nicholas p. herrmann - Texas State University

NICHOLAS P. HERRMANN

Mailing Address:

Department of Anthropology

266 Evan Liberal Arts

601 University Drive

Texas State University

San Marcos, TX 78666

512-245-1781

[email protected]

Home Address:

208 W. Sierra Cir.

San Marcos, TX 78666

Education

Ph.D., University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Biological Anthropology, 2002. Title: Biological Affinities of

Archaic Period Populations from West-Central Kentucky and Tennessee.

M.A. Washington University, St. Louis, Biological Anthropology, 1990. Title: The Paleodemography of the

Read Shell Midden, 15BT10.

B.A. cum laude Washington University, St. Louis, Anthropology, 1988.

Current Position

2020-present Professor of Anthropology, Texas State University, Department of Anthropology.

Employment History

2016-20 Associate Professor of Anthropology, Texas State University, Department of Anthropology.

2012-15 Associate Professor of Anthropology, Mississippi State University, Department of Anthropology

and Middle Eastern Cultures.

2008-12 Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Mississippi State University, Department of Anthropology

and Middle Eastern Cultures.

2004-08 Research Assistant Professor, University of Tennessee, Department of Anthropology,

Archaeological Research Laboratory (ARL) and Forensic Anthropology Center (FAC).

Served as principal investigator at ARL, directed the ARL GIS lab, and functioned as

research faculty in the FAC. 2002-03 Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Tennessee, Department of Anthropology. Funded

by the Department of Anthropology and the Law Enforcement Innovation Center.

Teaching Experience

Prepared Courses (Year Taught):

Texas State University

Advanced Methods in Skeletal Biology, Part II (ANTH 5376), Fall 2021.

Advanced Methods in Skeletal Biology, Part I (ANTH 5375), Spring 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020.

Bioarchaeology (ANTH 3376Y/3304), Spring 2017, 2018, 2021; Fall 2018.

Human Osteology (ANTH 3381), Fall 2016, 2018. 2020

Introduction to Biological Anthropology (ANTH 2414), Fall 2016, 2017.

GIS in Anthropology, Spring 2019, 2021

Technical Methods in Anthropology, Fall 2019

Mississippi State University

Archaeological Field Methods: Excavation (AN3510), Summer 2011 (MS/TN), 2014 (St. Croix).

Archaeological Field Methods: Survey (AN2510), Summer 2011.

Bioarchaeology, Graduate Seminar (AN8303), Fall 2009, 2011, 2013.

CSI: MSU – Forensic Sciences Across Campus, FYE (AN1001), Fall 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013.

Forensic Anthropology (AN4313/6313), Fall 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, Spring 2013, Fall 2013.

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Human Identification (AN2990/4990), Fall 2010, 2012.

Human Variation and Origins (AN4303/6303), Spring 2009, 2011, Fall 2012.

Introduction to Biological Anthropology (AN1343), Spring 2009, 2010, 2012.

Introduction to Biological Anthropology and Laboratory (AN1344), Spring 2013, 2104.

Introduction to Anthropology (AN1103), Fall 2008.

Quantitative Methods in Anthropology (AN8013), Spring 2010, 2012, 2014.

University of the South-Sewanee, Sewanee Environmental Institute

Archaeological Field School, Instructor-Geophysics, GIS and Mapping, Summer 2010.

Archaeological Field School, Guest Lecture, GIS and Mapping, Summer 2009.

College Year in Athens, Greece

Advanced Mortuary Archaeology Field School Director, Mitrou Archaeological Project, Greece. Field

Work Summer 2006-2008, Non-Field School Laboratory analysis 2009-2014.

University of Tennessee-Knoxville

GIS in Anthropology (Anth 459), Spring 2004, 2006.

Readings in Anthropology (Anth 400), Fall 2007, Spring 2008.

Principles of Biological Anthropology (Anth 210), Fall 1998, Spring 2003.

Human Osteology (Anth 480), 1996, Fall 2002.

Human Origins: An Introduction to Physical Anthropology (Anth 110), Spring 1999.

Middle Tennessee State University

The Archaeology of Death, 2001.

Technical Instruction to Law Enforcement

Forensic Archaeology: Burial Discovery, Mapping and Excavation. National Forensic Academy,

University of Tennessee. Knoxville, Tennessee, 22 sessions. (2001-2013)

Forensic Archaeology. Human Remains Recovery Short Course, Federal Bureau of Investigation,

Evidence Response Teams. Knoxville, Tennessee. (2004-05/2000-01)

Teaching Assistant (Year):

Human Gross Anatomy, University of Tennessee (1998)

Forensic Anthropology, University of Tennessee (1994)

Human Osteology, University of Tennessee (1993)

North American Prehistory, Washington University, St. Louis (1990)

Human Variation, Washington University, St. Louis (1990)

Archaeological Field School, University of Chicago (1988)

Archaeological Field Excavation, Washington University, St. Louis (1988)

Graduate Student Committees / Mentoring (Year graduated):

University of Tennessee

Jonathan Bethard, M.A. committee, Anthropology-Physical, 2005

Edward Wells, M.A. committee, Anthropology-Archaeology, 2006

Jonathan Witcoski, M.A. committee, Geography-GIS, August 2007

Stephen Yerka, M.A. reader, Anthropology-Archaeology, 2010

Mississippi State University

William MacNeill, M.A. committee, AMEC-Archaeology, 2010

Rocco de Gregory, M.A. committee chair, AMEC-Bioarchaeology, 2012

Jesse R. English, M.A. committee, Landscape Architecture, 2012

Taft Alford, M.A. committee chair, AMEC-Bioarchaeology, 2013

Sarah Zaleski, M.A. committee chair, AMEC-Bioarchaeology, 2013

Sarah Mathena, M.A. committee co-chair, AMEC-Bioarchaeology, 2013

Jessica C. Stanton, M.A. committee chair, AMEC-Bioarchaeology, 2014

Jesse Morton, M.A. committee, AMEC-Archaeology, 2015

Kate Manning, M.A. committee, AMEC-Archaeology, 2015

Monica M. Warner, M.A. committee chair, AMEC-Bioarchaeology, 2015

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Kelly R. Kamnikar, M.A. committee co-chair, AMEC-Bioarchaeology, 2015

Stephanie Fuehr, M.A. committee, AMEC-Bioarchaeology, 2016

Stephen Michael Davis, M.A. committee chair, AMEC-Bioarchaeology, 2016

Amber Plemons, M.A. committee chair, AMEC-Bioarchaeology, 2016

Michelle Davenport, M.A. committee, AMEC-Bioarchaeology, 2016

Jonathan Blenaich, M.A. committee, AMEC-Bioarchaeology, 2016

Felicia Pena, M.A. committee, AMEC-Bioarchaeology, 2018

Texas State University (M.A. Program)

Christopher Wolfe, M.A. committee chair, Anthropology, 2017

Audrey Schaefer, M.A. committee chair, Anthropology, 2017

Mary Swearinger, M.A. committee chair, Anthropology, 2018

Robyn Kramer, M.A. committee chair, Anthropology, 2018

Melinda Rogers, M.A. committee chair, Anthropology, 2019

Jacob Cook, M.A. committee chair, Anthropology, 2019

Hailey Collord-Stalder, M.A. committee chair, Anthropology, 2020

Shanna High, M.A. committee chair, Anthropology

Hannah Trevino, M.A. committee chair, Anthropology

Ivanna Robledo, M.A. committee chair, Anthropology, 2021

Alexis Baide, M.A. committee chair, Anthropology, 2021

Texas State University (Ph.D. Program)

Sophia Mavroudas, Ph.D. committee Chair, Anthropology, ABD

Petra Banks, Ph.D. committee Chair, Anthropology, ABD

Justin Goldstein, Ph.D. committee Co-Chair, Anthropology, ABD

Ivanna Robledo, Ph.D. committee Chair, Anthropology

Krysten A. Cruz, Ph.D. committee Chair, Anthropology

Ph.D. Committees Memberships at other Institutions

Amber Plemons, Ph.D. committee, Michigan State University, Anthropology, ABD

Alexandra Ptacek, Ph.D. committee, Arizona State University, Bioarchaeology

Ancient Languages: none; Modern Languages: English

Grants (Funded)

2021-25 National Institute of Justice, Graduate Research Fellowship Program, Banks P (PI), Herrmann NP

(Co-PI), Skeletal Blast Trauma: determining the effect of known and experimental blast events on

trauma patterns, fracture behavior, and blast scene recovery approaches, Award No.: 2020-R2-

CX-0041 ($150,000).

2020-21 Research Enhancement Program, Texas State University, Bioarchaeological and Geophysical

Investigations at Ancient Eleon, Greece, 2020 ($8,000)

2019-21 National Science Foundation, Mavroudas S (PI), Herrmann NP (Co-PI), Wescott D (Co-PI),

Falleur D (Co-PI), Hamilton M (Co-PI). MRI: Acquisition of microscopy equipment to enhance

histological research in Forensic Anthropology, Biology, and Bioarchaeology, Award Number:

1920218 ($255,140).

2019-21 National Institute of Justice, Herrmann NP (PI) and Hefner J (Co-PI), entitled Investigation of

subadult dental age-at-death estimation using transition analysis and machine learning methods,

Award No. 2018-DU-BX-0182 ($898,550).

2018-21 National Science Foundation, Research Experience for Undergraduates, Ahlman T (PI),

Herrmann NP (Co-PI) and McKeown A (Co-PI), REU: Exploring Globalization through

Archaeology. Award Number: 1757702 ($408,620)

2017-18 Research Enhancement Program, Texas State University, EBAP Ancient Eleon Bioarchaeological

Project, 2018. ($8,000)

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2014 Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program 2014-2015 Senior Scholar Research Abroad Core Award entitled

The Ayioi Omoloyites Bioarchaeological Project: Confronting challenges of commingled human

remains from Hellenistic to Roman period tombs from Nicosia, Cyprus. ($33,310)

2013 Forensic Science Foundation, Inc. of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, Co-Principal

Investigator with M Warner and A Plemons, entitled Refining Hydrogen and Oxygen Isoscapes

and Trace Elements for the Identification of Human Remains in Mississippi, ($3,000)

2011-14 National Institute of Justice, Co-Principal Investigator with M Mahfouz and NR Shirley, entitled

Computerized Reconstruction of Fragmentary Skeletal Remains, Award No. 2011-DN-BX-K537

($514,495).

2008-13 National Institute of Justice with Zheng-Hua Li entitled Isotopic and Elemental Analysis of the

William Bass Donated Skeletal Collection and Other Modern Donated Collections, Award No.

2008-DN-BX-K193 ($478,500)

2008-10 National Institute of Justice with Bruce Ralston entitled Development of a Web Based

Geographic Information System for the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System

(NamUs), Award No. 2008-IJ-CX-K406 ($165,509)

2003 Tennessee Historical Commission Historic Preservation Survey and Planning Grant with Sarah C.

Sherwood entitled Fall Creek Falls Archaeological Survey and Saltpeter Mining Documentation

($19,082).

2003 National Institute of Justice with Lee Meadows Jantz entitled Evaluation of Stature Estimation

from the Database for Forensic Anthropology in the United States ($34,978).

2002 Tennessee Historical Commission Historic Preservation Survey and Planning Grant with Sarah C.

Sherwood entitled A Preliminary Archaeological Survey and GIS Base Map Development of Fall

Creek Falls State Park, Tennessee ($19,051).

2001 Kentucky Heritage Council State Planning Grant with Richard L. Jantz entitled Three-

Dimensional Morphometric Analysis of Indian Knoll Crania from Ohio County, Kentucky

($1,672).

1998 Kentucky Heritage Council Preservation Grant with Walter E. Klippel entitled Radiocarbon

Dates from the Ward and Barrett Sites from McLean County, Kentucky ($4,672).

1996 Lucas Research Grant with Joanne L. Bennett from the Forensic Sciences Foundation entitled The

Differentiation of Traumatic and Heat-Related Fractures in Burnt Bone ($500).

1987 Grant-In-Aid of Research from the Washington University Chapter of Sigma Xi for

Undergraduate Honors Thesis.

Awards

2019 Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute, CAARI/CAORC Research Fellowship,

Summer 2019, for continued research on the Ayioi Omoloyites Bioarchaeological Project and the

Ancient Kition Bioarchaeological Project, $5,500.

2017 Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute, Senior Scholar in Residence, Summer 2017.

For continued research on the Ayioi Omoloyites Bioarchaeological Project.

2014 Southeastern Archaeological Conference Patty Jo Watson Award. Presented for best article or

book chapter on Southeastern archaeology written in 2013 for the article entitled “Prehistoric

Rock Art from Painted Bluff and the Landscape of North Alabama Rock Art.” Presented at the

2014 Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Greenville, South Carolina.

2014 Travel Award, MSU Office of Research and Economic Development (ORED), College of Arts

and Sciences Academic Excellence Program. Funds for travel to the New York City Office of

Chief Medical Examiner (OCME), New York, NY. $1,100.

2014 Visiting Scientist Award, Forensic Anthropology Unit, New York City Office of Chief Medical

Examiner (OCME), October 2014, $2,500.

2014 The Ralph E. Powe Research Excellence Award, Office of Research and Economic Development,

Mississippi State University, $1,500.

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2013 Travel Award, MSU ORED, College of Arts and Sciences Academic Excellence Program. Funds

for travel to the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Tampa, FL. $600.

2013 The Impact of Red Imported Fire Ant, Solenopsis invicta, Activity on Decompositional

Communities and Post-Mortem Bone Integrity, Cross-College Research Grant, MSU ORED,

$2,000 (applying for 2014 renewal for an additional $2,000).

2012 Dean’s Eminent Scholar, Mississippi State University College of Arts & Sciences. $9,000.


for travel to the Society for American Archaeology, Memphis, TN. $667.

2011 Northeast Daily Journal Undergraduate Research Program, Faculty Advisor for Dorothy Damm,

proposal entitled “Cross-sectional Geometry to Derive Biomechanical Properties of Russell Cave

Skeletal Material,” $300.


for travel to the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Jacksonville, FL, $1,000.

2011 Invited Participant Travel Award, National Institute of Justice Sponsored Dialogues in Forensic

Science – Beyond the NAS Report, Syracuse University, October 13-16.


Science – New Techniques for Identification, Syracuse University, March 18-20.

2010 StatePride Award Recipient, Cardin Faculty Award, Mississippi State University Foundation,

$2,500.


Science – Trauma Analysis I, Syracuse University, November 5-7.


Science - Looking to the Future of Forensic Anthropology, Syracuse University, June 17-20.

2010 Taphonomic and Environmental Research at the Mississippi State University Forensic Science

Research Plot (FSRP), Cross-College Research Grant, MSU ORED, $2,000.

2010 Researcher of the Month, College of Arts and Sciences, Mississippi State University, April 2010.

2009 Research Initiation Program, Estimation of Element Frequency from the Morton Shell Mound

(16IB3) based on Three-Dimensional Computer Tomography and the Digital Bone Atlas, MSU

ORED, ($9,070)

2009 Travel Award MSU ORED. Funds for travel to Subsistence, Economy and Society in the Greek

World: Improving the integration of archaeology and science. Conference organized by

Netherlands Institute at Athens and the Hellenic Society of Archaeometry. ($1,500)

2007 Florence Stockade aDNA Study. William M. Bass Endowment for Forensic Anthropology

($1,600).

2005 William M. Bass Endowment, Forensic Anthropology Equipment Award with Joanne Devlin.

Funding for a Color Spectrophotometer for burned bone research ($3,650).

1999 William M. Bass Endowment, Forensic Anthropology Travel Scholarship ($1,000).

1999 The W. K. McClure Fund for the Study of World Affairs Scholarship from the University of

Tennessee. Funds awarded for travel to Germany and Denmark ($1,300).

1998 Sigma Xi Graduate Student Paper Competition, Second Place in Social Science Division,

University of Tennessee Sigma Xi Chapter.

1998 J. Lawrence Angel Award from the American Academy of Forensic Sciences with Lauren L.

Rockhold and Joanne L. Bennett for poster entitled “What fracture is it?” Casework from East

Tennessee.

1992 Smithsonian Institution, Ten Week Graduate Student Fellowship, National Museum of Natural

History, Department of Anthropology.

1988 Field Internship, University of Chicago Archaeological Field School.

Contracts

2018 New Salem Cemetery Histology Project, PIs: NP Herrmann, T Gocha, and S Mavroudas.

Forensic Anthropology Center, Texas State University, $18,000.

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2013-15 The Mississippi State Asylum Cemetery Project (on UMMC campus), PIs: NP Herrmann, MK

Zuckerman, and DT Anderson, Cobb Institute of Archaeology, Award #016426-001 and

#G00000789, $202,228.

2012 Excavation and Examination of the Burials from the Gale Family Cemetery, Hinds County,

Mississippi. Cobb Institute of Archaeology, Archaeological Service Center, Invoice No. 4714CI-

62, $3,000.

2012 Kemper County MS Tennessee Valley Archaeological Research Bioarchaeology Project. MSU

Award #015694-001, $7,133.

2012 Bioarchaeological Analysis of the Human Remains Recovered from the Red River Foster Site

(3LA27), Lafayette County, Cobb Institute of Archaeology, Archaeological Service Center,

Arkansas, Invoice No. 4714CI-51, $450.

2011 Geophysical Survey of the University of the South Golf Course, Sewanee, Tennessee, Cobb

Institute of Archaeology, Archaeological Service Center, Invoice No. 4714CI-50, $3,800.

2011 Bioarchaeological Analysis of the Rolling Fork Burials for Panamerican Consultants. Call out

service contract with Panamerican Consultant, Inc., Memphis, Tennessee. MSU Award

#0147047-001, $7,000.

2009 Assessment of the Nanih Waiya Mound and Earthwork for the Mississippi Band of Choctaw

Indians, MSU Award #012470-001, $15,324.

2008 Historic Properties Identification and Erosion Monitoring for the Tennessee Valley Authority

Reservoir Operations Compliance Project, MSU Award #011265-001, $6,129

2004-08 Principal Investigator on various cultural resource management, geophysical prospection, and

bioarchaeological projects at UTK Archaeological Research Lab (total contracts ~$1,400,000).

Publications (PR – Peer reviewed, NR – Non-peer reviewed)

Under Review Wolfe CA and Herrmann NP.

Interpreting error in the estimation of skeletal growth profiles from past populations: An example

demonstrating skeletal growth in historic African American communities. American Journal of

Physical Anthropology. (Re-Submitted / Under Third Review).

2021 Herrmann NP, Cruz KA, Wolfe CA, Pilides D, and Violaris Y.

Bioarchaeological Investigations of three Hellenistic to Early Christian tombs from the Ayioi

Omoloyites neighborhood in Lefkosia. In M. Gamble (Ed.), Overcoming Past Preservation Issues:

Current Research in Cyprus Bioarchaeology. Austrian Archaeological Institute. Verlag Holzhausen,

Wien. Pp. 39-52.

2020 Burke B, Burns B, Charami A, Van Damme T, Herrmann N, & Lis B

Fieldwork at Ancient Eleon in Boeotia, 2011-2018. American Journal of Archaeology 124(3): 441–

476. DOI: 10.3764/aja.124.3.0441 (PR)

2020 Kramer RT, Bartelink E, Herrmann NP, Bataille C and Spradley MK

Application of Stable Isotopes and Geostatistics to Infer Region of Geographic Origin for Deceased

Undocumented Latin American Migrants. In Humanitarian Forensic Science: Interacting with dead

and the living. Wiley-Blackwell. (PR)

2019 Zuckerman MK, Kamnikar KR, Osterholtz A, Herrmann NP and Franklin J

Applying the Index of Care to the Mississippian Period: A case study of treponematosis, physical

impairment, and probable health-related caregiving from the Holliston Mills Site, TN. International

Journal of Osteoarchaeology. 29: 843-853. DOI: 10.1002/oa.2805 (PR)

2019 Schmidt CW, Remy A, Van Sessen R, Scott R, Mahoney P, Beach J, … Herrmann NP

Dental microwear texture analysis of Homo sapiens sapiens: foragers, farmers, and pastoralists.

American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 169:207-226. DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.23815 (PR)

2018 Spradley MK, Herrmann NP, Siegert CB and McDaneld CP.

Identifying migrant remains in South Texas: policy and practice, Forensic Sciences Research, 4(1):

60-68, DOI: 10.1080/20961790.2018.1497437 (PR)

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2018 Kamnikar KR, Herrmann NP and Plemons AM

New approaches to juvenile age estimation in forensics: Application of transition analysis via the

Shackelford et al method to a diverse modern subadult sample. Human Biology 90(1):11-30. DOI: 10.13110/humanbiology.90.1.06 (PR)

2018 Warner MM, Plemons AM, Herrmann NP, and Regan LA.

Refining Stable Oxygen and Hydrogen Isoscapes for the Identification of Human Remains in

Mississippi. J Forensic Sci. doi:10.1111/1556-4029.13575 (PR)

2017 Devlin J and NP Herrmann

Advanced Scene Topics – Fire and Commingling. In M. Tersigni-Tarrant & N. Shirley (Eds.),

Forensic Anthropology: A Comprehensive Introduction (2nd ed., pp. 347–363). Boca Raton, FL,

USA: CRC Press. (PR)

2017 Mahfouz MR, Mustafa A, Abdel Fatah EE, Herrmann NP, and Langley NR

Computerized reconstruction of fragmentary skeletal remains. Forensic Science International 275:

212-223, DOI:10.1016/j.forsciint.2017.03.017. (PR)

2016 Herrmann NP, Plemons AM, and Harris

Estimating Ancestry of Fragmentary Remains Via Multiple Classifier Systems: A Study of the

Mississippi State Asylum Skeletal Assemblage. In JF Hefner, M Pilloud (eds.): Biological Distance

Analysis: Forensic and Bioarchaeological Perspectives. Elsevier, New York. Pp. 285-299. (PR)

2015 Simek J, Herrmann NP, Cressler A, and Blankenship SA

Documenting Spatial Order in the Pictograph Panels of Picture Cave (Missouri). In C Diaz-

Granados, J Duncan, FK Reilly, III (eds.): Picture Cave: Unraveling the Mysteries of the

Mississippian Cosmos. The University of Texas Press, Austin. (PR)

2014 Herrmann NP, Devlin JL, and Stanton JC

Assessment of Commingled Human Remains Using a GIS-Based and Osteological Landmark

Approach. In B Adams and J Byrd (eds.): Commingled Human Remains: Commingled Human

Remains: Methods in Recovery, Analysis, and Identification. Academic Press, Inc., New York. Pp.

221-238. (PR)

2014 Herrmann NP, Devlin JL, and Stanton JC

Bioarchaeological Spatial Analysis of the Walker-Noe (15Gd56) Crematory. In AJ Osterholtz, KM

Baustian and D Martin (eds.): Commingled and Disarticulated Human Remains: Working Towards

Improved Theory, Method, and Data, Springer, New York. Pp. 51-66. (PR)

2013 Welch PD, Hermann NP, and Cornelison, JE Jr.

Mapping Procedures. In DG Anderson, JE Cornelison, Jr., and SC Sherwood (eds.): Archeological

Investigations At Shiloh Indian Mounds National Historic Landmark (40HR7), 1999-2004 at Shiloh

National Military Park, Hardin County, Tennessee. Pp. 181-195. (PR)

2013 Simek J, Cressler A, and Herrmann NP

Prehistoric Rock Art from Painted Bluff and the Landscape of North Alabama Rock Art.

Southeastern Archaeology 32:218-234. (PR)

2013 Simek J, Sherwood SC, Herrmann NP, Bow S, Cressler A, and Carmondy S

You Can’t Take It (All) With You: Rock Art and Looting on the Cumberland Plateau of Tennessee.

IFRAO 2013 Proceedings of the American Rock Art Research Association, American Indian Rock

Art, 40:765-780. (NR)

2013 Simek J, Cressler A, Herrmann NP, and Sherwood SC

Sacred Landscapes of the Southeast: Prehistoric Rock and Cave Art in Tennessee. Antiquity, 87:1-

17. (PR)

2012 Devlin J and Herrmann NP

Taphonomy of Fire. In MT Tersigni-Tarrant and N Shirley (eds.): Forensic Anthropology: An

Introduction. CRC Press: Boca Raton. Pp. 307-324. (NR)

2010 Wilson R, Herrmann NP, and Meadows Jantz L

Evaluation of stature estimation from the Database for Forensic Anthropology. Journal of Forensic

Sciences 55(3): 684-689. (PR)

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2009 Simek JF, Blankenship SA, Herrmann NP, Sherwood SC, and Cressler A

New Rock and Cave Art Sites in Tennessee: 2007. Tennessee Archaeology 4:194-210. (PR)

2009 Adams BA and Herrmann NP

Estimation of living stature from selected anthropometric (soft tissue) measurements: Applications

for forensic anthropology. Journal of Forensic Sciences 54(4):753-760. (PR)

2008 Konigsberg LW, Herrmann NP, Wescott DJ, and Kimmerle EH

Estimation and Evidence in Forensic Anthropology: Age-at-Death. Journal of Forensic Science

53(3):541-557. (PR)

2008 Devlin JB and Herrmann NP

Bone Color as an Interpretive Tool of the Depositional History of Archaeological Cremains. In CW

Schmidt and SA Symes (eds): The Analysis of Burned Human Remains, Elsevier Press, New York.

Pp. 109-128. (PR)

2008 Herrmann NP, Bennett Devlin J

Assessment of commingled human remains using a GIS based approach. In B Adams and J Byrd

(eds.): Recovery, Analysis, and Identification of Commingled Human Remains, Humana Press, Inc.,

New York. Pp. 257-269. (PR)

2007 Herrmann NP

New Radiocarbon Dates from Three Archaic Shell Middens in Western Kentucky: Indian Knoll

(15Oh2), Ward (15McL11) and Barrett (15McL4). In S Miller, D Pollack, K Carstens, CR Moore

(eds): Current Research in Kentucky, Volume Eight. Kentucky Heritage Council, Lexington. Pp. 77-

89. (PR)

2006 Meadows Jantz L, Herrmann NP, Jantz RL, and Ubelaker DH

Skeletal Biology of Texas and Northern Mexico. In Handbook of North American Indians:

Environment, Origins, and Population. Vol. 3, pp. 590-594. Smithsonian Institution Press,

Washington DC. (PR)

2006 Herrmann NP

Chapter 10: Human Remains. In G Maggard and DL Pollack: The Highland Creek Site: Middle to

Late Archaic Wetland Utilization in Western Kentucky. Research Report Number 5. Kentucky

Archaeological Survey, Lexington. Pp 88-97. (NR)

2006 Konigsberg LW and Herrmann NP

The Osteological Evidence for Human Longevity in the Recent Past. In The Evolution of Human Life

History, K Hawkes and RR Paine (eds.). School of American Research Press, Santa Fe. Pp 267-306.

(PR)

2006 Herrmann NP, Jantz RL, and Owsley DW

Buhl Revisited: 3-D Photographic Reconstruction and Morphometric Re-evaluation. In S González

and JC Jiménez (eds): El Hombre Temprano en América y sus Implicaciones en el Poblamiento de la

Cuenca de México, INAH Publication, Mexico City. Pp. 211-220. (NR)

2005 Ahlman, TM, Marcel DL, Herrmann NP, and Creswell BA

Salvage of an Eroding Feature at the Tellico Blockhouse, Tellico Reservoir, Monroe County,

Tennessee. Tennessee Archaeology 1(2):127-134. (PR)

2002 Herrmann NP

GIS Applied to Bioarchaeology: An Example from the Rio Talgua Caves in Northeast Honduras.

Journal of Cave and Karst Studies 64(1):17-22. (PR)

2002 Morey DF, Crothers GM, Stein JK, Fenton JP, and Herrmann NP

The Fluvial and Geomorphic Context of Indian Knoll, an Archaic Shell Midden in West-Central

Kentucky. Geoarchaeology 17(6):521-553. (PR)

2002 Herrmann NP and Konigsberg LW

A Re-Examination of the Age-At-Death Distribution of Indian Knoll. In RD Hoppa and JW Vaupel

(eds.): Paleodemography, New York: Cambridge University Press. Pp. 243-257. (PR)

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Markov Chain Monte Carlo Estimation of Hazard Model Parameters in Palaeodemography. In RD

Hoppa and JW Vaupel (eds.): Paleodemography, New York: Cambridge University Press. Pp. 222-

242. (PR)

2002 Konigsberg LW, Herrmann NP, and Wescott D

Commentary on: McBride DG, Dietz MJ, Vennemeyer MT, Meadors ST, Benfer RA, Furbee NL.

Bootstrap methods for sex determination from the os coxae using the ID3 algorithm. J Forensic Sci

2001 46:424–428. Journal of Forensic Sciences 47:424-426. (PR)

1999 Herrmann NP

The Second Catholic Graveyard: A Perspective of St. Louis History. Gateway Heritage 20(1):16-25.

(NR)

1999 Rockhold-Zepho L and Herrmann NP

A Case Study of a Hit and Run Fatality: Direction of Force. In A Galloway (eds.): Broken Bones:

Anthropological Analysis of Blunt Force Trauma, CC Thomas, Springfield. Pp. 287-290. (NP)

1999 Herrmann NP and Bennett JL

The Differentiation of Traumatic and Heat-Related Fractures in Burned Bone. Journal of Forensic

Sciences 44(3):461-469. (PR)

1999 Herrmann NP, Benedix DC, Scott AM and Haskins VA

A Brief Comment on an Intentionally Modified Tooth from the Rio Talgua Region in Northeastern

Honduras. Dental Anthropology 13(2):9-12. (PR)

1997 Simek J, Faulkner C, Frankenberg S, Klippel W, Ahlman T, Herrmann NP, Sherwood S, Walker RB,

Wright WM and Yarnell R

A Preliminary Report on the Archaeology of a New Mississippian Cave Art Site in East Tennessee.

Southeastern Archaeology 16(1):51-72. (PR)

1996 Herrmann NP

Archaic Shell Mound Paleodemography: A Case Study From the Read Site (15Bt10). In SL Sanders,

TN Sanders and C Stout (eds.): Current Research in Kentucky, Volume Four, pp. 69-88. Lexington:

Kentucky Heritage Council. (NR)

1996 Haskins VA and Herrmann NP

Shell Mound Bioarchaeology. In K Carstens and PJ Watson (eds.): Of Caves and Shell Mounds, pp.

107-118. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press. (PR)

1992 Herrmann NP

An unusual example of a Calcaneus Secundarius. Journal of the American Podiatric Medical

Association 82 (12):623-624. (PR)

Book Review

2016 Herrmann NP

Book Review: Archaeodiet in the Greek World: Dietary reconstruction from stable isotope analysis.

Edited by A Papathanasiou, MP Richards, and SC Fox. The American School of Classical Studies at

Athens, Princeton, NJ. 2015. 224 pp. ISBN 978-0-87661-549-2. American Journal of Physical

Anthropology, 160: 740–741.

2009 Herrmann NP

Book Review: The Early Bronze Age I. Tombs And Burials Of Bâb Edh-Dhrâ’, Jordan. By DJ

Ortner and B Frohlich. Altamira Press. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 141(2): 333-334.

Published Abstracts

2020 Cruz KA, Herrmann NP, Pilides D, and Violaris Y.

Cribra Femora in Hellenistic to Early Christian burial samples from Ayioi Omoloyites in Lefkosia,

Cyprus. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 171(S69):61.

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2020 Cook JM and Herrmann NP.

Exploring age related changes in cortical bone in individuals over 50 using radiographs. American

Journal of Physical Anthropology 171(S69):57.

2019 Helgeson KE, Siegert CC, McDaneld CP, Herrmann NP, Spradley MK, & Hamilton MD

Midline Shifts in Modern Populations: Comparison of Migrants and a Donated Skeletal Collection.

American Journal of Physical Anthropology 168(S68):100.

2019 Wiedenmeyer EL, Spradley MK & Herrmann NP

An examination of musculoskeletal markers to analyze activity levels of a documented modern

population using the Coimbra method. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 168(S68):268-

268.

2019 Wolfe CA & Herrmann NP

Interpreting skeletal growth in the past: Error and estimation of childhood growth in historic African

American communities. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 168(S68):273.

2018 Herrmann NP, Cruz KA, Wolfe CA, Pilides D & Violaris Y

Demography and Health of the Hellenistic to Early Christian burial samples from Ayioi Omoloyites

neighborhood in Nicosia, Cyprus. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 165(S66):119.

2018 Kamnikar KR, Herrmann NP & Plemons AM

New approaches to juvenile age estimation in forensics: Application of transition analysis via the

Shackelford et al. method to a diverse modern subadult sample. American Journal of Physical

Anthropology 165(S66):135.

2018 New BT, Spradley MK, Fehren-Schmitz L & Herrmann NP

Within-population variation of Texas-Mexico border migrants: A comparative computational

analysis. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 165(S66):188.

2018 Wolfe CA, Cruz KA, Herrmann NP, Pilides D & Violaris Y

Methodological issues in the analysis of fragmentary and commingled subadult remains at the Ayioi

Omoloyites tombs of Roman to Early Christian Period Cyprus. American Journal of Physical

Anthropology 165(S66):304.

2017 Belanich JR, Jordan HR, Zuckerman, MK, Herrmann NP, Miller DS, Rosch J

The Metagenomic Analysis of Oral Microbiome Composition of Dental Calculus Recovered from

Institutionalized Individuals from the Mississippi State Asylum, Jackson MS. American Journal of

Physical Anthropology 162(S64):116.

2017 Davenport ML, Zuckerman MK, Herrmann NP, Murphy M

Pellagra mortality in the historic Mississippi State Asylum: An investigation and comparison of

skeletal data and institutional records. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 162(S64):215.

2017 Herrmann NP, Davenport ML, Plemons AM, Harley GL, Schaefer AD, Zuckerman MK

Historical Bioarchaeology and DVI: Data Integration of the Mississippi State Asylum Burial Sample

and Archival Records. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 162(S64):116.

2016 Belanich JR, Zuckerman MK, Jordan HR, Herrmann NP, Rosch JW

The reconstruction and analysis of oral microbiome composition using dental calculus from the

Mississippi State Asylum (1855-1935), Jackson, MS. American Journal of Physical Anthropology

159:91–91.

2016 Davenport ML, Herrmann NP, Zuckerman MK, Murphy M.

Pellagra in the Mississippi State Asylum: An examination of differential survivorship. American

Journal of Physical Anthropology 159:126–126.

2016 Herrmann NP, Pilides D, Violaris Y

Sorting the fragments and assessing the relationships of the Ayioi Omoloyites tombs of Hellenistic to

Roman Period Cyprus. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 159:173–173.

2016 Zaleski SM, Herrmann NP

Subsistence and mobility at Morton Shell Mound (16IB3): Analysis of femoral cross-sectional

properties. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 159:343–343.

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2016 Plemons AM, Herrmann NP, and Harris EF

A Multiple Classifier System Approach to Determining Ancestry of Fragmentary Remains: A

Preliminary Study. Proceedings of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences 68th Annual

Scientific Meeting, p. 76-77. American Academy of Forensic Sciences, Colorado Springs, CO.

2016 Kamnikar KR, Herrmann NP, Guyomarc’h PMM, and Zuckerman, MK

Estimating Age in Juvenile Crania Using Cranial Vault Thickness (CVT). Proceedings of the

American Academy of Forensic Sciences 68th Annual Scientific Meeting, p. 165. American

Academy of Forensic Sciences, Colorado Springs, CO.

2015 Zaleski AM, Weinstein KJ, and Herrmann NP

Geometric Morphometric Analyses of the Greater Sciatic Notch at Neale’s Landing (46WD39) and

Lyon’s Bluff (22OK520): A Preliminary Study. American Journal of Physical Anthropology

156(S60):331.

2015 Kamnikar KR, Zuckerman MK, Herrmann NP, and Franklin JD

Interpreting physical impairment in the Mississippian Period: A case study from the Holliston Mills

Site, TN. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 156(S60):183

2015 Warner MM, Herrmann NP, Li Z-H, Trask WR, Regan LA, and Jantz RL.

The consequence of the global supermarket on the isotope signatures of modern humans. American

Journal of Physical Anthropology 156(S60):319-320

2015 Warner MM, Plemons AM, Herrmann NP, and Henderson KL.

Refining Hydrogen and Oxygen Isoscapes for the Identification of Human Remains in Mississippi.

Proceedings of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences 67th Annual Scientific Meeting, p. 211.

American Academy of Forensic Sciences, Colorado Springs, CO.

2015 Mahfouz M, Abdel Fatah EE, Shirley NR, Herrmann NP, and Mustafa A.

Computerized Reconstruction of Fragmentary Skeletal Remains. Proceedings of the American

Academy of Forensic Sciences 67th Annual Scientific Meeting, p. 229. American Academy of

Forensic Sciences, Colorado Springs, CO.

2015 LeVaughn MM, Plemons AM, and Herrmann NP

Gone and Forgotten: A Medical Examiner’s Nightmare. Proceedings of the American Academy of

Forensic Sciences 67th Annual Scientific Meeting, p. 970. American Academy of Forensic Sciences,

Colorado Springs, CO.

2013 De Gregory JR, Herrmann NP

Dental microwear: A window into dietary texture during the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age in

East Lokris Greece. American Journal of Physical Anthropology Supplement 56:109-109.

2013 Stanton JC and Herrmann NP

The quantification and assessment of mortuary practices at Morton Shell Mound (16IB3). American

Journal of Physical Anthropology Supplement 56:262-262.

2013 Mathena SA, Zuckerman MK and Herrmann NP

Frailty, social identity and treponemal disease in the Southeastern US. American Journal of Physical

Anthropology Supplement 56:192-192.

2013 Herrmann NP, Zaleski SM

Examination of Archaic Period craniometric variation in the Middle Tennessee River Valley.

American Journal of Physical Anthropology Supplement 56:147-148.

2011 Herrmann NP, de Gregory JR, and Sparkes H.

Bioarchaeological investigations of Bronze and Iron Age burials from Mitrou and Tragana Agia

Triada in central Greece. American Journal of Physical Anthropology Supplement 52:162-162.

2011 Zaleski S and Herrmann NP

Analysis of Femoral Robusticity at Morton Shell Mound: A Preliminary Study (Abstract). Journal of

the Mississippi Academy of Sciences 56(1):123-124.

2010 Herrmann NP, Li Z-H, and Soto M.

Isotopic evaluation of modern human remains from the University of Tennessee William M. Bass

Donated Collection. American Journal of Physical Anthropology Supplement 50:127-127.

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2010 de Gregory R, Ralston BA, Yin L, and Herrmann NP.

Extensions for the NamUs databases: Geocoding and spatial search tools for forensic

anthropologists. American Journal of Physical Anthropology Supplement 50:91-92.

2009 Spradley MK, Hefner JT, and Herrmann NP.

Cranial variability in 19th century Tucson. American Journal of Physical Anthropology Supplement

48:245-245.

2009 Herrmann NP, Trask WR, Heilen MP, and Konigsberg LW.

Insights into the historical and skeletal demography of an early Tucson cemetery. American Journal

of Physical Anthropology Supplement 48:149-149.

2008 Herrmann NP, Spradley MK, Wilson RJ, and Price S.

The Plash Island Burials: the bioarchaeology of a prehistoric gulf coast community. American


2006 Adams BJ and Herrmann NP

Estimation of living stature from selected anthropometric (soft tissue) measurements: how do these

compare with osteometric (skeletal) measurements? Proceedings of the American Academy of

Forensic Sciences 12:279-280.

2006 Bennett Devlin J, Kroman A, Symes S and Herrmann NP

Heat Intensity Versus Exposure Duration Part I: Macroscopic Influence on Burned Bone.

Proceedings of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences 12:310-311.

2006 Harle MS, Wilson RJ, and Herrmann NP.

Mortality profiles for early 20th century African American communities. American Journal of

Physical Anthropology Supplement 42:100-101.

2005 Spradley MK, Wilson RJ, Jantz LM, and Herrmann NP.

Craniometric variation in the Providence Baptist Church, Shelby County, Tennessee. American


2005 Jantz LM, Wilson RJ, Herrmann NP, Spradley MK, and McCarthy DM.

Analysis of the human skeletal remains from the Memphis-Shelby County Airport historic cemetery

(40SY619). American Journal of Physical Anthropology Supplement 40:150-150.

2005 Herrmann NP, Devlin J, and Pollack D.

GIS analysis of the cremated skeletal material from the Walker-Noe site, Kentucky. American


2005 Baker LE, and Herrmann NP.

Mitochondrial DNA analysis of dental remains from two Honduran ossuary caves. American Journal


2004 Herrmann NP, Bassett MB and Meadows Jantz L

High velocity fluvial transport: an example from Tennessee. Proceedings of the American Academy

of Forensic Sciences 10:282-282.

2001 Konigsberg LW, and Herrmann NP.

Modern statistical computing in ‘R’ and ‘WinBUGS’ for physical anthropology. American Journal


Symposium/Workshop/Conference Organized

2019 Kamnikar KR, Herrmann NP

Análisis transicional para la estimacion de la edad biologica. XV Congreso de la Asociación

Latinoamericana de Antropología Forense, Puno, Peru. (October 22, 2019).

2018 Kamnikar KR, Herrmann NP, and Plemon AM

Análisis transicional para la estimacion de la edad biologica. XIV Congreso de la Asociación

Latinoamericana de Antropología Forense, Santa Marta, Colombia. (October 22, 2018).

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2018 Damann FE (Chair) and Herrmann NP (Co-Chair)

Data Standards, Archiving, and Analytics in Forensic Anthropology, The 70th Annual Scientific

Meeting, American Academy of Forensic Sciences, Washington State Convention Center, Seattle,

WA, United States. (February 19, 2018).

2015 Herrmann NP

Round Table Discussion, Bioarchaeology of Complex Tomb and Burial Deposits, Cyprus American

Archaeological Research Institute, Nicosia, Cyprus. May.

2013 Herrmann NP, Plemons AP, Kamnikar KR, and Pena FL

Mountain Swamp and Beach Southeastern Regional Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology

Conference. Conference held at Mississippi State University with the support of the Department of

Anthropology and Middle Eastern Cultures. August.

2011 Herrmann NP and Stanton JC

Bioarchaeology in the Southeastern US: Recent Investigations of Curated Collections and the

Analysis of New Discoveries. Symposium organized for the Sixty-Eighth Annual Southeastern

Archaeological Conference, Jacksonville, Florida.

2004 Herrmann NP

Mortuary Archaeology Workshop. Workshop organized at the Great Smoky Mountains Institute at

Tremont as part of the Smokey Mountain Archaeological Field School.

1997 Sherwood SC and Herrmann NP

New World Approaches to Cave Archaeology. Symposium organized for the Sixty-Second Annual

Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Nashville, Tennessee.

Invited Lectures

2018 Herrmann NP

Bioarchaeological investigations of three Hellenistic to Early Christian tombs from the Ayioi

Omoloyites neighborhood in Lefkosia. Invited workshop entitled Overcoming Past Preservation

Issues: Current Research in Bioarchaeology in Cyprus, organized by Gamble M for Austrian

Archaeological Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria. (September 4, 2018).

2018 Herrmann NP

Sorting the Fragments: Osteological Research of Hellenistic to Early Christian Tombs in Cyprus.

Hill Country Archaeological Association, Kerrville, TX, United States. (September 15, 2018).

2015 Herrmann NP

Mortuary Practices and Bioarchaeological Analyses at Early Helladic to Proto-Geometric Mitrou,

Greece. Invited lecture by the Cyprus Institute, Science and Technology in Archaeology Research

Center, Archaeological Human Remains and Mortuary Contexts Reading and Seminar Group,

Nicosia, Cyprus. April.

2015 Hermann NP

Mississippi State Asylum Cemetery Project: Reconstructing Life Histories and Identifying the

Forgotten. Invited lecture to the Department of Anthropology, Texas State University, San Marcos.

March.

2011 Herrmann NP

Recent Studies of Stature Estimation in Forensic Contexts. Invited lecture by the Committee on

Missing Persons in Cyprus, Anthropological Laboratory. International Committee of the Red Cross

and United Nations Sponsored Mission, Nicosia, Cyprus, August 2.

2011 Herrmann NP

Burned Bone Research in Forensic Anthropology. Invited lecture by the Forensic and National

Security Sciences Program at Syracuse University as part of the Dialogues in Forensic Science –

Trauma II session, sponsored by National Institute of Justice, Syracuse, New York, June 15.

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2011 Herrmann, Li Z-H, Weinand D, and Soto M

Isotopic and Elemental Analysis of the William Bass Donated Skeletal Collection

and Other Modern Donated Collections. In the “Did Colonel Mustard Really Kill Miss Scarlet in the

Library with the Lead Pipe?” Identifying Clues Through NIJ Research, Grantee symposium

organized by the National Institute of Justice, Chicago, Illinois. February.

2010 Herrmann NP

Forensic Anthropology and the Anthropological Research Facility at the University of Tennessee.

Lecture presented to the Mississippi State University Biochemistry Club, November.

2010 Herrmann NP

Forensic Anthropology. Lecture presented at the Mississippi MS State ME Training Course, Jackson,

MS. September.

2010 Herrmann NP

Isotopes and Databases: Tools For the Identification of Unknown Forensic Cases. Invited lecture to

the Department of Anthropology, Texas State University, San Marcos. February.

2009 Herrmann NP, Li Z-H, Weinand DC, Jantz RL, and Soto ME

Isotopic And Elemental Analysis of the William Bass Donated Skeletal Collection and Other Modern

Donated Collections. Invited paper presentation at the National Institute of Justice Forensic Science

Research and Development Forensic Anthropology Working Group, Alexandria, Virginia.

December.

2009 Herrmann NP

Forensic Anthropology, NamUs and Isotopes. Lecture presented at the Mississippi MS State ME

Training Course, Jackson, MS. December.

2009 Herrmann NP

Archaeology, Bones, and People: Forensic Anthropology of the Past. Lecture presented as part of

Mississippi Archaeology Month at Plymouth Bluff Center, Columbus, MS. October.

2009 Herrmann NP

Life and death in the past: bioarchaeological investigations from Bronze Age Greece to the

Prehistoric Gulf Coast. Invited lecture for the Undergraduate Anthropology Association at the

Mississippi State University, February.

2008 Herrmann NP

Bioarchaeology: the study of ancient human remains from the gulf coast to Greece. Invited lecture

for the Undergraduate Anthropology Association at the University of South Alabama, Mobile.

October.

2007 Herrmann NP

From excavation to cold cases: the role of a Forensic Anthropologist. Invited lecture at The

University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee. September.

2007 Herrmann NP

The excavation of the burial of John H. McNeil. Invited lecture at the Episcopal School of Knoxville,

Knoxville, Tennessee. February.

Posters Presented

2019 Herrmann NP, Wolfe CA, Cruz KA, Pilides D, & Violaris Y

Demography, Health, and Diet of the Hellenistic to Early Christian Burial Samples from Ayioi

Omoloyites Neighborhood in Lefkosia, Cyprus. Poster presented at the 84th Annual Meeting of the

Society for American Archaeology, Albuquerque, NM.

2019 McKeown AH, Ahlman TM, van Keulen F, Herrmann NP, & Sanders S

Introduction to Exploring Globalization and Colonization Through Archaeology and Bioarcheology

NSF REU Site. Poster presented at the 84th Annual Meeting of the Society for American

Archaeology, Albuquerque, NM.

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2019 Herrmann NP, Kramer RT, Wolfe CA, & Spradley MK

Predicting Region of Origin for Unidentified Deceased Migrants at the Texas-Mexico Border

Utilizing Stature and Stable Isotopes. Poster presented at the 71st Annual Scientific Meeting of the

American Academy of Forensic Sciences, Baltimore, MD.

2019 Swearinger MC, Herrmann NP, Spradley MK, & Mavroudas SR

The Application of Dental Cementochronology in Unidentified Migrants in South Texas. Poster

presented at the 71st Annual Scientific Meeting of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences,

Baltimore, MD.

2018 Flor-Stagnato K, Sincerbox SC, and Herrmann NP

Using Structure from Motion Photogrammetry to Quantify Volume Gain and Loss During the

Human Decomposition Process. Poster presented at the 70th Annual Scientific Meeting of the

American Academy of Forensic Sciences, Seattle, WA.

2017 Warner, M. M., Plemons, A. M., Herrmann, N. P., Regan, L. A.

Assigning Region of Origin in the Southeastern United States Using Stable Oxygen Isotopes of

Modern Human Enamel. Poster presented at the 69th Annual Scientific Meeting of the American

Academy of Forensic Sciences, New Orleans, LA.

2017 Fuehr SM, Herrmann NP, Galaty ML, and Van de Moortel A

Examining Diet using Stable Isotopes Throughout Prehistoric Greece. Poster presented at the 118th

Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America and the Society for Classical Studies,

Toronto, Canada.

2017 Van de Moortel A, Herrmann NP, Zahou E, Vitale S, Hale C

Radiocarbon (AMS) Dates of Early Helladic III and Early Prepalatial Child Burials from Mitrou,

Poster presented at the 118th Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America and the

Society for Classical Studies, Toronto, Canada.


Differentiating Burial Contexts at Russell Cave, Alabama: pXRF and Dental Analyses. Poster

presented at the Eighty-First Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Orlando,

FL.

2014 Kamnikar KR, Plemons AM, Herrmann NP, Anderson DT and Zuckerman MK

Forensic Methods Applied in Bioarchaeological Contexts: The Gale Family Cemetery. Poster

presented at the Seventy-Ninth Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Austin,

TX.

2014 Fuehr S, Herrmann NP, Kulhavy K and Batziou A

Osteological Analysis and Regional Comparison of a Mycenaean Burial from the site of Pefkakia

near Volos, Greece. Poster presented at the Seventy-ninth Annual Meeting of the Society for

American Archaeology. Austin, TX.

2013 Anderson AS and Herrmann NP

Lytic Lesions on the Euboean: A Case Study From Bronze Age Mitrou. Poster presented at the

Fortieth Annual North American Meeting of the Paleopathology Association. Knoxville, Tennessee.

2013 Li Z-H, Herrmann NP, Jantz RL, and Soto ME

Isotope Forensic Evaluation of Modern Human Remains From the University of Tennessee William

M. Bass Donated Skeletal Collection. Poster presented at the Sixty-fifth Annual Meeting of the

American Academy of Forensic Sciences, Washington D.C.

2013 Yerka SJ, Devlin JL, and Herrmann NP

Multi-Instrument Geophysical Surveys of Buried Human Remains in East Tennessee. Poster

presented at the Sixty-fifth Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences,

Washington D.C.

2013 Plemons AM, Herrmann NP, Damann FE, and Willard ST

An Examination of Postmortem Interval Relative to Microbial Biomass of Soil at the MSU Forensic

Science Research Facility Plot. Poster presented at the Sixty-fifth Annual Meeting of the American

Academy of Forensic Sciences, Washington D.C.

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2013 Plemons AM, Herrmann NP, Anderson DT, and Zuckerman MK

Recent Bioarchaeological Investigations in Jackson, Mississippi: Issues and Observations. Poster

presented at the Annual Meeting of the Mississippi Archaeological Association, Tupelo, MS.

2012 Sherwood SC, Carmody SB, Herrmann NP, Knoll MM, and Bow SM

Sandstone Rockshelter Site Formation on the Southern Cumberland Plateau of Tennessee:

Geoarchaeology, Archaeobotany, Artifact Analysis and Remote Sensing. Poster presented at the 77th

Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Memphis, TN.

2012 Mathena S, Herrmann NP, and Zuckerman MK.

Preliminary Analysis: Spatial Distribution of Pathological Elements in the Morton Shell Mound.

Poster presented at the 39th Annual North American Meeting of the Paleopathology Association.

Portland, Oregon.

2012 Dunn B, Follett F and Herrmann N

Analysis of lithic raw material and prehistoric pottery from two sites within the Mill Creek drainage

of the Tombigbee National Forest, Winston County, Mississippi. Poster presented at the Mississippi

Archaeological Society Annual Meeting, Ocean Springs, MS.

2012 de Gregory JR and Herrmann NP

Pits and Scratches: an examination of dental microwear of two Bronze Age sites in East Lokris,

Greece. Poster presented at the 113th Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America.

Philadelphia, PA.

2011 Herrmann NP, JR de Gregory, and H Sparkes

Bioarchaeological investigations of Bronze and Iron Age burials from Mitrou and Agia Triada in

central Greece. Poster presented at the Eightieth Annual Meeting of the American Association of

Physical Anthropologists, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

2011 Herrmann NP, JR de Gregory, and H Sparkes

Bioarchaeological Research at Mitrou, a Bronze and Iron Age Site in East Lokris, Greece. Poster

presented at the 112th Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, San Antonio,

Texas.

2010 Herrmann NP, Stanton JC, and Devlin JL

Bioarchaeological Spatial Analysis of the Walker-Noe (15Gd56) Crematory. Poster presented at the

Sixty-Seventh Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Lexington,

Kentucky.

2010 Westmoreland SL, Herrmann NP

Oral health at the Leist Site (22SH520): A mound complex in the Lower Yazoo Basin. Poster

presented at the MSU Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium, Starkville.

2010 de Gregory JR, Ralston BA, Yin L, and Herrmann NP

Extensions for the NamUs databases: Geocoding and spatial search tools for forensic

anthropologists. Poster presented at the Seventy-Nine Annual Meeting of the American Association

of Physical Anthropologists, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

2010 Herrmann NP, Li Z-H, and Soto M

Isotopic evaluation of modern human remains from the University of Tennessee William M. Bass

Donated Collection. Poster presented at the Seventy-Nine Annual Meeting of the American

Association of Physical Anthropologists, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

2010 Herrmann NP, de Gregory JR

Dietary reconstruction at Mitrou: insights into Bronze and Iron Age subsistence in central Greece.

Poster presented at the International Conference Subsistence, Economy and Society In The Greek

World: Improving the integration of archaeology and science organized by the Netherlands Institute

at Athens and the Hellenic Society of Archaeometry, Athens.

2010 Stanton JC, Herrmann NP, de Gregory JR, and Burnworth BB.

Quantifying the Fragments: bioarchaeological methods for commingled remains. Poster presented at

the Mississippi Archaeological Association and Louisiana Archaeological Society Joint Meeting,

Monroe, Louisiana.

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2009 Herrmann NP, Trask WR, Heilen MP, and Konigsberg LW

Insights into the historical and skeletal demography of an early Tucson cemetery. Poster presented at

Seventy-Eighth Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Chicago,

Illinois.

2009 Spradley MK, Hefner JT, and Herrmann NP

Cranial variability in 19th century Tucson. Poster presented at Seventy-Eighth Annual Meeting of

the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Chicago, Illinois.

2009 Yerka SJ, Brock DWH, Hollenbach KD, and Herrmann NP

Structures and processing in Townsend archaeology: Intra-site spatial analysis of a Woodland

occupation in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains, Tennessee. Poster presented at the

Seventy-Fourth Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Atlanta, Georgia.

2008 Yerka SJ, Herrmann NP, Carr M, and Angst M

Ground truthing Cherokee Farm: documenting 40KN45 using high-resolution geophysical survey

and excavation. Poster presented at the Sixty-Fifth Annual Meeting of the Southeastern

Archaeological Conference, Charlotte, North Carolina.

2008 Black R, Herrmann NP, and Yerka SJ

Burial excavation and recovery from the Jarvis-Rogers Cemetery in Pleasant Hill, Cumberland

County, Tennessee. Poster presented at the Sixty-Fifth Annual Meeting of the Southeastern

Archaeological Conference, Charlotte, North Carolina.

2008 Herrmann NP, Spradley MK, Wilson R and Price S

The Plash Island burials: the bioarchaeology of a prehistoric gulf coast community. Poster presented

at Seventy-Seventh Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists,

Columbus, Ohio.

2008 Herrmann NP, Spradley MK, Wilson R and Price S

The bioarchaeology of the Plash Island site (1BA134), Alabama. Poster presented at Seventy-Third

Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

2007 Herrmann NP, Devlin J and Pollack D

Walker-Noe: methodological approach and analysis of a commingled middle Woodland crematory.

Poster presented at Twenty-Fourth Annual Kentucky Heritage Council Archaeological Conference,

Natural Bridge State Park, Kentucky.

2006 Wells E, Sherwood SC, Herrmann NP and Hollenbach KD

Temporal and functional analyses of soapstone artifacts from the Townsend excavations, eastern

Tennessee. Poster presented at the Sixty-Third Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological

Conference, Little Rock, Arkansas.

2006 Bennett Devlin J, Herrmann NP and Pollack D

GIS analysis of commingled and cremated bone. Poster presented at Seventy-First Annual Meeting

of the Society for American Archaeology. San Juan, Puerto Rico.

2006 Harle MS, Wilson RJ and Herrmann NP

Mortality profiles for early 20th century African American communities. Poster presented at Seventy-

Fifth Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists. Anchorage, Alaska.

2006 Bennett Devlin J, Kroman A, Herrmann NP and Symes S

Time, temperature, and color: burned bone reconsidered. Poster presented at the Fifty-Eighth

Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, Seattle, Washington.

2005 Herrmann NP, Devlin J, Pollack D

GIS analysis of the cremated skeletal material from the Walker-Noe site, Kentucky. Poster presented

at Seventy-Fourth Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists.

Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

2005 Meadows Jantz L, Wilson RJ, Herrmann NP, Spradley MK, McCarthy DM

Analysis of the human skeletal remains from the Memphis-Shelby County Airport historic cemetery

(40SY619). Poster presented at Seventy-Fourth Annual Meeting of the American Association of

Physical Anthropologists. Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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2005 Spradley MK, Wilson RJ, Meadows Jantz L, and Herrmann NP

Craniometric variation in the Providence Baptist Church, Shelby County, Tennessee. Poster

presented at Seventy-Fourth Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical

Anthropologists. Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

2004 Herrmann NP, Bassett MB and Meadows Jantz L

High velocity fluvial transport: an example from Tennessee. Poster presented at the Fifty-Sixth

Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, Dallas, Texas.


Modern statistical computing in "R" and "Winbugs" for physical anthropology. Poster presented at

the Seventieth Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Kansas

City, Missouri.

2000 Sparks CS, Herrmann NP and Meadows Jantz L

Evidence of treponematosis at Mission Nuestra Senora del Refugio (41RF1), Texas. Poster presented

at the Seventh Annual Midwest Bioarchaeology and Forensic Anthropology Association Meeting.

Columbia, Missouri

1999 Benedix DC, Herrmann NP, Haskins VA, and Flournoy LE

Analysis of dental remains from Honduran ossuary caves. Poster presented at the Sixty-Eighth

Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Columbus, Ohio.

1998 Rockhold LA, Herrmann NP and Bennett JL

“What fracture is it?” casework from east Tennessee. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the

American Academy of Forensic Sciences, San Francisco.

Papers Presented

2018 Kramer RT, Herrmann NP, Bartelink EJ, Spradley MK

The Application of Stable Isotopes and Geostatistics to Infer Region of Geographic Residence for

Undocumented Migrants. Paper presented at 70th Annual Scientific Meeting of the American

Academy of Forensic Sciences, Seattle, WA.

2018 Brendan B and Herrmann NP

Emerging Elites at Early Mycenaean Eleon. Paper presented at the 119th Annual Meeting of the

Archaeological Institute of America and the Society for Classical Studies, Boston, MA.

2017 Kramer RT, Bartelink EJ, Herrmann NP, Spradley MK, Bataille C

Application of stable isotopes and geostatistics to infer region of geographic residence for

undocumented migrants.," Paper presented at the XIII Congresso Associação Latino-Americana De

Antropologia Forense, São Paulo, Brazil.

2017 Brendan B, Burns B, Charami A, Kyriazi O, and Herrmann NP

The Early Mycenaean Funerary Enclosure at Ancient Eleon in Eastern Boeotia. Paper presented at

118th Annual Meetting of the Archaeological Institute of America and the Society for Classical

Studies, Toronto, Canada.

2016 Herrmann NP, Pilides D, and Violaris Y

Bioarchaeological Studies of Hellenistic to Roman Period Tombs from the Ayioi

Omoloyites Neighborhood in Nicosia, Cyprus. Paper presented at the 2016 American Schools of

Oriental Research Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX.

2015 Mathena S, Zuckerman MK, Herrmann NP and Copeland TJ

A Multistage Model for Treponemal Disease Susceptibility. Paper presented at the 80th Annual

Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, San Francisco, California.

2015 Zuckerman MK, Herrmann NP and Peacock E

Quantifying Pre-Industrial to Mid-Late 20th Century Anthropogenic Lead and Mercury Pollution in

Caribbean Marine Environments. Paper presented at the 80th Annual Meeting of the Society for

American Archaeology, San Francisco, California.

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2015 Anderson DT, Herrmann NP, Zuckerman MK and Miller DS

Recent Archaeological Excavations at the Aklis site, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands. Paper presented

at the 80th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, San Francisco, California.

2014 Herrmann NP and Stanton JC

Mortuary Variability in the Late Woodland to Early Mississippian Period in the Lower

Mississippi Valley and Central Gulf Coast: A View from Morton Shell Mound. Paper presented in the

symposium entitled The Link Between Mortuary Analysis and Advances in Scientific Methods:

Developing Cultural Context, organized by Deskaj S and Michael at the 79th Annual Meeting of the

Society for American Archaeology. Austin, TX

2014 Zuckerman MK, Herrmann NP, Plemons AM, Murphy M, and Anderson DT

Institutionalized Lives, Institutionalized Bodies: Preliminary Data from Excavations at the

Mississippi State Lunatic Asylum (1855-1935), Jackson, MS. Paper presented in the symposium

entitled The Embodied Politics of Inequality and Pain: Case Studies from Bioarchaeology, organized

by Martin D and Crandall J at the 79th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Austin, TX

2014 Herrmann NP, Anderson DT, Cureton T, Harris S, Henry E, Harley G, Johnson JK, Murphy M, Warner

MM, and Zuckerman MK

From a Single Grave to the Huffington Post: An Update on the Mississippi State Asylum Cemetery

Project. Paper presented at Annual Meeting of the Mississippi Archaeological Association, Jackson,

Mississippi.

2013 Hermann NP, Stanton JC, and Zaleski SM

Shells and Fragments: Examining Mortuary Activities at the Morton Shell Mound. Paper presented

in the symposium entitled Subsistence, Settlement, History, and Identity: Current Approaches to the

Investigation of Shell Middens, Mounds, and Rings of the Southeastern United States organized by T

Bissett and S Carmody at the Seventieth Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological

Conference, Tampa, FL.

2013 Mahfouz M, Abdel Fatah EE, Shirley NR, Herrmann NP, and Mustafa A

Computerized Reconstruction of Fragmentary Skeletal Remains. Paper presented at the 65th Annual

Meeting of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, Washington D.C.

2012 Yerka SJ, Devlin JL, and Herrmann NP

Multi-instrument Geophysical Survey of Historic and Experimental Human Burials in Middle and

East Tennessee. Paper presented at the Archaeological Sciences of the Americas Symposium,

Nashville, TN.


Bioarchaelogical Analysis of Burials Recovered From Rolling Fork Mounds. Paper presented in an

invited symposium at the 77th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology entitled

Recent Investigations at the Rolling Fork Site: Late Mississippian in the Lower Delta. Memphis, TN.

2012 Schroedl G, Yerka SJ and Herrmann NP

The Application of Digital Information Systems to Archaeological Investigations at Cherokee Farm,

Tennessee. Paper presented in an invited symposium at the 77th Annual Meeting of the Society for

American Archaeology entitled Dig It! Intersections Between Excavation Methods and Recording

Systems. Memphis, TN.

2012 Harle M and Herrmann NP

Tennessee Valley New Deal Archaeology’s Contributions to Bioarchaeology. Paper presented in the

Biennial Gordon R. Willey invited symposium at the 77th Annual Meeting of the Society for

American Archaeology entitled The History of Archaeology: New Deal Archaeology in the

Tennessee Valley. Memphis, TN.

2012 Stewart C, Herrmann NP and Wrobel G

Skeletal Remains from Caves Branch Rockshelter: A GIS-approach. Paper presented at the 77th

Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Memphis, TN.

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2012 Sherwood SC, Carmody SB, Herrmann NP, Bow SM, and Knoll MM

Michaels Shelter (40FR276): Preliminary Remote Sensing, Chronology, Geoarchaeology,

Archaeobotany, and Ceramic Analysis. Paper presented at the Current Research in Tennessee

Archaeology, 24th Annual Meeting, Nashville, TN.

2012 Simek JF, Sherwood SC, Herrmann NP, Bow SM, Cressler A, and Carmody SB

You Can’t Take It (All) With You: Archaeological Significance and Looted Sites in the Cumberland

Plateau. Paper presented at the Current Research in Tennessee Archaeology, 24th Annual Meeting,

Nashville, TN.

2011 Herrmann NP and Zaleski S

Preliminary Assessment of the Burials Recovered from Russell Cave during the 1956-8 Miller

Excavations. Paper presented at the Sixty-Eighth Annual Southeastern Archaeological Conference,

Jacksonville, Florida.

2011 Stanton JC and Herrmann NP

Preliminary Analysis of the Mortuary Program at the Morton Shell Mound Ossuary. Paper presented

at the Sixty-Eighth Annual Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Jacksonville, Florida.

2011 Anderson DG, Herrmann NP, Miller DS, and Yerka SJ

Archaeological Information System Standard Design Concepts. Paper presented at the Electronic

Symposium organized by the Digital Data Interest Group at the Annual Meeting of the Society for

American Archaeology, Sacramento, CA. Current version available online for comment at

http://visiblepast.net/see/americas/archaeological-information-system-standard-design-concepts/ .

2011 Herrmann NP, O’Hear JW, and Haley BS.

Archaeological Investigations at the Origin: History, Mapping, GIS and Geophysics at the Nanih

Waiya Mound Site. Paper presented at the Mississippi Archaeological Association Annual Meeting,

Greenville, Mississippi.


Analysis of Femoral Robusticity at Morton Shell Mound: A Preliminary Study. Paper presented at the

Mississippi Academy of Sciences Annual Meeting, Hattiesburg, Mississippi.

2010 O’Hear JW, Herrmann NP, and Haley BS.

Preliminary Archaeological Investigations at the Origin: History, Mapping, GIS and Geophysics at

the Nanih Waiya Mound Site. Paper presented at the Sixty-Seventh Annual Meeting of the

Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Lexington, Kentucky.

2010 Sherwood SC, Simek JF, Blankenship SA, Herrmann NP and Cressler A

People in High Places: Human Images in Tennessee Rock Art. Paper presented at the Seventy-Fifth

Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, St. Louis, Missouri.

2010 Yerka SJ, Herrmann NP, and Gage MD

Curing the Data: Managing Information Systems and Digital Data at Tennessee's ARL. Digital

Paper presented at the Seventy-Fifth Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, St.

Louis, Missouri.

2010 Iacobelli AL, Belz C, and Herrmann NP

Surface Survey at the Site of Mitrou in East Lokris, Greece. Paper presented at the 111th Annual

Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, Anaheim, California.

2010 Hefner JT, Heilen MP, and Herrmann NP

Historical and Skeletal Demography: Geospatial Approaches in the Interpretation of a Historical-

Period Cemetery. Paper presented as part of the invited symposium “The Spatial Archaeology of

Identity: Past, Present, Future” at the Society for Historical Archaeology’s Conference on Historical

and Underwater Archaeology, Amelia Island, Florida.

2010 Gage MD, Herrmann NP, and Yerka SJ

Five Winters of the TVA Reservoir Operations Compliance Project. Paper presented at the Twenty-

Second Annual Current Research in Tennessee Archaeology Meeting, Nashville, Tennessee.

http://visiblepast.net/see/americas/archaeological-information-system-standard-design-concepts/

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2009 Ralston B, Herrmann NP, Yin L, and de Gregory R

Geocoding and Spatial Search of NamUs Databases. Paper presented at the Tenth Crime Mapping

Research Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana.

2009 Herrmann NP, Simek JF, Sherwood SC and Blankenship SA

Sacred Landscapes of the Southeast: Prehistoric Rock and Cave Art in Tennessee. Paper presented at

the Seventy-Fourth Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Atlanta, Georgia.

2006 Herrmann NP

An assessment of post-marital residence in the Green River Archaic. Paper presented at the Twenty-

Third Annual Kentucky Heritage Council Conference, Bowling Green, Kentucky.

2006 Gage M and Herrmann NP

Jon boat archaeology: the first two years of the Tennessee Valley Reservoir Operations Compliance

project. Paper presented at the Sixty-Third Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological

Conference, Little Rock, Arkansas.

2006 Simek JF, Blankenship SA, Herrmann NP and Cressler A

Documenting spatial order in the pictograph panels of Picture Cave (Missouri). Paper presented at

the Sixty-Third Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Little Rock,

Arkansas.

2006 Adams BJ and Herrmann NP

Estimation of living stature from selected anthropometric (soft tissue) measurements: how do these

compare with osteometric (skeletal) measurements? Paper presented at the Fifty-Eighth Annual

Meeting of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, Seattle, Washington.

2006 Herrmann NP, Meadows Jantz L and Wilson RJ

Evaluation of stature estimation from the Database for Forensic Anthropology in the United States.

Invited luncheon speaker at the National Institute of Justice Grantees Meeting, Seattle, Washington.

2005 Ahlman TA and Herrmann NP

Development of an archaeological predictive model for the Cumberland Gap National Historical

Park, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia. Paper presented at Seventieth Annual Meeting of the

Society for American Archaeology, Salt Lake City, Utah.

2005 Herrmann NP, Fried D, Kuemin Drews N, and Jantz RL

Regional cranial morphological variation at the transition from paleoindian to archaic. Paper

presented at Seventieth Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Salt Lake City,

Utah.

2005 Baker LE and Herrmann NP

Mitochondrial DNA analysis of dental remains from two Honduran ossuary caves. Paper presented

at Seventy-Fourth Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists.

Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

2005 Herrmann NP

Stature estimation. Presentation in Uses and Abuses of Statistics and Fordisc in Forensic

Anthropology, Workshop at American Academy of Forensic Sciences, New Orleans, Louisiana.

2005 Wilson R, Meadows Jantz L, and Herrmann NP

Grant Update: Evaluation of stature estimation from the Database for Forensic Anthropology in the

United States. National Institute of Justice, Office of Science and Technology, Investigative and

Forensic Sciences Division, 2005 General Forensics R&D Grantees Meeting, New Orleans,

Louisiana.

2004 Herrmann NP, Wilson R, and Meadows Jantz L

Grant Update: Evaluation of stature estimation from the Database for Forensic Anthropology in the

United States. National Institute of Justice, Office of Science and Technology, Investigative and

Forensic Sciences Division, 2004 General Forensics R&D Grantees Meeting, Dallas, Texas.

2003 Herrmann NP

Population structure of the Green River archaic. Paper presented at the Sixtieth Annual Meeting of

the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Charlotte, North Carolina.

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2003 Herrmann NP, Drews N and Freid D

A morphometric examination of Indian Knoll. Paper presented at the Nineteenth Annual Kentucky

Heritage Council Conference. Louisville, Kentucky.

2002 Herrmann NP, Jantz RL and Owsley DW

Buhl revisited: 3D photographic reconstruction and morphometric re-evaluation. Paper presented at

the El Hombre Temprano en América y sus Implicaciones en el Poblamiento de la Cuenca de

México, Primer Simposio Internacional, Mexico City, Mexico.

2002 Herrmann NP

Is there any craniometric variation at Indian Knoll? Paper presented at the Nineteenth Annual

Kentucky Heritage Council Conference. Frankfort, Kentucky.

2001 Frankenberg S and Herrmann NP

GIS-based exploratory modeling of site locations around Tennessee Reservoirs. Paper presented at

the Fifty-Eighth Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Chattanooga,

Tennessee.

2001 Herrmann NP

Death on the frontier: unraveling the mystery of the Logan’s Fort burial. Invited paper presented at

the Sixth Annual Ohio County Conference entitled “Archaeology and the American Wars for

Empire: 1754-1794", Greensberg, Pennsylvania.

2000 Fenton JP and Herrmann NP

Finding the boundaries: laboratory research on Indian Knoll. Paper presented at the Fifty-Seventh

Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Macon, Georgia.

2000 Herrmann NP and Konigsberg LW

A re-examination of the age-at-death distribution of Indian Knoll. Presented at the Palaeo-

demography Workshop organized by Robert Hoppa and James Vaupel of the Max Planck Institute

for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany.


Markov chain Monte Carlo estimation of hazard model parameters in paleodemography. Presented

at the Palaeodemography Workshop organized by Robert Hoppa and James Vaupel of the Max

Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany.

2000 Herrmann NP and Fenton JP

A report on new radiocarbon dates and recent investigations at three Green River archaic sites.

Paper presented at the Seventeenth Annual Kentucky Heritage Council Conference. Bowling Green,

Kentucky.

2000 Herrmann NP

Burial caves of the Rio Talgua in northeastern Honduras. Presentation to the Indiana State

University Department of Geology, Geography and Anthropology. Terra Haute, Indiana.

1999 Fenton JP, Herrmann NP, Rankin C, and McBride D

Recent investigations at Indian Knoll. Paper presented at the Fifty-Sixth Annual Meeting of the

Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Pensacola, Florida.


Gibbs sampler estimation of hazard model parameters in paleodemography. Presented at

“Mathematical Modeling for Palaeodemography: Coming to Consensus” a Workshop organized by

Robert Hoppa and James Vaupel, of the Max-Planck-Institut für demografische Forschung, Rostock,

Germany.

1999 Herrmann NP and Jantz RL

Biological distance measures between middle Missouri skeletal samples: a metric and nonmetric

comparison. Presented at the Sixty-Eighth Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical

Anthropologists, Columbus, Ohio.

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1999 Konigsberg LW, Herrmann NP, and Wescott DJ

Reevaluation of component approaches to age estimation from the human pubic symphysis.

Presented at the Sixty-Eighth Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical

Anthropologists, Columbus, Ohio.

1999 Herrmann NP

Commingled remains from the Second Catholic Grave Yard, St. Louis, Missouri. Paper presented at

the Sixty-Fourth Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Chicago, Illinois.

1998 Herrmann NP

Age-at-death distribution estimation: an example from Indian Knoll. Paper presented at the Ninety-

Seventh Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.


Exploration of ossuary caves in eastern Honduras. Paper presented at the National Speleological

Society Annual Meetings, Sewannee, Tennessee.

1998 McKeown AH, Herrmann NP and Meadows Jantz L

Assessment of error and bias in age estimation. Paper presented at the Sixty-Seventh Annual

Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Salt Lake City, Utah.

1998 Herrmann NP and McBride WS

Documentation of the human burial from Logan's Fort, Kentucky. Paper presented at the Fifty-Fifth

Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Greenville, South Carolina. Report

available at URL: http://web.utcc.utk.edu/~herrmann/

1998 Herrmann NP

The age-at-death distribution of Indian Knoll: how should it be estimated? Presented at the Sixty-

Seventh Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Salt Lake City,

Utah.

1998 Herrmann NP

Analysis of the human burial from Logan’s Fort, Kentucky. Paper presented at the Fifteenth Annual

Kentucky Heritage Council Conference. Murray, Kentucky.

1998 Meadows Jantz L, Herrmann NP and McKeown AH

Evaluation of age data from the Forensic Data Bank: part II. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting

of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, San Francisco.

1997 Bennett JL and Herrmann NP

Evaluating trauma on burned bone. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American

Academy of Forensic Sciences, New York.

1997 McKeown AH, Meadows Jantz L and Herrmann NP

Evaluation of age data from the Forensic Data Bank. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the

American Academy of Forensic Sciences, New York.

1997 Herrmann NP

Foul air on the Knoll: the prevalence of maxillary sinusitis at Indian Knoll and the Ward Site. Paper

presented at the Fifty-Fourth Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Baton

Rouge, Louisiana.


Documentation of human skeletal remains from ossuary caves: an example from eastern Honduras.

Paper presented at the Sixty-Second Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology,

Nashville, Tennessee.

1996 Marks MK, Herrmann NP and Gerard DA

Prehistoric dental calculus: a case study from the Averbuch site. Presented at the Annual Meeting of

the Paleopathology Association Meeting, Durham, North Carolina.

1996 Herrmann NP and Adams BJ

Cranial nonmetric traits of Averbuch: a study of biodistance. Presented at the Sixty-Fifth Annual

Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Durham, North Carolina.

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1995 Prescott J, Ahlman T, Herrmann NP, Groover M and Owens DD

The Golf Range site: material culture and history of an urban community in Knoxville. Paper

presented at the Fifty-Second Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference,

Knoxville, Tennessee.

1995 Simek J, Frankenberg S, Faulkner C, Klippel W, Sherwood S, Ahlman T and Herrmann NP

Marble Bluff Cave: a new Mississippian mud glyph site from east Tennessee. Paper presented at the

Fifty-Second Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Knoxville,

Tennessee.

1995 Herrmann NP and Polhemus RR

Recent investigations at the McCroskey Island site, 40SV43, Sevier County, Tennessee. Paper

presented at the Fifty-Second Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference,

Knoxville, Tennessee.

1994 Herrmann NP

The gateway to death: a bioarchaeological study of an early nineteenth century cemetery from St.

Louis. Paper presented at the Thirty-Ninth Annual Midwest Archaeological Conference in

Lexington, Kentucky.

1993 Herrmann NP

Shell mound paleodemography: a case study from the Read site. Paper presented at the Tenth Annual

Kentucky Heritage Council Conference. Lexington, Kentucky.

1992 Herrmann NP

Human burials analyzed during data recovery along the Transwestern Mainline Expansion Project.

Paper presented at the Sixty-Fifth Annual Pecos Conference, Pecos, New Mexico.

1991 Herrmann NP

The paleodemography of the Read Shell Midden. Paper presented at the Fifty-Sixth Annual Meeting

of the Society for American Archaeology, New Orleans, Louisiana.

1991 Hamilton C and Herrmann NP

The Jefferson Avenue cemetery: an historical and bioarchaeological perspective. Paper presented at

the Fifty-Sixth Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, New Orleans, Louisiana.


Shell mound bioarchaeology: an overview of past research from the Green River Region and

preliminary observations on new data from the Read Site, 15BT10. Presented at the Forty-Sixth

Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Tampa, Florida.

1989 Herrmann NP

Taphonomic and site formation processes effecting the skeletal remains from an archaic floodplain

mortuary site in the lower Illinois River valley. Presented at the Fifty-Eighth Annual Meeting of the

American Association of Physical Anthropologists, San Diego, California.

Professional Working Groups / Workshop Attended

2011 Dialogues in Forensic Science, Invited Participant, National Institute of Justice sponsored

workshop, Beyond the NAS Report, Syracuse University.


workshop, New Techniques for Identification, Syracuse University.


workshop, New Techniques for Identification, Syracuse University.


workshops, Looking to the Future of Forensic Anthropology and Trauma Analysis I, Syracuse

University.

2008-10 Scientific Working Group for Forensic Anthropology (SWGANTH), Federal Bureau of

Investigation and the Department of Defense Central Identification Laboratory (DoD CIL),

Stature Estimation Best Practices

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2009 National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs) Workshop, Attendee. Workshop

offered at the American Academy of Forensic Sciences Sixty-First Annual Scientific Meeting,

Seattle, Washington.

Professional Societies

American Association of Physical Anthropologists (~1995-present)

American Academy of Forensic Sciences, Fellow (~1998-present)

Dental Anthropology Association (prior years and 2011-present)

National Speleological Society (~2000-present)

Mississippi Association of Professional Archaeologists (2008-present)

Sigma Xi (~1995-present)

Society for American Archaeology (~1993-present)

Southeastern Archaeological Conference (~1993-present)

Society for Archaeological Sciences (2011-present)

Service

Professional Service

Manuscript and Proposal Review

Southeastern Archaeology (pre-2006)

International Journal of Osteoarchaeology (pre-2006)

Journal of Cave and Karst (2011)

Historic Archaeology (2011)

COST - European Cooperation in Science and Technology (2011)

Journal of Archaeological Science (2012)

American Journal of Physical Anthropology (2013-2014)

Forensic Anthropology (2017-present)

Judge, J. Lawrence Angel Student Award, American Academy of Forensic Sciences, Physical Anthropology

Section (February 2011-present).

Departmental Committees/Activities

TX State, Department, Archaeologist (2019-20), Primatologist (2017-18)

TX State, Faculty Mentor, Forensic Anthropology Society (2018-present)

TX State, Graduate Student Evaluation Committee

AMEC, Department SE Archaeologist Search 2013-14

AMEC, Department Head Search Committee, 2012-13

AMEC, Cultural Anthropology Faculty Hire Committee, Summer 2009 (interview/review process)

AMEC, Biological Anthropologist/Bioarchaeologist Faculty Hire Committee Chair, Fall-Spring 2010-11

(interview/review process)

AMEC, Graduate Student Recruitment and Interviews, 2008-present

AMEC, Faculty Advisor for the Anthropology Club, 2011-2014

AMEC Graduate program and Biological Anthropology course development: 2008-2014, Quantitative

Methods (AN8013), Human Identification (AN2990), Introduction to Biological Anthropology and

Laboratory (AN1344), Introduction to Forensic Anthropology (AN3343), and Human Osteology

(AN4313/6313)

University Committees/Activities

TX State, University, Renovations Committee (2019-present)

TX State, COLA, Graduate Fellowships Committee (2019-present)

MS State, Arts and Sciences, College Promotion and Tenure Committee, 2013-14

MS State, Arts and Sciences, College Dean Search Committee, 2012-13

MS State, Arts and Sciences Faculty Senate, 2011-12

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MS State, Arts and Sciences Faculty Senate, Secretary, 2011-12

MS State, Alternative Instructional Methods, committee member - Dr. David Breaux, Chair, 2010

MS State, National Council of Research Administrators (NCURA) Peer Review Participant, Fall 2011

MS State, CTL, First Year Experience Seminar, Panel Member, Fall 2011

Community

Forensic Anthropology/Bioarchaeological Consulting services

University of South Alabama – Forensic and osteological collections

Monroe County, MS Medical Examiner (Fall 2008)

Lee County, MS Sheriffs Department, Scene Search (Spring 2009)

Mississippi Department of Transportation (Fall 2009)

Mississippi State Medical Examiners Office Casework (2010-present)

Mississippi State Medical Examiners Office Coroner Training Program (2009 - 2014)

Forensic Cases Submitted:

MSU 2010-01 (SME10-0327)

MSU 2010-03 (SME10-0993)

MSU 2010-04 (SME10-0981)

MSU 2011-01 (Tate County, MS)

MSU 2012-01 (Oktibbeha Co., MS)

MSU 2013-01 (Hines Co., MS)


MSU 2014-01 (Panola Co., MS)

MSU 2014-02 (Sharkey Co., MS)

MSU 2014-03 (Scott Co., MS)

MSU 2014-04 (Lauderdale Co., MS)

MSU 2014-05 (George Co., MS)


Law Enforcement Training

University of Tennessee, National Forensic Academy, 2002-2013, 21 courses

Technical Reports

Physical Anthropology/Bioarchaeology/Forensics

2016 Mahfouz MR, Langley NR, Herrmann NP, and Abdel Fatah EE

Computerized Reconstruction of Fragmentary Skeletal Remains for Purposes of Extracting

Osteometric Measurements and Estimating MNI. Report submitted to National Institute of Justice,

Office of Investigative and Forensic Sciences, Washington, DC. NCJ Report #249948.

2013 Herrmann NP, Li Z-H, and Warner MM with contributions from Trask W, Weinand D and Soto M

Isotopic and Elemental Analysis of the William Bass Donated Skeletal Collection and Other Modern

Donated Collections. Report submitted to National Institute of Justice, Office of Investigative and

Forensic Sciences, Washington, DC. NCJ Report #248669.


The Bioarchaeological Analysis of the Human Remains Recovered from the Red River Foster Site

(3LA27), Lafayette County, Arkansas. Draft report submitted to Panamerican Consultants, Inc.

Memphis, Tennessee.


The Bioarchaeological Analysis of the Human Burials Recovered from the Rolling Fork Mound Site

(22SH506), Shaky County, Mississippi. Draft report submitted to Panamerican Consultants, Inc.

Memphis, Tennessee.

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2010 Ralston B and Herrmann NP

Development of a Web Based Geographic Information System for the National Missing and

Unidentified Persons System (NamUs). Report submitted to National Institute of Justice, Office of

Science & Technology, Geospatial and Crime Mapping Research, Washington, D.C.

2008 Herrmann NP, Spradley MK, and Wilson RJ

Chapter 13: Bioarchaeology of the Plash Island Burials. In Phase III Archaeology at Plash Island by

Price SE. Report prepared by Center for Archaeological Studies, University of South Alabama,

Mobile.

2007 Herrmann NP

Bioarchaeological analysis of Burial 1 from site 38FL2, Florence, South Carolina. Draft report

submitted to MACTEC Engineering and Consulting, Knoxville, TN.

2006 Herrmann NP, Meadows Jantz L, and Wilson RJ

Evaluation of stature estimation from the Database for Forensic Anthropology. Report submitted to

National Institute of Justice, Office of Science & Technology, Investigative and Forensic Science

Division, Washington, D.C.

2002 Meadows Jantz L, Jantz RL, Herrmann NP, Sparks CS, Weisensee KE, and Kopp D

Nuestra Señora del Refugio (41RF1), Refurio County, Texas: Volume II Osteological Analysis.

Texas Department of Transportation, Archaeological Studies Program, Report No. 39.

2000 Herrmann NP

Report on the Analysis of Human Remains Recovered from 15ME62. Prepared for Wilbur Smith

Associates. Lexington, Kentucky.

1999 Herrmann NP

Report on the Analysis of Human Remains Recovered from 15UN127. Report prepared for the

Kentucky Archaeological Survey, Lexington, Kentucky.

1998 Herrmann NP

A Report on the Human Burial Recovered from Logan's Fort (15LI95), Kentucky. Manuscript

submitted to the Kentucky Archaeological Survey, Lexington, Kentucky.

1997 Herrmann NP

A Report on the Human Skeletal Remains Recovered During the 1996-97 Field Seasons from the

Campana At San Andrés, El Salvador. Manuscript submitted to Mr. Chris Begley, Project Director,

San Andrés Archaeological Project, El Salvador.

1996 Herrmann NP

Appendix A: A Report on the Human Burials From McCroskey Island, 40SV43. In RR Polhemus:

Phase III Archaeological Survey and Monitoring During Construction of the McCroskey Island

Wastewater Treatment Plant Expansion, Sevier County, Tennessee. Prepared for Jordan, Jones and

Goulding and Sevierville Water Systems.

1996 Harl J, Naglish D and Herrmann NP

Grave Information: Insights into Nineteenth Century Ideology Based on Archaeological

Investigations at the Second Catholic Grave Yard (23SL733), St. Louis, Missouri. Research Report

No. 33. Archaeological Research Center, St. Louis. Prepared for Environmental Protection Agency,

St. Louis City Police Department and the Catholic Archdiocese of St. Louis.

1995 Frankenberg S, Ahlman T and Herrmann NP

Preliminary Archaeological Reconnaissance of a Possible Cemetery on the Planned Rivermont

Estates, Kingsport, Tennessee. Report prepared for Old Republic National Title Insurance Company.

1994 Herrmann NP

Analysis of Skeletal Material from 15MA99. Report prepared for Wilbur Smith Associates,

Lexington, Kentucky.

1994 Herrmann NP

Preliminary Analysis of Burial 1 from the Stelzer Site in North St. Louis County. Report prepared

for Archaeological Services, University of Missouri, St. Louis.

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1993 Herrmann NP, Ogilvie MD, Hilton C and Brown KL

Human Remains and Burial Goods, Volume XVIII. In Across the Colorado Plateau:

Anthropological Studies for the Transwestern Pipeline Expansion Project. Albuquerque: Office of

Contract Archeology, University of New Mexico. Prepared for Transwestern Pipeline Company,

UNM Project No. 185-423.

Archaeology/Geophysical/GIS

2014 Cureton T, Harris S, Herrmann NP, Warner M, and Johnson JK

Archaeological Survey of Site 22HI859: A Historic Cemetery On The University Of Mississippi

Medical Center Campus, Jackson, Mississippi. Report prepared by The Center for Archaeological

Research at University of Mississippi and the Cobb Institute of Archaeology at Mississippi State

University for the University of Mississippi Medical Center.

2013 Herrmann NP and Warner MM

Archaeological Monitoring Management Summary for The UMMC Parking Garage. Management

summary submitted to the University of Mississippi Medical Center, Hines County, Mississippi.

2012 Herrmann NP

Geophysical Survey of the University of the South Golf Course, Sewanee, Tennessee. Digital data

and ArcGIS Coverages submitted to The University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee.

2011 Herrmann NP and O’Hear JW

Assessment of the Nanih Waiya Mound and Earthwork for the Mississippi Band of the Choctaw

Indians. Report prepared for the Mississippi Band of the Choctaw Indians, Philadelphia, Mississippi.

2011 Des Jean T and Herrmann NP

Civil War Effects on the Home Front: Scott County and Areas of the Upper Cumberland Plateau.

Report submitted by the Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area and the University of

Tennessee Archaeological Research Laboratory to Eastern National, Fort Washington, Pennsylvania.

2009 Gage MD and Herrmann NP with contributions by Angst MG, Creswell BA, Guymon GL, Kocis JJ,

and Sherwood SC

Archaeological Site Identification and Erosion Monitoring for the TVA Reservoir Operation

Compliance Project: the 2005-2009 Field Season on Portions of Blue Ridge, Chatuge, Cherokee,

Fontana, Hiwassee, Norris, Nottely, and Wheeler Reservoirs. Draft report prepared for the Tennessee

Valley Authority, Cultural Resources, Knoxville, Tennessee.

2008 Gage MD and Herrmann NP


Compliance Project: the 2008 Field Season on Portions of Blue Ridge, Chatuge, Cherokee, Fontana,

Hiwassee, Norris, Nottely, and Wheeler Reservoirs. Management Summary Prepared for the

Tennessee Valley Authority, Cultural Resources, Knoxville, Tennessee.

2008 Herrmann NP, Yerka SJ, and Carr M

Geophysical Prospection of the First United Methodist Church in Madisonville, Monroe County,

Tennessee. Report prepared for Joe Penland and the First United Methodist Church, Madisonville,

Tennessee.

2007 Herrmann NP, Angst MG, Cressler A, Creswell BA, and Guymon GL

Phase I Archaeological Survey of Caves 40OV57 and 40OV107, Overton County, Tennessee. Report

submitted to the Louis Berger Group, Raleigh, North Carolina.

2007 Sullivan LP, Harle MS and Herrmann NP

Predictive Model for Archaeological Site Locations in the French Broad River Conservation

Corridor. Report submitted to the Tennessee Historical Commission by the Archaeological Research

Laboratory and the Frank H. McClung Museum, University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

2007 Herrmann NP, Yerka SJ and Kocis J

Geophysical Prospection of the cemetery on Carson-Newman College campus in Jefferson City,

Jefferson County, Tennessee. Report prepared for Carson-Newman College, Jefferson City,

Tennessee.

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2007 Herrmann NP and Yerka SJ

Geophysical Prospection of Two Possible Graves within the Proposed Highway 52 Right-Of-Way in

Scott County, Tennessee. Report prepared for Tennessee Department of Transportation, Relocation

Assistance & Property Management, Knoxville, Tennessee.



Compliance Project: the 2007 Field Season on Portions of Fontana, Norris, and Wheeler Reservoirs.

Report prepared for Tennessee Valley Authority, Cultural Resources, Knoxville, Tennessee.

2007 Herrmann NP and Yerka S

Geophysical Prospection of the Possible Location of Camp Van Dorn in North Knoxville, Knox

County, Tennessee. Report prepared for Bob Monday, Knoxville, Tennessee.

2006 Herrmann NP

Geophysical Prospection of Light Pole Locations at Old Gray Cemetery in Knoxville, Knox County,

Tennessee. Report prepared for Alix F. Dempster, Old Gray Cemetery Educational, Historic and

Memorial Association, Knoxville, Tennessee.

2006 Herrmann NP

Geophysical Prospection of the Office at Old Gray Cemetery in Knoxville, Knox County, Tennessee.

Report prepared for Alix F. Dempster, Old Gray Cemetery Educational, Historic and Memorial

Association, Knoxville, Tennessee.

2006 Herrmann NP

Wood Creek South Subdivision Cemetery Geophysical Survey in Knox County, Tennessee. Report

prepared for Michael C. Rhodes, Knoxville, Tennessee.



Compliance Project: the 2006 Field Season on Portions of Blue Ridge, Chatuge, Cherokee, Fontana,

Hiwassee, Norris, Nottely, Pickwick, South Holston, Watauga, and Wheeler Reservoirs. Report

prepared for Tennessee Valley Authority, Cultural Resources, Knoxville, Tennessee.

2006 Herrmann NP

Ground Penetrating Radar Survey of the Tyree Cemetery in Smith County, Tennessee. Report

prepared for Hamilton Tyree, Goodlettsville, Tennessee.

2005 Herrmann NP

Ground Penetrating Radar Survey of the McCloud Cemetery in Halls, Knox County, Tennessee.

Report prepared for James E. Heath, 312 Gregg Road, Powell, Tennessee.

2005 Ahlman TM, Guymon GL, and Herrmann NP

Archaeological Overview and Assessment of the Cumberland Gap National Historical Park,

Kentucky, Tennessee, And Virginia. Report prepared for National Park Service, Cumberland Gap

National Historical Park, Middlesboro, Kentucky.

2004 Herrmann NP

Ground Penetrating Radar Survey of the Quarles/Burton Slave Cemetery near Cookeville, Putnam

County, Tennessee. Report Prepared for Trustees of the Quarles/Burton Cemetery, Cookeville,

Tennessee.

2000 Frankenberg SR and Herrmann NP

Archaeological Reconnaissance Survey of Tennessee Valley Authority Lands on the Tellico

Reservoir. Report prepared for the Cultural Resources Group at the Tennessee Valley Authority,

Norris, Tennessee.

2000 Herrmann NP and Frankenberg SR

Archaeological Reconnaissance Survey of Tennessee Valley Authority Lands on the Melton Hill


Norris, Tennessee.

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2000 Frankenberg SR, Herrmann NP and Ahlman TM

Archaeological Reconnaissance Survey of Tennessee Valley Authority Lands on the Cherokee


Norris, Tennessee.

2000 Ahlman TM, Frankenberg SR and Herrmann NP

Archaeological Reconnaissance Survey of Tennessee Valley Authority Lands on the Watts Bar


Norris, Tennessee.

1994 Herrmann NP, Huser WA, Fenton JP and Shaffer BS

Phase II Testing at Sites 15HD249, 15HD253 and 15HD420 in the Right-Of-Way of KY Route 313

Hardin County, KY. Wilbur Smith Associates, Research Report #2. Submitted to Kentucky

Transportation Cabinet, Frankfort.

1994 Herrmann NP

Sites LA 88509, LA 88510, LA 88511, LA 88512, LA 88513, LA 88514 and LA 88524. In Burchett

TW, Vierra BJ and Brown KL (eds.): Across the Colorado Plateau: Anthropological Studies for the

Transwestern Pipeline Expansion Project, Volume XIV. Albuquerque: Office of Contract

Archeology, University of New Mexico, pp. 82-109 and 118-125. Prepared for Transwestern

Pipeline Company, UNM Project No. 185-423.

Field and Laboratory Experience

2018-present Co-Project Director with Dr Efthymia Nikita (Cyprus Institute), The Ancient Kition

Bioarchaeological Project, Larnaka, Cyprus in partnership with the Republic of Cyprus

Department of Antiquities.

2013-present Project Director, Ayioi Omoloyites Bioarchaeological Project, Lefkosia, Cyprus in partnership

with the Republic of Cyprus Department of Antiquities.

2016-present Project Bioarchaeologist, EBAP Eleon Excavations, Project Directors B Burke and B Burns,

Arma, Greece.

2006-present Project Bioarchaeologist/Mortuary Field School Director. Mitrou Archaeological Project,

Tragana, Greece. Directors: Dr. Aleydis Van de Moortel of the University of Tennessee,

Department of Classics and Eleni Zahou of the Ephoreia of Classical and Prehistorical Antiquities

(IDEPKA), Lamia.

2005-06 Bioarchaeologist. Plash Island Archaeological Project. University of South Alabama. Performed

the excavation and analysis of burials from the Plash Island Site (1BA134), Alabama.

2003-07 GIS Coordinator/Bioarchaeologist. Archaeological Research Laboratory under the direction of

Dr. Boyce Driskell, The University of Tennessee, Department of Anthropology.

2004-11 GIS Specialist. Mitrou Archaeological Project, Tragana, Greece. Directors: Dr. Aleydis Van de

Moortel of the University of Tennessee, Department of Classics and Eleni Zahou of the Ephoreia

of Classical and Prehistorical Antiquities (IDEPKA), Lamia.

2000-02 Archaeological Contractor. Tennessee Valley Authority. Cultural Resource Management Office,

Norris, Tennessee. Cultural Resource Management, Archaeological Survey and Assessment.

2000 Project Director/Osteologist. University of Tennessee, Osteology Laboratory. Assist in the

inventory, analysis, and description of the Mission Nuestra Señora del Refugio (41RF1) skeletal

collection from Refugio, Texas.

1995-00 Field Director. University of Tennessee, Contract Archaeology Program. Directed numerous

reservoir survey projects as well as several Phase I and II investigations. Duties include survey

field crew supervision, GIS mapping and report production.

1997 Project Osteologist. San Andres Archaeological Project, El Salvador. Documented and recorded

human skeletal material from the Campana Excavations and Skeletal Material from the Rio

Ceniza Valley Survey.

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1993-97 Graduate Assistant. University of Tennessee, Forensic Anthropology Center, under the direction

of Dr. William Bass and Dr. Murray Marks. Participated in over 30 field recovery cases and

coauthored 35 forensic anthropology case reports. Served as teaching assistant for the Human

Osteology and Forensic Anthropology classes.

1996 Project Osteologist. Rio Talgua Archaeological Project, Catacamas, Honduras. Documented and

inventoried human skeletal material from Cueva Arañas Fantasmas and Cueva del Rio Talgua.

1992-95 Crew Chief/Field Technician. Various Locations: Metcalf Archaeological Consultants, Eagle,

Colorado. Conducted investigations in Colorado, Wyoming, and North Dakota. Fall 1992. Wilbur

Smith Associates, Lexington, Kentucky. Supervised investigations for Kentucky Department of

Transportation projects. Duties included the direction of the field crew, artifact analysis, and

report production. Summer 1993. University of Tennessee Watts Bar Reservoir Survey Project,

Phase I Investigations. 1993-1995.

1992 Visiting Researcher. Smithsonian Institution, Department of Anthropology, Graduate Student

Fellowship. Conducted paleodemographic and paleopathological research on the Second Catholic

Cemetery Skeletal Collection from St. Louis, Missouri.

1991-92 Project Physical Anthropologist/Crew Chief. Office of Contract Archaeology-ENRON Branch,

University of New Mexico. Duties include the supervision of crew, analysis of human skeletal

remains, and report preparation (majority of sites date to Pueblo II period).

1990-91 Research Analyst/Physical Anthropologist. University of Missouri-St. Louis Archaeological

Survey. Worked as a field technician on various projects including survey, testing and mitigation.

Supervised field crews during survey. Conducted the skeletal analysis of the Jefferson Avenue

Cemetery collection (23SL733) and material from the Simpson Quarry site.

1989-90 Computer Consultant. Social Science Computing Facility, Washington University. Duties

included supervision of the computer lab as well as assisting students and faculty with word

processing software, statistical programs, and activities on the mainframe.

1988 Field Intern. Bullseye Site (11GE127), Greene County, Illinois. University of Chicago

Archaeological Field School. Duties included the supervision of students in field and processing

human burials in laboratory. Summer.

1987-88 Archaeology and Zooarchaeology Laboratories Assistant. Work-Study Student, Washington

University. Duties included processing and inventorying archaeological and faunal collections,

preparation of comparative faunal specimens, and computer applications.

1985-87 Field Schools: Audrey-North, Greene County, Illinois; Bridgeton (23SL442), St. Louis County,

Missouri; and Bullseye (11Ge127), Greene County, Illinois.

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