Amanda Henry, Research associate, is a doctoral candidate in the Hominid Paleobiology Doctoral Program of the Anthropology Department at George Washington University, whose research focuses on modern human origins and using plant microfossils to reconstruct diet.

My current research interests lie in using phytoliths and starch grains to recover information about the plant diet of early modern humans and Neanderthals. I hope to use these data to test theories on the role 'modern behavior' and climate had in controlling diet of these groups.

Education and Degrees:

B.A. in Anthropology, Brown University, 2002

Selected Publications:
Wood B and Henry AG. (2007) Whose diet? An introduction to hominin taxonomy. In P. Ungar (ed). Evolution of the human diet: The known, the unknown and the unknowable. Oxford, Oxford University Press. pp 11-28.

Henry AG, Gordon KD, Trinkaus E, Brooks AS. (2006) Teeth as tools? A comparison of Neanderthal and Early Modern Human incisor microwear. Paleoanthropology Appendix: A 88

Henry, A. G., Piperno, D., and Brooks, A. S. (2007) "Reconstructing human diet from plant microfossils preserved in dental calculus: a case study from Tell al-Raqa'i, Syria. Paleoanthropology Appendix

Amanda Henry, ahenry@gwu.edu

Predoctoral fellow