UBELAKER, Douglas H.

UBELAKER, Douglas H. American, b. 1946. Genres: Anthropology/ Ethnology, Archaeology/Antiquities. Career: National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC, head of anthropology department, 1980-85, assistant director, 1988, became curator of anthropology. George Washington University, professorial lecturer in anatomy and anthropology, 1986-. Conducted anthropological field work in South Dakota, 1965-69, Maryland, 1971, 1972, and 1980, coastal Ecuador, 1973, 1974, and 1978-, and the Dominican Republic, 1974. American Board of Forensic Anthropology, diplomate, 1979; expert witness on the identification of human skeletal remains; consultant in forensic anthropology to Federal Bureau of Investigation and District of Columbia. Publications: (with W.M. Bass) A Review of Human Origins, 1969, 6th ed (with Bass, R.L. Jantz, and F.H. Smith), 1990; Human Skeletal Remains: Excavation, Analysis, Interpretation, 1978, 2nd ed, 1989; The Ayalan Cemetery: A Late Integration Period Burial Site on the South Coast of Ecuador, 1981; (co-ed) Plains Indian Studies: A Collection of Essays in Honor of John C. Ewers and Waldo R. Wedel, 1982; (with H. Scammell) Bones: A Forensic Detective's Casebook, 1992; (ed. with J.W. Verano, and contrib.) Disease and Demography in the Americas, 1992. Contributor to books. Contributor of articles and reviews to anthropology, archaeology, and forensic journals. Address: Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20560, U.S.A.