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Michael PietrusewskyProfessor
Background B.A. (Anthropology) SUNY at Buffalo, 1966 My research focuses on the study of prehistoric and near modern human skeletal remains from Hawaii, the Pacific, Australia, East Asia, and Southeast Asia. A specialized focus is the use of multivariate statistical procedures and their application to metric and non-metric cranial/skeletal variation for understanding the peopling of the Pacific, Polynesia, Australia, and East and Southeast Asia. Other aspects of my research have centered on reconstructing the biological life histories of ancient peoples in these regions through studies of skeletal biology and bioarchaeology (e.g., paleodemography, skeletal/dental variation, health, and disease). I joined the faculty at the University of Hawai'i in 1969.
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Research Geographical Areas: Hawaii, Polynesia, Mariana Is., Oceania, Australia, Southeast Asia, and East Asia. Topical/Theoretical Interests: Paleoanthropology, skeletal biology, biodistance studies, bioarchaeology, skeletal and dental indicators of health and disease, Lapita skeletons, forensic anthropology. Methodological Concerns: Multivariate statistics, skeletal biology, paleopathology.
Funding sources for previous research include NSF, The Smithsonian Institution, National Geographic Society, Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Fulbright Senior Scholar Award, International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX), Committee on Scholarly Communication with the People's Republic of China, National Science Council (R.O.C.), The Australian Museum,Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, Ford Foundation, Deutscher Akademishcer Austraushdienst,CNRS (France), Field Museum, American Museum of Natural History, Richard Loundsbery Foundation, etc., and numerous intramurual grants. Exchanges and Visiting Professor/Curator Appointments: 2005 (Spring) Visiting Professor, Department of Anthropology, Auckland University, Auckland, New Zealand 2003 Contract from Pacific Legacy Inc. for osteological analysis of human skeletal remains from Smith-Beretania Streets, Honolulu, Hawaii 2001 Contract from Swift & Harper Archaeological Consulting, Saipan, CNMI. Analysis of human skeletons from Saipan and Tinian, CNMI 1998 Elected Fellow of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences 1997-98 International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Kyoto, Japan 1991 (Spring) National Taiwan University, Taipei, R.O.C. 1990 Fulbright Scholar to Japan 1983 (Spring) College de France, Paris 1983 (Fall) The Australian Museum, Sydney 1980-81 University of Toronto 1970-present Research Associate, B. P. Bishop Museum Pietrusewsky, M. 2008. The modern inhabitants of Island Southeast Asia: a craniometric perspective. In E. Indriati (ed.) Proceedings of the International Seminar on Southeast Asian Paleoanthropology: Recent Advances on Southeast Asian Paleoanthropology and Archaeology, pp.185-201. Laboratory of Bioanthropology and Paleoanthropology, Faculty of Medicine Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Download PDF File. Pietrusewsky, M. 2008 Metric analysis of skeletal remains: methods and applications. In Katzenberg, M.A. and S.R. Saunders (eds.) Biological Anthropology of the Human Skeleton, Second Edition. pp. 487-532. New York: Wiley-Liss. Download PDF File. Douglas, M.T. and M. Pietrusewsky 2007 Biological consequences of sedentism and agricultural intensification in northeast Thailand. In M.N. Cohen and G. Crane-Kramer (eds.), Ancient Health: Skeletal Indicators of Agricultural and Economic Intensification (Bioarchaeological Interpretations of the Human Past: Local, Regional, and Global Perspectives). Gainesville: University of Florida Press. pp. 300-319 + references. Download PDF File. Pietrusewsky, M., M.T. Douglas, E. E. Cochrane, and S. Reinke 2007. Cultural modification in an adolescent earth-oven interment from Fiji: sorting out mortuary practice. The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology 2 (1):44-71. Download PDF File. Pietrusewsky, M. 2006 The initial settlement of remote Oceania: the evidence from physical anthropology. In T. Simanjuntak, I.H.E. Pojoh and M. Hisyam (eds.) Austronesian Diaspora and the Ethnogenesis of People in Indonesian Archipelago. Proceedings of the International Symposium, pp. 320-347. Jakarta, Indonesia: Indonesian Institute of Sciences, LIPI Press. Download PDF File Pietrusewsky, M and R. Ikehara-Quebral 2006. The Bioarchaeology of the Vat Komnou Cemetery, Angkor Borei, Cambodia, Bulletin of the Indo-Prehistory Association 26:86-97. Download PDF File. Pietrusewsky, M. 2006 Chapter 3. A multivariate craniometric study of the prehistoric and modern inhabitants of Southeast Asia, East Asia, and surrounding regions: a human kaleidoscope? In M. R. Oxenham and N. Tayles (eds.) Bioarchaeology of Southeast Asia, pp. 59-90. Cambridge University Press. Download PDF File Bentley, R.A.. Pietrusewsky, M., Douglas, M.T. Atkinson, T.C. 2005. Stable isotopic evidence for matrilocality during the prehistoric transition to agriculture in Thailand. Antiquity 79: 865-881. Download PDF File. Pietrusewsky, M. 2005 The Physical Anthropology of the Pacific, East Asia, and Southeast Asia: A Multivariate Craniometric Analysis. In Sargat, L., R. Blench and A. Sanchez-Mazas (eds.) The Peopling of East Asia: Putting Together Archaeology, Linguistics, and Genetics. pp.203-231. RoutledgeCurzon, London. Pietrusewsky, M. 2004 Multivariate comparisons of female cranial series from the Ryukyu Islands and Japan. Anthropological Science. Download PDF File. Pietrusewsky, M. and Ching-fang Chang 2003. Taiwan Aboriginals and peoples of the Pacific-Asian region: Multivariate craniometric comparisons. Anthropological Science 111(3):293-332. Download PDF File Pietrusewsky, M. and Cheng-hwa Tsang 2003. A preliminary assessment of health and disease in human skeletal remains from Shi San Hang: A prehistoric aboriginal site on Taiwan. Anthropological Science 111(2): 203-223. Download PDF File Pietrusewsky, M. and M. T. Douglas 2002 Ban Chiang, A Prehistoric Site in Northeast Thailand. I: The Human Skeletal Remains. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Announcement
and Order Form or purchase it through Amazon.com. Pietrusewsky, M. and M. T. Douglas 2002. Intensification of agriculture at Ban Chiang: Is there evidence from the skeletons? Asian Perspectives 40(2): 157-178. Download PDF File Pietrusewsky, M. 2000 Metric analysis of skeletal remains: Methods and applications. In M.A. Katzenberg and S.R. Saunders (eds.) Biological Anthropology of the Human Skeleton, pp. 375-415. New York: Wiley-Liss. Download PDF File. Pietrusewsky, M. 1994 Pacific-Asian relationships: a physical anthropological perspective. Oceanic Linguistics 33(2):407-430. Download PDF File. Pietrusewsky, M. and M. T. Douglas 1994. An osteological assessment of health and disease in precontact and historic (1778) Hawai`i. In C.S. Larsen & G.R. Milner (eds.) In the Wake of Contact: Biological Responses to Conquest. pp. 179-196. New York: Wiley-Liss, Inc. Download PDF File. Pietrusewsky, M., M.T. Douglas and R. M. Ikehara-Quebral 1997. An assessment of health and disease in the prehistoric inhabitants of the Mariana Islands. American Journal of Physical Anthropology104:315-342. Download PDF File Pietrusewsky, M.,T. Hunt and R. Ikehara-Quebral 1997. A Lapita-associated skeleton from Waya Island, Fiji. Micronesica 3(2): 355-388. Download PDF File. Pietrusewsky, M. 1989 A study of skeletal and dental remains from Watom Island and comparisons with other Lapita people. Records of the Australian Museum 41:235-292. Download PDF File. 2006 College of Social Sciences Award for Excellence in Research, University of Hawaii 2002 National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: Stable Isotopic Analysis of Carbon and Nitrogen as an Indicator of Paleodietary Change for Pre-State Metal Age Societies in Northeast Thailand (Christopher King, co-PI) 2001 (December) Travel Grant from Academia Sinica (Taiwan) to attend the International Symposium on Austronesian Cultures: Issues Relating to Taiwan. Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan 2000 Grant from Academia Sinica, Taipei, to analyze human remains from Shi San Hang, a prehistoric cemetery site, Taiwan 1996 American Museum of Natural History Collection Study Grant: "A Study of Human Skeletal Remains from the Marquesas". 1994 National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Grant. Paleopathology in Human Skeletal Remains from Bronze-Iron Age Northeast Thailand. (M.T. Douglas, co-PI) For a complete list of awards, click here Anth
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Recent Conference Participation International Seminar on Southeast Asia Paleoanthropology, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, July 23 – 29, 2007. Paper presented: “Craniometric variation in Southeast Asia and the Indo-Pacific: a multivariate analysis of cranial measurements”. Global History of Health Organizational Meeting, Ohio State University, May 26-28, 2007. Presentation: “Bioarchaeology and skeletal collections in the Pacific.” 76th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Philadelphia, PA. March 27- April 1, 2007. Paper/poster presented: “Biological connections across the Sea of Japan: a multivariate craniometric study of ancient and more modern crania from Japan, China, and Korea”. Download Poster. Attendance at the 18th Congress of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association (IPPA) Congress in Manila, Philippines, March 20-26, 2006. Paper presented:” The Bioarchaeology of the Vat Komnou Cemetery, Angkor Borei, Cambodia”(co-authors: Rona Ikehara, and Michele Toomay Douglas). Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Milwaukee, WI, April 9-13, 2003. Paper presented in the electronic symposium: Mortuary Ritual and Human Taphonomy in Island Oceania: 2002:“Cultural modification in an adolescent earth-oven interment from Fiji: sorting out mortuary practice”. (co-authors: M.T. Douglas, E. E. Cochrane, and S. Reinke). Invited participant to International Symposium on Austronesian Cultures: Issues Relating to Taiwan. Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, December 8-11, 2001. Paper presented: “The people of Shi San Hang, preliminary results of osteological investigations”. Invited participant to the workshop on “Perspectives on the Phylogeny of East Asian Languages”, Périgueux, France, August 28-31, 2001. Paper presented: “The Physical Anthropology of the Pacific, East Asia, and Southeast Asia: a Multivariate Craniometric Analysis”. American Association of Physical Anthropologists’ Annual Meetings, Kansas City, MO, March 28-31, 2001. Paper presented: “Craniometric Relationships of Pacific, East Asian, and Southeast Asian Peoples: A Multivariate Analysis”.
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