Anthropology: bioarchaeology, developmental stress, life history theory, hunter-gatherers, mortuary practices, biodistance analysis, children and childhood, biomechanics and activity reconstruction, diet, resilience theory and new materialism
I earned a B.A. in anthropology with a minor in history at Arizona State University (2001) and an M.S. in biological anthropology at the University of Bradford (2003). I completed a Ph.D. in biological anthropology with a graduate minor in anatomy at The Ohio State University (2007).
The early life environment and hunter-gatherers link contemporary humans to the past, present and future. Stress in the early life environment reflects systems of inequality that may be perpetuated across the human life cycle, and these experiences are recorded in skeletal and dental tissue. While the concept of “hunter-gatherer” has roots in colonial binary oppositions to industrial capitalism, these populations engage in diverse adaptive strategies that speak to the establishment of sustainable communities.
My work on the early life environment reconstructs stress using incremental microstructures of enamel. I use these data to test hypotheses relating to the social and ecological contexts for growth and relationships between stress and mortality.
My work with hunter-gatherers incorporates traditional bioarchaeological analyses with resilience theory and new materialism. I investigate questions surrounding the ways in which reciprocal relationships with nature are created and maintained in hunter-gatherer communities. These investigations incorporate measures of diet, mobility, stress, mortuary ritual, and biodistance analysis.
My research focuses on ancestral remains from Japan, Alaska, Northern Eurasia, Archaic North America, and the American Southwest.
Daniel H. Temple (2019) Bioarchaeological evidence for adaptive plasticity and constraint: Exploring life history trade-offs in the human past. Evolutionary Anthropology 28: 34-46.
Daniel H. Temple, Christopher Stojanowski (2018) Hunter-Gatherer Adaptation and Resilience: A Bioarchaeological Perspective. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 404 pp.
Daniel H. Temple (2018) Exploring linear enamel hypoplasia as an embodied product of childhood stress among Late/Final Jomon period foragers. In: Agarwal SC, Beuchesne PD, editors. Children and Childhood in the Past. Gainesville: University Press of Florida. p 239-261.
Daniel H. Temple (2016) Chronology and periodicity of linear enamel hypoplasia mmong Late/Final Jomon period foragers: Evidence from incremental microstructures of enamel. Quaternary International 405: 3-10 (Invited Contribution).
Daniel H. Temple (2014) Plasticity and constraint in response to early-life stressors among Late/Final Jomon period foragers from Japan: evidence for life history trade-offs from incremental microstructures of enamel. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 155: 537-545
Daniel H. Temple, Alan H. Goodman (2014) Bioarcheology Has a “Health” Problem: Conceptualizing Stress and Health in Bioarcheological Research. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 155: 186-191.