Ashley McKeown
 Associate Professor Phone: 406-243-2145 Office: Social Sciences 225 Email: ashley.mckeown@umontana.edu |
Current Office Hours
Tuesday and Thursday 11am - 12:30pm and by Appointment.
Education
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Ph.D. in Anthropology, 2000
Dissertation: Investigating variation among Arikara crania using geometric morphometry
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Masters of Arts in Anthropology, 1996
Thesis: Craniometric sex estimation using a finite mixture missing data model
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Bachelor of Arts, Anthropology, 1991
Courses Taught
Anth 210 Introduction to Physical Anthropology
Anth 412 Osteology
Anth 413 Forensic and Mortuary Archaeology
Anth 513 Seminar in Bioarchaeology and Skeletal Biology
Field of Study
Biological anthropology with a specialization in bioarchaeology and forensic anthropology
Selected Publications
McKeown, Ashley H. (editor). 2009. “the usual burying place by James Citte”: An archaeological report on the Jamestown Statehouse Complex Burial Ground Project at Jamestown, Virginia. Jamestown, VA: Jamestown Rediscovery Archaeological Project
May, Jamie E., Beverly A. Straube, Ashley H. McKeown, and William M. Kelso. 2009. Introduction and Background in “the usual burying place by James Citte”: An archaeological report on the Jamestown Statehouse Complex Burial Ground Project at Jamestown, Virginia, AH McKeown (editor). Jamestown, VA: Jamestown Rediscovery Archaeological Project, pp. 1-12.
McKeown, Ashley H., Beverly A. Straube, Jamie E. May, William M. Kelso and Douglas W. Owsley. 2009. Research Design in “the usual burying place by James Citte”: An archaeological report on the Jamestown Statehouse Complex Burial Ground Project at Jamestown, Virginia, AH McKeown (editor). Jamestown, VA: Jamestown Rediscovery Archaeological Project, pp. 13-27.
McKeown, Ashley H. and Jamie E. May. 2009. The Burials in “the usual burying place by James Citte”: An archaeological report on the Jamestown Statehouse Complex Burial Ground Project at Jamestown, Virginia, AH McKeown (editor). Jamestown, VA: Jamestown Rediscovery Archaeological Project, pp. 28-155.
McKeown, Ashley H., Jamie E. May and Beverly A. Straube. 2009. Interpretations in “the usual burying place by James Citte”: An archaeological report on the Jamestown Statehouse Complex Burial Ground Project at Jamestown, Virginia, AH McKeown (editor). Jamestown, VA: Jamestown Rediscovery Archaeological Project, pp. 168-186.
Ahlman, Todd M., Gerald F. Schroedl, and Ashley H. McKeown. 2009. The Afro-Caribbean Ware from the Brimstone Hill Fortress, St. Kitts, West Indies: A Study in Ceramic Production. Historical Archaeology 43:22-41.
Ahlman, Todd M., Gerald F. Schroedl, Ashley H. McKeown, Robert J. Speakman and Michael Glascock. 2008. Ceramic Production and Exchange among Enslaved Africans on St. Kitts, West Indies. Journal of Caribbean Archaeology 8:1-14.
McKeown, Ashley H. and Richard L. Jantz. 2005. A comparison of craniometric and coordinate data for biological distance studies. In Dennis E. Slice, editor: Modern Morphometrics in Physical Anthropology. New York: Kluwer Academic, p 215-230.
Publications
Recent Research Presentations
Ahlman, Todd M., Gerald Schroedl, Ashley H. McKeown, Robert J. Speakman and Michael D. Glascock. 2007. A study on ceramic production and exchange among enslaved Africans on St. Kitts, West Indies using Macroscopic Analysis and Chemical Composition. Paper presented at the 40th Annual Conference of the Society for Historical Archaeology, Williamsburg, Virginia.
Owsley, Douglas and Ashley McKeown. 2007. Skeletal analysis of 1607 James Fort colonists. Paper presented at the 40th Annual Conference of the Society for Historical Archaeology, Williamsburg, Virginia.
McKeown, Ashley H. 2006. Population history of the Kootenai, Northern Rockies: The archaeological, historical, linguistic and biological evidence. Paper presented at the 2006 Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
DiGangi, Elizabeth and Ashley H. McKeown. 2005. Human skeletal remains from Brimstone Hill Fortress National Park, St. Kitts, West Indies. Paper presented at the 2005 meeting of the Society for Post-Medieval Archaeology, Nevis, West Indies.
McKeown, Ashley H. 2004. A re-evaluation of Arikara population structure using three-dimensional coordinates from cranial landmarks. Paper presented at the 62nd annual Plains Conference, Billings, MT.
Specialized Skills
Physical Anthropology; Bioarchaeology; Forensic Anthropology
