J. Lynn Funkhouser

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Faculty Member at University of Louisiana at Lafayette

The analysis of the remains of six soldiers recovered on the Mississippi Sound represents one of the few bioarchaeological studies of soldiers from the USA-Mexican War (1846–1848), a time of Manifest Destiny coupled with extensive immigration. The soldiers at Camp Jefferson Davis do not represent those who fell during fighting, but, most likely, th...

Modern academia is a concomitant venture involving research, teaching, and service. This article outlines a reimagined service-learning project that provides research and teaching experience to undergraduate and graduate anthropology students. We teach graduate students to teach undergraduates to teach anthropology to elementary school children. We...

Biocultural patterns surrounding the emergence of agriculture from 11 sites in the central Tombigbee River valley (500-1200 AD), 50-100 km west of the emerging Moundville polity, suggest that while food production may have alleviated some ecological stress, it came at a cost. Markers of childhood arrest indicate earlier weaning, likely creating a c...

From May 2007 through June 2012, faculty and students from the Department of Anthropology and Sociology conducted Phase III cultural resources excavation and bioarchaeological analysis of a French Colonial cemetery located at the Moran site (22HR511) in Biloxi, Mississippi. The work was supported by the Heritage Preservation Division of the Mississ...

The Anthropology is Elemental service learning program at The University of Alabama is designed to facilitate the instruction of four-field anthropology at area elementary schools. In recent years, our curriculum for archaeological education has shifted focus from the introduction and overview of local material culture and chronological sequencing...

This volume’s case studies recognize the black bear ( Ursus americanus ) to be among the most socially consequent of species in Native Eastern North America, despite meager remains at many archaeological sites. Indeed, that sparseness offers valuable evidence for the social roles long played by bears. Ethnohistorical sources suggest bear population...

New World colonization is the subject of Funkhouser and Hester’s analysis of human skeletal remains from the French colony of New Biloxi. They cite results of paleopathological assessment and ancient mtDNA analyses, in comparison with other French colonial cemeteries from the New World, and contemporaneous populations in Europe, finding groups of s...

In the late 1980s, a collaborative effort between Harvard University’s Lower Mississippi Survey and Tulane University’s Center for Archaeology launched a study examining the causes and consequences of subsistence change in the Lower Mississippi Valley. The Osceola Project contributed the first formal study of late prehistoric faunal remains within...

Danforth and colleagues report on demography, diet, mitochondrial DNA, and biological stress in remains from Moran, Mississippi, part of New Biloxi, a French colonial settlement. This study is unique, since at the time of this writing, skeletal remains were identified at only six French sites in the U.S. These authors test whether the historically...

Current theoretical frameworks within anthropology increasingly emphasize engagement in applied, practicing, and public endeavors, such as complementing STEM curricula at K-12 levels. Anthropologists are able to convey what the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) term “cross-cutting concepts” because of our discipline’s basis in the sciences a...

A modified human tibia was recovered from the shell midden excavations at the Andrews Place Site. It is the only worked human bone known from the site and the only spatulate tool created from human bone to be reported from the Gulf Coast.

Anthropology is a discipline that largely targets college-level students despite its import to all walks of life. In embracing the breadth of human experience, it is commonly felt that anthropology is an advanced discipline that builds on elementary and secondary education and not considered central to the primary-level traditions of teaching readi...

The University of Alabama is in partnership with Tuscaloosa Magnet School Elementary (TMSE), which accepts students from throughout the City of Tuscaloosa based on merit and is the most ethnically diverse elementary school in the city. The partnership program TMSE initiated and developed with UA features courses taught by university faculty and stu...

Klippel-Feil Syndrome (KFS) is a rare genetic defect resulting from failure of segmentation in cervical vertebrae. This reporting focuses on the differential diagnosis of a possible case of Klippel-Feil Syndrome in a 30-35 male skeleton from the Mississippian site of Kellogg, in eastern Mississippi. Using diagnostic criteria developed by Pany and T...