Lisa Anderson

Curator of Bioarchaeology and NAGPRA Coordinator
lisa.anderson@nysed.gov
518-486-2020

My research is concerned with the biological impact of lifeways on populations in New York before and after the time of European contact. The main focus has been on developing baseline osteological data to examine general questions about human adaptation to the natural and cultural environment. Specific areas of interest include the effects of subsistence practices on diet and health; the movement and interaction of people on the landscape; and skeletal evidence of ritual warfare, enslavement, and inequality.

My Research Projects

Publications

2010

R. Kays, J. Kirchman, A. Curtis 2010, Reply to Wheeldon et al. ’Colonization History and Ancestry of Northeastern Coyotes’, Biology Letters 6, 248-249. 10.1098/rsbl.2009.1022
J. Kirchman, C. Witt, J. McGuire, G. Graves 2010, DNA from a 100-year-old Holotype Confirms the Validity of a Potentially Extinct Hummingbird Species, Biology Letters 6, 112-115. 10.1098/rsbl.2009.0545
J. Kirchman 2010, Legalities and Practicalities of Salvaging of Dead Birds for Museum Specimens, The Kingbird 60, 298-300.
J. Kirchman 2010, Carolina Parakeets. Legacy: The Magazine of the New York State Museum 6, 16

2009

J. Kirchman 2009, Genetic Tests of Rapid Parallel Speciation of Flightless Birds from an Extant Volant Ancestor, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 96, 601-616. 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2008.01160.x
J. Cryan, R. Feranec, J. Kirchman 2009, Evolution Every Day. Legacy: The Magazine of the New York State Museum 4, 10-11
J. Kirchman 2009, Extinct Birds. Legacy: The Magazine of the New York State Museum 4, 8-9
J. Kirchman 2009, Natural History Collections and Evolution. Legacy: The Magazine of the New York State Museum 4, 14

2008

J. Kirchman 2008, Bird Egg Specimens: An Ova-looked Treasure. Legacy: The Magazine of the New York State Museum 3, 8-9
J. Kirchman 2008, The New York State Museum Bird Collection: A Resource for Educators and Ornithologists, The Kingbird 58, 214-219.