Adjunct Research Associate Professor, Department of Pathology
Biosketch
Andrea Palmiotto, PhD, received her undergraduate degree at the University of South Carolina. She completed her PhD in Anthropology at the University of Florida and served as an ORISE postdoctoral fellow for the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) at Offutt AFB, NE, before accepting a civilian position with the DPAA Scientific Analysis directorate at JBPHH, HI. She is currently an associate professor of anthropology at Indiana University of Pennsylvania with research in forensic anthropology, conflict-related field recovery, and zooarchaeology. In addition to teaching and research, she offers anthropological consultation in western Pennsylvania and surrounding regions.
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Education and Training
- PhD 2015, Anthropology, University of Florida
- MA 2011, Anthropology, University of Florida
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Publications
Chadwick W., Palmiotto A. Geophysical Methods Reveal Aviation Impacturbation and Inform Forensic Archaeological Recovery of Historic Aircraft Crash Sites Archaeological Prospection. 2024;31(2):123-138.
Palmiotto A., Maijanen H., LeGarde C.B., Ingvoldstad M. Advances in commingled human remains analysis between 2014 and 2023 Journal of Forensic Sciences. 2024;69(5):1604-1619.
Palmiotto A., Winburn A.P., Pink C., Brown C.A., LeGarde C.B. Forensic anthropologists and estimates of skeletal completeness: The impacts of training and experience Science and Justice. 2024;64(1):104-116.
McCormick K., Palmiotto A., Freas L.E. Interpreting perimortem blast trauma from skeletal remains: Complications and considerations Journal of Forensic Sciences. 2023;68(4):1359-1371.
Palmiotto A., LeGarde C.B., Brown C.A. Assessing recovery rate methods: A review and application for human skeletal assemblages American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 2020;173(1):179-189.
Palmiotto A., Van Deest T.L., McCormick K., Freas L. Blast and Aircraft Crash Trauma: A Selection of WWII Cases from the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency Laboratory*,† Journal of Forensic Sciences. 2020;65(6):1806-1819.
Lynch J.J., Brown C., Palmiotto A., Maijanen H., Damann F. Reanalysis of the Trotter Tibia Quandary and its Continued Effect on Stature Estimation of Past-Conflict Service Members Journal of Forensic Sciences. 2019;64(1):171-174.
Palmiotto A., Brown C., Megyesi M. Introduction Commingled Human Remains Special Issue Forensic Anthropology. 2019;2(2):61-64.
Palmiotto A., Brown C.A., LeGarde C.B. Estimating the Number of Individuals in a Large Commingled Assemblage Forensic Anthropology. 2019;2(2):129-138.
Sassaman K.E., Wallis N.J., McFadden P.S., Mahar G.J., Jenkins J.A., Donop M.C., Monés M.P., Palmiotto A., Boucher A., Goodwin J.M., Oliveira C.I. Keeping Pace With Rising Sea: The First 6 Years of the Lower Suwannee Archaeological Survey, Gulf Coastal Florida Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology. 2017;12(2):173-199.
Palmiotto A. Indicator groups and effective seasons on the coast: Zooarchaeology of fish in the lower Suwannee region of Florida Journal of Archaeological Science Reports. 2016;7:330-343.
Sassaman K., McFadden P., Monés M., Palmiotto A., Randall A. North Gulf coastal archaeology of the here and now New Histories of Pre Columbian Florida. 2014:143-162.
Palmiotto A. A zooarchaeological synthesis of South Carolina's prehistoric coastal sites Southeastern Archaeology. 2011;30(1):166-175.
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Presentations
- The Importance of Collaboration: Reflections from a WWII Forensic Archaeology Field School. Palmiotto A, Chadwick W, Annual Meeting of the Society of American Archaeology, New Orleans, LA, 04/2024
- Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) Survey of Aircraft Impact Craters. Chadwick W, Palmiotto A, Chadwick P. , Society for Historical Archaeology, Oakland, CA, 01/2024
- Driving the Wedge: Marine Dietary Effects and the Study of Palaeomobility in Coastal Virginia and South Carolina.. Magoon DT, Palmiotto A, Krigbaum J, Smith K, Weber K, and Grimstead D. , 79th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Little Rock, AR, 11/2022
- Characteristics of Debitage Associated with Bone Tool Production: A Preliminary Assessment of the Late Archaic Pockoy Shell Ring 1 (38CH2533). Jones S, Palmiotto A, Smith KY, and Weber K, 76th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Jackson, MS, 11/2019
- The Intersection of Multiple Conflicts: The Excavation of an F-4C Crash Site in the Midst of the Dien Bien Phu Battlefield. Magoon DT, Smith MA, Palmiotto A, Campo A, Maeyama K, Annual Meeting of the Society of American Archaeology, Albuquerque, NM, 04/2019
- Fish-Based Seasonality Research in the Lower Suwannee Region of Florida Between 2630 and 2290 BC. Palmiotto A, Annual Meeting of the Society of American Archaeology, Orlando, FL, 04/2016