Laura Lynn Shackelford Ph.D.

Books

• Bacon, A-M, F Demeter, T Sayavongkhamdy, P Duringer, E Patole-Edoumba, A-S Coupey, L Shackelford, K Westaway, J-L Ponche, P-O Antoine, and P Sichanthongtip. Les sites de Tam Hang, Nam Lot et Tam Pa Ling au nord du Laos. Des gisements a vertebres du Pleistocene aux origins des Hommes modernes. Paris: CNRS Editions, 2012.
• Shackelford, Laura L. Regional Variation in the Postcranial Robusticity of Late Upper Paleolithic Humans. St. Louis: Washington University, 2005.

Book Contributions

• Stock, J T., M C. O'Neill, C B. Ruff, M Zabecki, L L. Shackelford, and J Rose. "Body size, skeletal biomechanics, mobility and habitual activity from the Late Palaeolithic to the Mid-Dynastic Nile Valley." Human Bioarchaeology of the Transition to Agriculture. Ed. R Pinhasi and J T. Stock. West Sussex: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. 347-370.
• Shackelford, Laura. "Descriptive and comparative study of the lower limb." Spy Cave: State of 125 years of pluridisciplinary research on the Betche-aux-Rotches from Spy. Ed. H Rougier and P Semal. Brussels: Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences and NESPOS, 2011.
• Trinkaus, Erik, Fred Smith, Trent C. Stockton, and Laura L. Shackelford. "The human postcranial remains from Mladec." The Human Remains from Mladec. Ed. M Teschler-Nicola. Vienna: Springer Verlag, 2005.

Journal Articles

• Demeter, Fabrice, Laura Shackelford, Anne-Marie Bacon, Philippe Duringer, Kira Westaway, Thongsa Sayavongkhamdy, Jose Braga, Phonephanh Sichanthongtip, Phimmasaeng Khamdalavong, Jean-Luc Ponche, Hong Wang, Craig Lundstrom, Elise Patole-Edoumba, and Anne-Marie Karpoff. "Anatomically modern humans in Southeast Asia (Laos) by 46 ka." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA (2012): 20 Aug. 2012.
• Demeter, F, L Shackelford, K Westaway, P Duringer, T Sayavongkhamdy, and A-M Bacon. "Reply to Pierret et al.: Stratigraphic and dating consistency reinforces the status of Tam Pa Ling fossil." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 109.51 (2012): E3524-E3525.
• Shackelford, Laura L., Ashley Stinespring Harris, and Lyle Konigsberg. "Estimating the distribution of probable age-at-death from dental remains of immature human fossils." American Journal of Physical Anthropology (2011): 21 Dec. 2011.
• Shackelford, Laura, and Fabrice Demeter. "The place of Tam Hang in Southeast Asian human evolution." Comptes rendus Palevol de l'Academie des sciences, Paris (2011): doi:10.1016/j.crpv.2011.07.002. 23 Sep. 2011.
• Bacon, A-M, P Duringer, P-O Antoine, F Demeter, L Shackelford, T Sayavongkhamdy, P Sichanthongtip, P Khamdalayong, S Nokhamaomphu, V Sysuphanh, E Patole-Edoumba, F Chabaux, and E Pelt. "The Middle Pleistocene mammalian fauna from Tam Hang karstic deposit, northern Laos: new data and evolutionary hypothesis." Quaternary International (2010): doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2010.11.024.
• Shackelford, Laura L. "Postcranial evidence for regional variation in the Late Pleistocene." American Journal of Physical Anthropology 133.1 (2007): 655-668.
• Churchill, S E., L L. Shackelford, J N. Georgi, and M T. Black. "Morphological variation and airflow dynamics in the human nose." American Journal of Human Biology 16.6 (2004): 625-638.
• Shackelford, Laura L., and Erik Trinkaus. "Late Pleistocene human femoral diaphyseal curvature." American Journal of Physical Anthropology 118.4 (2002): 359-370.

Works in Progress

• Field work in Hua Pan Province, Laos (2007 - present)
• Collaboration with Fabrice Demeter, National Museum of Natural History, Paris, France
• Collaboration with Anne-Marie Bacon, CNRS, Paris, France
• Shackelford LL, Marshall F, Peters J (accepted). Identifying domestication of the donkey through changes in cross-sectional geometry of long bones. Journal of Archaeological Science.
• Shackelford LL (in press). Archaeology and World Heritage in Laos. In Encyclopedia for Global Archaeology. Springer.
• Shackelford LL (in press). Bone strength and subsistence activities at Point Hope. In The Foragers of Point Hope: the biology and archaeology of humans on the edge of the Alaskan arctic. In Auerbach B, Cowgill L, Hilton C, eds. Cambridge University Press.
• Shackelford LL (in prep - under contract). Variation in mobility and anatomical strategies in the Late Pleistocene. In Carlson K, Marchi D, eds. Mobility: Interpreting Behavior from Skeletal Adaptations and Environmental Interactions. Springer.