Areas of Research/Interest

Physical anthropology; paleoanthropology; dental morphology and morphometrics; Middle-Late Pleistocene hominins; Neandertals; modern human origins; Plio-Pleistocene hominin evolution; Europe; Africa.

External Affiliations

Center for the Study of Human Origins
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany,

Publications

Bailey SE, Skinner MS, Hublin J-J (in press) What lies beneath? An evaluation of the mid-trigonid crest dental trait based on both dentine and enamel expression.  Am J Phys Anthropol

Bailey SE, Weaver TD and Hublin J-J. 2009. Who made the Aurignacian and other early Upper Paleolithic industries?  J Hum Evol 57: 11-26

Quam R, Bailey SE, and Wood BA. 2009. Evolution of M1 crown size and cusp proportions in the genus Homo J Anat. 214: 655-670.

Bailey SE and Hublin J-J. 2006. Dental remains from Grotte du Renne at Arcy-sur-Cure (Yonne). J Hum Evol. 50: 485-508.

Bailey SE. 2006. Beyond shovel shaped incisors: Neandertal dental morphology in a comparative context. Period Biol. 108: 253-267.

Bailey SE and Lynch J. 2005. Diagnostic differences in mandibular P4 shape between Neandertals and anatomically modern humans: A new character for use in phylogenetic analyses? Am J Phys Anthropol. 126: 268-277.

Bailey SE. 2004. A morphometric analysis of maxillary molar crowns of Middle-Late Pleistocene hominins. J Hum Evol. 47: 183-198.

Bailey SE, Pilbrow VC, Wood BA. 2004. Interobserver error in independent attempts to measure cusp base areas of Pan M1s. J Anat. 205: 323-331.

Bailey SE. 2002. A closer look at Neanderthal postcanine dental morphology. I. The mandibular dentition. New Anat. 269:148-156.

Current News / Projects
Updated August 2011

I started 2011 with a trip to Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, Israel to examine baby teeth as part of a LSB Leaky funded project on deciduous dental morphology of Neanderthals and Homo sapiens.  There I was able to study early H. sapiens material from Qafzeh and Skhul, as well as Neanderthals from Amud, Tabun and Kebara.  My host, Yoel Rak, took me to visit the sites at Mt Carmel and colleague Avi Gopher took me to Qesem cave, the site of what has been claimed to be the earliest modern humans (Hershkovitz et al, 2010: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ajpa.21446/full -- more on that later).   In May I traveled to the Max Planck Institute to work with microCT scans and 3D models of teeth from various sites from Russia, Belgium and France, all part of this Leakey project.  I also took a short trip to see the teeth from Bilzingsleben, a Middle Pleistocene site near Halle.

I just returned from my summer research trip, which included research in Portugal (Lagar Velho), Spain (Gran Dolina, Parpalló, Cova Negra and others) and Italy (Molare, Archi). In Spain, my host Maria Martinón-Torres, gave us a tour of the Atapuerca sites and showed us some of their latest finds.  At the end of August I will travel to Newcastle-on-Tyne, UK, for the International Symposium on Dental Morphology.  There I will be presenting my research on what it means to be dentally ‘modern’. 
This fall and next spring I will be preparing manuscripts related to these projects as well as a chapter on the dentition of the late-surviving (~32K) Neanderthal from St. Césaire.