Summary
Current status: Ph.D. in progress
M.A. thesis title: Stress Chronologies and Periodicities in a Mass Burial, Charterhouse Warren Farm Shaft, United Kingdom: Microstructural Reconstruction of Environmental Interactions at the Precipice of Violent Death
Emily M. Smith is currently a doctoral student studying dental anthropology and bioarchaeology. Her dissertation research seeks to understand migration patterns and oral pathologies in Bronze Age and Neolithic Anatolia, Turkey.
Additionally, Smith is presently studying the microstructures of enamel and dentin. She is especially interested in researching the methods of neonatal line identification in prenatal and neonatal individuals. She aspires to apply these methods in both bioarchaeological and forensic contexts.
Academic interests
- Bioarchaeology
- Dental anthropology
- Dental histology
- Neolithic archaeology
- Ethics
- Biological distance
- Paleopathology
- Maternal-infant relationships
- Paleoethnobotany
Education
- M.A., George Mason University, 2020
- B.A., California State University, Monterey Bay, 2018