| Ricci Grossman | riccig@tamu.edu |  |
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| Biological Anthropology | |
| Fall 2005 | |
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Ricci received a BA in Anthropology in 2004 from Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas. While at Texas Tech, her undergraduate research focused on human osteology and bone histology, culminating in an undergraduate thesis projecting reviewing the anthropological applications of bone histology in distinguishing human from non-human bone, as well as age-at-death estimation using human bone microstructure. She is currently pursuing a PhD in Biological Anthropology at Texas A & M University. Her research interests include Homo erectus and cranio-facial morphology, particularly the shift from H. habilis to H. erectus and the subsequent shift from H. erectus to Middle Pleistocene Homo. Ricci is also interested in the ways that researchers use quantitative methods to distinguish between Pleistocene taxa, and why different approaches lead to different conclusions.
Ricci has been involved in excavations at sites in Texas, including several that were performed in conjunction with the Lubbock Lake Landmark, as well as the historic Presidio San Saba site in Menard, Texas. In August 2008, she traveled to Southwestern France to excavate at the Upper Paleolithic site of Chez le Rois. In addition to fieldwork, Ricci has worked on several presentations, including a poster entitled “Dental Enamel Hypoplasia and Middle Pleistocene Homo,” given at the 2007 Ecological Integration Symposium, hosted by Texas A & M University. She is currently working on a project that examines the continuous and discrete cranio-facial morphology of a specific fossil, KNM-ER 1805, with the intent of elucidating the phylogenetic relationship of this enigmatic specimen to contemporary Plio-Pleistocene taxa. This research will be presented at the 2009 annual meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists in Chicago, Illinois.
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