peace in
Coastal Southern California. Paper presented at the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Society for
American Archaeology, Seattle.
Walker, P. L., and P. M. Lambert
1998 Prehistoric Treponematosis in the Western United States. Paper presented at the 67th Annual
Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Salt Lake City. (AJPA
Supplement 26:224).
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Griffin, M. C., P. M. Lambert, and E. I. Monahan
1997 An Assessment of Population Relationships in Spanish Florida in Regional and Local
Perspective. Paper presented at the 66th Meeting of the American Association of Physical
Anthropologists, Saint Louis, MO. (AJPA Supplement 24:20)
Lambert, P. M.
1997 Cannibalism in Cowboy Wash, Part 2: The Osteological Evidence. Paper presented at the 62nd
Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Nashville, TN.
1997 Male Aggression in Prehistoric California: An 8,000 year Perspective. Paper presented at the 96th
Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, D.C.
1996 Diet and Disease in Farming Communities of the Piedmont and Mountain Regions of North
Carolina. Paper presented at the 65th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical
Anthropologists, Durham, NC. (AJPA Supplement 22).
1996 The Bioarchaeology of Gender in Native North Carolina and Virginia. Paper presented at the
Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Birmingham, AL.
1994 Settling down in Santa Barbara. Paper presented at the 59th Annual Meeting of the Society for
American Archaeology, Anaheim, CA.
1993 Patterns of Violence in Prehistoric Hunter-gatherer Societies of Coastal California. Paper presented at the 92nd Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington,
D.C.
Lambert, P. M., and H. Maschner
1993 Violence and Warfare in Prehistoric Hunter-gatherer Societies of Western North America. Paper
presented at the 58th Annual Meeting of the Soc. American Archaeology, St. Louis.
Lambert, P. M., and P. L. Walker
1991 The Physical Anthropological Evidence for the Evolution of Social Complexity in Coastal
Southern California. Paper presented at the 56th Annual Meeting of the Society for American
Archaeology, New Orleans.
Walker, P. L., P. M. Lambert, and M. DeNiro
1989 The Effects of European Contact on the Health of California Indians. Paper presented at the 54th
Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Phoenix.
Walker, P. L., and P. M. Lambert
1990 Warfare and Violence in Pre-European California. Paper presented at the Sixth Annual California
Indian Conference, Riverside.
CONTRIBUTED PAPERS
Lambert, P. M.
2015 Life on the Santa Barbara coast ca. 9,500 B.P.: Insights from the Dentition of Tuqan Man. Paper
accepted for presentation at the 83rd Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical
Anthropologists, St. Louis. (AJPA Supplement 53:197-198). Paper pulled at the request of the
NPS.
Lambert, P. M.
2014 Bodies of Evidence: The Meaning of Sex Differences in the Location of Violent. Paper presented
at the 79th Annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Austin.
Welker, M., and P. M. Lambert
2014 Subsistence and Trauma: The Southeast in Perspective. Poster presented at the 79th Annual
meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Austin.
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Lambert, P. M.
2011 Traumatic Injury at Cerro Oreja: Violence and Occupational Risk in the Moche Valley during the
Early Intermediate Period. Paper presented at the 76th annual meeting of the Society for American
Archaeology, Sacramento. (Session Chair)
Andrew, H., and P. M. Lambert
2009 Anorexia as a model for studying starvation in the past. Poster presented at Research on Capitol
Hill, January 29, Salt Lake City.
Lambert, P. M.
2008 Politics, social choice and environmental constraints: health ramifications of sub-optimal
agricultural strategies. Paper presented at the 77th annual meeting of the American Association of
Physical Anthropologists, Columbus, Ohio. (AJPA Supplement 46:137)
2007 Interpreting trauma in the bioarchaeological record: the theoretical and methodological challenges
of reconstructing violent behavior from bones. Paper presented at the 76th annual meeting of the
American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Pittsburgh. (AJPA Supplement 42:118).
(Session Chair)
2006 Infectious disease among enslaved African Americans at Eaton’s estate, Warren County, North
Carolina, 1825-1850. Paper presented at the 33rd annual meeting of the Paleopathology
Association, Anchorage. (PPA Abstracts, pg. 11)
2003 Severe Enamel Hypoplasia in a 19th Century Cemetery Sample from North Carolina: Possible
Causes. Poster presented at the 72nd Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical
Anthropologists, Tempe. (AJPA Supplement 36:135) (Session Chair)
Smith, S., B. Benson, and P. M. Lambert
2003 An Apparent Case of Treponematosis in a Human Skeletal Sample from the Great Salt Lake,
Utah. Paper presented at the 72nd Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical
Anthropologists, Tempe. (AJPA Supplement 36:196)
Lambert, P. M.
2000 Rib Lesions in Pueblo II-III Skeletons from Southwestern Colorado. Paper presented at the Pecos
Conference 2000, Dolores, Colorado.
2000 Violent Injury and Death in a Pueblo II-III Sample from the Southern Piedmont of Sleeping Ute
Mountain, Colorado. Poster presented at the 69th Annual Meeting of the American Association of
Physical Anthropologists, San Antonio, Texas. (AJPA Supplement 30:205).
Kennett, D., J. Kennett, P. M. Lambert, D. Larson, and P. L. Walker
1999 Behavioral Responses to Climatic and Social Instability: A Case from the Northern Channel
Islands, California. Poster presented at the 64th Annual Meeting, SAA, Chicago.
Lambert, P. M.
1995 Projectile Injuries as Evidence of Violent Conflict in Prehistoric Populations. Paper presented at
the 64th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Oakland, CA.
(AJPA Supplement 20:128).
Walker, P. L., and P. M. Lambert
1995 Paleopathological evidence for stress in a prehistoric northern California Indian population. Paper
presented at the Ixth Annual European Meeting of the Paleopathology Association, Spain.
Proceedings of the Ixth European Meeting of the Paleopathology Association, Museu
d’Arqueologia de Cataluna, 1995, p. 445.
Lambert, P. M.
1992 Warfare and Violence in Prehistoric Societies of Coastal Southern California. Paper presented at
the 26th Annual Meeting of the Society for California Archaeology, Pasadena.
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Walker, P. L., and P. M. Lambert
1992 Human Skeletal Remains from the Historic Cemetery at Seccombe Lake Park, San Bernardino,
California. Paper presented at 26th Annual Meeting, Soc. California Archaeology, Pasadena.
1992 Paleopathological evidence for stress in a prehistoric Northern California Indian population.
Journal of Paleopathology 4(2):135.
1990 Prehistoric Sea Otter Exploitation in the Santa Barbara Channel Area. Paper presented at the
Sixth International Council for Archaeozoology Conference, Washington D.C.
INVITED PAPERS/LECTURES
Lambert, P. M.
2015 Indigenous warfare in North America. Invited paper presented in Warfare in Evolutionary
Perspective, a symposium organized by Mark Collard, Simon Frasier University, British
Columbia, February 14.
2014 Bioarchaeological Perspective on Male Violence in Prehistory: North America. Invited paper
presented in Male Aggression and Violence in Human Evolution: Private Symposium. CARTA,
Salk Institute, UC San Diego, May 17.
2014 Bioarchaeological Perspectives on Male Violence in Prehistory: California. Invited paper
presented in Male Aggression and Violence in Human Evolution: a Public Symposium. CARTA,
Salk Institute, UC San Diego, May 16.
2014 Evolution of Morality: the Cannibalism Conundrum. Invited paper presented in The Evolution of
Morality, a conference organized by Randy Hansen and Todd Shackelford, March 27, 2014,
Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan.
2014 Plenary Speaker. Warfare and Climate Change: Theoretical Perspectives on Warfare Causality in
Ancient North America. Northwest Evolution, Ecology, and Human Behavior Symposium.
March 7-9, Boise State University, Boise.
2012 A Brief Introduction to Forensic Anthropology. Lecture presented in the Saturdays at the
Museum Lecture Series, Museum of Anthropology, Utah State University
2009 Americans at War: Evolutionary Perspectives on an Age Old Story. Invited paper presented at
“The Evolution of Human Aggression: Lessons for Today’s Conflicts,” third Annual Barbara L.
and Norman C. Tanner center For Nonviolent Human Rights Advocacy Forum, University of
Utah, Salt Lake City.
2009 The Archaeology of War: A North American Portrait. Lecture presented in the Saturdays at the
Museum Lecture Series, Museum of Anthropology, Utah State University.
2008 War histories in evolutionary perspective: insights from prehistoric North America. Invited paper
presented at Evolutionary Perspectives on War: An Interdisciplinary Conference, organized by
Francis White. October 16-18, 2008, University of Oregon, Eugene.
2007 Paleopathology at the Origins of Agriculture. Presented at Perspectives on the Neolithic
Transition, a conference organized by Mark Nathan Cohen. Oct. 4-8, 2007, Plattsburgh, New
York. Weekend conference bringing together specialists on the transition to agriculture.
2007 A Biocultural History of the Human Experience as told by the Human Skeleton. Inaugural
Professor Lecture series, USU.
2007 The Anthropology of War: Ancient Traditions, Modern Perspectives. Paper presented at the
Anthropology Colloquium, University of Utah, October 25, 2007.
2006 The Cemetery at Eaton’s Ferry: Biocultural Reflections on the African American experience in
antebellum North Carolina. Anthropology Lecture Series, Boise State University, Feb. 2006.
2000 Cannibalism and Warfare: Bioarchaeological Perspectives on Population Dynamics in the Mesa
Verde Region. Department of Anthropology, Idaho State University, Pocatello.
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1999 The Ultimate Southwest Mystery: Anasazi Abandonment. The Cuyahoga Valley 1999 Lyceum,
National Park Service, Brecksville, Ohio
1998 The Anthropology of War: Ancient Traditions, Modern Perspectives. Paper presented at the
Dueling Doctrines and the New American Way of War conference, sponsored by VII Inc. in
conjunction with the Center for Strategic & International Studies, Washington, D.C.
1997 Physical evidence for prehistoric warfare and cannibalism in the American Southwest.
Promontory-Tubaduka Chapter, Utah Statewide Archaeological Society, Brigham City.
1994 Evidence from the Ancestors: Bioarchaeological Approaches to the Study of Health and
Violence. Colloquium Series, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, November 2.
1994 Health and Violence in Prehistoric California. Archaeology Brown Bag Lecture Series,
Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin, Madison.
1993 Violence and Warfare in Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherer Societies of South Coastal California.
Anthropology Lecture Series, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale.
BIO/ARCHAEOLOGICAL FIELD, LABORATORY, MUSEUM EXPERIENCE
2010- Bioarchaeological analysis of human remains from San Miguel Island, Channel Islands National
15 Park, CA.
2009- Prehistoric Warfare in the American Southwest: a museum-based bioarchaeology project.
American Museum of Natural History, New York.
2007 Bear River National Wildlife Refuge burial analysis. Analysis of human skeletal remains from
salvage excavation of eroding burial. (Brant Loflin, USDI, Fish and Wildlife Service Contact)
2006- Anchoring the Coastal California Chronology: radiocarbon assay of burial-associated artifacts
from Santa Barbara Channel area cemeteries (in association with SBMNH, Santa Barbara).
2006 Sand Flat Burial Site Excavation, Moab, Utah (SITLA 2006-2008, PI Steve Simms). Project
bioarchaeologist. Salvage burial excavation.
2005 Eaton Ferry Cemetery Project (African American Slave Cemetery, Warren County, North
Carolina). Project director in collaboration with Patricia Samford (Office of Historic Preservation,
NC) and Research Laboratories of Archaeology, UNC-Chapel Hill.
2002 Mosfell Archaeological Project (Viking/Early Christian), Iceland. Project member, project
directed by J. Byock, UCLA and P. Walker, UCSB. Burial/structure excavations.
2001- Willard Bay salvage excavations, Great Salt Lake, Utah. Project director with Steven Simms,
02 USU. Burial excavations/recovery.
1998- Bioarchaeology of Moche Origins Project, Moche Valley, Peru. Project director and PI, with
01 Brian Billman (Co-PI), UNC Chapel Hill. Burial analysis, curation, storage facility construction.
Two PhD dissertations completed on Project: Yoshida, UCSB, 2004; Gagnon, UNC-CH, 2006.
1997 Analysis of human skeletal remains from Buena Vista Lake, San Nicolas Island, and the Santa
Barbara Channel Area, California; Pueblo Bonito, New Mexico; and Eldon Pueblo, Arizona.
NMNH, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Postdoctoral Fellow.
1996-7 Ute Mountain Ute Irrigated Lands Archaeological Project, Towoac, Colorado (Breternitz, P.I.,
Soil Systems, Inc.). Project osteologist: burial excavation, analysis of human remains.
1994-6 Inventory and analysis of prehistoric and historic human skeletal remains from North Carolina
and Virginia. Postdoctoral researcher. Research Labs of Archaeology, UNC-Chapel Hill.
1995 Analysis of historic period human skeletal remains and associated artifacts from Mescalitan
Island (SBa-46D), Santa Barbara. Phoebe Hearst Museum of Anthropology, U C Berkeley.
1990-4 Analysis of prehistoric human skeletal remains from California: Fowler Museum of
Anthropology, UCLA; Phoebe Hearst Museum of Anthropology, UCB; San Jose State
University; Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History; UCSB. Dissertation research.
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1990
Tebenkov Bay Archaeological Project, Kuiu Island, Alaska (Maschner, PI, UCSB). Project
member: survey.
1989 Federsee Project (Neolithic), Germany (Jochim, P.I., UCSB). Project member: excavation.
1987 Big Creek Archaeological Project, Big Sur, California (Jones, P.I.): Lab director.
1986 Big Creek Archaeological Field School, Big Sur, California (Jones, Instr., UCSC): Lab director.
Also conducted salvage excavation of eroding human burial.
1985-6 Various archaeological projects in California (Hildebrandt, P.I., Far Western Archaeological
Research Group). Field crew member: survey/excavation/mapping/lab.
1985 King Range Archaeological Field School, California (Orsbeck, Instr., Santa Rosa Junior
College/Sonoma State University). Student: survey/excavation.
1985 New Guinea II Cave Excavation Field School, Victoria, Australia (Ossa, Instr., La Trobe
University, Melbourne). Volunteer: excavation/lab.
1984 Big Creek Archaeological Field School, Big Sur, CA (Jones, Instr., UCSC): Student: survey/
mapping.
1979 Jorvik Viking Site, York, England (Addyman, Dir., York Archaeological Trust). Volunteer:
excavation/lab.
MUSEUM OF ANTHROPOLOGY:
2012- Executive Director
2014 USU Diversity Award [to MOA] for Community Outreach/Engagement.
2012-3 PI, NEH Challenge Grant, “Raising the Barn at USU.” Assumed role of PI from Bonnie Pitblado
in July 2012.
2012-3 Faculty advisor. Update of “Paleoanthropology” exhibit by Morgan Tingey and Randi Martin.
2011 Member, Curator Search Committee, with Bonnie Pitblado (Chair) and Holly Andrew. Hired
Elizabeth Sutton.
2009 Member, “Art Barn” Design Team. Developed initial architectural plans for renovation.
2009 Faculty advisor. Update of “Otzi: The Ice Man” exhibit.
2008 Member, Curator Search Committee, with Bonnie Pitblado (Chair) and David Lancy. Hired Mary
Kay Gaydos
2008 Faculty advisor. Update of “Human Variation: A Study in Skin Color” exhibit.
2006-7 Faculty advisor. “Biological Anthropology: A Case Study on 9/11” exhibit by Jessica Alexander.
2004 Faculty advisor . Update of “Otzi: The Ice Man” exhibit by Brian Munk.
2002 Faculty advisor. “More than Meets the Ear: The Culture Behind the Music” exhibit. Worked with
Lara Petersen & team to develop interactive exhibit concept.
2000-1 Faculty advisor. “Otzi: The Ice Man” exhibit by Emily Brunson.
2001 Instructor: Museum Studies. Piloted course for Anthropology Program.
1997-8 Faculty advisor: “Human Variation: A Study in Skin Color” exhibit by Margo Memmott and
Michael Bush. On display until 2007.
1997-8 Faculty advisor: “Paleoanthropology” exhibit by Margo Memmott and Michael Bush. On display
until 2007.