Keith (Bones) Jacobi (PhD Indiana, 1996) biological anthropologist with research interests in the health of prehistoric and historic groups. He is affiliated with both the Department of Anthropology and the Alabama Museum of Natural History. Through human osteology, paleopathology and dental anthropology Jacobi has investigated culture clashes at the time of contact. His most recent research investigated the historic Maya (16th century) of Tipu, Belize and the genetic relationships that could be gleened from examination of dental traits. Jacobi has conducted archaeological fieldwork and done skeletal analysis on material from India, Peru, Barbados and Midwestern, Southwestern and Southeastern U.S. Forensic analysis is also a research focus. Current projects include examination of prehistoric scalping, skeletal evidence of syphilis at contact, and porotic hyperostosis (anemia). He enjoys vampire fiction, Dr. Who, The Who and Groo. Jacobi currently serves as a Blount Fellow of the College of Arts and Sciences.

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Selected Publications

2000. Last Rites for the Tipu Maya: Genetic Structuring in a Colonial Cemetery. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press. 

1997. Gender and Health Among the Colonial Maya of Tipu. Ancient Mesoamerica 8: 13-22 (with M. Danforth and M. Cohen)

1997. Dental Genetic Structuring of a Colonial Maya Cemetery, Tipu, Belize. In: Bones of the Ancestors: Recent Studies of Ancient Maya Skeletons. S. L. Whittington and D. Read (editors). Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press. Pp. 138-153.

1997. The Archaeology and Osteology of Tipu. In: Bones of the Ancestors: Recent Studies of Ancient Maya Skeletons. S. L. Whittington and D. Read (editors). Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press. (With M.N. Cohen, M. E. Danforth, K. O'Connor and C. Armstrong).

1997. Late Postclassic Tooth Filing at Chau Hiix and Tipu, Belize. In: Bones of the Ancestors: Recent Studies of Ancient Maya Skeletons. S. L. Whittington and D. Read (editors). Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press. (With L. M. Havill, D. M. Warren, K. D. Gettleman, D. C. Cook and K. A. Pyburn) Pp. 89-104.

1997. An Indexed Bibliography of Prehistoric and Early Historic Maya Human Osteology 1839-1994. In: Bones of the Ancestors: Recent Studies of Ancient Maya Skeletons. S. L. Whittington and D. Read (editors). Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press. (With M. E. Danforth and S. L. Whittington) Pp. 229-259.

1993. Health and Death at Tipu. In: In The Wake of Contact: Biological Responses to Conquest. C. S. Larsen and G. R. Milner (editors). New York: Wiley-Liss. Pp. 121-133. (With M. N. Cohen, K. O'Connor, M. E. Danforth and C. Armstrong).

1992. Congenital Syphilis in the Past: Slaves at Newton Plantation, Barbados, West Indies. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 89(2):145-158. (With D. C. Cook, R. S. Corruccini and J. S. Handler).

1989. Searching for a Slave Cemetery in Barbados, West Indies: A Bioarchaeological and Ethnohistorical Investigation. Southern Illinois University at Carbondale Center for Archaeological Investigations Research Paper No. 59. Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. (With J. S. Handler and M. D. Conner).

1987. Implications of Tooth Root Hypercementosis in a Barbados Slave Skeletal Collection. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 74(2):179-184. (With R. S. Corruccini, J. S. Handler and A. C. Aufderheide).

1985. Chronological Distribution of Enamel Hypoplasias and Weaning in a Caribbean Slave Population. Human Biology 57(4):699-711. (With R. S. Corruccini and J. S. Handler).