Bill began his work in the Fall 1998 "Human Osteology" studying the biomechanics of kneeling.  He continued in the Spring 1999 in "Directed Research" on a joint analysis of non-metric dental traits.  He traveled to Jerusalem in the Summer 1999 to further this research.  He received funding from Notre Dame's Undergraduate Research Opportunites Program.

Marie began work on the Byzantine St. Stephen's project during her semester in "Human Osteology."  She continued her research on Byzantine burial practices during her semester with Notre Dame's Tantur program in Jerusalem, and is responsible for many of the web pages related to Byzantine archaeology in this web site.  She was awarded an Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program and an Undergraduate Research Initiative grant.

John  volunteered as an intern in the Spring semester 1997 while studying abroad for a semester in the Ancient Studies program at Hebrew University in Jerusalem.  He helped collect a great deal of metric data, and began a project on non-metric dental traits.  He presented a summary of his findings at the American Association of Physical Anthropology meetings in Columbus, OH in April, 1998.

Kelley has worked on the project since the summer 1997.  She and her husband Rich helped exhume remains, teach archaeological excavation techniques, translate texts from Greek, Hebrew, French, German and Latin, survey the literature for comparative skeletal collections, and author a paper on the site's material culture. She also collected metric data on the talus.   Kelley has received funding from Notre Dame's Graduate School, Theology Department, the Catholic Biblical Association, and the ATS/Lilly Foundation.

Patrick began working on the project in the summer 1996.  He was instrumental in helping build the laboratory facilities, as well as help with exhumations.  He was also an invaluable resource for those on the project, given his familiarity with the region.

Christin participated in the Summer 2000 Field School.  She studied the frequency and severity of dental caries in the mandibular dentition.  She also compiled the web page about the Byzantine site Mamshit in the Negev. 

Christina participated in the Summer 2000 Field School,  She studied dental attrition using two wear scoring methods.  She also compiled the web page about the Byzantine monastery Gerasimus in the Judean desert. 

Alison began volunteering for the project in the Spring 1998 while a Fellow at the Albright Institute for Archaeological Research in Jerusalem.  She helped age the collection using the innominate (auricular surface morphology).   She also helped collect metric data throughout the skeleton and volunteered during the 1998-99 academic year helping Rebeccah Sanders collect data on the subadult portion of the collection.

Jill volunteered for the project in the Fall 1997 while studying abroad at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.  She helped collect metric data, and prepared of samples for a cortical bone maintenace study.

Kelly participated in the Summer 2000 Field School.  She studied dental attrition using two wear scoring methods.  She also compiled the web page about the Byzantine site Khan el-Ahmar (Euthymius) in the Judean desert. 

Eugene helped periodically on the project during the summer 1996 with a variety of activities, including preparing samples for fluoride analysis.

Angela initially volunteered for the project in the Fall 1997 while on a Fulbright Fellowship in Jerusalem.  She collected data on the metric remains, catalogued the art and iconography photo archive, and helped amass a large collection of articles related to all areas of the biocultural project.  She was hired to build the project library upon her return to Notre Dame in the summer 1998, and worked with the material until the summer 1999). 

Brian volunteered on the St. Stephen's project during the 1997-98 academic year.  He helped collect metric data on the skeletal collection, and helped locate numerous articles for the project library.

Justin analyzed the non-human skeletal remains found commingled with the human bones.  Click here to see Justin's zooarchaeological analysis of the animal bones.

Augie participated in the Summer 2000 Field School, conducting research on the frequency and severity of dental calculus (tartar build-up).  He also prepared the web page on the Byzantine city of Martyrius in the Judean desert. 

Sarah volunteered for the summer 1997 season.  She processed and sorted bones of the hands and feet, and collect data on vertebral pathology.  She presented the results on the vertebral analysis at the 1998 American Association of Physical Anthropology meetings in Salt Lake City, and recently submitted a paper for publication on these findings.

Patrick participated in the Summer 2000 Field School, conducting research on the frequency and severity of dental caries in the maxillary dentition.  He also prepared the web page on the Byzantine city of Avdat in the Negev. 

Colin volunteered on the project during the 1997-98 academic year while studying on an Anna Sobel Levy fellowship with the University of Notre Dame ROTC program.  He helped amass the large metric database for the project, and collected all measurement related to cortical bone maintenance for bending strength and osteoporosis studies.

Jerremy began working for the project in the Fall 1998 "Human Osteology" course conducting research on the biomechanics of kneeling.  He continued with the project during the summer 1999 collecting data on non-metric postcranial traits, in Jerusalem.  He will continue with the project during the 1999-2000 academic year, while working in Jerusalem.

Jenny was the first student to work on the Byzantine St. Stephen's project.  She spent two summers helping exhume and process the remains.  She studied analyzed childhood health indicators for her "Directed Research" study, and received funding from Sigma Xi, and the 2 awards from the University of Notre Dame's Undergraduate Research Opportunites Program. 

Rebeccah began working with the project in the Fall 1996 "Human Osteology" course with a study on dental defects.  She continued the work for "Directed Research", and subsequently traveled to Jerusalem for two summers.  She received funding from Notre Dame's Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program, and later a Fulbright Fellowship for 1998-99.

Tony began working on the project in a study of the biomechanics of kneeling for the Fall 1996 "Human Osteology" class.  He subsequently traveled to Jerusalem and helped exhume and process the remains, and prepare samples for chemical analysis.

Danielle first volunteered on the project during the 1998-99 academic year while a Fellow at the Albright Institute.  She helped collect data as part of Rebeccah Sanders' childhood health project.

Jaime began her work with the project by helping organize the library holdings and acquire new materials.  She continued in the Spring 1999 in a collaborative "Directed Research" project on pilgrimage, and then in the summer 1999 in Jerusalem.  She received funding from Notre Dame's Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program.

Elaine began with the Byzantine St. Stephens project in the Fall 1999.  She took over library cataloguing duties, and found numerous new additions for the library holdings.  She was also quite helpful in preparing the web site for the Summer School program.

Jenny began working for the project during the summer 2000, adding significantly to the Byzantine St. Stephen's library holding both at Notre Dame and in Jerusalem.

Jim conducted collaborative research on non-metric dental traits using dental casts for the St. Stephen's collection.  He received funding for his collaborative project from Notre Dame's Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program.  Jim worked with Jaime Ullinger and Bill Brennan who later traveled to Jerusalem to continue the study.

Alejandra began with the Byzantine St. Stephens project in the Fall 1999.  She helped wth library cataloguing, found numerous new additions for the library holdings, and helped organize the dental cast collection for the Byzantine St. Stephens project.  She was also quite helpful in pulling together many of the photographs that appear throughout this web site.

Nathaniel helped catalogue photos from the summer 1999 field season and organize the library holdings.  He also processed data from the Byzantine St. Stephen's project and helped ship much of the library to Jersualem.  Nathaniel was particularly helpful with computer-related quesitons.  Nathaniel was a valuable resource in pulling together information for the Summer Field School program, having spent a semester with Notre Dame's Tantur program in Jerusalem. 

Amador began his research as a student in the Fall 1999 Human Osteology course. He continued his work, with Marie Cable, on Byzantine burial practices during the spring semester, and was awarded an Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program and an Undergraduate Research Initiative grant.

Liz helped catalogue the osteology photo archive, process the metric data, and organize the project library.  She was also helpful in pulling together aspects of the first NSF proposal for the Summer Field School, having spent a semester in Jerusalem with Notre Dame's Tantur program.

The summer 96 team helped collect data on comparative Byzantine skeletal collections in the Levant, amass a large data base on long bone metrics, non-metric dental traits, and age indicators throughout the skeleton.  Several of the students from the Fall and Summer 1996 came to the project thru the Albright Institute Intership program.

The data collected during the 1997 academic year was incorporated into Dr. Sheridan's "Human Osteology" course. Ten students utilized raw data for research projects in class. Also, three students began a study of non-metric traits for a joint "Directed Research" project. Graduate students from Theology continued with the project, writing grants to support their research, and establishing an on-line database for the library holdings of the Byzantine Jerusalem project.

Students  collected data for a publication on the material culture commingled with the human remains, non-metric dental, cranial and post-cranial traits, and cortical bone maintenance.

The "Human Osteology" course conducted research on aspects of pilgrimage, childhood age estimation, diet, and burial customs.  Two groups looked at non-metric traits of the cranium and post-cranium, to be later synthesized with the data on dental non-metric traits.  One group studied dental pathologies such as carious lesions, abcesses, etc in a reconstruction of oral health and dietary practices.  Another group synthesized multiple methods of childhood age estimation to be used on the data collected on the subadult segment of the community.  And, one group surveyed Byzantine burial practices for comparison to the depositional context of the St. Stephen's collection.

This class studied the question of diet reconstruction using the Byzantine St. Stephens data.  One group studied the frequency of dental caries, another looked at diseases of bone associated with nutritional stress, and one group analyzed aspects of childhood growth and development in bone versus dentition. 

The summer 2000 "Field School in Biocultural Anthropology"  focused on diet reconstruction using the St. Stephen's collection.  Dental features related to diet included scoring degree of calculus build-up, attrition, and frequency of carious lesions were studied.