Dr Louise Humphrey

Dr Louise Humphrey

Research Leader

Department: Earth Sciences
Division: ES Vertebrates and Anthropology Palaeobiology
Specialisms: Other
Team: Adam CieplinskiAna Santos, Louise Humphrey, Mark Carine Specialisms: Bioarchaeology, Dental Anthropology, Human Origins
Phone: 020 7942 5719

Summary

My research interests cover human origins, bioarchaeology and dental anthropology. I am particularly interested in infancy and childhood in past populations, including growth and development and reconstructing aspects of individual life history.

Qualifications

    Degrees

  • BSc, University College London, United Kingdom
  • PhD, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

Employment history

    Academic

  • Researcher in Human Origins, Natural History Museum, United Kingdom, 1997 - ongoing

Grants

Cultural Transitions in Morocco
Role: Principal investigatorHumphrey LT
Dates: 2019 - 2022

Life History
Role: Principal investigatorHumphrey L
Co-investigator: Dean MC
Dates: 2018 - 2022

Cultural transitions at Grotte des Pigeons, Morocco
Role: Principal investigatorHumphrey LT
Funding: Calleva Foundation
Dates: 2016 - 2019

Child Health in Early industrial London
Role: Principal investigatorHumphrey LT
Funding: Calleva Foundation
Dates: 2016 - 2019

Tooth Enamel as an Archive of Early Life Experience
Role: Principal investigatorHumphrey LT
Funding: Calleva Foundation
Dates: 2012 - 2016

Cemeteries and sedentism in the epipalaeolithic of North Africa
Role: Principal investigatorHumphrey L
Funding: Leverhulme Trust
Total value £249,459 (to Museum £87,898)
Dates: 2009 - 2012

Cultural Transitions in Morocco
Role: Principal investigatorHumphrey LT
Dates: 2019 - 2022

Life History
Role: Principal investigatorHumphrey L
Co-investigator: Dean MC
Dates: 2018 - 2022

Calleva 2 Management Fund
Role: Principal investigatorStringer CB
Co-investigator: humphrey L
Funding: Calleva Foundation
Dates: 2016 - 2019

Calleva 1 Management Fund
Role: Principal investigatorStringer CB
Co-investigator: Humphrey L
Funding: Calleva Foundation
Dates: 2012 - 2016

Calcium isotopes: a new tool to study the spread of dairying in prehistory
Co-investigator: Humphrey L
Funding: NERC
Total value £352,356.44 (to Museum £4,037.22)
Dates: 2007 - 2010

Committees

Vice president, Royal Anthropological Institute, 2021 - on going.

Chair, Advisory Panel on the Archaeology of Burials in England, 2020 - on going.

Member, Scientific Advisory Committee of the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre Evolución Humana, 2019 - on going.

Member, Advisory Panel on the Archaeology of Burials in England, 2007 - on going.

Member, Council of the Royal Anthropological Institute,

Memberships

Fellow, Royal Anthropological Institute.

International Union of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences (UISPP).

European Society of Human Evolution.

Editorships

Board member, Bulletins et Mémoires de la Société d'Anthropologie de Paris,

Events

Organisation

Organiser, British Association for Biological Anthropology & Osteoarchaeology Conference 2019, (Conference),

Organising committee, European Society for the Study of Human Evolution Annual Conference 2015, (Conference),

Publications

Barton RNE, Bell MG, Bouzouggar A, De Groote I, Humphrey LT, Morales Mateos J, Taylor VK, Turner E (2021) The Iberomaurusian Prelude to Farming in Morocco, In: Revolutions. The Neolithisation of the Mediterranean Basin, Rowland J, Lucarini G, Tassie G (Eds). null : 121 - 140.

Smith DEM, Humphrey LT, Cardoso HFV (2021) Age estimation of immature human skeletal remains from mandibular and cranial bone dimensions in the postnatal period. Forensic Science International, 327 : 110943 - 110943. doi: 10.1016/j.forsciint.2021.110943

Fellows Yates JA, Velsko IM, Aron F, Posth C, Hofman CA, Austin RM, Parker CE, Mann AE, Nägele K, Arthur KW, Arthur JW, Bauer CC, Crevecoeur I, Cupillard C, Curtis MC, Dalén L, Díaz-Zorita Bonilla M, Díez Fernández-Lomana JC, Drucker DG, Escribano Escrivá E, Francken M, Gibbon VE, González Morales MR, Grande Mateu A, Harvati K, Henry AG, Humphrey L, Menéndez M, Mihailović D, Peresani M, Rodríguez Moroder S, Roksandic M, Rougier H, Sázelová S, Stock JT, Straus LG, Svoboda J, Teßmann B, Walker MJ, Power RC, Lewis CM, Sankaranarayanan K, Guschanski K, Wrangham RW, Dewhirst FE, Salazar-García DC, Krause J, Herbig A, Warinner C (2021) The evolution and changing ecology of the African hominid oral microbiome. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118 (20) : doi: 10.1073/pnas.2021655118

Humphrey L (2021) A child’s grave is the earliest known burial site in Africa. Nature, 593 (7857) : 39 - 40. doi: 10.1038/d41586-021-00805-6

Compton T, Skinner MM, Humphrey L, Pope M, Bates M, Davies TW, Parfitt SA, Plummer WP, Scott B, Shaw A, Stringer C (2021) The morphology of the Late Pleistocene hominin remains from the site of La Cotte de St Brelade, Jersey (Channel Islands). Journal of Human Evolution, 152 : 102939 - 102939. doi: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2020.102939

Swan KR, Ives R, Humphrey LT (2021) Femoral angle development and locomotor progression in children from 18th and 19th century London. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF OSTEOARCHAEOLOGY, 31 (2) : 263 - 272. doi: 10.1002/oa.2945

Bouzouggar A, Humphrey L, Barton N (2020) Cultural transitions in the Middle Stone Age and Later Stone Age records of Northwest Africa: An overview from Morocco, In: Not just a Corridor: Human occupation of the Nile Valley and neighbouring regions between 75,000 and 15,000 years ago, Leplongeon A, Goder-Goldberger M, Pleurdeau D (Eds). Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle : 161 - 176.

Swan KR, Ives R, Wilson LAB, Humphrey LT (2020) Ontogenetic changes in femoral cross‐sectional geometry during childhood locomotor development. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 173 (1) : 80 - 95. doi: 10.1002/ajpa.24080

Dean MC, Humphrey L, Groom A, Hassett B (2020) Variation in the timing of enamel formation in modern human deciduous canines. Archives of Oral Biology, 114 : 104719 - 104719. doi: 10.1016/j.archoralbio.2020.104719

Hassett BR, Dean MC, Ring S, Atkinson C, Ness AR, Humphrey L (2020) Effects of maternal, gestational, and perinatal variables on neonatal line width observed in a modern UK birth cohort. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 172 (2) : 314 - 332. doi: 10.1002/ajpa.24042

Wilson LAB, De Groote I, Humphrey LT (2020) Sex differences in the patterning of age‐related bone loss in the human hallucal metatarsal in rural and urban populations. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 171 (4) : 628 - 644. doi: 10.1002/ajpa.24002

Ives R, Humphrey L (2020) Exploring Patterns of Appositional Growth Amongst Urban Children, In: The Bioarchaeology of Urbanization. The Biological, Demographic, and Social Consequences of Living in Cities, Betsinger T, DeWitte S (Eds). Springer : 317 - 339.

Turner E, Humphrey L, Bouzouggar A, Barton N (2020) Bone retouchers and technological continuity in the Middle Stone Age of North Africa.. PloS one, 15 (3) : e0230642 - e0230642. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0230642

Humphrey L, Freyne A, van de Loosdrecht M, Hogue JT, Turner E, Barton N, Bouzouggar A (2019) Infant funerary behavior and kinship in Pleistocene hunter-gatherers from Morocco. Journal of Human Evolution, 135 : 102637 - 102637. doi: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2019.07.001

Barton RNE, Bouzouggar A, Collcutt SN, Humphrey LT (2019) Cemeteries and Sedentism in the Later Stone Age of NW Africa: Excavations at Grotte Des Pigeons, Taforalt, Morocco. RGZM : 1 - 628.

Desmond A, Barton N, Bouzouggar A, Douka K, Fernandez P, Humphrey L, Morales J, Turner E, Buckley M (2018) ZooMS identification of bone tools from the North African Later Stone Age. Journal of Archaeological Science, 98 : 149 - 157. doi: 10.1016/j.jas.2018.08.012

Ives R, Humphrey L (2018) Endochondral growth disruption during vitamin D deficiency rickets in a mid-19th century series from Bethnal Green, London, UK. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 167 (3) : 585 - 601. doi: 10.1002/ajpa.23687

De Groote I, Morales J, Humphrey L (2018) Oral health in Late Pleistocene and Holocene North West Africa. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 22 : 392 - 400. doi: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2018.03.019

van de Loosdrecht M, Bouzouggar A, Humphrey L, Posth C, Barton N, Aximu-Petri A, Nickel B, Nagel S, Talbi EH, El Hajraoui MA, Amzazi S, Hublin J-J, Pääbo S, Schiffels S, Meyer M, Haak W, Jeong C, Krause J (2018) Pleistocene North African genomes link Near Eastern and sub-Saharan African human populations. Science, 360 (6388) : 548 - 552. doi: 10.1126/science.aar8380

Bouzouggar A, Humphrey LT, Barton N, Parfitt SA, Clark Balzan L, Schwenninger J-L, El Hajraoui MA, Nespoulet R, Bello SM (2018) 90,000 year-old specialised bone technology in the Aterian Middle Stone Age of North Africa.. PLoS One, 13 (10) : doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0202021

Humphrey L, Stringer C (2018) Our Human Story. Natural History Museum, London :

Wilson LAB, Humphrey LT (2017) Voyaging into the third dimension: A perspective on virtual methods and their application to studies of juvenile sex estimation and the ontogeny of sexual dimorphism. Forensic Science International, 278 : 32 - 46. doi: 10.1016/j.forsciint.2017.06.016

Cardoso HFV, Spake L, Humphrey LT (2017) Age estimation of immature human skeletal remains from the dimensions of the girdle bones in the postnatal period. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 163 (4) : 772 - 783. doi: 10.1002/ajpa.23248

Humphrey L (2017) Palaeontology: Evolution with teeth. Nature. 545 (7652) : Springer Science and Business Media LLC : 26 - 27. doi: 10.1038/545026a

Ives R, Humphrey L (2017) Patterns of long bone growth in a mid-19th century documented sample of the urban poor from Bethnal Green, London, UK. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 163 (1) : 173 - 186. doi: 10.1002/ajpa.23198

Cardoso HFV, Vandergugten JM, Humphrey LT (2017) Age estimation of immature human skeletal remains from the metaphyseal and epiphyseal widths of the long bones in the post-natal period. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 162 (1) : 19 - 35. doi: 10.1002/ajpa.23081

Bocaege E, Humphrey LT (2016) Lateral enamel growth in human incisors from Çatalhöyük in Turkey. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 161 (4) : 656 - 666. doi: 10.1002/ajpa.23069

Wilson LAB, Ives R, Humphrey LT (2017) Quantification of 3D curvature in the iliac crest: Ontogeny and implications for sex determination in juveniles. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 162 (2) : 255 - 266. doi: 10.1002/ajpa.23114

De Groote I, Humphrey LT (2016) Characterizing evulsion in the Later Stone Age Maghreb: Age, sex and effects on mastication. Quaternary International, 413 : 50 - 61. doi: 10.1016/j.quaint.2015.08.082

Humphrey LT (2016) Chemical and isotopic analyses of dental tissues, In: A Companion to Dental Anthropology, John Wiley & Sons, Inc : 499 - 513.

Wilson LAB, Humphrey LT (2015) A Virtual geometric morphometric approach to the quantification of long bone bilateral asymmetry and cross-sectional shape. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 158 (4) : 541 - 556. doi: 10.1002/ajpa.22809

Wilson LAB, Ives R, Cardoso HFV, Humphrey LT (2015) Shape, size, and maturity trajectories of the human ilium. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 156 (1) : 19 - 34. doi: 10.1002/ajpa.22625

Cardoso HFV, Abrantes J, Humphrey LT (2014) Age estimation of immature human skeletal remains from the diaphyseal length of the long bones in the postnatal period. International Journal of Legal Medicine, 128 (5) : 809 - 824. doi: 10.1007/s00414-013-0925-5

Humphrey LT (2014) Isotopic and trace element evidence of dietary transitions in early life. Annals of Human Biology, 41 (4) : 348 - 357. doi: 10.3109/03014460.2014.923939

Humphrey LT, De Groote I, Morales J, Barton N, Collcutt S, Bronk Ramsey C, Bouzouggar A (2014) Earliest evidence for caries and exploitation of starchy plant foods in Pleistocene hunter-gatherers from Morocco. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111 (3) : 954 - 959. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1318176111

Ibrahim YK, Tshen LT, Westaway KE, Cranbrook EO, Humphrey L, Muhammad RF, Zhao J-X, Peng LC (2013) First discovery of Pleistocene orangutan (Pongo sp.) fossils in Peninsular Malaysia: Biogeographic and paleoenvironmental implications. Journal of Human Evolution, 65 (6) : 770 - 797. doi: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2013.09.005

Mays S, Elders J, Humphrey, L , White, W , Marshall, P (2013) Science and the Dead: A Guideline for the Destructive Sampling of Archaeological Remains for Scientific Analysis. Advisory Panel on the Archaeology of Burials in England : London.

Humphrey L, Bello S, Rousham E (2012) Sex differences in infant mortality in Spitalfields, London, 1750-1839.. J Biosoc Sci, 44 (1) : 95 - 119. doi: 10.1017/S0021932011000484

Humphrey L, Bello SM, Turner E, Bouzouggar A, Barton N (2012) Iberomaurusian funerary behaviour: Evidence from Grotte des Pigeons, Taforalt, Morocco. Journal of Human Evolution, 62 (2) : 261 - 273. doi: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2011.11.003

Daskalaki E, Anderung C, Humphrey L, Götherström A (2011) Further developments in molecular sex assignment: a blind test of 18th and 19th century human skeletons. Journal of Archaeological Science, 38 (6) : 1326 - 1330. doi: 10.1016/j.jas.2011.01.009

De Groote I, Humphrey LT (2011) Body mass and stature estimation based on the first metatarsal in humans. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 144 (4) : 625 - 632. doi: 10.1002/ajpa.21458

Nitsch EK, Humphrey LT, Hedges REM (2011) Using stable isotope analysis to examine the effect of economic change on breastfeeding practices in Spitalfields, London, UK. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 146 (4) : 619 - 628. doi: 10.1002/ajpa.21623

Nitsch EK, Humphrey LT, Hedges REM (2010) The effect of parity status on δ15N: looking for the “pregnancy effect” in 18th and 19th century London. Journal of Archaeological Science, 37 (12) : 3191 - 3199. doi: 10.1016/j.jas.2010.07.019

Dirks W, Humphrey LT, Dean MC, Jeffries TE (2010) The Relationship of Accentuated Lines in Enamel to Weaning Stress in Juvenile Baboons (Papio hamadryas anubis). Folia Primatologica, 81 (4) : 207 - 223. doi: 10.1159/000321707

Humphrey LT (2010) Weaning behaviour in human evolution. Seminars in Cell & Developmental Biology, 21 (4) : 453 - 461. doi: 10.1016/j.semcdb.2009.11.003

Wilson LAB, Cardoso HFV, Humphrey LT (2011) On the reliability of a geometric morphometric approach to sex determination: A blind test of six criteria of the juvenile ilium. Forensic Science International, 206 (1-3) : 35 - 42. doi: 10.1016/j.forsciint.2010.06.014

Humphrey LT, Dean MC, Jeffries TE, Penn M (2008) Unlocking evidence of early diet from tooth enamel. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 105 (19) : 6834 - 6839. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0711513105

Wilson LA, MacLeod N, Humphrey LT (2008) Morphometric Criteria for Sexing Juvenile Human Skeletons Using the Ilium. Journal of Forensic Sciences, 53 (2) : 269 - 278. doi: 10.1111/j.1556-4029.2008.00656.x

Barton RNE, Bouzouggar A, Humphrey LT, Berridge P, Collcutt SN, Gale R, Parfitt S, Parker AG, Rhodes EJ, Schwenninger JL (2008) Human burial evidence from Hattab II Cave (Oued Laou-Tétuoan, Morocco) and the question of continuity in Late Pleistocene–Holocene mortuary practices in Northwest Africa. Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 18 (2) : 195 - 214.

Bouzouggar A, Barton RNE, Blockley S, Bronk-Ramsey C, Collcutt SN, Gale R, Higham TFG, Humphrey LT, Parfitt S, Turner E, Ward S (2008) Reevaluating the Age of the Iberomaurusian in Morocco. African Archaeological Review, 25 (1-2) : 3 - 19. doi: 10.1007/s10437-008-9023-3

Humphrey LT (2008) Enamel traces of early lifetime events, In: Between Biology and Culture, Schultkowski H (Eds). Cambridge University Press : 186 - 206.

Humphrey LT, Andrews P (2008) Metric variation in the postcanine teeth from Paşalar, Turkey. Journal of Human Evolution, 54 (4) : 503 - 517. doi: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2007.08.002

Humphrey LT, Bocaege E (2008) Tooth Evulsion in the Maghreb: Chronological and Geographical Patterns. African Archaeological Review, 25 (1-2) : 109 - 123. doi: 10.1007/s10437-008-9022-4

Humphrey LT, Dirks W, Christopher Dean M, Jeffries TE (2008) Tracking Dietary Transitions in Weanling Baboons (Papio hamadryas anubis) Using Strontium/Calcium Ratios in Enamel. Folia Primatologica, 79 (4) : 197 - 212. doi: 10.1159/000113457

Humphrey LT, Jeffries T, Dean MC (2008) Micro spatial distributions of lead and zinc in human deciduous tooth enamel, In: Technique and Application in Dental Anthropology, Cambridge University Press : 87 - 110.

Barton RNE, Bouzouggar A, Bronk-Ramsey C, Collcutt SN, Higham TFG, Humphrey LT, Parfitt S, Rhodes EJ, Schwenninger JL, Stringer CB, others (2007) Abrupt climatic change and chronology of the Upper Palaeolithic in northern and eastern Morocco, In: Rethinking the Human Revolution, Mellars P, Stringer C, Bar-Yosef O, Boyle K (Eds). null : Cambridge. 177 - 186.

Bayliss A, Benson D, Galer D, Humphrey L, McFadyen L, Whittle A (2007) One thing after another: the date of the Ascott-under-Wychwood long barrow. Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 17 (S1) : 29 - 44.

Bello SM, Humphrey LT (2007) The funerary behaviour and the social value of children in a proto-industrial urban population during the 18th and 19th centuries. BAR International Series, 1712 : 24 - 24.

Humphrey LT, Dean MC, Jeffries TE (2007) An evaluation of changes in strontium/calcium ratios across the neonatal line in human deciduous teeth, In: Dental Perspectives on Human Evolution: State of the Art Research in Dental Paleoanthropology, Springer : 303 - 319.

Humphrey LT, Scheuer L (2006) Age of closure of the foramen of Huschke: an osteological study. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 16 (1) : 47 - 60. doi: 10.1002/oa.807

Barton RNE, Bouzouggar A, Collcutt SN, Gale R, Higham TFG, Humphrey LT, Parfitt S, Rhodes E, Stringer CB, Malek F (2005) The Late Upper Palaeolithic Occupation of the Moroccan Northwest Maghreb During the Last Glacial Maximum. African Archaeological Review, 22 (2) : 77 - 100. doi: 10.1007/s10437-005-4190-y

King T, Humphrey LT, Hillson S (2005) Linear enamel hypoplasias as indicators of systemic physiological stress: Evidence from two known age-at-death and sex populations from postmedieval London. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 128 (3) : 547 - 559. doi: 10.1002/ajpa.20232

Humphrey LT (2003) Linear growth variation in the archaeological record, In: Patterns of growth variation in the genus Homo, Thompson JL, Krovitz GE, Nelson AJ (Eds). Cambridge University Press : 144 - 169.

Humphrey L, Stringer C, Churchill S, Tague RG (2003) Gough’s Cave 1 (Somerset, England): an assessment of the sex and age at death. Bulletin of the Natural History Museum: Geology, 58 : 45 - 50.

Humphrey LT, Stringer C (2002) The human cranial remains from Gough’s Cave (Somerset, England). Bulletin of the Natural History Museum: Geology, 58 : 153 - 168.

King T, Hillson S, Humphrey LT (2002) A detailed study of enamel hypoplasia in a post-medieval adolescent of known age and sex. Archives of Oral Biology, 47 (1) : 29 - 39. doi: 10.1016/s0003-9969(01)00091-7

Rousham, E , Humphrey, L (2002) The dynamics of child survival, In: Human Population Dynamics: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives, Macbeth H, Collinso P (Eds). Cambridge University Press : 124 - 140.

Humphrey L (2000) Interpretation of the growth of past populations, In: Children and Material Culture, Derevenski JS (Eds). Routledge : 193 - 205.

Humphrey L (2000) Growth studies of past populations: an overview and an example, In: Human Osteology: In Archaeology and Forensic Science, Cox M, Mays S (Eds). Cambridge University Press : 23 - 38.

Humphrey, LT , King, T (2000) Childhood stress: a lifetime legacy. Anthropologie, 38 (1) : 33 - 49.

Andrews P, Humphrey L (1999) African Miocene environments and the transition to early hominines. African Biogeography, Climate Change and Human Evolution, 282 - 300.

Humphrey LT, Dean MC, Stringer CB (1999) Morphological variation in great ape and modern human mandibles.. Journal of anatomy, 195 ( Pt 4) : 491 - 513. doi: 10.1046/j.1469-7580.1999.19540491.x

Humphrey, L (1999) Relative mandibular growth in humans, gorillas and chimpanzees, In: Human Growth in the Past: Studies from Bones and Teeth, Hoppa RD, FitzGerald CM (Eds). Cambridge University Press : 65 - 87.

Fernández-Jalvo Y, Denys C, Andrews P, Williams T, Dauphin Y, Humphrey L (1998) Taphonomy and palaeoecology of Olduvai Bed-I (Pleistocene, Tanzania). Journal of Human Evolution, 34 (2) : 137 - 172. doi: 10.1006/jhev.1997.0188

Humphrey LT (1998) Growth patterns in the modern human skeleton. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY, 105 (1) : 57 - 72. doi: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-8644(199801)105:1<57::AID-AJPA6>3.0.CO;2-A

Stringer CB, Humphrey LT, Compton T (1997) Cladistic analysis of dental traits in recent humans using a fossil outgroup. Journal of Human Evolution, 32 (4) : 389 - 402. doi: 10.1006/jhev.1996.0112

Fortelius M, Werdelin L, Andrews P, Bernor RL, Gentry A, Humphrey L, Mittmann HW, Viranta S (1996) Provinciality, diversity, turnover and paleoecology in land mammal faunas of the later Miocene of western Eurasia, In: null, Columbia University Press New York : 414 - 448.

Humphrey L, Freyne A, Bouzouggar A (null) Mind the Gap: Funerary Behaviour during the Iberomaurusian, In: The Beef behind all Possible Pasts. The Tandem-Festschrift in Honour of Elaine Turner and Martin Street, Gaudzinski-Windheuser S, Jöris O (Eds). Heidelberg: Propylaeum : 459 - 470.

Ives R, Humphrey L (null) Exploring Patterns of Appositional Growth Amongst Urban Children, In: The Bioarchaeology of Urbanization. Bioarchaeology and Social Theory, Betsinger TK, DeWitte SN (Eds). Springer : 317 - 339.

Supervision

Doctorate (PhD) Co-supervisor to Marquez-Grant N
Co supervisor(s): Humphrey LT
A bioanthropological perspective on the Punic period in Ibiza (Spain) as evidenced by human skeletal remains

Doctorate (PhD) Joint supervisor to Bocaege E
Co supervisor(s): Humphrey LT
Childhood growth in the Neolithic: a detailed case study of Çatalhöyük

Examiner

External examiner, Doctoral degree (PhD)

6/10/2020

University examiner, Doctoral degree (PhD)
University of Cambridge
2018

External examiner, Doctoral degree (PhD)

2017

Examination committee member, Doctoral degree (PhD)

2013

External examiner, Doctoral degree (PhD)

2012

External examiner, Doctoral degree (PhD)

2011

External examiner, Doctoral degree (PhD)

2010

External examiner, Doctoral degree (PhD)

2009

Examination committee member, Doctoral degree (PhD)

2009

External examiner, Doctoral degree (PhD)

2003

Introduction

Summary

My research interests cover human origins, bioarchaeology and dental anthropology. I am particularly interested in infancy and childhood in past populations, including growth and development and reconstructing aspects of individual life history.

Qualifications

    Degrees

  • BSc, University College London, United Kingdom
  • PhD, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

Employment history

    Academic

  • Researcher in Human Origins, Natural History Museum, United Kingdom, 1997 - ongoing
Projects

Grants

Cultural Transitions in Morocco
Role: Principal investigatorHumphrey LT
Dates: 2019 - 2022

Life History
Role: Principal investigatorHumphrey L
Co-investigator: Dean MC
Dates: 2018 - 2022

Cultural transitions at Grotte des Pigeons, Morocco
Role: Principal investigatorHumphrey LT
Funding: Calleva Foundation
Dates: 2016 - 2019

Child Health in Early industrial London
Role: Principal investigatorHumphrey LT
Funding: Calleva Foundation
Dates: 2016 - 2019

Tooth Enamel as an Archive of Early Life Experience
Role: Principal investigatorHumphrey LT
Funding: Calleva Foundation
Dates: 2012 - 2016

Cemeteries and sedentism in the epipalaeolithic of North Africa
Role: Principal investigatorHumphrey L
Funding: Leverhulme Trust
Total value £249,459 (to Museum £87,898)
Dates: 2009 - 2012

Cultural Transitions in Morocco
Role: Principal investigatorHumphrey LT
Dates: 2019 - 2022

Life History
Role: Principal investigatorHumphrey L
Co-investigator: Dean MC
Dates: 2018 - 2022

Calleva 2 Management Fund
Role: Principal investigatorStringer CB
Co-investigator: humphrey L
Funding: Calleva Foundation
Dates: 2016 - 2019

Calleva 1 Management Fund
Role: Principal investigatorStringer CB
Co-investigator: Humphrey L
Funding: Calleva Foundation
Dates: 2012 - 2016

Calcium isotopes: a new tool to study the spread of dairying in prehistory
Co-investigator: Humphrey L
Funding: NERC
Total value £352,356.44 (to Museum £4,037.22)
Dates: 2007 - 2010

Professional activities

Committees

Vice president, Royal Anthropological Institute, 2021 - on going.

Chair, Advisory Panel on the Archaeology of Burials in England, 2020 - on going.

Member, Scientific Advisory Committee of the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre Evolución Humana, 2019 - on going.

Member, Advisory Panel on the Archaeology of Burials in England, 2007 - on going.

Member, Council of the Royal Anthropological Institute,

Memberships

Fellow, Royal Anthropological Institute.

International Union of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences (UISPP).

European Society of Human Evolution.

Editorships

Board member, Bulletins et Mémoires de la Société d'Anthropologie de Paris,

Events

Organisation

Organiser, British Association for Biological Anthropology & Osteoarchaeology Conference 2019, (Conference),

Organising committee, European Society for the Study of Human Evolution Annual Conference 2015, (Conference),

Publications

Publications

Barton RNE, Bell MG, Bouzouggar A, De Groote I, Humphrey LT, Morales Mateos J, Taylor VK, Turner E (2021) The Iberomaurusian Prelude to Farming in Morocco, In: Revolutions. The Neolithisation of the Mediterranean Basin, Rowland J, Lucarini G, Tassie G (Eds). null : 121 - 140.

Smith DEM, Humphrey LT, Cardoso HFV (2021) Age estimation of immature human skeletal remains from mandibular and cranial bone dimensions in the postnatal period. Forensic Science International, 327 : 110943 - 110943. doi: 10.1016/j.forsciint.2021.110943

Fellows Yates JA, Velsko IM, Aron F, Posth C, Hofman CA, Austin RM, Parker CE, Mann AE, Nägele K, Arthur KW, Arthur JW, Bauer CC, Crevecoeur I, Cupillard C, Curtis MC, Dalén L, Díaz-Zorita Bonilla M, Díez Fernández-Lomana JC, Drucker DG, Escribano Escrivá E, Francken M, Gibbon VE, González Morales MR, Grande Mateu A, Harvati K, Henry AG, Humphrey L, Menéndez M, Mihailović D, Peresani M, Rodríguez Moroder S, Roksandic M, Rougier H, Sázelová S, Stock JT, Straus LG, Svoboda J, Teßmann B, Walker MJ, Power RC, Lewis CM, Sankaranarayanan K, Guschanski K, Wrangham RW, Dewhirst FE, Salazar-García DC, Krause J, Herbig A, Warinner C (2021) The evolution and changing ecology of the African hominid oral microbiome. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118 (20) : doi: 10.1073/pnas.2021655118

Humphrey L (2021) A child’s grave is the earliest known burial site in Africa. Nature, 593 (7857) : 39 - 40. doi: 10.1038/d41586-021-00805-6

Compton T, Skinner MM, Humphrey L, Pope M, Bates M, Davies TW, Parfitt SA, Plummer WP, Scott B, Shaw A, Stringer C (2021) The morphology of the Late Pleistocene hominin remains from the site of La Cotte de St Brelade, Jersey (Channel Islands). Journal of Human Evolution, 152 : 102939 - 102939. doi: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2020.102939

Swan KR, Ives R, Humphrey LT (2021) Femoral angle development and locomotor progression in children from 18th and 19th century London. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF OSTEOARCHAEOLOGY, 31 (2) : 263 - 272. doi: 10.1002/oa.2945

Bouzouggar A, Humphrey L, Barton N (2020) Cultural transitions in the Middle Stone Age and Later Stone Age records of Northwest Africa: An overview from Morocco, In: Not just a Corridor: Human occupation of the Nile Valley and neighbouring regions between 75,000 and 15,000 years ago, Leplongeon A, Goder-Goldberger M, Pleurdeau D (Eds). Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle : 161 - 176.

Swan KR, Ives R, Wilson LAB, Humphrey LT (2020) Ontogenetic changes in femoral cross‐sectional geometry during childhood locomotor development. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 173 (1) : 80 - 95. doi: 10.1002/ajpa.24080

Dean MC, Humphrey L, Groom A, Hassett B (2020) Variation in the timing of enamel formation in modern human deciduous canines. Archives of Oral Biology, 114 : 104719 - 104719. doi: 10.1016/j.archoralbio.2020.104719

Hassett BR, Dean MC, Ring S, Atkinson C, Ness AR, Humphrey L (2020) Effects of maternal, gestational, and perinatal variables on neonatal line width observed in a modern UK birth cohort. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 172 (2) : 314 - 332. doi: 10.1002/ajpa.24042

Wilson LAB, De Groote I, Humphrey LT (2020) Sex differences in the patterning of age‐related bone loss in the human hallucal metatarsal in rural and urban populations. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 171 (4) : 628 - 644. doi: 10.1002/ajpa.24002

Ives R, Humphrey L (2020) Exploring Patterns of Appositional Growth Amongst Urban Children, In: The Bioarchaeology of Urbanization. The Biological, Demographic, and Social Consequences of Living in Cities, Betsinger T, DeWitte S (Eds). Springer : 317 - 339.

Turner E, Humphrey L, Bouzouggar A, Barton N (2020) Bone retouchers and technological continuity in the Middle Stone Age of North Africa.. PloS one, 15 (3) : e0230642 - e0230642. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0230642

Humphrey L, Freyne A, van de Loosdrecht M, Hogue JT, Turner E, Barton N, Bouzouggar A (2019) Infant funerary behavior and kinship in Pleistocene hunter-gatherers from Morocco. Journal of Human Evolution, 135 : 102637 - 102637. doi: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2019.07.001

Barton RNE, Bouzouggar A, Collcutt SN, Humphrey LT (2019) Cemeteries and Sedentism in the Later Stone Age of NW Africa: Excavations at Grotte Des Pigeons, Taforalt, Morocco. RGZM : 1 - 628.

Desmond A, Barton N, Bouzouggar A, Douka K, Fernandez P, Humphrey L, Morales J, Turner E, Buckley M (2018) ZooMS identification of bone tools from the North African Later Stone Age. Journal of Archaeological Science, 98 : 149 - 157. doi: 10.1016/j.jas.2018.08.012

Ives R, Humphrey L (2018) Endochondral growth disruption during vitamin D deficiency rickets in a mid-19th century series from Bethnal Green, London, UK. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 167 (3) : 585 - 601. doi: 10.1002/ajpa.23687

De Groote I, Morales J, Humphrey L (2018) Oral health in Late Pleistocene and Holocene North West Africa. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 22 : 392 - 400. doi: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2018.03.019

van de Loosdrecht M, Bouzouggar A, Humphrey L, Posth C, Barton N, Aximu-Petri A, Nickel B, Nagel S, Talbi EH, El Hajraoui MA, Amzazi S, Hublin J-J, Pääbo S, Schiffels S, Meyer M, Haak W, Jeong C, Krause J (2018) Pleistocene North African genomes link Near Eastern and sub-Saharan African human populations. Science, 360 (6388) : 548 - 552. doi: 10.1126/science.aar8380

Bouzouggar A, Humphrey LT, Barton N, Parfitt SA, Clark Balzan L, Schwenninger J-L, El Hajraoui MA, Nespoulet R, Bello SM (2018) 90,000 year-old specialised bone technology in the Aterian Middle Stone Age of North Africa.. PLoS One, 13 (10) : doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0202021

Humphrey L, Stringer C (2018) Our Human Story. Natural History Museum, London :

Wilson LAB, Humphrey LT (2017) Voyaging into the third dimension: A perspective on virtual methods and their application to studies of juvenile sex estimation and the ontogeny of sexual dimorphism. Forensic Science International, 278 : 32 - 46. doi: 10.1016/j.forsciint.2017.06.016

Cardoso HFV, Spake L, Humphrey LT (2017) Age estimation of immature human skeletal remains from the dimensions of the girdle bones in the postnatal period. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 163 (4) : 772 - 783. doi: 10.1002/ajpa.23248

Humphrey L (2017) Palaeontology: Evolution with teeth. Nature. 545 (7652) : Springer Science and Business Media LLC : 26 - 27. doi: 10.1038/545026a

Ives R, Humphrey L (2017) Patterns of long bone growth in a mid-19th century documented sample of the urban poor from Bethnal Green, London, UK. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 163 (1) : 173 - 186. doi: 10.1002/ajpa.23198

Cardoso HFV, Vandergugten JM, Humphrey LT (2017) Age estimation of immature human skeletal remains from the metaphyseal and epiphyseal widths of the long bones in the post-natal period. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 162 (1) : 19 - 35. doi: 10.1002/ajpa.23081

Bocaege E, Humphrey LT (2016) Lateral enamel growth in human incisors from Çatalhöyük in Turkey. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 161 (4) : 656 - 666. doi: 10.1002/ajpa.23069

Wilson LAB, Ives R, Humphrey LT (2017) Quantification of 3D curvature in the iliac crest: Ontogeny and implications for sex determination in juveniles. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 162 (2) : 255 - 266. doi: 10.1002/ajpa.23114

De Groote I, Humphrey LT (2016) Characterizing evulsion in the Later Stone Age Maghreb: Age, sex and effects on mastication. Quaternary International, 413 : 50 - 61. doi: 10.1016/j.quaint.2015.08.082

Humphrey LT (2016) Chemical and isotopic analyses of dental tissues, In: A Companion to Dental Anthropology, John Wiley & Sons, Inc : 499 - 513.

Wilson LAB, Humphrey LT (2015) A Virtual geometric morphometric approach to the quantification of long bone bilateral asymmetry and cross-sectional shape. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 158 (4) : 541 - 556. doi: 10.1002/ajpa.22809

Wilson LAB, Ives R, Cardoso HFV, Humphrey LT (2015) Shape, size, and maturity trajectories of the human ilium. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 156 (1) : 19 - 34. doi: 10.1002/ajpa.22625

Cardoso HFV, Abrantes J, Humphrey LT (2014) Age estimation of immature human skeletal remains from the diaphyseal length of the long bones in the postnatal period. International Journal of Legal Medicine, 128 (5) : 809 - 824. doi: 10.1007/s00414-013-0925-5

Humphrey LT (2014) Isotopic and trace element evidence of dietary transitions in early life. Annals of Human Biology, 41 (4) : 348 - 357. doi: 10.3109/03014460.2014.923939

Humphrey LT, De Groote I, Morales J, Barton N, Collcutt S, Bronk Ramsey C, Bouzouggar A (2014) Earliest evidence for caries and exploitation of starchy plant foods in Pleistocene hunter-gatherers from Morocco. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111 (3) : 954 - 959. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1318176111

Ibrahim YK, Tshen LT, Westaway KE, Cranbrook EO, Humphrey L, Muhammad RF, Zhao J-X, Peng LC (2013) First discovery of Pleistocene orangutan (Pongo sp.) fossils in Peninsular Malaysia: Biogeographic and paleoenvironmental implications. Journal of Human Evolution, 65 (6) : 770 - 797. doi: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2013.09.005

Mays S, Elders J, Humphrey, L , White, W , Marshall, P (2013) Science and the Dead: A Guideline for the Destructive Sampling of Archaeological Remains for Scientific Analysis. Advisory Panel on the Archaeology of Burials in England : London.

Humphrey L, Bello S, Rousham E (2012) Sex differences in infant mortality in Spitalfields, London, 1750-1839.. J Biosoc Sci, 44 (1) : 95 - 119. doi: 10.1017/S0021932011000484

Humphrey L, Bello SM, Turner E, Bouzouggar A, Barton N (2012) Iberomaurusian funerary behaviour: Evidence from Grotte des Pigeons, Taforalt, Morocco. Journal of Human Evolution, 62 (2) : 261 - 273. doi: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2011.11.003

Daskalaki E, Anderung C, Humphrey L, Götherström A (2011) Further developments in molecular sex assignment: a blind test of 18th and 19th century human skeletons. Journal of Archaeological Science, 38 (6) : 1326 - 1330. doi: 10.1016/j.jas.2011.01.009

De Groote I, Humphrey LT (2011) Body mass and stature estimation based on the first metatarsal in humans. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 144 (4) : 625 - 632. doi: 10.1002/ajpa.21458

Nitsch EK, Humphrey LT, Hedges REM (2011) Using stable isotope analysis to examine the effect of economic change on breastfeeding practices in Spitalfields, London, UK. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 146 (4) : 619 - 628. doi: 10.1002/ajpa.21623

Nitsch EK, Humphrey LT, Hedges REM (2010) The effect of parity status on δ15N: looking for the “pregnancy effect” in 18th and 19th century London. Journal of Archaeological Science, 37 (12) : 3191 - 3199. doi: 10.1016/j.jas.2010.07.019

Dirks W, Humphrey LT, Dean MC, Jeffries TE (2010) The Relationship of Accentuated Lines in Enamel to Weaning Stress in Juvenile Baboons (Papio hamadryas anubis). Folia Primatologica, 81 (4) : 207 - 223. doi: 10.1159/000321707

Humphrey LT (2010) Weaning behaviour in human evolution. Seminars in Cell & Developmental Biology, 21 (4) : 453 - 461. doi: 10.1016/j.semcdb.2009.11.003

Wilson LAB, Cardoso HFV, Humphrey LT (2011) On the reliability of a geometric morphometric approach to sex determination: A blind test of six criteria of the juvenile ilium. Forensic Science International, 206 (1-3) : 35 - 42. doi: 10.1016/j.forsciint.2010.06.014

Humphrey LT, Dean MC, Jeffries TE, Penn M (2008) Unlocking evidence of early diet from tooth enamel. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 105 (19) : 6834 - 6839. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0711513105

Wilson LA, MacLeod N, Humphrey LT (2008) Morphometric Criteria for Sexing Juvenile Human Skeletons Using the Ilium. Journal of Forensic Sciences, 53 (2) : 269 - 278. doi: 10.1111/j.1556-4029.2008.00656.x

Barton RNE, Bouzouggar A, Humphrey LT, Berridge P, Collcutt SN, Gale R, Parfitt S, Parker AG, Rhodes EJ, Schwenninger JL (2008) Human burial evidence from Hattab II Cave (Oued Laou-Tétuoan, Morocco) and the question of continuity in Late Pleistocene–Holocene mortuary practices in Northwest Africa. Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 18 (2) : 195 - 214.

Bouzouggar A, Barton RNE, Blockley S, Bronk-Ramsey C, Collcutt SN, Gale R, Higham TFG, Humphrey LT, Parfitt S, Turner E, Ward S (2008) Reevaluating the Age of the Iberomaurusian in Morocco. African Archaeological Review, 25 (1-2) : 3 - 19. doi: 10.1007/s10437-008-9023-3

Humphrey LT (2008) Enamel traces of early lifetime events, In: Between Biology and Culture, Schultkowski H (Eds). Cambridge University Press : 186 - 206.

Humphrey LT, Andrews P (2008) Metric variation in the postcanine teeth from Paşalar, Turkey. Journal of Human Evolution, 54 (4) : 503 - 517. doi: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2007.08.002

Humphrey LT, Bocaege E (2008) Tooth Evulsion in the Maghreb: Chronological and Geographical Patterns. African Archaeological Review, 25 (1-2) : 109 - 123. doi: 10.1007/s10437-008-9022-4

Humphrey LT, Dirks W, Christopher Dean M, Jeffries TE (2008) Tracking Dietary Transitions in Weanling Baboons (Papio hamadryas anubis) Using Strontium/Calcium Ratios in Enamel. Folia Primatologica, 79 (4) : 197 - 212. doi: 10.1159/000113457

Humphrey LT, Jeffries T, Dean MC (2008) Micro spatial distributions of lead and zinc in human deciduous tooth enamel, In: Technique and Application in Dental Anthropology, Cambridge University Press : 87 - 110.

Barton RNE, Bouzouggar A, Bronk-Ramsey C, Collcutt SN, Higham TFG, Humphrey LT, Parfitt S, Rhodes EJ, Schwenninger JL, Stringer CB, others (2007) Abrupt climatic change and chronology of the Upper Palaeolithic in northern and eastern Morocco, In: Rethinking the Human Revolution, Mellars P, Stringer C, Bar-Yosef O, Boyle K (Eds). null : Cambridge. 177 - 186.

Bayliss A, Benson D, Galer D, Humphrey L, McFadyen L, Whittle A (2007) One thing after another: the date of the Ascott-under-Wychwood long barrow. Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 17 (S1) : 29 - 44.

Bello SM, Humphrey LT (2007) The funerary behaviour and the social value of children in a proto-industrial urban population during the 18th and 19th centuries. BAR International Series, 1712 : 24 - 24.

Humphrey LT, Dean MC, Jeffries TE (2007) An evaluation of changes in strontium/calcium ratios across the neonatal line in human deciduous teeth, In: Dental Perspectives on Human Evolution: State of the Art Research in Dental Paleoanthropology, Springer : 303 - 319.

Humphrey LT, Scheuer L (2006) Age of closure of the foramen of Huschke: an osteological study. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 16 (1) : 47 - 60. doi: 10.1002/oa.807

Barton RNE, Bouzouggar A, Collcutt SN, Gale R, Higham TFG, Humphrey LT, Parfitt S, Rhodes E, Stringer CB, Malek F (2005) The Late Upper Palaeolithic Occupation of the Moroccan Northwest Maghreb During the Last Glacial Maximum. African Archaeological Review, 22 (2) : 77 - 100. doi: 10.1007/s10437-005-4190-y

King T, Humphrey LT, Hillson S (2005) Linear enamel hypoplasias as indicators of systemic physiological stress: Evidence from two known age-at-death and sex populations from postmedieval London. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 128 (3) : 547 - 559. doi: 10.1002/ajpa.20232

Humphrey LT (2003) Linear growth variation in the archaeological record, In: Patterns of growth variation in the genus Homo, Thompson JL, Krovitz GE, Nelson AJ (Eds). Cambridge University Press : 144 - 169.

Humphrey L, Stringer C, Churchill S, Tague RG (2003) Gough’s Cave 1 (Somerset, England): an assessment of the sex and age at death. Bulletin of the Natural History Museum: Geology, 58 : 45 - 50.

Humphrey LT, Stringer C (2002) The human cranial remains from Gough’s Cave (Somerset, England). Bulletin of the Natural History Museum: Geology, 58 : 153 - 168.

King T, Hillson S, Humphrey LT (2002) A detailed study of enamel hypoplasia in a post-medieval adolescent of known age and sex. Archives of Oral Biology, 47 (1) : 29 - 39. doi: 10.1016/s0003-9969(01)00091-7

Rousham, E , Humphrey, L (2002) The dynamics of child survival, In: Human Population Dynamics: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives, Macbeth H, Collinso P (Eds). Cambridge University Press : 124 - 140.

Humphrey L (2000) Interpretation of the growth of past populations, In: Children and Material Culture, Derevenski JS (Eds). Routledge : 193 - 205.

Humphrey L (2000) Growth studies of past populations: an overview and an example, In: Human Osteology: In Archaeology and Forensic Science, Cox M, Mays S (Eds). Cambridge University Press : 23 - 38.

Humphrey, LT , King, T (2000) Childhood stress: a lifetime legacy. Anthropologie, 38 (1) : 33 - 49.

Andrews P, Humphrey L (1999) African Miocene environments and the transition to early hominines. African Biogeography, Climate Change and Human Evolution, 282 - 300.

Humphrey LT, Dean MC, Stringer CB (1999) Morphological variation in great ape and modern human mandibles.. Journal of anatomy, 195 ( Pt 4) : 491 - 513. doi: 10.1046/j.1469-7580.1999.19540491.x

Humphrey, L (1999) Relative mandibular growth in humans, gorillas and chimpanzees, In: Human Growth in the Past: Studies from Bones and Teeth, Hoppa RD, FitzGerald CM (Eds). Cambridge University Press : 65 - 87.

Fernández-Jalvo Y, Denys C, Andrews P, Williams T, Dauphin Y, Humphrey L (1998) Taphonomy and palaeoecology of Olduvai Bed-I (Pleistocene, Tanzania). Journal of Human Evolution, 34 (2) : 137 - 172. doi: 10.1006/jhev.1997.0188

Humphrey LT (1998) Growth patterns in the modern human skeleton. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY, 105 (1) : 57 - 72. doi: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-8644(199801)105:1<57::AID-AJPA6>3.0.CO;2-A

Stringer CB, Humphrey LT, Compton T (1997) Cladistic analysis of dental traits in recent humans using a fossil outgroup. Journal of Human Evolution, 32 (4) : 389 - 402. doi: 10.1006/jhev.1996.0112

Fortelius M, Werdelin L, Andrews P, Bernor RL, Gentry A, Humphrey L, Mittmann HW, Viranta S (1996) Provinciality, diversity, turnover and paleoecology in land mammal faunas of the later Miocene of western Eurasia, In: null, Columbia University Press New York : 414 - 448.

Humphrey L, Freyne A, Bouzouggar A (null) Mind the Gap: Funerary Behaviour during the Iberomaurusian, In: The Beef behind all Possible Pasts. The Tandem-Festschrift in Honour of Elaine Turner and Martin Street, Gaudzinski-Windheuser S, Jöris O (Eds). Heidelberg: Propylaeum : 459 - 470.

Ives R, Humphrey L (null) Exploring Patterns of Appositional Growth Amongst Urban Children, In: The Bioarchaeology of Urbanization. Bioarchaeology and Social Theory, Betsinger TK, DeWitte SN (Eds). Springer : 317 - 339.

Teaching and students

Supervision

Doctorate (PhD) Co-supervisor to Marquez-Grant N
Co supervisor(s): Humphrey LT
A bioanthropological perspective on the Punic period in Ibiza (Spain) as evidenced by human skeletal remains

Doctorate (PhD) Joint supervisor to Bocaege E
Co supervisor(s): Humphrey LT
Childhood growth in the Neolithic: a detailed case study of Çatalhöyük

Examiner

External examiner, Doctoral degree (PhD)

6/10/2020

University examiner, Doctoral degree (PhD)
University of Cambridge
2018

External examiner, Doctoral degree (PhD)

2017

Examination committee member, Doctoral degree (PhD)

2013

External examiner, Doctoral degree (PhD)

2012

External examiner, Doctoral degree (PhD)

2011

External examiner, Doctoral degree (PhD)

2010

External examiner, Doctoral degree (PhD)

2009

Examination committee member, Doctoral degree (PhD)

2009

External examiner, Doctoral degree (PhD)

2003