Dr Emma Pomeroy

Burke, A., Pomeroy, E., Poisot, T., Albouy, B. and Paquin, S., 2026. Spatial resilience and population replacement in Europe during MIS 3: a comparative study of Neanderthals and H. sapiens Quaternary Science Reviews, v. 377
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2026.109850

López-Polín, L., Theodoraki, K., Holman, J., Hunt, C., Reynolds, T., Twyman, J., Barker, G. and Pomeroy, E., 2026. A first report on the conservation of the Shanidar A Neanderthal Bulletins et Mémoires de la Société d anthropologie de Paris, v. 38
Doi: http://doi.org/10.4000/15hig

Arlegi, M., Mounier, A. and Pomeroy, E., 2026. Cranio-cervical integration and the role of posture: From extant anthropoids to Neanderthals Bulletins et Mémoires de la Société d anthropologie de Paris, v. 38
Doi: http://doi.org/10.4000/15hh7

Pomeroy, E., Holman, J., Hunt, CO., Bennett, P., Reynolds, T., Farr, L., López-Polín, L., Twyman, J., Lane, R. and Barker, G., 2025 (Accepted for publication). Excavating the archives: new perspectives on the Shanidar Cave Neanderthals/ Fouiller les archives : nouvelles perspectives sur les Néandertaliens de la grotte de Shanidar Bulletins et Memoires de la Societe d'Anthropologie de Paris,
Doi: http://doi.org/10.4000/13pt3

Cao, D., Liu, X., Gu, W., Zhu, H., Zhang, R., Zhou, Z., Wei, Q., Zou, J., Qiu, Y., Chen, J., Ding, L., Pomeroy, E. and Yuan, H., 2025. Dental caries as indicators of agricultural practices in the foothills of Neolithic China Archaeological Research in Asia, v. 43
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.ara.2025.100645

Cao, D., Crema, E. and Pomeroy, E., 2024 (Accepted for publication). Estimating Intra-Limb Proportions for Commingled Remains International Journal of Osteoarchaeology,

Hunt, CO., Pomeroy, E., Reynolds, T., Tilby, E. and Barker, G., 2023 (Accepted for publication). Shanidar et ses fleurs? Reflections on the palynology of the Neanderthal ‘Flower Burial’ hypothesis Journal of Archaeological Science,
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2023.105822

Stock, J., 2023. Correction for Stock et al., Long-term trends in human body size track regional variation in subsistence transitions and growth acceleration linked to dairying. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, v. 120
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2302322120

Pomeroy, E., 2023. The different adaptive trajectories in Neanderthals and Homo sapiens and their implications for contemporary human physiological variation Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A: Molecular and Integrative Physiology, v. 280
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.cbpa.2023.111420

Kabukcu, C., Hunt, C., Hill, E., Pomeroy, E., Reynolds, T., Barker, G. and Asouti, E., 2022 (Accepted for publication). Cooking in caves: Palaeolithic carbonised plant food remains from Franchthi and Shanidar Antiquity: a quarterly review of archaeology,
Doi: http://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2022.143

Wiseman, A., Demuth, OE., Pomeroy, E. and De Groote, I., 2022 (Accepted for publication). Reconstructing articular cartilage in the Australopithecus afarensis hip joint and the need for modelling six degrees of freedom Integrative Organismal Biology,

Stock, J., Pomeroy, E., Wedage, O., Eregama, S., Deraniyagala, S., Perera, N., Roberts, P., Boivin, N. and Petraglia, M., 2022 (Accepted for publication). Early Holocene Human Burials from Fa Hien-lena and Kuragala, Sri Lanka Ancient Lanka, v. 1
Doi: http://doi.org/10.29173/anlk637

Reynolds, T., Hunt, C., Hill, E., Tilby, E., Pomeroy, E., Burke, A. and Barker, G., 2022. Le Moustérien du Zagros : une vision synthétique à partir de la grotte de ShanidarThe Zagros Mousterian: The view from Shanidar Cave Anthropologie (France), v. 126
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.anthro.2022.103045

Wells, JCK., Pomeroy, E. and Stock, JT., 2021 (Accepted for publication). Evolution of lactase persistence: Turbo-charging adaptation in growth under the selective pressure of maternal mortality? Frontiers in Physiology,
Doi: http://doi.org/10.3389/fphys.2021.696516

Saville, NM., Cortina-Borja, M., De Stavola, BL., Pomeroy, E., Marphatia, A., Reid, A., Manandhar, DS. and Wells, JC., 2021 (Accepted for publication). Comprehensive analysis of the association of seasonal variability with maternal and neonatal nutrition in lowland Nepal. Public Health Nutr,
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1017/S1368980021003633

Ward, D., Schroeder, L., Roy, J., Hertz, M., Uhl, A., Pomeroy, E., Stock, J., Copes, L., Baab, K., Viola, B. and Silcox, M., 2021 (Accepted for publication). The Influence of Subsistence Strategy and Climate on Bony Labyrinth Morphology in recent Homo sapiens American Journal of Physical Anthropology,
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.24465

Ward, DL., Schroeder, L., Pomeroy, E., Roy, JE., Buck, LT., Stock, JT., Martin-Gronert, M., Ozanne, S., Silcox, MT. and Viola, B., 2021 (Accepted for publication). Early life malnutrition and fluctuating asymmetry in the rat bony labyrinth The Anatomical Record : Advances in Integrative Anatomy and Evolutionary Biology,

Beresford-Jones, D., Pomeroy, E., Alday, C., Benfer, RA., Quilter, J., O'Connell, T. and Lightfoot, E., 2021 (Accepted for publication). Diet and lifestyle in the first villages of the Middle Preceramic: insights from stable isotope and osteological analyses of human remains from Paloma, Chilca I, La Yerba III and Morro I Latin American Antiquity, v. 32
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1017/laq.2021.24

Pomeroy, E., Stock, JT. and Wells, JCK., 2021. Population history and ecology, in addition to climate, influence human stature and body proportions. Sci Rep, v. 11
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-79501-w

García-Sagastibelza, A., López-Onaindia, D., Lambacher, N., Pomeroy, E., Cubas, M., Subirà, ME., Castex, D., Couture-Veschambre, C. and Gómez-Olivencia, A., 2021. onal (2020) 566–567 (171–190), (S1040618220305784), (10.1016/j.quaint.2020.09.029)) ... Quaternary International, v. 595
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2021.04.021

Afifah Ridhuan, S., Caltabiano, A., Gillis, H., Giritlioğlu, A., Graff, A., Hampikian, LE., Jones, AK., Luetgerath, P., Pierce, A., Pomeroy, E. and Said-Mohamed, R., 2021. Advocating for a Collaborative Research Approach on Transgenerational Transmission of Trauma. J Child Adolesc Trauma, v. 14
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1007/s40653-021-00369-7

García-Sagastibelza, A., Arribas, JL., López-Onaindia, D., Pomeroy, E., Rodríguez-Hidalgo, A., Castex, D., Couture-Veschambre, C. and Gómez-Olivencia, A., 2020 (Accepted for publication). The human remains from the Lumentxa cave (Lekeitio, Biscay, Northern Iberian Peninsula): Paleobiology, Taphonomy and Chronology Quaternary International,

García-Sagastibelza, A., López-Onaindia, D., Lambacher, N., Pomeroy, E., Cubas, M., Eulàlia Subirà, M., Castex, D., Couture-Veschambre, C. and Gómez-Olivencia, A., 2020 (Accepted for publication). The funerary use of caves during the Holocene in the Atlantic Western Pyrenees: new information from Atxuri-I and Txotxinkoba caves (Biscay, Northern Iberian Peninsula) Quaternary International,

Lightfoot, E., Pomeroy, E., Grant, J., O'Connell, T., Le Roux, P., Zakrzewski, S., Inskip, S., Benady, S., Finlayson, C., Finlayson, G. and Lane, K., 2020 (Accepted for publication). Sea, Sickness and Cautionary Tales: A multi-isotope study from a post-Mediaeval hospital at the city-port of Gibraltar (AD 1462–1704) Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences,

Maher, L., Macdonald, D., Pomeroy, E. and Stock, J., 2020 (Accepted for publication). Life, Death, and the Destruction of Architecture: Hunter-Gatherer Mortuary Behaviors in Prehistoric Jordan Journal of Anthropological Archaeology,

Pomeroy, E., Hunt, CO., Reynolds, T., Abdulmutalb, D., Asouti, E., Bennett, P., Bosch, D., Burke, A., Farr, L., Foley, R., French, C., Frumkin, A., Goldberg, P., Hill, E., Kabukcu, C., Mirazon Lahr, M., Lane, R., Marean, C., Maureille, B., Mutri, G., Miller, C., Ali Mustafa, K., Nymark, A., Pettitt, P., Sala, N., Sandgathe, D., Stringer, C., Tilby, E. and Barker, G., 2020. Issues of theory and method in the analysis of Paleolithic mortuary behavior: a view from Shanidar Cave Evolutionary Anthropology, v. 29
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1002/evan.21854

Pomeroy, E., 2020. The vibrant lives of Neanderthals
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Bloomsbury Sigma, 2020. 400 pp. Science, v. 370
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1126/science.abe5143

Ward, DL., Pomeroy, E., Schroeder, L., Viola, TB., Silcox, MT. and Stock, JT., 2020. Can bony labyrinth dimensions predict biological sex in archaeological samples? Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, v. 31
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2020.102354

Pomeroy, E., Mushrif-Tripathy, V., Cole, TJ., Wells, JCK. and Stock, JT., 2019 (Accepted for publication). Ancient origins of low lean mass among South Asians and implications for modern type 2 diabetes susceptibility Scientific Reports,

Pomeroy, E., Bennett, P., Hunt, C., Reynolds, T., Farr, L., Frouin, M., Holman, J., Lane, R., French, C. and Barker, G., 2019 (Accepted for publication). New Neanderthal remains associated with the ‘flower burial’ at Shanidar Cave Antiquity, v. 94
Doi: http://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2019.207

Pomeroy, E., Mushrif-Tripathy, V., Kulkarni, B., Kinra, S., Stock, JT., Cole, TJ., Shirley, MK. and Wells, JCK., 2019. Estimating body mass and composition from proximal femur dimensions using dual energy x-ray absorptiometry Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, v. 11
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-018-0665-z

Pomeroy, E., Mushrif-Tripathy, V., Wells, JCK., Kulkarni, B., Kinra, S. and Stock, JT., 2018 (Accepted for publication). Stature estimation equations for South Asian skeletons based on DXA scans of contemporary adults American Journal of Physical Anthropology,

Payne, S., Kumar BC, R., Pomeroy, E., Macintosh, A. and Stock, J., 2018 (Accepted for publication). Thrifty Phenotype versus cold adaptation: trade-offs in upper limb proportions of Himalayan populations of Nepal Royal Society Open Science,

Lane, K., Pomeroy, E. and Davila, MRL., 2018. Over Rock and Under Stone: Carved Rocks and Subterranean Burials at Kipia, Ancash, AD 1000 – 1532 Open Archaeology, v. 4
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1515/opar-2018-0018

Pomeroy, E., Macintosh, A., Wells, JCK., Cole, TJ. and Stock, JT., 2018. Relationship between body mass, lean mass, fat mass, and limb bone cross-sectional geometry: Implications for estimating body mass and physique from the skeleton. Am J Phys Anthropol, v. 166
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.23398

Groucutt, HS., Grün, R., Zalmout, IAS., Drake, NA., Armitage, SJ., Candy, I., Clark-Wilson, R., Louys, J., Breeze, PS., Duval, M., Buck, LT., Kivell, TL., Pomeroy, E., Stephens, NB., Stock, JT., Stewart, M., Price, GJ., Kinsley, L., Sung, WW., Alsharekh, A., Al-Omari, A., Zahir, M., Memesh, AM., Abdulshakoor, AJ., Al-Masari, AM., Bahameem, AA., Al Murayyi, KMS., Zahrani, B., Scerri, ELM. and Petraglia, MD., 2018. Homo sapiens in Arabia by 85,000 years ago. Nat Ecol Evol, v. 2
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-018-0518-2

Pomeroy, E., Grant, J., Ward, D., Benady, S., Reinoso del Río, MC., Gutierrez López, JM., Mata Almonte, E., Ramírez León, J., Cobos Rodríguez, L., Finlayson, G., Finlayson, S., Finlayson, C. and Lane, K., 2018. Death in the sun: the bioarchaeology of an early post-medieval hospital in Gibraltar Post-Medieval Archaeology, v. 52
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1080/00794236.2018.1515402

Pomeroy, E., Mirazon Lahr, M., Crivellaro, F., Farr, L., Hunt, CO., Reynolds, T. and Barker, GWW., 2017. Newly-discovered Neanderthal remains from Shanidar Cave, Iraqi Kurdistan, and their attribution to Shanidar 5 Journal of Human Evolution, v. 111
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2017.07.001

Wells, JCK., Pomeroy, E., Walimbe, SR., Popkin, BM. and Yajnik, CS., 2016 (Accepted for publication). The Elevated Susceptibility to Diabetes in India: An Evolutionary Perspective Frontiers in Public Health, v. 4
Doi: http://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2016.00145

Pomeroy, E., Wells, JCK., Cole, TJ., O'Callaghan, M. and Stock, JT., 2015. Relationships of maternal and paternal anthropometry with neonatal body size, proportions and adiposity in an Australian cohort. Am J Phys Anthropol, v. 156
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.22680

Pomeroy, E., Wells, JCK., Stanojevic, S., Miranda, JJ., Moore, LG., Cole, TJ. and Stock, JT., 2015. Surname-inferred Andean ancestry is associated with child stature and limb lengths at high altitude in Peru, but not at sea level. Am J Hum Biol, v. 27
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1002/ajhb.22725

Pomeroy, E., Stock, JT., Stanojevic, S., Miranda, JJ., Cole, TJ. and Wells, JCK., 2014. Stunting, adiposity, and the individual-level "dual burden" among urban lowland and rural highland Peruvian children. Am J Hum Biol, v. 26
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1002/ajhb.22551

Pomeroy, E., Stock, JT., Cole, TJ., O'Callaghan, M. and Wells, JCK., 2014. Relationships between neonatal weight, limb lengths, skinfold thicknesses, body breadths and circumferences in an Australian cohort. PLoS One, v. 9
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0105108

Pomeroy, E., Stock, JT., Stanojevic, S., Miranda, JJ., Cole, TJ. and Wells, JCK., 2014. Stunting, adiposity, and the individual-level "dual burden" among urban lowland and rural highland peruvian children American Journal of Human Biology, v. 26
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1002/ajhb.22551

Pomeroy, E., Wells, JCK., Stanojevic, S., Miranda, JJ., Cole, TJ. and Stock, JT., 2014. Birth month associations with height, head circumference, and limb lengths among Peruvian children. Am J Phys Anthropol, v. 154
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.22484

Pomeroy, E., 2013. Biomechanical insights into activity and long distance trade in the south-central Andes (AD 500–1450) Journal of Archaeological Science, v. 40
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2013.04.019

Pomeroy, E., Stock, JT., Stanojevic, S., Miranda, JJ., Cole, TJ. and Wells, JCK., 2013. Associations between arterial oxygen saturation, body size and limb measurements among high-altitude Andean children. Am J Hum Biol, v. 25
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1002/ajhb.22422

Pomeroy, E. and Zakrewski, SR., 2012 (No publication date). Sexual dimorphism in diaphyseal cross-sectional shape in the medieval Muslim population of Écija, Spain, and Anglo-Saxon Great Chesterford, UK International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, v. 19
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1002/oa.981

Pomeroy, E. and Stock, JT., 2012. Estimation of stature and body mass from the skeleton among coastal and mid-altitude Andean populations. Am J Phys Anthropol, v. 147
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.21644

Pomeroy, E. and Stock, JT., 2012. Estimation of stature and body mass from the skeleton among coastal and mid-altitude andean populations American Journal of Physical Anthropology, v. 147
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.21644

Pomeroy, E. and Stock, JT., 2012. Estimation of Stature and Body Mass From the Skeleton Among Coastal and Mid-Altitude Andean Populations American Journal of Physical Anthropology, v. 147

Pomeroy, E., Stock, JT., Stanojevic, S., Miranda, JJ., Cole, TJ. and Wells, JCK., 2012. Trade-offs in relative limb length among Peruvian children: extending the thrifty phenotype hypothesis to limb proportions. PLoS One, v. 7
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0051795

Australo-Anglo-American Spondyloarthritis Consortium (TASC), JD., Reveille, A-M., Sims, P., Danoy, DM., Evans, P., Leo, JJ., Pointon, R., Jin, X., Zhou, LA., Bradbury, LH., Appleton, JC., Davis, L., Diekman, T., Doan, A., Dowling, R., Duan, EL., Duncan, C., Farrar, J., Hadler, D., Harvey, T., Karaderi, R., Mogg, E., Pomeroy, K., Pryce, J., Taylor, L., Savage, P., Deloukas, V., Kumanduri, L., Peltonen, SM., Ring, P., Whittaker, E., Glazov, GP., Thomas, WP., Maksymowych, RD., Inman, MM., Ward, MA., Stone, MH., Weisman, BP., Wordsworth, MA. and Brown, , 2010. Genome-wide association study of ankylosing spondylitis identifies non-MHC susceptibility loci. Nat Genet, v. 42
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1038/ng.513

Pomeroy, E., Stock, JT., Zakrzewski, SR. and Lahr, MM., 2010. A Metric Study of Three Types of Artificial Cranial Modification from North-Central Peru INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF OSTEOARCHAEOLOGY, v. 20
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1002/oa.1044

Pomeroy, E., Reveille, JD., Brown, MA. and Sims, A-M., 2010. Genome-wide association study of ankylosing spondylitis identifies non-MHC susceptibility loci Nature Genetics, v. 42
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1038/ng.513

Pomeroy, E., Podbielski, DW., Bruckel, J. and Stone, MA., 2010. Visual Assessment of the Spine Bruckel Instrument, a Novel Status Tool to Reflect Appearance of the Spine in Patients with Ankylosing Spondylitis v. 37
Doi: http://doi.org/10.3899/jrheum.090548

Pomeroy, E., 2009. Labial talon cusps: a South American archaeological case in the deciduous dentition and review of a rare trait BRITISH DENTAL JOURNAL, v. 206
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1038/sj.bdj.2009.168

Pomeroy, E., Stone, MA., White, LA. and Keystone, E., 2009. Significance of Clinical Evaluation of the Metacarpophalangeal Joint in Relation to Synovial/Bone Pathology in Rheumatoid and Psoriatic Arthritis Detected by Magnetic Resonance Imaging Journal of Rheumatology, v. 36
Doi: http://doi.org/10.3899/jrheum.080205

Stone, MA., Pomeroy, E., Keat, A., Sengupta, R., Hickey, S., Dieppe, P., Gooberman-Hill, R., Mogg, R., Richardson, J. and Inman, RD., 2008. Assessment of the impact of flares in ankylosing spondylitis disease activity using the Flare Illustration. Rheumatology (Oxford), v. 47
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1093/rheumatology/ken176

Cao, D., 2025 (No publication date). Adaptation at High Altitudes: A Comparative Analysis of Body Size and Proportions in Ancient Tibetan and Lowland Chinese Populations

Mazza, S., 2024 (No publication date). Finding balance in unequal relations: the burial of humans and animals in the Viking Age world

Burroughs, R., Vitek, N., Ward, D., Pomeroy, E., Martin-Gronert, M. and Ozanne, S., 2024. Poor nutrition induces phenotypically plastic changes in size, but not shape, of rat lower molars INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY, v. 64

Barker, G., Pomeroy, E., Hill, E., Holman, J., Hunt, C., Lane, R., Lopez-Polin, L., Reynolds, T., Tilby, E. and Twyman, J., 2023 (Accepted for publication). Neanderthal life and death in Shanidar Cave, Iraqi Kurdistan PaleoAnthropology,

Ward, DL., Pomeroy, E. and Stock, JT., 2016. Insights into developmental stress exposure from the bony labyrinth AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY, v. 159

Pomeroy, E., Stock, JT., Stanojevic, S., Miranda, JJ., Cole, TJ. and Wells, JCK., 2014. The individual-level 'dual burden' of short stature and excess adiposity: Discounting a methodological explanation using tibia length AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY, v. 153

Pomeroy, E., Stock, JT., Stanojevic, S., Miranda, J., Cole, TJ. and Wells, JCK., 2012. Trade-offs in relative limb length among Andean children: evidence for extending the thrifty phenotype hypotheses to limb growth AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY, v. 147

Pomeroy, E. and Stock, JT., 2011. Stature estimation in Andean skeletal populations: methods, challenges and implications for modern human variation. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY, v. 144

Beresford-Jones, D., Pomeroy, E., Alday, C., Benfer, R., Quilter, J., O'Connell, T. and Lightfoot, E., 2021 (No publication date). Research data supporting "Diet and lifestyle in the first villages of the Middle Preceramic: insights from stable isotope and osteological analyses of human remains from Paloma, Chilca I, La Yerba III and Morro I"

Pomeroy, E., Wells, JCK. and Stock, JT., 2016 (Published online). Obstructed Labour: The Classic Obstetric Dilemma and Beyond

Davies, TG., Pomeroy, E., Shaw, CN. and Stock, JT., 2016. Mobility and the Skeleton: A Biomechanical View
Doi: http://doi.org/10.4324/9781315599632-7

Davies, TG., Pomeroy, E., Shaw, CN. and Stock, JT., 2014. Mobility and the Skeleton: A Biomechanical View