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Libby W. Cowgill

Professor of Anthropology

A Few Selected Publications


Previous Work


The Pectoral Girdle


SE Churchill, TW Holliday, LW Cowgill

Cowgill LW, Maddux SD, Neandertal Skeletal Anatomy: Form, Function and Paleobiology, Cambridge University Press, 2026


Development


LW Cowgill

Cowgill LW, Maddux SD, Neandertal Skeletal Anatomy: Form, Function and Paleobiology, Cambridge University Press, 2026


Neandertal Skeletal Anatomy: Form, Function and Paleobiology


Cowgill LW, Maddux SD

Cambridge University Press, 2026


Thermoregulation


T Holliday, LW Cowgill

Cowgill LW, Maddux SD, Neandertal Skeletal Anatomy: Form, Function and Paleobiology, Cambridge University Press, 2026


Neandertal Cold Adaptation: Technological, Anatomical, and Physiological Responses to Cold Stress in One of Our Closest Fossil Relatives.


T.W. Holliday, C. Ocobock, L.W. Cowgill, S.D. Maddux

American Journal of Human Biology, vol. 37, 2025, p.e70150


Ilium morphological variation during growth in forager populations


M. MacKinnon, L. Harrington, L.W. Cowgill, Kurki H.K.

Journal of Human Evolution, vol. 205, 2025, p.103717


The path less traveled: Using structural equation modeling to investigate factors influencing bone functional morphology


R.Y.A. Johnston, L.W. Cowgill

American Journal of Biological Anthropology, vol. 185, 2024, p.e24999


Asymmetry in linear measurements and cross‐sectional geometry in the humerus during ontogeny


B. Osipov, L. Harrington, L. Cowgill, M. MacKinnon, Kurki H.

American Journal of Biological Anthropology, vol. 184, 2024, p.e24940.


Gains in Relative Cortical Area during Growth and their relationship to Nutrition, Body Size, and Physical Activity.


Cowgill LW, Harrington L, MacKinnon M, Kurki H.

American Journal of Biological Anthropology, vol. 182, 2023, pp. 177-193


Variation in ontogenetic trajectories of limb dimensions is attributable to both climatic effects and neutral evolution.


Yim A-D, Cowgill LW, Katz DC, Roseman CC

Journal of Human Evolution, 2023, p. 103369


The influence of climate and population structure on East Asian skeletal morphology.


Cho EO, Cowgill LW, Middleton KM, Blomquist GE, Savoildi F, Tsoi J, Bornstein MM

Journal of Human Evolution, vol. 173, 2022, p. 103268


Appositional long bone growth: Implications for measuring cross‐sectional geometry


H. Kurki, S. Holland, Marla MacKinnon, Libby W. Cowgill, B. Osipov, L. Harrington

American Journal of Biological Anthropology, 2022, pp. 1-16


Burn or why your treadmill hour never budges the scale


Libby W. Cowgill

American Journal of Biological Anthropology, vol. 177, 2021, pp. 182-183


Estimation of body mass in white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) using cross-sectional geometry of the metapodial


R. A. Johnston, Libby W. Cowgill, R. Lyman

Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, vol. 37, 2021, p.102889


Biomechanical implications of the onset of walking.


Libby W. Cowgill, R. A. Johnston

Journal of human evolution, issue 122, 2018, pp. 133-145


Juvenile body mass estimation: A methodological evaluation.


Libby W. Cowgill

Journal of human evolution, issue 115, 2017, pp. 78-84


Femoral neck-shaft angle and climate-induced body proportions.


Stephanie L Child, Libby W. Cowgill

American journal of physical anthropology, 2017, pp. 720-35


The Appendicular Remains of the Kiik-Koba 2 Neandertal Infant


E. Trinkaus, M. Mednikova, Libby W. Cowgill

PaleoAnthropology, 2016, pp. 185−210


The Sunghir 3 Upper Paleolithic Juvenile: Pathology versus Persistence in the Paleolithic


Libby W. Cowgill, M. Mednikova, A. Buzhilova, E. Trinkaus

International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, vol. 25, 2015, pp. 176-187


The Foragers of Point Hope: The Biology and Archaeology of Humans on the Edge of the Alaskan Arctic


C. Hilton, Benjamin M. Auerbach, Libby W. Cowgill

Cambridge Press, 2014


Panel regression formulas for estimating stature and body mass from immature human skeletons: a statistical approach without reference to specific age estimates


G. Schug, Sat Gupta, Libby W. Cowgill, P. Sciulli, Samantha H. Blatt

Journal of Archaeological Science, vol. 40, 2013, pp. 3076-3086


Developmental variation in ecogeographic body proportions.


Libby W. Cowgill, C. Eleazer, Benjamin M. Auerbach, D. Temple, K. Okazaki

American journal of physical anthropology, vol. 148, 2012, pp. 557-570


Ontogeny of limb proportions in late through final Jomon period foragers.


D. Temple, K. Okazaki, Libby W. Cowgill

American journal of physical anthropology, vol. 145, 2011, pp. 415-425


One Year in Biological Anthropology: Species, Integration, and Boundaries in 2010


Libby W. Cowgill

American Anthropologist, vol. 113, 2011, pp. 213-221


Waddling and toddling: the biomechanical effects of an immature gait.


Libby W. Cowgill, A. Warrener, H. Pontzer, Cara J Ocobock

American journal of physical anthropology, vol. 143, 2010, pp. 52-61


The ontogeny of Holocene and Late Pleistocene human postcranial strength


Libby W. Cowgill

American journal of physical anthropology, vol. 141, 2009, pp. 16-37


Humeral torsion revisited: a functional and ontogenetic model for populational variation.


Libby W. Cowgill

American journal of physical anthropology, vol. 137, 2007, pp. 472-480


Shanidar 10: a Middle Paleolithic immature distal lower limb from Shanidar Cave, Iraqi Kurdistan.


Libby W. Cowgill, E. Trinkaus, M. Zeder

Journal of human evolution, vol. 53, 2007, pp. 213-223


Variation in the development of postcranial robusticity: an example from Çatalhöyük, Turkey


Libby W. Cowgill, L. Hager

International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, vol. 17, 2007, pp. 235-252

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