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Name: Rebecca Storey
Address:
Department of Anthropology
University of Houston
Houston, Texas 77204-5020
Education
A.B., Anthropology, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts, May 1972
M.A., Department of Anthropology, Columbia University, New York, New
York, May 1976
Ph.D., Department of Anthropology, The Pennsylvania State University,
University Park, Pennsylvania, May 1983. Title of Dissertation: "The
Paleodemography of Tlajinga 33: An Apartment Compound of the PreColumbian City of Teotihuacan."
Professional Positions
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Houston,
Houston, Texas, September 1991-present.
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Houston,
Houston, Texas, September 1984-1991.
Senior Fulbright Scholar and Associated Researcher, Instituto Hondureno de
Antropologia e Historia, Tegucigalpa, Honduras, September 1986-August 1987.
Grants
Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant from the National Science Foundation
(BNS 80-05825) for proposal entitled "The Paleodemography of a TeotihuacanPeriod Apartment Compound," September 1980-August 1981.
Co-Investigator on grant received from the National Science Foundation (BNS
82-04862) for project entitled "Laboratory Analysis of Archaeological
Collections from Tlajinga 33, Teotihuacan, Mexico.
U.S. Fulbright Grant for Research, Academic Year 1986-87, to the Instituto
Hondureno de Antropologia e Historia, Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Central America.
Selected Recent Publications
Total Publications, 38 with 2 currently in press.
Book
1992
Life and Death in the Ancient City of Teotihuacan: A Modern
Paleodemographic Synthesis. The University of Alabama Press,
Tuscaloosa.
Recent Articles on the Maya and Teotihuacan
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2004
The Ancestors: The Bioarchaeology of the Human Remains of
K’axob. In K’axob: Ritual, Work, and Family in an Ancient Maya
Village, edited by Patricia McAnany. Pp. 109-138. Monumenta
Archaeologica 22. The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, University
of California, Los Angeles
2006
Children of K’axob: Premature Death in a Formative Maya Village.
With Patricia A. McAnany. In The Social Experience of Childhood in
Ancient Mesoamerica, edited by Traci Ardren and Scott Hutson,
pp.53-72. University Press of Colorado, Boulder.
2006
Mortality Through Time in an Impoverished Residence of the
Precolumbian City of Teotihuacan: A Paleodemographic View. In
Urbanism in the Preindustrial World: Cross-Cultural Approaches,
edited by Glenn R. Storey, pp. 277-294. University of Alabama
Press, Tuscaloosa.
2007
An Elusive Paleodemography? A Comparison of Two Methods for
Estimating the Adult Age Distribution of Deaths at Late Classic,
Copan, Honduras. American Journal of Physical Anthropology
132:40-47.
2007
From Early Village to Regional Center in Mesoamerica: An
Investigation of Lifestyles and Health.
With Lourdes Márquez
Morfín. In Ancient Health, edited by MN Cohen and G. Crane-Kramer.
Chapter 6. The University Press of Florida, Gainesville.
2008
“Los hombres y las mujeres mayas en el mundo prehispánico” In
Tendencias actuales de la Bioarqueología en México, edited by P. O
Hernandez, Lourdes Márquez and E. González Licón, pp. 235-261.
Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historía, Mexico City.
2009
“Heterogeneidad individual, fragilidad y la paradoja osteológica.” In
Paradigmas retos de la Bioarqueología mexicana, edited by Ernesto
Gonzalez L.and Lourdes Marquez Morfín, pp. 65-76. Instituto
Nacional de Antropología e Historía, Mexico City.
Professional Service
Taught special graduate-level course on “Salud y Perfiles Demograficos” at the
Escuela Nacional de Anthropología e Historía, Mexico City, by Invitation of
Coordinators of the Program in Physical Anthropology October 28 to November
1, 2002.
Biological Seat, Nominations Committee of the American Anthropological
Association, 2006-2008.
Member-at-large of the Executive Committee for the Biological Anthropology
Section of the American Anthropological Association, 2000-2002.
Secretary/Treasurer of the Biological Anthropology Section of the American
Anthropological Association, 2003-2004.
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Editorial Board, Ancient Mesoamerica, Peer reviewed journal published by
Cambridge University Press.
Editorial Board, Cuicuilco Revista de la Escuela Nacional De Antropología e
Historía, México.
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