Dr Louise Humphrey

Research

Research Interests

Skeletal and dental development

Infant growth, health and nutrition in the context of changing environmental conditions and behaviour

Upper Pleistocene populations of North Africa

Current Projects

Evaluation of tooth enamel as an archive of infant health and diet

Cemeteries and sedentism in the Epipalaeolithic of North Africa. 

Publications

Humphrey, L.T., Dean M.C., Jeffries T.E. and Penn, M. (2008) Unlocking evidence of early diet from tooth enamel. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 105: 6834-6839.

Humphrey, L.T., Dirks, W., Dean, M.C. & Jeffries, T.E.  (2008) Tracking dietary transitions in weanling baboons (Papio hamadryas anubis) using strontium/calcium ratios in enamel. Folia Primatologica 79:197-212.

Humphrey, L.T., Jeffries T.E. and Dean M.C. (2008) Micro spatial distributions of lead and zinc in human deciduous tooth enamel. In: J.D. Irish and G.C. Nelson (eds) Technique and Application in Dental Anthropology. Cambridge University Press, pp 87-110.

Humphrey, L.T. (2008) Enamel traces of early lifetime events. In: Between Biology and Culture. (ed.) H. Schultkowski. Cambridge University Press, pp. 186-206.

Barton, R.N.E., Bouzouggar, A., Humphrey, L.T. , Berridge, P., Collcutt, S.N., Gale, R., Parfitt, S., Parker, A.G., Rhodes, E.J., Schwenninger, J.L. (2008) Human burial evidence from Hattab II Cave (Oued Laou-Tétuoan, Morocco) and the question of continuity in Late Pleistocene-Holocene mortuary practices in Northwest Africa. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 18: 195-214.

Bouzouggar, A., Barton, R.N.E., Blockley, S., Bronk-Ramsey, C., Collcutt, S.N., Gale, R., Humphrey, L.T.,   Parfitt, S., Turner, E., Ward, S. (2008) Re-evaluating the age of the Iberomaurusian in Morocco. African Archaeological Review 25: 3-19.

Humphrey, L.T. & Bocaege, E. (2008) Tooth evulsion in the Maghreb: chronological and geographical patterns. African Archaeological Review 25:109-123.

Humphrey, L.T. & Andrews, P. (2008) Metric variation in the post-canine teeth from Paşalar, Turkey. Journal of Human Evolution 54: 503-517.

Wilson, L.A., MacLeod, N. & Humphrey, L.T. (2008) Morphometric criteria for sexing juvenile human skeletons using the ilium. Journal of Forensic Sciences 53: 269-278.

Bello, S.M. & Humphrey, L.T. (2007) The funerary behaviour and the social value of children in a proto-industrial urban population from London during the 18^th and 19^th centuries. British Archaeological Review 1712 24-31.

Barton, R.N.E., Bouzouggar, A., Bronk-Ramsey, C., Collcutt, S.N., Higham, T.F.G., Humphrey, L.T., Parfitt, S., Rhodes, E.J., Schwenninger, J.L., Stringer, C.B. & Ward, S. (2007) Abrupt climatic change and chronology of the Upper Palaeolithic in northern and eastern Morocco. In: P. Mellars, C. Stringer, O. Bar-Yosef & K. Boyle (eds) Rethinking the Human Revolution. McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research Monograph series, Cambridge, pp. 177-186.

Humphrey, L.T., Dean, M.C. & Jeffries, T.E.  (2007) An evaluation of changes in strontium/calcium ratios across the neonatal line in human deciduous teeth. In Dental Perspectives on Human Evolution: State of the Art Research in Dental Anthropology, ed. S.E. Bailey and J.J. Hublin. Springer, pp. 301-317.

Bayliss, A., Benson, D., Galer, D., Humphrey, L., McFadyen. L., & Whittle, A. (2007) One thing after another: the date of the Ascott-under-Wychwood long barrow. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 17:1 (suppl.) 29-44

Humphrey, L.T. & Scheuer, L. (2006) Age of closure of the foramen of Huschke: an osteological study. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 16: 47-60.

King, T., Humphrey, L.T. & Hillson, S. (2005) Linear enamel hypoplasias as indicators of systemic physiological stress: evidence from two known age-at-death and sex populations from Post-Medieval London. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 128: 547-559.

Barton, R.N.E., Bouzouggar, J., Collcutt, S.N., Gale, R., Higham, T.F.G., Humphrey, L.T., Parfitt, S., Rhodes, E., Stringer, C.B., & Malek, F. (2005) The late Upper Palaeolithic occupation of the Moroccan Northwest Maghreb during the last glacial maximum. African Archaeological Review 22: 77-100.

Humphrey L.T. (2003) Linear growth variation in the archaeological record. In: J.L. Thompson, Krovitz, G.E. and Nelson A.J. (eds) Patterns of growth variation in the genus Homo. Cambridge University Press, pp 144-169.

Trinkaus, E., Humphrey, L.T., Stringer, C.B., Churchill, S.E. & Tague, R.G., (2003) The age and sex of Gough’s Cave 1. Bulletin of the Natural History Museum Geology Series 58 (supp): 45-50.

Rousham, E.K. & Humphrey, L.T. (2002) The dynamics of child survivorship. In: MacBeth, H., and Collinson, P. (eds). Human Population Dynamics. Cambridge University Press, pp 124-140.

King, T., Hillson, S. & Humphrey, L.T. (2002) A detailed study of enamel hypoplasia in a post-medieval adolescent of known age and sex. Archives of Oral Biology 47: 29-39.

Humphrey, L.T. & Stringer, C.B. (2002) Cranial remains from Gough’s Cave. Bulletin of the Natural History Museum Geology Series 58: 153-68.

Humphrey, L.T. (2000). Growth studies of past populations: an overview and an example. In: S. Mays, and M. Cox (eds) Human osteology in archaeology and forensic science. Greenwich Medical Media, pp 23-38.

Humphrey, L.T. & King, T. (2000) Childhood stress: a lifetime legacy. Anthropologie 38:33-49.

Humphrey, L.T. (2000). Interpretation of the growth of past populations. In: Sofaer Derevenski, J. (ed) Children and Material Culture. London: Routledge, pp. 193-205.

Andrews, P. & Humphrey, L.T. (1999). African Miocene environments and the transition to early hominines. In: Bromage, T. & Schrenk, F. (eds). African Biogeography, Climate Change and Early Hominid Evolution. Oxford University Press, pp 282-300.

Humphrey, L.T., Dean, M.C. & Stringer, C.B., (1999). Morphological variation in great ape and modern human mandibles. Journal of Anatomy 195:491-513.

Humphrey, L.T. (1999). Relative mandibular growth in humans, gorillas and chimpanzees. In: Hoppa, R and Fitzgerald, C. (eds) Human Growth in the Past. Cambridge University Press, pp. 65-97.

Fernandez-Jalvo, Y., Denys, C., Andrews, P., Williams. T., Dauphin, Y. & Humphrey, L. (1998). Taphonomy and palaeoecology of Olduvai Bed-I (Pleistocene, Tanzania). Journal of Human Evolution 34: 137-172.

Humphrey, L.T. (1998). Patterns of growth in the modern human skeleton. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 105: 57-72.

Stringer, C., Humphrey, L.T. & Compton, T. (1997). Cladistic analysis of dental traits in recent humans using a fossil outgroup. Journal of Human Evolution 31: 388-402.

Fortelius, M., Werdelin, L., Andrews, P., Bernor, R.L., Gentry, A., Humphrey, L., Mittmann, W., & Viranta, S. (1996). Provinciality, diversity, turnover and paleoecology in land mammal faunas of the later Miocene of Western Eurasia. In: Bernor, R.L., Fahlbusch, V. & Mittmann, H.-W., (eds) The Evolution of Western Eurasian Neogene Mammal Faunas. New York: Columbia University Press, pp. 414-448.