Mary Jackes

Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology
University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 3G1, Canada

Bioarchaeology & Skeletal Biology

• First two degrees in Australia in social anthropology, specializing in understanding how kinship systems structure behaviour: Wikmunkan joking relationships Mankind 7: 128-131 (1969).
• Three years in East Africa as a fossil hunter. A lot of unpublished work (Pan Am managed to lose a huge suitcase) including the results of intensive surface collection at Laetoli over two seasons, and work on a number of bone bed excavations at Olduvai (from Bed 1 to the Ndutu Beds), and on drowned wildebeeste on the shores of Lake Ndutu, all of which developed my interest in taphonomy and sample bias and methods of analysis: The fauna. In M.D. Leakey et al. Fossil Hominids from the Laetolil beds. Nature 262: 460-466 (1976).
• Archaeozoology remains an interest, especially using molluscan fauna in stratigraphy (work with David Lubell on Kef Zoura D rockshelter in Algeria).
• The University of Toronto was the ideal place for changing focus to bioarchaeology from my fossil man studies at Cambridge University and fossil primate work for the British Museum (Natural History).

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Genetics, migration, bone plasticity, transitions
Taphonomy, sample bias and postmortem changes
Ontario osteology
Mortuary practices
Age assessment of adults, problems in palaeodemography
China, Algeria, Italy and varia

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created by MJ 22 November, 2000; updated 22 January, 2001; updated 11 July, 2003; 25 April, 2004; July 2007; June 2008; August 2009; March 2011