Jerry Rose views archaeology at the site of Umm Qais (Ancient Gadera) in Jordan

Jerome C. Rose

Professor

Ph.D. University of Massachusetts-Amherst 1973

Bioarcheology and dental anthropology
Egypt
Jordan
Southeast and Midwest

Dr. Rose received his B.A. degree in anthropology in 1969 from the University of Colorado at Boulder where he studied archeology and geology. He earned his M.A. and Ph.D. in biological anthropology, specializing in dental anthropology, from the University of Massachusetts, graduating in 1973. He taught for three years at the University of Alabama in Birmingham before joining the University of Arkansas in 1976. His early interests were in the areas of developmental enamel defects and dental histology. In addition to working with the teeth of ancient peoples, he did experimental work with sheep and mice. Rose's interests shifted to the general area of bioarcheology where he conducted general skeletal and dental research, including mortuary site excavations, in the Lower Mississippi Valley and Trans-Mississippi South, working with both prehistoric and historic skeletal samples. His main interests are in CRM contract bioarcheology and bioarcheological syntheses and literature reviews covering large geographic areas. More recently, he developed an interest in the Middle East and has excavated mortuary sites in Egypt and Jordan. He is actively involved with the King Fahd Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies in the Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences and conducts a bioarcheology field school in Jordan each summer.

Selected Publications

Edited Books, Monographs and Symposia:

Steckel, R. H., and J. C. Rose (eds). 2002 The Backbone of History: Health and Nutrition in the Western Hemisphere. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, U.K. Paper edition 2005.

Rose, Jerome C. and Dolores L. Burke (eds). 2004 Sacad: A Late Roman/Byzantine Site in North Jordan. Yarmouk University Press, Irbid, Jordan.

Journal Articles:

El-Najjar, Mahmoud, F. al-Awad, J.C. Rose, and S. Sari 2004 Dental pathology as an indicator of health at Sa’ad: A Byzantine site in northern Jordan. Mu’tah Lil-Buhuth wad-Dirasat 19 (3):9-29.

Rose, J.C. and D.L. Burke 2004 (published 2005) Making money from buried treasure. Culture Without Context. 14:4-8.

Rose, J.C. 2006 Paleopathology of the commoners at Tell Amarna, Egypt, Akhenaten’s capital city. Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro 101 (Suppl. II):73-76.

Book Chapters:

Rose, J.C. and D.L. Burke 2006 Chapter 12: The dentist and the archaeologist: The role of dental anthropology in North American bioarcheologhy. In: Buikstra, Jane E. and Beck, Lane A. (eds) Bioarchaeology: The Contextual Analysis of Human Remains. Pp. 323-346.

Rose, J.C., M. El-Najjar, and D.L. Burke 2007 Bioarchaeology of north Jordan: A decade of cooperative American and Jordanian student research. In: Levy, T.E., Daviau, M., Younker, R.W. and Shaer, M. (Eds). Crossing Jordan: North American Contributions to the Archaeology of Jordan. Pp. 419-426. Equinox Publishing Ltd., London.

Rose, J.C., M. El-Najjar, and D.L. Burke 2007 Trade and the acquisition of wealth in rural Late Antique north Jordan. (ed) Fawwaz al-Khraysheh Studies in the History and Archaeology of Jordan IX. Pp. 61-70. Department of Antiquities, Amman Jordan.

FitzGerald, Charles M. and J.C. Rose 2008 Reading between the lines: dental development and subadult age assessment using the microstructural growth markers of teeth. In: Katzenberg, M. A. and Saunders, S.R. (eds) Biological Anthropology of the Human Skeleton (2nd Ed.). Pp. 237-263. Wiley-Liss, Hoboken, NJ.