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Dan Osborne

Pronouns: He/Him
Teaching Assistant Professor
Archaeology & Anthropology University of Wisconsin-La Crosse

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Dan Osborne Pronouns: He/Him

Teaching Assistant Professor

Archaeology & Anthropology

Specialty area(s)

Skeletal biology, forensic anthropology, human growth and development, statistics

Current courses at UWL

ANT 102/102L Introduction to Biological Anthropology

FYS 100 Bones: An Introduction to Foren

Education

PhD, Anthropology, Indiana University-Bloomington, 2007

MA, Anthropology, Western Michigan University, 2000

BA, Anthropology, University of Florida, 1998

Career

Professional history

Teaching Assistant Professor, 2025-current Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, La Crosse, WI

Lecturer, 2024-2025 Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, La Crosse, WI

Visiting Scientist, 2020-2023 C.A. Pound Human Identification Laboratory, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL

Adjunct Faculty, 2015-2018 Department of Behavioral and Social Sciences, Santa Fe College, Gainesville, FL

Assistant Professor, 2007-2015 Department of Anthropology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE

Visiting Lecturer, 2006-2007 Department of Anthropology, University of North Carolina-Greensboro, Greensboro, NC



Research and publishing

  1. Osborne DL and Hames R (2014) A Life History perspective on skin cancer and the evolution of skin pigmentation.American Journal of Physical Anthropology 153(1):1-8.
  2. Osborne DL, Weaver C, McCabe L, McCabe G, Novotny R, Van Loan M, Going S, Matkovic V, Boushey C, Savaiano D and the ACT Research Team. (2012) Body size and pubertal development explain ethnic differences in structural geometry at the femur in Asian, Hispanic, and white early adolescent girls living in the U.S. Bone 51:888-895.
  3. Osborne DL, Weaver C, McCabe L, McCabe G, Novotny R, Boushey C, and Savaiano D (2011) Tanning predicts bone mass but not structure in adolescent females living in Hawaii. American Journal of Human Biology 23:470-478.
  4. Grieshaber BM, Osborne DL, Doubleday AF, and Kaestle FA (2008) Investigating the effects ofof Archaeological Science 35(3):681-687. X-ray and computed tomography exposure on the amplification of DNA from bone. Journal of Archaeological Science 35(3):681-687.
  5. Pickering TR, Egeland CP, Schnell A, Osborne DL, and Enk J (2006) Success in identification of experimentally fragmented limb bone shafts: implications for estimates of skeletal element abundance in archaeofaunas. Journal of Taphonomy, 4(2):97-108.
  6. Osborne DL and Curtis JM (2005) A protocol for the staining of cement lines in adult human bone using toluidine blue. Journal of Histotechnology, 28(2):73-79.
  7. Osborne DL, Simmons TL, and Nawrocki SP (2005) Reconsidering the auricular surface as an indicator of age at death. Journal of Forensic Sciences 49(5):905-911.