Office Hours:

Tuesday and Thursday 11am - 12:30pm
 and by Appointment.

Field Of Study:

Biological anthropology with a specialization in bioarchaeology and forensic anthropology

Courses:

Anth 210 Introduction to Physical Anthropology

Anth 412 Osteology

Anth 413 Forensic and Mortuary Archaeology

Anth 513 Seminar in Bioarchaeology and Skeletal Biology

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

Specialized Skills:

Physical Anthropology; Bioarchaeology; 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.

Other 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 40^th 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 40^th 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 62^nd annual Plains Conference, Billings, MT.