Virginia Estabrook 
Assistant Professor of Anthropology | Georgia Southern University
Statesboro, GA, UNITED STATES
Virginia Easterbrook research focuses on bioarcheology and paleopathology.
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Areas of Expertise (5)
Paleobiography
Sociology
Anthropology
Bioarcheology
Neanderthals
Accomplishments (2)
ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award of 2009 Honorable Mention
2010
Distinguished Graduate Student Instructor Award in Anthropology, University of Michigan
2006
Education (3)
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor: Ph.D., Anthropology 2009
Bryn Mawr College: B.A., Anthropology 2000
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor: M.A., Anthropology 2001
Affiliations (5)
- Coastal Georgia Archaeological Society
- Society for Georgia Archaeology
- American Association of Physical Anthropologists
- Paleoanthropology Society
- American Anthropological Association
Media Appearances (2)
‘It’s a woman. It’s not Pulaski.’: New documentary argues Revolutionary War hero was intersex
Chicago Tribune
2019-04-03
“That’s pretty much the only way to explain the combination of features that we see,” Virginia Hutton Estabrook, Georgia Southern University assistant professor of anthropology, said in an interview. Estabrook participated in the most recent effort to identify the bones, and she appears in the documentary...
Meet assistant professor Virginia Estabrook: Anthropology specialist
The Inkwell
2016-02-26
“Have you ever seen that TV show Bones? That’s me,” Dr. Virginia Estabrook said of her profession...
Event Appearances (6)
Teaching Anthropology in a ‘Red State’
American Anthropological Association Meetings 2017
The Female Pelvis of Casimir Pulaski: misidentified skeleton or intersex war hero?
American Anthropological Association Meetings 2016
Tiny Samples: The Utility of ACTUS, an Alternative Method of Contingency Table Analysis Using Simulation, in Bioarchaeology and Paleopathology
American Association of Physical Anthropologists Meetings 2017
ACTUS: An Alternative Method of Contingency Table Analysis Suitable for Small Samples
Society for American Archaeology Meetings 2016
Fragmentary skeletal remains, trauma, and sampling biases: Quantifying antemortem traumatic data lost due to fragmentation in samples from Hasanlu Teppe, Iran (12th-9th Centuries B.C.E)
American Association of Physical Anthropologists Meetings 2016
In Search of Women in the Paleolithic (Organizer and Co-Chair)
American Anthropological Association Meetings 2015
Research Grants (3)
Teaching and Learning Grant
Armstrong State University
2015
Predissertation Research Award
International Institute, University of Michigan
2002
Travel Grant
Center for Eastern European Studies, University of Michigan
2002
Articles (5)
Fragmentary skeletal remains, trauma, and sampling biases: Quantifying antemortem traumatic data lost due to fragmentation in samples from Hasanlu Teppe, Iran (12th-9th Centuries B.C.E).`
American Journal of Physical AnthropologyEstabrook, V.H., H.D. Polasky, and J.M. Monge
2016
Tiny samples: the utility of ACTUS, an alternate method of contingency table analysis using simulation in bioarcheology and paleopathology
American Journal of Physical AnthropologyEstabrook, V.H. and E.A. Sobel
2017
Violence and warfare in the European Mesolithic and Paleolithic
In: Re-Examining A Pacified Past: Violence and Warfare Among HunterGatherersEstabrook, V.H.
Edited by M. Allen and T. Jones. Left Coast Press, Walnut Creek, CA. 2015
Trauma in the Krapina Neandertals: Violence in the Middle Paleolithic?
In: The Routledge Handbook of the Bioarchaeology of Human ConflictEstabrook, V.H. and D.W. Frayer
Edited by M.J. Smith and C. Knüsel. New York: Routledge Press 2014
Is trauma at Krapina like all other Neandertal trauma? A statistical comparison of trauma patterns in Neandertal skeletal remains
In: New Insights on the Krapina Neandertals: 100 years after Gorjanović-KrambergerEstabrook, V.H.
Edited by J. Monge, A. Mann and J. Radovčić. Croatian Natural History Museum, Zagreb 2008
