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

Member - Center for the Study of Human Origins

Publications

In press. Bailey S.E. and Liu W. A comparative dental metrical and morphological analysis of a Middle Pleistocene hominin maxilla from Chaoxian (Chaohu) China. Quaternary International.

 

2009. Bailey S.E., Weaver T.D., and Hublin J.-J. Who made the Aurignacian and other early Upper Paleolithic industries? Journal of Human Evolution 57: 11-26.

 

2009. Quam R. and Bailey S. E., Wood B. Evolution of M1 crown size and cusp proportions in the genus Homo. Journal of Anatomy 214: 655-670.

 

2008. Bailey S. E.. Inter- and intra-specific variation in Pan tooth crown morphology: implications for Neandertal taxonomy.. In Irish D. and Nelson G. (Eds) Technique and Application in Dental Anthropology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 293-316.

 

2008. Bailey S. E., Glantz M, Weaver TD, and Viola B. The affinity of the dental remains from Obi-Rakhmat Grotto, Uzbekistan.. Jounal of Human Evolution 55: 238-248.

 

2007. Bailey S. E. and Wood B.A. Trends in postcanine occlusal morphology within the hominin clade: The case of Paranthropus. In Bailey S.E. and Hublin J.-J. (Eds) Dental Perspectives on Human Evolution: State of the Art Research in Dental Paleoanthropology. New York: Springer, pp. 33-52

 

2007. Bailey S. E. & J.-J. Hublin (Eds). Dental Perspectives on Human Evolution - State of the Art Research in Dental Paleoanthropology. Dordrecht: Springer

 

2007. Bailey S.E. The evolution of non-metric dental variation in Europe. Mitt Ges Urgesch. 15: 9-30.

 

2006. Bailey S.E. Beyond shovel shaped incisors. Neandertal dental morphology in a comparative context. Periodicum Biologorum. 108: 253-267.

 

2006. Bailey S.E. and Hublin J.-J. Dental remains from Grotte du Renne at Arcy-sur-Cure (Yonne). Journal of Human Evolution 50: 485-508.

 

2005. Bailey S.E. and Hublin J.-J. Who made the Early Aurignacian? A reconsideration of the Brassempouy dental remains. Bulletins et Mémoires de la Société d’Anthropologie de Paris, 17: 1-7.

 

2005. Bailey S.E. and Lynch J. Variation in mandibular P4 shape between Neandertals and anatomically modern humans: A new character for use in phylogenetic analyses? American Journal of Physical Anthropology 126: 268-277.

 

2004. Bailey S.E. A morphometric analysis of maxillary molar crowns of Middle-Late Pleistocene hominins. Journal of Human Evolution 47: 183-198.

 

2004. Bailey S.E., Pilbrow V.C., Wood B.A. Interobserver error in independent attempts to measure cusp base areas of Pan M1s. Journal of Anatomy 205: 323-331.

Current News / Projects
Updated July 2009

Another academic year has come and gone – I’m always surprised at how quickly they pass.  The year started off on a good foot when I learned that I had been awarded funding from the Leakey Foundation to pursue my study of Middle to Late Pleistocene deciduous (baby or milk) teeth in 2009-2010.  This work will return me to some of my favorite places in South Africa, Israel and Europe.
More immediately, because I had been awarded an NYU Goddard Fellowship for research this spring, I packed up my camera and dental scoring sheets and took off for Europe in January (in my fifth month of pregnancy, by the way).  My first stop was the Max Planck Institute in Leipzig, Germany, to work on a number of projects.  One involves computed tomography and three-dimensional imaging of the internal tooth surface of Neandertal and modern human teeth.  My colleague, Matt Skinner, and I began our project by examining one of the key dental traits that distinguish H. neanderthalensis and H. sapiens – a small crest of enamel that connects the two forward-most cusps of the lower molars (mid-trigonid crest).  When not examining dentine and enamel in 3D virtual reality, I worked with former NYU professor Katerina Harvati on describing newly discovered ancient human teeth from Greece; and with Jean-Jacques Hublin, director of the Department of Human Origins, on exciting new material from North Africa.
After a few weeks in Leipzig I flew to Russia to study Neandertal and early modern human dental material from Barakai Cave (Neandertal), Kostenki and Sunghir (modern humans).  I also collaborated on some more recent Mesolithic individuals whose chipped and broken teeth suggested they may have been eating (or at least chewing) rocks!  Four weeks of a Russian winter were enough and I returned to Leipzig in mid-February to tie up loose ends.  I returned to New York a week later to participate as a discussant for the NYCEP sponsored conference, “Darwin’s Legacy: Early Human Evolution in Africa”, hosted by the American Museum of Natural History. 
On April 19 at 4:33 a.m. my daughter Amelie Elizabeth Josephine Makos was born, and thus a new chapter of life begins.  Accordingly, this summer I will slow down a little bit so I can focus on being a new mother.  Come fall I will be back to teaching and planning my next trip to Beijing, China (and learning how to juggle all these things and an infant!)