Author: M. Anne Katzenberg

M. ANNE KATZENBERG, received her Ph.D. inanthropology from the University of Toronto in 1983. She holds auniversity professorship at the University of Calgary(Department of Archaeology). Her research interests include diet and health inpast peoples, and in particular, she explores the variousapplications of stable isotope analysis to reconstructingpaleodiet, paleodemography, and ecology. She serves on theeditorial board of the Yearbook of Physical Anthropology andis the vice-president of the Paleopathology Association. In 2003, she was elected to the Royal Society of Canada. She serves as aconsultant in forensic anthropology for the Medical Examiner of Alberta (southern division). Recent publications include”Identification of historical human skeletal remains: a casestudy using skeletal and dental age, history and DNA”International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 2005, with G.Oetelaar, J. Oetelaar, C. Fitzgerald, D. Yang, and S.R. Saunders, and “Skeletal Biology: Great Lakes Area, ” Handbookof North American Indians, Volume 3, 2006, edited by D.H.Ubelaker. She is co-editor, with Stanley Ambrose of Close to the Bone: Biogeochemical Approaches to Paleodietary Analyses in Archaeology (Plenum Press, 2001). SHELLEY R. SAUNDERS, received her Ph.D. in anthropologyfrom the University of Toronto in 1977. She is currently aprofessor in the Department of Anthropology, Mc Master University, and the director of the Mc Master Anthropology Hard Tissue and Light Microscopy Laboratory. Her research covers microscopic andmacroscopic human dental and skeletal growth and development, dental pathology, and methods of sex and age estimation from teethand bones. She holds a Canada Research Chair in Human Disease and Population Origins and is the founder of the Mc Master Ancient DNACentre. She is also North American editor of the International Journal of Osteoarchaeology and was elected to the Royal Society of Canada in 2001. Recent publications include thecoauthored article, “Health of infants in an Imperial Romanskeletal sample: perspective from dental microstructure, “American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 2006, and”Sexual dimorphism of the dental tissues in human permanentmandibular canines and first premolars, ” American Journalof Physical Anthropology, 2007, with A.H.W. Chan, B. Kahlon, H.F. Kluge, and C.M. Fitz Gerald.