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Amber Plemons

Research Interests:
human variation
forensic anthropology
bioarchaeology
human evolution
population affinity
digital heritage
Education

B.A., Anthropology, Texas State University, 20011

M.A., Applied Anthropology, Mississippi State University, 2016

Ph.D., Anthropology, Michigan State University, 2022

Selected Publications:

Plemons AM. 2022. The Interaction between Genetics and Climate on Craniofacial Variation: Examining the Causative Forces of Macromorphoscopic Trait Expression. Dissertation: Michigan State University.

Plemons AM, Kamnikar KR, Goots AC, Biggs JA. Landmark And Measurement-based Data Assistant (LAMbDA): A pedagogical tool for cranial landmark data collection. Journal of Forensic Anthropology. In Press.

Kamnikar KR, Plemons AM, Spiros MC, Hefner JT. 2022. Estimación de la ancestría utilizando características morfológicas. In: Quinto-Sánchez M, Gomez-Valdés J, eds. Avances en Antropología Forense. Mexico City: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.

Spiros MC, Plemons AM, Biggs JA. 2022. Digital Pedagogy, Access, and Ethical Considerations in Biological anthropology. Special issue in Science & Justice.

Dunn RR, Spiros MC, Kamnikar, KR, Plemons AM, Hefner JT. 2020. Ancestry Estimation in Forensic Anthropology: A Review. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Forensic Science. DOI: 10.1002/wfs2.1369

Kamnikar KR, Herrmann NP, Plemons AM. 2018. New approaches to juvenile age estimation in forensics: Application of transition analysis via the Shackelford et al method to a diverse modern subadult sample. Human Biology Journal.

Kamnikar KR, Plemons AM, Hefner JT. 2017. Intraobserver Error in Macromorphoscopic Trait Analysis. Journal of Forensic Sciences. DOI:10.1111/1556-4029.13564

Warner MW, Plemons AM, Herrmann NP, Regan LA. 2016. Refining Oxygen (δ18O) and Hydrogen (δ2H) Isoscapes for the Identification of Human Remains in Mississippi for the Journal of Forensic Sciences.

Plemons AM, Hefner JT. 2016. Ancestry Estimation using Macromorphoscopic Traits for Academic Forensic Pathology.

Herrmann NP, Plemons AM, Harris E. 2016. Estimating Ancestry of Fragmentary Remains Via Multiple Classifier Systems: A Study of the Mississippi State Asylum Skeletal Assemblage. In MA Pilloud and JT Hefner (eds): Biological Distance Analysis Forensic and Bioarchaeological Perspectives, Ch.15. Elsevier Press, New York.