Owsley, Douglas
Curator of Biological Anthropology
Owsley, Douglas
Curator of Biological Anthropology
Skeletal biology; forensic anthropology; historic populations in North America; North American Plains Indians; Polynesia.
Background And Education
Education And Training
Awards And Honors
- Centennial Alumnus , conferred by University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 2017
- Cross Botany Medal , conferred by Historic St. Mary's City, 2016
- Smithsonian Distinguished Scholar Award, 2014
- Thomas Jefferson Award, conferred by Virginia Museum of Natural History, 2011
- Secretary's Research Prize, 2010
Research And Grants
Investigator On
Publications
Selected Publications
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Article
- Owsley, Douglas W., Bruseth, James E., Jones, Bradford M., Schlachtmeyer, Sandra S., Bruwelheide, Karin S., Crain, John W., Barca, Kathryn G., Rose, Timothy R., Bush, Leslie L., Whittaker, Scott D., Mercado-Allinger, Pat A., Borgens, Amy A., Turner, Toni S., and Willis, Mark D. 2023. "Finding Truth in Legend: The Story of Texas Ranger James Coryell." Journal of Texas Archeology and History, 7 79–110. 2023
- Fleskes, Raquel E., Owsley, Douglas W., Bruwelheide, Karin S., Barca, Kathryn G., Griffith, Daniel R., Cabana, Graciela S., and Schurr, Theodore G. 2023. "Historical genomes elucidate European settlement and the African diaspora in Delaware." Current Biology, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2023.04.069. 2023
- Perry, Megan A., Cherry, Melinda Seeman, Owsley, Douglas W., Bruwelheide, Karin S., and Ewen, Charles R. 2023. "Remains of the Invisible: Reconstructing Nineteenth-Century Plantation Life through the Biohistories of an Eastern North Carolina Family." Historical Archaeology, https://doi.org/10.1007/s41636-023-00430-2. 2023
- Harney, Éadaoin, Micheletti, Steven, Bruwelheide, Karin S., Freyman, William A., Bryc, Katarzyna, Akbari, Ali, Jewett, Ethan, Comer, Elizabeth, Gates, Henry Louis, Heywood, Linda, Thornton, John, Curry, Roslyn, Esselmann, Samantha Ancona, Barca, Kathryn G., Sedig, Jakob, Sirak, Kendra, Olalde, Iñigo, Adamski, Nicole, Bernardos, Rebecca, Broomandkhoshbacht, Nasreen, Ferry, Matthew, Qiu, Lijun, Stewardson, Kristin, Workman, J. N., Zalzala, Fatma et al. 2023. "The genetic legacy of African Americans from Catoctin Furnace." Science, 381, (6657). https://doi.org/10.1126/science.ade4995. 2023
- Harney, Éadaoin, Olalde, Iñigo, Bruwelheide, Kari, Barca, Kathryn G., Curry, Roslyn, Comer, Elizabeth, Rohland, Nadin, Owsley, Douglas, and Reich, David. 2022. "Technical Report on Ancient DNA analysis of 27 African Americans from Catoctin Furnace, Maryland." bioRxiv, https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.06.12.495320. 2022
- France, Christine A. M., Owsley, Douglas W., Bruwelheide, Karin S., Renschler, Emily S., Barca, Kathryn G., and DeCorse, Christopher R. 2020. "Stable isotopes from the African site of Elmina, Ghana and their usefulness in tracking the provenance of enslaved individuals in 18th‐ and 19th‐century North American populations." American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 171, (2) 298–318. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.23946. 2020
- Fleskes, Raquel E., Bruwelheide, Karin S., West, Frankie L., Owsley, Douglas W., Griffith, Daniel R., Barca, Kathryn G., Cabana, Graciela S., and Schurr, Theodore G. 2019. "Ancient DNA and bioarchaeological perspectives on European and African diversity and relationships on the colonial Delaware frontier." American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.23887. 2019
- Bruwelheide, Karin S., Owsley, Douglas W., Barca, Kathryn G., France, Christine A. M., Little, Nicole C., and Comer, Elizabeth Anderson. 2019. "Restoring Identity to People and Place: Reanalysis of Human Skeletal Remains from a Cemetery at Catoctin Furnace, Maryland." Historical Archaeology, 1–28. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41636-019-00214-7. 2019
- Owsley, Douglas W. and Schlachtmeyer, Sandra S. 2017. "The Search for a Justice: Gabriel Duvall of Maryland." Maryland Historical Magazine, 112, (2) 180–205. 2017
- Pavesic, Max G., Yohe, Robert M., II, Owsley, Douglas W., and Camp-Hill, Amanda. 2016. "Paleodiet in Western Idaho: An analysis of Mid-Archaic human remains from the Braden and DeMoss sites." Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 6 211–220. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2016.01.034. 2016
- Owsley, Douglas W., Bruwelheide, Karin S., Cashion Lugo, M. A., and Spradley, M. K. 2015. "Identification of Ramón Power Y Giralt: Puerto Rico's Diplomat to the 1812 Spanish Constitutional Court." Centro Journal, XXVII 178–207. 2015
- France, Christine A. M. and Owsley, Douglas W. 2015. "Stable Carbon and Oxygen Isotope Spacing Between Bone and Tooth Collagen and Hydroxyapatite in Human Archaeological Remains." International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 25, (3) 299–312. https://doi.org/10.1002/oa.2300. 2015
- Little, Nicole C., Florey, Victoria, Molina, Irma, Owsley, Douglas W., and Speakman, Robert J. 2014. "Measuring heavy metal content in bone using portable X-ray fluorescence." Open Journal of Archaeometry, 2, (1) 19–21. https://doi.org/10.4081/arc.2014.5257. 2014
- France, Christine A. M., Owsley, Douglas W., and Hayek, Lee-Ann C. 2014. "Stable isotope indicators of provenance and demographics in 18th and 19th century North Americans." Journal of Archaeological Science, 42 356–366. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2013.10.037. 2014
- Bruwelheide, Karin S. and Owsley, Douglas W. 2007. "Written in Bone: Reading the Remains of the 17th Century." AnthroNotes, 28, (2) 8–14. 2007
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Book
- Owsley, Douglas W. and Jantz, Richard L. 2014. Kennewick Man: the scientific investigation of an ancient American skeleton. College Station: Texas A&M University Press. 2014
- Owsley, Douglas W., Jodry, Margaret, Stafford, Thomas W., Haynes, C. Vance, Jr., and Stanford, Dennis J. 2010. Arch Lake Woman Physical Anthropology and Geoarchaeology, Goebel, Ted, editor. College Station, Texas: Texas A and M University Press. 2010
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Chapter
- Burgess, Laurie E. and Owsley, Douglas. 2018. "Death, Dogs, and Monuments: Recent Research at Washington’s Congressional Cemetery." In Death Across Oceans: Archaeology of Coffins and Vaults in Britain, America, and Australia. Mytum, Harold C. and Burgess, Laurie E., editors. 249–262. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press. In Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge. 2018
- Owsley, Douglas W., Bruwelheide, Karin S., Barca, Kathryn G., Reidy, Susan K., and Fleskes, Raquel E. 2018. "Lives Lost: What Burial Vault Studies Reveal about Eighteenth-Century Identities." In Bioarchaeological Analyses and Bodies: New ways of knowing anatomical and skeletal collections. Stone, Pamela K., editor. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature. In Bioarchaeology and Social Theory. 2018
- Bruwelheide, Karin S., Owsley, Douglas W., Straube, Beverly A., and May, Jamie E. 2017. "Evidence for Early Seventeenth-Century Surgery and Dissection at James Fort, Virginia." In The Bioarchaeology of Dissection and Autopsy in the United States. Nystrom, Kenneth C., editor. 41–60. Springer International Publishing. In Bioarchaeology and Social Theory. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26836-1_3. 2017
- Owsley, Douglas W., Bruwelheide, Karin S., Jantz, Richard L., Koste, Jodi L., and Outlaw, Merry. 2017. "Skeletal Evidence of Anatomical and Surgical Training in Nineteenth-Century Richmond." In The Bioarchaeology of Dissection and Autopsy in the United States. Nystrom, Kenneth C., editor. 143–164. Springer International Publishing. In Bioarchaeology and Social Theory. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26836-1_7. 2017
- Bruwelheide, Karin S., Schlachtmeyer, Sandra S., Owsley, Douglas W., Simon, Vicki E., Aufderheide, Arthur C., Cartmell, Larry W., and Swanson, Stephan J. 2017. "Unearthing Robert Kennicott: Naturalist, Explorer, Smithsonian Scientist." In Studies in Forensic Biohistory: Anthropological Perspectives. Stojanowski, Christopher M. and Duncan, W. N., editors. 92–123. Cambridge University Press. 2017
- Owsley, Douglas W., Simon, Vicki E., Barca, Kathryn G., Van Tilburg, J., and Whitmore, D. 2016. "Demographic analysis of modified crania from Rapa Nui." In Skeletal Biology of the Ancient Rapanui (Easter Islanders). Stefan, V. H. and Gill, G. W., editors. 253–268. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139151856.014. 2016
- Owsley, Douglas W., Barca, Kathryn G., Simon, Vicki E., and Gill, G. 2016. "Evidence for injuries and violent death." In Skeletal Biology of the Ancient Rapanui (Easter Islanders). Stefan, V. H. and Gill, G. W., editors. 222–252. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139151856.013. 2016
- Cashion Lugo, M. A., Owsley, Douglas W., Bruwelheide, Karin S., and Spradley, M. K. 2015. "Don Ramón Power y Giralt: Disputado de las Cortes de Cadiz de 1812." In Proceedings of the 25th International Congress for Caribbean Archeology. 870–892. Puerto Rico: International Congress for Caribbean Archeology. 2015
- Jodry, Margaret A. and Owsley, Douglas W. 2014. "A new look at the double burial from Horn Shelter No. 2." In Kennewick Man: The Scientific Investigation of an Ancient American Skeleton. Owsley, Douglas W. and Jantz, Richard L., editors. 549–604. College Station: Texas A&M University Press. In Peopling of the Americas Publications. 2014
- Norris, James N. and Owsley, Douglas W. 2014. "Benthic aquatic algae: Indicators of recent taphonomic history." In Kennewick Man: The Scientific Investigation of an Ancient American Skeleton. Owsley, Douglas W. and Jantz, Richard L., editors. 382–392. College Station: Texas A&M University Press. In Peopling of the Americas Publications. 2014
- Dixon, E. J., Heaton, Timothy H., Lee, Craig M., Fifield, Terence E., Coltrain, Joan Brenner, Kemp, Brian M., Owsley, Douglas W., Parrish, Eric, Turner, Christy G., Edgar, Heather J. H., Worl, Rosita Kaaháni, Smith, David Glenn, and Farmer, G. L. 2014. "Evidence of maritime adaptation and coastal migration from southeast Alaska." In Kennewick Man: The Scientific Investigation of an Ancient American Skeleton. Owsley, Douglas W. and Jantz, Richard L., editors. 537–548. College Station: Texas A&M University Press. In Peopling of the Americas Publications. 2014
- Bruwelheide, Karin S. and Owsley, Douglas W. 2014. "Identity through science and art." In Kennewick Man: The Scientific Investigation of an Ancient American Skeleton. Owsley, Douglas W. and Jantz, Richard L., editors. 519–534. College Station: Texas A&M University Press. In Peopling of the Americas Publications. 2014
- Owsley, Douglas W. 2014. "Introduction: The scientific investigation of Kennewick Man." In Kennewick Man: The Scientific Investigation of an Ancient American Skeleton. Owsley, Douglas W. and Jantz, Richard L., editors. 1–4. College Station: Texas A&M University Press. In Peopling of the Americas Publications. 2014
- Owsley, Douglas W., Williams, Aleithea A., and Bruwelheide, Karin S. 2014. "Skeletal inventory, morphology, and pathology." In Kennewick Man: The Scientific Investigation of an Ancient American Skeleton. Owsley, Douglas W. and Jantz, Richard L., editors. 139–186. College Station: Texas A&M University Press. In Peopling of the Americas Publications. 2014
- Schwarcz, Henry P., Stafford, Thomas W., Knyf, Martin, Chisholm, Brian, Longstaffe, Fred J., Chatters, James C., and Owsley, Douglas W. 2014. "Stable isotopic evidence for diet and origin." In Kennewick Man: The Scientific Investigation of an Ancient American Skeleton. Owsley, Douglas W. and Jantz, Richard L., editors. 310–322. College Station: Texas A&M University Press. In Peopling of the Americas Publications. 2014
- Owsley, Douglas W., Williams, Aleithea A., and Stafford, Thomas W. 2014. "Taphonomic indicators of burial context." In Kennewick Man: The Scientific Investigation of an Ancient American Skeleton. Owsley, Douglas W. and Jantz, Richard L., editors. 323–381. College Station: Texas A&M University Press. In Peopling of the Americas Publications. 2014
- Owsley, Douglas W. and Jantz, Richard L. 2014. "Who was Kennewick Man?" In Kennewick Man: The Scientific Investigation of an Ancient American Skeleton. Owsley, Douglas W. and Jantz, Richard L., editors. 622–650. College Station: Texas A&M University Press. In Peopling of the Americas Publications. 2014
- Owsley, Douglas W., Bruwelheide, Karin S., and Burgess, Laurie E. 2008. "Late-Nineteenth-Century Crow Mummies from Montana." In Skeletal Biology and Bioarchaeology of the Northwestern Plains. Gill, George W. and Weathermon, Rick L., editors. 77–93. Salt Lake City: The University of Utah Press. 2008
- Owsley, Douglas W., Bruwelheide, Karin S., Burgess, Laurie E., and Billeck, William T. 2007. "Human Finger and Hand Bone Necklaces from the Plains and Great Basin." In The Taking and Displaying of Human Body Parts as Trophies by Amerindians. Chacon, Richard J. and Dye, David H., editors. 124–166. New York: Springer. 2007
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