Sarah A Lacy, PhD

I am the newest biological anthropology faculty member at California State University Dominguez Hills. My doctoral work focused on oral pathology in Neandertals and early modern humans in the Late Pleistocene in Europe and Southwest Asia and broadly overlaps paleoanthropology, paleopathology, dental anthropology, Late Pleistocene archaeology, human-environment interaction, and the origins of health disparities. I am now working developing a new collaborative project with Durham University in the UK to explore health, diet, and environmental change in the European Late Upper Paleolithic and Early Mesolithic with a focus on oral health, but also including isotopic, biomolecular, and phytolith research.

I also collaborated with Samuel Muteti of the National Museums of Kenya to set up the hominin site of Loiyangalani in Southeast Lake Turkana, Kenya. We hope to continue our field research here in the future.

Photo from Giemsch & Schmitz 2012 ("Neues alles Oberkassel" article in the Museum newsletter)