JOHN C. WILLMAN
Washington University in Saint Louis
Department of Anthropology
1 Brookings Drive, Campus Box 1114
Saint Louis, MO 63130
Phone: (319) 621-4606
Email: [email protected]
Websites: http://anthropology.artsci.wustl.edu/willman_john-c
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/John_Willman2
https://wustl.academia.edu/JohnWillman
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Late Pleistocene human paleobiology, Paleolithic archaeology, bioarchaeology (foci: ritual, social identity, diet, health,
hunter-gatherers), dental anthropology of human and non-human primates, dental wear, cultural modification of the
dentition/body, evolutionary medicine & dentistry, craniofacial and dental functional morphology, human
evolutionary nutrition, hunter-gatherer socioeconomic variation, and human biological variation.
EDUCATION
Ph.D.
A.M.
B.A.
Physical Anthropology – Anticipated Spring 2016
Physical Anthropology, 2011
Anthropology, 2009
Washington University in St. Louis
Washington University in St. Louis
University of Iowa
Dissertation: The Non-masticatory Use of the Anterior Teeth Among Late Pleistocene Humans
Committee members: Erik Trinkaus (chair), Kari Allen, Glenn Conroy, Fiona Marshall, and Richard J. Smith
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY MEMBERSHIPS
American Association of Physical Anthropologists, PaleoAnthropology Society, Dental Anthropology Association,
American Anthropological Association, International Society for Hunter Gatherer Research (ISHGR), International
Association for Paleondontology, Lambda Alpha National Honor Society for Anthropology
PUBLICATIONS
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
Submitted Willman JC, Shackelford L, Demeter F. Incisor avulsion among the Late Upper Paleolithic people of Tam
Hang (Northern Laos): Implications for social identity, mortuary practice, and oral health. American Journal of
Physical Anthropology.
2012
Willman JC, Maki J, Bayle P, Trinkaus E, Zilhão J. Middle Paleolithic human remains from the Gruta da Oliveira,
Torres Novas, Portugal. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 149(1):39-51.
2010
Reynolds CR, Willman JC. Student Affairs Committee: advice for prospective graduate students. The
Archaeological Record 10(4):12-14. (html: http://digital.ipcprintservices.com/display_article.php?id=504966).
Book Chapters
In Review
Willman JC. The dental remains: Non-masticatory wear. In: Trinkaus, E. and Walker, MJ, editors. The
People of Palomas: Neandertals from the Sima de las Palomas, Cabezo Gordo, Southeastern Spain.
Accepted
Trinkaus E, Lacy SA, Willman JC. Human burials and biology at Dolní Věstonice II. In: Svoboda, J, editor.
Dolní Vĕstonice II: Chronostratigraphy, Paleoethnology, Paleoanthropology. Dolní Věstonice Studies 21:pp.
Accepted
Willman JC. A description of the Mesolithic human dental remains from Šídelník, Č. Lipa Pod zubem, and
Vyz. Lešnice (Czech Republic). In: Svoboda, J, editor. Mezolit Severních Čech II. Dolní Věstonice Studies 22:pp.
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Site Reports
2008
Lillios KT with Artz JA, Kendall B, Thomas JT, Waterman AJ, Willman JC. Bolóres (Torres Vedras) rockshelter:
Preliminary report of the 2007 excavations. Report submitted to the Ministério de Cultura, Portugal.
Published Abstracts
Submitted Willman, JC. “By the skin of their teeth”: Cutmarks on Neandertal and early modern human anterior
teeth challenge the assertion of differential visuospatial integration and extended cognition. Abstract
submitted for the 85th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Atlanta,
Georgia.
2015
Willman JC. Labret use among the Pavlovian peoples of Mid Upper Paleolithic Central Europe: A new
interpretation of the buccal wear facets at Brno III, Dolní Vĕstonice, Pavlov, and Předmostí. Annual Meeting of
the American Anthropological Association, Denver, Colorado.
2015
Azar MC*, Johnson NA*, Willman JC. Preliminary analysis of postcanine enamel chipping among Neandertals
and early modern humans: Implications for diet and bite force production. Committee on Diversity
Undergraduate Research Symposium, 84th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical
Anthropologists, Saint Louis, Missouri.*Undergraduate, co-first authors.
2014
Willman JC. Dental fluctuating asymmetry among early modern humans and Neandertals. Abstracts of the
PaleoAnthropology Society Meetings 2014. PaleoAnthropology 2014:A29.
2013
Zilhão J, Angelucci D, Aubry T, Badal E, Brugal J-F, Carvalho R, Gamerio C, Hoffmann D, Matias H, Maurício J,
Nabais M, Pike A, Richter D, Souto, P, Trinkaus E, Wainer K, Willman JC. Gruta da Oliveira (Torres Novas): um
primeiro balanço de 20 anos de escavação. I Congresso da Associação dos Arqueólogos Portugueses, Lisbon.
21-24th November 2013.
2010
Willman JC, Franciscus RG. Scapular axillary border sulcus variation in recent modern humans and
Neandertals: a cross sectional metric approach. Abstracts of the PaleoAnthropology Society Meetings 2010.
PaleoAnthropology 2010:A38.
2009
Waterman AJ, Willman JC. Demographic and health status patterns from the Late Neolithic collective burials
of Bolóres (Torres Vedras), Portugal: methodological considerations and results. Abstracts of the 74th Annual
Meeting, p.345. Society for American Archaeologists, Atlanta, Georgia.
2008
Waterman AJ, Willman JC, Lillios KT. The Late Neolithic collective burial of Bolóres (Torres Vedras), Portugal:
preliminary results. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. Suppl. p.218.
2008
Waterman AJ, Willman JC, Lillios KT. The Late Neolithic Collective burial of Bolóres (Torres Vedras), Portugal:
Preliminary results. Abstracts of the 73rd Annual Meeting, p.576. Society for American Archaeologists,
Vancouver, B.C.
Other Writing
2013
Washington University Faculty Spotlight on Erik Trinkaus.
GRANTS & AWARDS
External
2013 The Leakey Foundation for dissertation research project: The non-masticatory use of the anterior teeth among
Late Pleistocene humans ($12,000).
Internal
2015 Washington University H. Kathleen Cook Graduate Student Prize – peer nominated award for graduate student
service.
2010 Washington University Summer research funding (awarded again in 2011, 2012, and 2013).
2013 Washington University Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence for 2012-2013.
2012 Washington University Exceptional Contributions to Anthropology Award for teaching.
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Undergraduate
2008 University of Iowa ICRU Summer Research Fellows Program. PI: Lillios, KT; Student: Willman, JC.
2008 University of Iowa Bill and John Fenton Scholarship for academic merit.
2007 University of Iowa ECGPS Research Grant.
2007 University of Iowa Honors Travel Grant.
2007 Iowa Research Experiences for Undergraduates (IREU) Grant: Analysis of Bio-behavioral Effects on the Shoulder
Morphology of Neanderthals and Modern Humans. PI: RG Franciscus, Student: Willman, JC.
2007 University of Iowa Honors Thesis Award.
2007 University of Iowa Dewey Stuit Fund (awarded again in 2007 and 2009).
2006 University of Iowa Student Government Research Grant.
INVITED LECTURES
2015
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2015
2014
2014
2013
2012
Washington University Friday Archaeology Series – Body Modification and Dynamic Social Identities in the Mid
Upper Paleolithic: New Evidence for Labret Use from Central Europe to the Russian Plain.
Summer Seminar Series at the Missouri Botanical Gardens – Hunters and Gatherers – Plant use and
consumption among Neandertals and early modern humans.
University of Indianapolis – Searching for Identity in the Upper Paleolithic: Cases Studies From Central Europe
and Laos.
Saint Louis University – Neandertal and Early Modern Human Paleobiology: Insights from Dental
Anthropology.
Summer Seminar Series at the Missouri Botanical Gardens – Plants and People in the Late Pleistocene.
Summer Seminar Series at the Missouri Botanical Gardens – Microscopic Perspectives on Diet and the Use of
Teeth-as-Tools Among Neandertals and Early Modern Humans.
University of Missouri – St. Louis – The Evolution of Early Homo: Brains, Guts, and Bodies.
UNIVERSITY SERVICE & PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
2013-4
2011-2
2011
2010-2
2006
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Anthropology Graduate Student Committee (Washington University).
Graduate Student Senate (Washington University).
Invited panel member for “Junior Jumpstart” (Washington University).
Anthropology graduate student peer mentor (Washington University).
Undergraduate participant in the Obermann Summer Research Seminar: “Comparative Archaeologies: The
American Southwest (AD 900-1600) and the Iberian Peninsula (3000-1500 BC) (University of Iowa).
Anthropology Student Organization: peer advisor (University of Iowa).
UNDERGRADUATE MENTORING & LABORATORY SUPERVISION
2014-15 Naomi Johnson and Madelaine Azar: Washington University Paleoanthropology Laboratory internship mentor
for their presentation at the 2015 AAPA Committee on Diversity Undergraduate Research Symposium.
JOURNAL REVIEWER
2015
American Journal of Physical Anthropology
MUSEUMS & INSTITUTIONS VISITED TO STUDY ORIGINAL FOSSIL & SKELETAL COLLECTIONS
Austria: Naturhistorisches Museum (Wien). Belgium: Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique (Brussels).
Canada: Musée Canadien des Civilization (Gatineau). Croatia: Institute for Quaternary Paleontology and Geology,
Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts (Zagreb). Czech Republic: Moravské zemské muzeum (Brno); Národní
Muzeum (Praha); Paleolithic and Paleoethnology Research Center Dolní Vĕstonice (Dolní Vĕstonice). France: Parisian
CNRS center for research in biological anthropology sciences (Paris); Institut de Paléontologie Humaine (Paris);
Musée de l’Homme (Paris); Université Bordeaux 1 (Talence). Germany: Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte
(Berlin); LVR-LandesMuseum Bonn (Bonn); Neanderthal Museum (Mettmann); Senckenberg Center for Human
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Evolution and Paleoenvironment, University of Tübingen (Tübingen); Landesamt für Denkmalpflege und Archäologie
(Weimar). Israel: Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University (Tel-Aviv). Italy: All’Instituto Italiano di
Paleontologia Umana (Anagni); Università degli Studi “G. d’Annunzio”, Museo Universitario (Chieti); University of
Florence, Department of Evolutionary Biology, Laboratories of Anthropology (Firenze); Museo di Civiltà Preclassiche
della Murgia meridionale (Ostuni); Museo Preistorico Nazionale dei Balzi Rossi (Ventimiglia). Netherlands: Naturalis
Biodiversity Center (Leiden). Portugal: Museu Nacional de Arqueologia (Belém), O Museu Geológico (Lisboa); Museu
Municipal Leonel Trindade (Torres Vedras). Romania: Francisc I. Rainer Anthropological Research Centre
(Bucharest); Institutul de Speologie ‘‘Emil Racoviţă’’ (Bucharest); Muzeul Olteniei (Craiova). Spain: Universitat de
Barcelona Secc. Antropologia, Dept. Animal Biology, Biology Faculty (Barcelona); Universitat de Murcia (Murcia).
Switzerland: Musée jurassien d'art et d'histoire (Delemont); Laténium, parc et musée d'archéologie (Neuchatel).
United Kingdom: Natural History Museum (London); Torquay Museum (Torquay); British Museum (London). United
States: Logan Museum of Anthropology (Beloit); Museum of Anthropology, University of Missouri (Columbia);
University of Iowa-Stanford Human Osteology Collection (Iowa City); William S. Webb Museum of Anthropology,
University of Kentucky (Lexington).
ARCHAEOLOGICAL FIELDWORK & ADDITIONAL RESEARCH EXPERIENCES
2010-1 Middle Paleolithic site of Gruta da Oliviera, Almonda Karstic System, Torres Novas, Portugal.
Director: João Zilhão (ICREA research professor, Universitat de Barcelona).
2008-9 CRM investigations at Whitewater Canyon, Jones/Dubuque County, IA. Directors: Cindy Peterson, Bryan
Kendall (University Iowa Office of the State Archaeologist).
2008-9 GIS: University Iowa Office of the State Archaeologist. Supervisor: Joe A. Artz, GIS Director.
2007-8 Copper Age/early Bronze Age communal burial at Bolóres (Torres Vedras, Portugal) rockshelter. Director:
Katina T. Lillios (University of Iowa).
2007 Research at the Museu Geologico e Archeologia (Lisbon) studying the engraved schist plaques of the
Portuguese Copper Age (3000-2000 BC) with Jonathan T. Thomas (University of Iowa)
2006-7 Analysis of faunal materials from 3rd century A.D. Roman military camp (Maasplein, Netherlands). Supervisors:
Glenn R. Storey and James G. Enloe (University of Iowa).
2006 CRM with Gemmente Nijmegen, Bureau Archeologie (Netherlands). Program administered by Glenn R. Storey
(University of Iowa) in collaboration with Jan R. A. M. Thijssen, Municipal Archaeologist, Municipality of
Nijmegen, Harry van Enckevort, Assistant Municipal Archaeologist and Director of Collections, and Kees Brok,
Field Director.
DATA COLLECTION & ANALYTICAL SKILLS
• Excavation, analysis, and contextual interpretation of human skeletal materials (bioarchaeology/paleobiology).
• Dental molding and casting, skeletal contour molding
• Microscopy: scanning electron microscopy (SEM), white light confocal microscopy and dental microwear texture
analysis, light microscopy (portable and desktop)
• Digital photography, morphometric photo analysis, photogrammetry
• CT scan analysis
• 3D-coordinate data collection using a Microscribe
• Software: NCSS, SPSS, Adobe Creative Suite, tpsDig, ImageJ, FIJI for ImageJ, 3D Slicer, ArcGIS
CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS
• Willman JC. Manipulative and cultural behavior at Dolní Vĕstonice II: Inferences from human dental wear. In:
Svoboda, J, editor. Dolní Vĕstonice II: Chronostratigraphy, Paleoethnology, Paleoanthropology. Dolní Věstonice
Studies 21:pp. (to be submitted in October 2015)
• Dietary and non-masticatory dental wear among Late Pleistocene humans (multiple projects).
• Cultural modification of the dentition as a marker of social identity in the Upper Paleolithic (multiple projects).
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• Ecogeographic and temporal variation in Late Pleistocene human diets addressed through dental enamel chipping,
dental microwear texture analysis, paleopathology, and integration of stable isotope data (multiple projects).
• Dietary and paleopathological analyses of the Late Upper Paleolithic humans from Tam Hang, Northern Laos. In
preparation for the Journal of Human Evolution.
• Dental fluctuating asymmetry (DFA) among early modern humans as an indicator of cumulative developmental
stress. In preparation for the American Journal of Physical Anthropology.
• Experimental dental wear research at the University of Iowa (Departments of Anthropology and Orthodontics)
investigating the formation of human interproximal wear facets, their relationship to craniofacial form, tissue
properties, and rates of formation.
• Analysis of bio-behavioral effects on shoulder morphology and axillary border variation of Neandertals and recent
modern humans (with R. G. Franciscus, University of Iowa).
RECENT COLLABORATORS
Erik Trinkaus (Department Anthropology, Washington University in Saint Louis); Sarah A. Lacy (Department of
Anthropology, Sociology, and Languages; University of Missouri-Saint Louis); Fabrice Demeter (Muséum national
d’Histoire naturelle, Musée de l’Homme); Christopher W. Schmidt (Director of the Indiana Prehistory Laboratory,
University of Indianapolis); Laura Shackelford (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign); Robert G. Franciscus
(Department of Anthropology, University of Iowa); Nathan E. Holton (Departments of Orthodontics and Anthropology,
University of Iowa)
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2015 Instructor: Evolution of the Human Diet (University College/Washington University)
2014 Instructor: Evolution of the Human Diet (Washington University)
2012 Instructor: Introduction to Human Evolution (University College/ Washington University)
2015 Teaching Assistant: Human Anatomy and Development (Prof. G. Conroy & J. Phillips-Conroy, Washington
University School of Medicine)
2014 Teaching Assistant: Zooarchaeology (Prof. F. Marshall, Washington University)
2012 Teaching Assistant: Human Osteology (Prof. D. T. Rasmussen, Washington University)
2012 Teaching Assistant: Population and Society (Prof. G. Childs, Washington University)
2011 Teaching Assistant: Human Variation (Prof. E. Trinkaus, Washington University)
2011 Teaching Assistant: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology (Prof. G. Childs, Washington University)
2008 Course Assistant: Human Osteology (Prof. R. G. Franciscus, University of Iowa)
Additional Lecturing (WashU): Introduction to Archaeology; Introduction to Human Evolution; From Darwin to
Doctors: Evolutionary Medicine and Health; Human Physiology and Energetics; Human Osteology; Human Variation;
Food, Culture, and Power; Anthropology of the Human Face; Zooarchaeology. (Over 40 individual guest lectures.)
Prepared to Teach:
Introduction to Human Evolution (core curriculum in anthropology); Evolution of the Human Diet; Evolutionary
Medicine; Pleistocene Peoples: From Tools to Symbols (archaeology); Paleolithic Origins of Human Behavior:
Language, Burial, Ritual, Identity, & Inequality; Bioarchaeology: The Contextual Analysis of Human Skeletal Remains;
Evolutionary Dentistry: Human Teeth and Oral Health from Prehistory to Present; Human Osteology; Human
Variation; Paleoanthropology; Advanced Seminar in Biological Anthropology; Human Evolution in Popular Culture:
Scientific Research Meets Literature, Film, and Television; Zooarchaeology; Introduction to Anthropology (4-field)
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PERSONAL REFERENCES
Erik Trinkaus
Mary Tileston Hemenway Professor in Arts & Sciences
Dept of Anthropology, Washington University
1 Brookings Drive, Campus Box 1114
St. Louis, MO 63130-4899
[email protected]
(314) 935-5207
Fiona Marshall
James W. and Jean L. Davis Professor in Arts and Sciences
Dept of Anthropology, Washington University
1 Brookings Drive, Campus Box 1114
St. Louis, MO 63130-4899
[email protected]
(314) 935-5181
E.A. Quinn
Assistant Professor
Dept of Anthropology, Washington University in Saint Louis
Dept of Anthropology, Washington University
1 Brookings Drive, Campus Box 1114
St. Louis, MO 63130-4899
[email protected]
314-935-5292
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