Owsley, Douglas
Curator of Biological Anthropology
Skeletal biology; forensic anthropology; historic populations in North America; North American Plains Indians; Polynesia.
Background And Education
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
- 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
- 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, edited by Mytum, Harold C. and Burgess, Laurie E., 249-262. Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press. 2018
- 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, edited by Nystrom, Kenneth C., 143-164. Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26836-1_7 2017
- 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
- 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, edited by Stojanowski, Christopher M. and Duncan, W. N., 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), edited by Stefan, V. H. and Gill, G. W., 253-268. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139151856.014 2016
- 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
- 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. International Congress for Caribbean Archeology. 2015
- 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
- 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, edited by Owsley, Douglas W. and Jantz, Richard L., 382-392. Texas A&M University Press. 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, edited by Owsley, Douglas W. and Jantz, Richard L., 537-548. Texas A&M University Press. 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, edited by Owsley, Douglas W. and Jantz, Richard L., 519-534. Texas A&M University Press. 2014
- 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. 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, edited by Goebel, Ted. Texas A and M University Press. 2010
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chapter
- 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, edited by Nystrom, Kenneth C., 41-60. Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26836-1_3 2017
- 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), edited by Stefan, V. H. and Gill, G. W., 222-252. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139151856.013 2016
- 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, edited by Owsley, Douglas W. and Jantz, Richard L., 549-604. Texas A&M University Press. 2014
- Owsley, Douglas W. 2014. "Introduction: The scientific investigation of Kennewick Man." in Kennewick Man: The Scientific Investigation of an Ancient American Skeleton, edited by Owsley, Douglas W. and Jantz, Richard L., 1-4. Texas A&M University Press. 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, edited by Owsley, Douglas W. and Jantz, Richard L., 139-186. Texas A&M University Press. 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, edited by Owsley, Douglas W. and Jantz, Richard L., 310-322. Texas A&M University Press. 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, edited by Owsley, Douglas W. and Jantz, Richard L., 323-381. Texas A&M University Press. 2014
- Owsley, Douglas W. and Jantz, Richard L. 2014. "Who was Kennewick Man?." in Kennewick Man: The Scientific Investigation of an Ancient American Skeleton, edited by Owsley, Douglas W. and Jantz, Richard L., 622-650. Texas A&M University Press. 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, edited by Gill, George W. and Weathermon, Rick L., 77-93. 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, edited by Chacon, Richard J. and Dye, David H., 124-166. Springer. 2007
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