Janet Gardener

Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology
MA (2001) Northern Illinois University
ABD, University of Western Ontario

Contact
Moore 1020
(269) 387-3979
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Research interests: Neandertal and early modern human behavior, trauma and disease, biomedical imaging of archaeological materials

Regional focus: Central and Western Europe

Selected publications: Gardner, J.C., Smith, F.H.(2006) The paleopathology of the Krapina Neandertals. Periodicum Biologorum, 108: 471-484.

Gardner, J.C., Garvin, G., Nelson, A.J., Vascotto, G., Conlogue, G. (2004) Paleoradiology in mummy studies: the Sulman Mummy Project. Canadian Association of Radiologists Journal, 55: 228-234.

A closer look: Janet Gardner's dissertation research involves the use of bioarchaeological analyses of the skeleton to interpret the behavior of Neandertal and early modern human populations. The goal of this research is to use a more synthetic, bioarchaeologically-based examination of pathology in fossil hominid samples. Research of mid to late Pleistocene fossil hominid material has been undertaken throughout Europe and recently Janet was involved in ongoing excavations at early modern human and Neandertal living sites in southwestern Germany. Other research projects have included CT scanning and virtual reconstruction of Egyptian mummies and paleopathology studies of prehistoric North American skeletal materials.