Emily Moes

Biographic Data

ID4045904
NAMEEmily Moes
GIVEN NAMESEmily
FAMILY NAMEMoes
SIGNATUREMOES E
AFFILIATIONSDepartment of Anthropology University of New Mexico Albuquerque New Mexico USA
ORCID0000-0002-0037-7604
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS9
AUTHOR COUNT9
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2018
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX2

  • Comparing Biodistance Estimates from Deciduous and Permanent Dental Morphology in the Pre-Spanish US Southwest

    Open AccessEmily Moes, L O''Donnell et al.ARTICLEDental Anthropology Journal2026

    Biodistance analysis using dental nonmetric traits is a key method to examine population structure in the past. Researchers often favor permanent teeth rather than deciduous dentitions when examining biodistance in archaeological assemblages, despite being correlated. We compare the results of biodistance analyses using 79 permanent and 32 deciduous dental morphological traits from the ancestral remains of 351 individuals with permanent teeth and…

  • Mortuary Practices and the Importance of Rock-Shelters during the Early and Middle Holocene in the Southern Maya Mountains

    Emily Moes, L O''Donnell et al.ARTICLEBioarchaeology International2024

    Research at two rock-shelters in the Maya Mountains of southern Belize, Mayahak Cab Pek and Saki Tzul, documents their persistent use as mortuary spaces over 9000 years, spanning the end of the last ice age until the end of the Classic period. These sites offer a rare diachronic view of mortuary behaviors within a single region of the neotropics spanning from early foragers through a long interval of transitional farmers. Here, we provide the fir…

  • No relationship found between dental fluctuating asymmetry, birthweight, and birth term in two modern North American samples

    Open AccessCait B Mcpherson, L O''Donnell et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Human Biology2024

    Deciduous DFA does not predict aspects of birth phenotype associated with gestational stress. Birthweight and birth term are plastic relative to the more developmentally stable deciduous dentition, which may only subtly embody early life stress. We suggest that deciduous DFA should be utilized with caution in DOHaD studies until its relationship with gestational stress is clarified

  • Oral health among New Mexican decedents aged 35-44 using NMDID postmortem CT scans

    Open AccessHannah Cantrell, Hannah Cantrell Hannah Cantrell et al.ARTICLEDental Anthropology Journal2024References: 2

    Factors that contribute to general health disparities also contribute to dental health disparities. Using postmortem CT scans from the New Mexico Decedent Image Database, we investigated dental health among recently (2010-2017) deceased New Mexicans. We predicted that race/ethnicity, substance use, and rural living are associated with poorer dental health. The sample (n = 305) represents 32 of the 33 counties in the state, with equal representati…

  • Sex differences in linear enamel hypoplasia prevalence and frailty in Ancestral Puebloans

    Open AccessL O''Donnell, Emily MoesARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science…2021Cited by: 2References: 24

  • Conventional microscopy makes perikymata count and spacing data feasible for large samples

    Open AccessH J H Edgar, Emily Moes et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Physical…2021References: 63

    Objectives Current methods of quantifying defects of dental enamel (DDE) include either gross or low‐level examination for linear enamel hypoplasia, histological analysis of striae of Retzius, or scanning electron microscopy (SEM) of a tooth or a tooth cast. Gross examination has been shown to miss many defects. Other methods can be destructive, require transporting samples, and are expensive. Here, we show that digital light microscopy (DLM) can…

  • Increased dental fluctuating asymmetry is associated with active skeletal lesions, but not mortality hazards in the precontact Southwest United States

    Open AccessL O''Donnell, Emily MoesARTICLEAmerican Journal of Physical…2021Cited by: 5References: 84

    OBJECTIVE: This study examines whether individuals with higher dental fluctuating asymmetry (DFA) are frailer than those with lower DFA, by examining whether increased DFA is associated with skeletal lesion formation. SUBJECTS AND METHODS: 150 individuals with permanent teeth and 64 individuals with deciduous teeth. All individuals are Ancestral Puebloans from archaeological sites in modern-day New Mexico. We estimate DFA in three ways: (a) decid…

  • Colonialism, ethnogenesis, and biogeographic ancestry in the US Southwest

    Open AccessKeith Hunley, Emily Moes et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Physical…2021References: 22

    OBJECTIVE: Differences between self-perceived biogeographic ancestry and estimates derived from DNA are potentially informative about the formation of ethnic identities in different sociohistorical contexts. Here, we compared self-estimates and DNA-estimates in New Mexico, where notions of shared ancestry and ethnic identity have been shaped by centuries of migration and admixture. MATERIALS AND METHODS: We asked 507 New Mexicans of Spanish-speak…

  • Differential Impacts of Subsistence on Developmental Stress in Prehistoric Ohio Valley Children

    Open AccessEmily Moes, H Blatt et al.ARTICLEDental Anthropology Journal2018Cited by: 2References: 8

    Bioarchaeologists often assume that the intensification of agriculture results in an increase in physiological stress, but it is necessary to also consider duration and age of occurrence of stress events. Linear enamel hypoplasias (LEH) are indicators of such events. By analyzing LEH on the permanent anterior teeth of 40 children from prehistoric Ohio Valley, this project compares the timing and duration of stress events of foragers (4000-3000 B.…