Faculty Profiles

Lis, B., Batziou, A., Zeman, P., Agnousiotis, D., Kofel-Lubczyńska, D., Tzevelekidi, V., … Warecka, K. (2025). Mycenaean Pefkakia Excavation Project: report on archaeological research conducted in 2024. Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean, 34(1), 9–34. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.37343/uw.2083-537X. pam34.1.34

Ahlman, T. M., McKeown, A. H., & Herrmann, N. P. (2025). Search and Recovery Report CS25-0241, an Aircraft Crash Site (FR-10029) Associated with MACR 3984, Clayes, Ille-et-Villaine Department, Brittany, France, Excavated from 17 May through 14 June 2025, during 25-5FR-B RT-P. Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency.

Siegert, C. C., Kaplan, M. A., Herrmann, N. P., & Spradley, M. K. (2024). The Texas Landscape: Accounting for Migrant Mortality and the Challenges of a Justice of the Peace Medicolegal System. Journal on Migration and Human Security, 12(3), 257–276. https://doi.org/10.1177/23315024241277528

Miranker, M., Daniell, R., Kaplan, M. A., Flores-Guillen, V., Hernandez, J., Edgar, H., … Giordano, A. (2024). What is a migrant death? An operational definition for a more accurate enumeration of migrant mortality along the US-Mexico border. Forensic Science International, 363(October), 112156. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forsciint.2024.112156

Vitale, S., Hale, C. M., Van de Moortel, A., & Herrmann, N. P. (2024). It’s Absolutely Relative. The Late Helladic I Stratigraphic and Ceramic Sequences from Mitrou and their 14C Anchor Points. AEGIS, 26(1), 292–314.

Wolfe, C., & Herrmann, N. P. (2022). Interpreting error in the estimation of skeletal growth profiles from past populations: An example demonstrating skeletal growth in historic African American communities. American Journal of Biological Anthropology, 177(1), 83–99. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.24415

Herrmann, N. P., Cruz, K. A., Wolfe, C. A., Pilides, D., & Violaris, Y. (2021). Bioarchaeological Investigations of three Hellenistic to Early Christian tombs from the Ayioi Omoloyites neighborhood in Lefkosia. In M. Gamble (Ed.), Overcoming Past Preservation Issues: Current Research in Cyprus Bioarchaeology (pp. 39–52). Wien, Austria: Verlag Holzhausen.

Siegert, C. C., Mavroudas, S. R., Gleiber, D. S., Herrmann, N. P., & Spradley, M. K. (2020). The application of GIS to the migrant crisis in South Texas: modeling migration in Brooks County, Texas.

Burke, B., Burns, B., Charami, A., Herrmann, N. P., Lis, B., & Van Damme, T. (2020). Fieldwork at Ancient Eleon in Boeotia, 2011-2018. American Journal of Archaeology, 124(3), 441–476. https://doi.org/10.3764/aja.124.3.0441

Kramer, R. T., Bartelink, E., Herrmann, N. P., Bataille, C. P., & Spradley, M. K. (2020). Application of Stable Isotopes and Geostatistics to Infer Region of Geographic Origin for Deceased Undocumented Latin American Migrants. In R. C. Parra, S. C. Zapico, & D. H. Ubelaker (Eds.), Humanitarian Forensic Science: Interacting with dead and the living (pp. 425–440). New York, NY, USA: Wiley-Blackwell.

Zuckerman, M. K., Kamnikar, K. R., Osterholtz, A. J., Herrmann, N. P., & Franklin, J. D. (2019). Applying the Index of Care to the Mississippian Period: A case study of treponemal disease, bodily impairment, and probable caregiving from the Holliston Mills Site, TN. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 29(5), 843–853. https://doi.org/10.1002/oa.2805

Schmidt, C. W., Remy, A., Van Sessen, R., Scott, R., Mahoney, P., Beach, J., … Herrmann, N. P. (2019). Dental microwear texture analysis of Homo sapiens sapiens: Foragers, farmers, and pastoralists. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 169(2), 207–226. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.23815

Gocha, T. P., Cruz, K. A., High, S. B., Mavroudas, S. R., & Herrmann, N. P. (n.d.). Histological Analysis of New Salem Cemetery Femoral Samples  and Update on other Histological Samples.

Kamnikar, K. R., Herrmann, N. P., & Plemons, A. M. (2018). New approaches to juvenile age estimation in forensics: Application of transition analysis via the Shackelford et al method to a diverse modern subadult sample. Human Biology, 90(1), 11–30. https://doi.org/10.13110/humanbiology.90.1.06

Spradley, M. K., Herrmann, N. P., Siegert, C. C., & McDaneld, C. P. (2018). Identifying Migrant Remains in South Texas: Policy and Practice. Forensic Sciences Research.

Warner, M. M., Plemons, A. M., Herrmann, N. P., & Regan, L. A. (2018). Refining Stable Oxygen and Hydrogen Isoscapes for the Identification of Human Remains in Mississippi. Journal of Forensic Sciences, 63(2), 395–402. https://doi.org/10.1111/1556-4029.13575

Mahfouz, M. R., Mustafa, A., Abdel Fatah, E. E., Herrmann, N. P., & Langley, N. R. (2017). Computerized Reconstruction of Fragmentary Skeletal Remains. Forensic Science International, 275, 212–223. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forsciint.2017.03.017

Devlin, J., & Herrmann, N. P. (2017). Advanced Scene Topics – Fire and Commingling. In M. Tersigni-Tarrant & N. Shirley (Eds.), Forensic Anthropology: A Comprehensive Introduction (pp. 347–363). Boca Raton, FL, USA: CRC Press.

Wescott, D. J., Herrmann, N. P., Spradley, M. K., & Mavroudas, S. R. (2016). Anthropological Analysis of partial skeleton found in Guadalupe County.

Herrmann, N. P., & Wescott, D. J. (2016). Recovery and Analysis of Human Remains from Western Kerr County: Kerr County Sheriff’s Office Case 2016-11792.

Herrmann, N. P., Plemons, A., & Harris, E. (2016). Estimating Ancestry of Fragmentary Remains Via Multiple Classifier Systems: A Study of the Mississippi State Asylum. In J. Hefner & M. Piloud (Eds.), Biological Distance Analysis (pp. 285–299). New York: Elsevier. https://doi.org/http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-801966-5.00015-9

Herrmann, N. P. (2016, May). [Review of Archaeodiet in the Greek World: Dietary reconstruction from stable isotope analysis, by A. Papathanasiou, M. P. Richards, & S. C. Fox Princeton]. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. The American School of Classical Studies at Athens. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.23023

Simek, J., Herrmann, N. P., Cressler, A., & Blankenship, S. (2015). Documenting Spatial Order in the Pictograph Panels of Picture Cave (Missouri). In C. Diaz-Granados, J. Duncan, & F. Reilly, III (Eds.), Picture Cave: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Mississippian Cosmos (pp. 57–95). Austin, Texas: The University of Texas Press.

Mahfouz, M. R., Langley, N. R., Herrmann, N. P., & Abdel Fatah, E. E. (2015). Computerized Reconstruction of Fragmentary Skeletal Remains for Purposes of Extracting Osteometric Measurements and Estimating MNI. Final Report submitted to the National Institute of Justice.

Herrmann, N. P., Devlin, J., & Stanton, J. (2014). Assessment of Commingled Human Remains Using a GIS-Based and Osteological Landmark Approach. In B. Adams & J. Byrd (Eds.), Commingled Human Remains: Methods in Recovery, Analysis, and Identification (pp. 221–238). New York: Academic Press, Inc.

Herrmann, N. P., Devlin, J., & Stanton, J. (2014). Bioarchaeological Spatial Analysis of the Walker-Noe (15Gd56) Crematory. In A. Osterholtz, K. Baustian, & D. Martin (Eds.), Commingled and Disarticulated Human Remains: Working Towards Improved Theory, Method, and Data (pp. 51–66). New York.

Cureton, T., Harris, S., Herrmann, N. P., M, & Johnson, J. (2014). Archaeological Survey Of Site 22HI859: A Historic Cemetery On The University Of Mississippi Medical Center Campus, Jackson, Mississippi.

Simek, J., Cressler, A., & Herrmann, N. P. (2013). Prehistoric Rock Art from Painted Bluff and the Landscape of North Alabama Rock Art. Southeastern Archaeology, 32, 218–234.

Simek, J., Cressler, A., Herrmann, N. P., & Sherwood, S. (2013). Sacred Landscapes of the Southeast: Prehistoric Rock and Cave Art in Tennessee. Antiquity, 87, 1–17.

Simek, J., Sherwood, S., Herrmann, N. P., Bow, S., Cressler, A., & Carmondy, S. (2013). You Can’t Take It (All) With You: Rock Art and Looting on the Cumberland Plateau of Tennessee. IFRAO 2013 Proceedings of the American Rock Art Research Association; American Indian Rock Art, 40, 765–780.

Devlin, J., & Herrmann, N. P. (2013). Taphonomy of Fire. In M. Tersigni-Tarrant & N. Shirley (Eds.), Forensic Anthropology: An Introduction (pp. 307–324). Boca Raton, USA: CRC Press.

Herrmann, N. P., Li, Z.-H., & Warner, M. (2013). Isotopic and Elemental Analysis of the William Bass Donated Skeletal Collection and Other Modern Donated Collections.

Welch, P. D., Herrmann, N. P., & Cornelison, Jr., J. E. (2013). Mapping Procedures. In D. G. Anderson, J. E. Cornelison, Jr., & S. C. Sherwood (Eds.), Archeological Investigations At Shiloh Indian Mounds National Historic Landmark (40HR7), 1999-2004 at Shiloh National Military Park, Hardin County, Tennessee (pp. 181–195).

Herrmann, N. P., & Warner, M. (2013). Archaeological Monitoring Management Summary for The UMMC Parking Garage.

de Gregory, J., & Herrmann, N. P. (2012). The Bioarchaeological Analysis of the Human Remains Recovered from the Red River Foster Site (3LA27), Lafayette County, Arkansas.

Herrmann, N. P. (2012). Geophysical Survey of the University of the South Golf Course, Sewanee, Tennessee.

de Gregory, J., & Herrmann, N. P. (2011). The Bioarchaeological Analysis of the Human Burials Recovered from the Rolling Fork Mound Site (22SH506, Shaky County, Mississippi).

Herrmann, N. P., & O’Hear, J. (2011). Assessment of the Nanih Waiya Mound and Earthwork for the Mississippi Band of the Choctaw Indians.

Des Jean, T., & Herrmann, N. P. (2011). Civil War Effects on the Home Front: Scott County and Areas of the Upper Cumberland Plateau.

Wilson, R., Herrmann, N. P., & Meadows, J. L. (2010). Evaluation of stature estimation from the Database for Forensic Anthropology. Journal of Forensic Sciences, 55(3), 684–689.

Ralston, B., & Herrmann, N. P. (2010). Development of a Web Based Geographic Information System for the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs).

Simek, J., Blankenship, S., Herrmann, N. P., Sherwood, S., & Cressler, A. (2009). New Rock and Cave Art Sites in Tennessee: 2007. Tennessee Archaeology, 4, 194–210.

Adams, B., & Herrmann, N. P. (2009). Estimation of living stature from selected anthropometric (soft tissue) measurements: Applications for forensic anthropology. Journal of Forensic Sciences, 54(4), 753–760.

Herrmann, N. P. (2009). [Review of The Early Bronze Age I. Tombs And Burials Of Bâb Edh-Dhrâ’, Jordan, by D. Ortner & B. Frohlich]. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. Altamira Press.

Gage, M., & Herrmann, N. P. (2009). Archaeological Site Identification and Erosion Monitoring for the TVA Reservoir Operation Compliance Project: the 2005-2009 Field Season on Portions of Blue Ridge, Chatuge, Cherokee, Fontana, Hiwassee, Norris, Nottely, and Wheeler Reservoirs.

Konigsberg, L. W., Herrmann, N. P., Wescott, D. J., & Kimmerle, E. H. (2008). Estimation and Evidence in Forensic Anthropology: Age-at-Death. Journal of Forensic Science, 53(3), 541–557.

Devlin, J., & Herrmann, N. P. (2008). Bone Color as an Interpretive Tool of the Depositional History of Archaeological Cremains. In C. Schmidt & S. Symes (Eds.), The Analysis of Burned Human Remains (pp. 109–128). New York: Elsevier Press.

Herrmann, N. P., & Bennett Devlin, J. (2008). Assessment of commingled human remains using a GIS based approach. In B. Adams & J. Byrd (Eds.), Recovery, Analysis, and Identification of Commingled Human Remains (pp. 257–269). New York: Humana Press, Inc.

Herrmann, N. P., Spradley, M., & Wilson, R. (2008). Chapter 13: Bioarchaeology of the Plash Island Burials. In Phase III Archaeology at Plash Island by Price SE.

Gage, M., & Herrmann, N. P. (2008). Archaeological Site Identification and Erosion Monitoring for the TVA Reservoir Operation Compliance Project: the 2008 Field Season on Portions of Blue Ridge, Chatuge, Cherokee, Fontana, Hiwassee, Norris, Nottely, and Wheeler Reservoirs.

Herrmann, N. P., Yerka, S., & Carr, M. (2008). Geophysical Prospection of the First United Methodist Church in Madisonville, Monroe County, Tennessee.

Herrmann, N. P. (2007). [Review of New Radiocarbon Dates from Three Archaic Shell Middens in Western Kentucky: Indian Knoll (15Oh2), Ward (15McL11) and Barrett (15McL4), by S. Miller, D. Pollack, K. Carstens, & C. Moore]. Current Research in Kentucky, 8, 77–89.

Herrmann, N. P. (2007). Bioarchaeological analysis of Burial 1 from site 38FL2, Florence, South Carolina.

Herrmann, N. P., Angst, M., Cressler, A., Creswell, B., & Guymon, G. (2007). Phase I Archaeological Survey of Caves 40OV57 and 40OV107, Overton County, Tennessee.

Sullivan, L., Harle, M., & Herrmann, N. P. (2007). Predictive Model for Archaeological Site Locations in the French Broad River Conservation Corridor.

Herrmann, N. P., Yerka, S., & Kocis, J. (2007). GeoHerrmannphysical Prospection of the cemetery on Carson-Newman College campus in Jefferson City, Jefferson County, Tennessee.

Herrmann, N. P., & Yerka, S. (2007). Geophysical Prospection of Two Possible Graves within the Proposed Highway 52 Right-Of-Way in Scott County, Tennessee.

Gage, M., & Herrmann, N. P. (2007). Archaeological Site Identification and Erosion Monitoring for the TVA Reservoir Operation Compliance Project: the 2007 Field Season on Portions of Fontana, Norris, and Wheeler Reservoirs.

Herrmann, N. P., & Yerka, S. (2007). Geophysical Prospection of the Possible Location of Camp Van Dorn in North Knoxville, Knox County, Tennessee.

Meadows, L., Herrmann, N. P., Jantz, R., & Ubelaker, D. (2006). Skeletal Biology of Texas and Northern Mexico. Handbook of North American Indians: Environment, Origins, and Population, 3, 590–594.

Konigsberg, L., & Herrmann, N. P. (2006). The Osteological Evidence for Human Longevity in the Recent Past. In K. Hawkes & R. Paine (Eds.), The Evolution of Human Life History (pp. 267–306). Santa Fe: School of American Research Press.

Herrmann, N. P., RL, & Owsley, D. (2006). Buhl Revisited: 3-D Photographic Reconstruction and Morphometric Re-evaluation. In S. González & J. Jiménez (Eds.), El Hombre Temprano en América y sus Implicaciones en el Poblamiento de la Cuenca de México (pp. 211–220). Mexico City: INAH Publication.

Herrmann, N. P., Meadows Jantz, L., & Wilson, R. (2006). Evaluation of stature estimation from the Database for Forensic Anthropology.

Herrmann, N. P. (2006). Chapter 10: Human Remains. In G Maggard and DL Pollack: The Highland Creek Site: Middle to Late Archaic Wetland Utilization in Western Kentucky (pp. 88–97).

Herrmann, N. P. (2006). Geophysical Prospection of Light Pole Locations at Old Gray Cemetery in Knoxville, Knox County, Tennessee.

Herrmann, N. P. (2006). Geophysical Prospection of the Office at Old Gray Cemetery in Knoxville, Knox County, Tennessee.

Herrmann, N. P. (2006). Wood Creek South Subdivision Cemetery Geophysical Survey in Knox County, Tennessee.

Gage, M., & Herrmann, N. P. (2006). Archaeological Site Identification and Erosion Monitoring for the TVA Reservoir Operation Compliance Project: the 2006 Field Season on Portions of Blue Ridge, Chatuge, Cherokee, Fontana, Hiwassee, Norris, Nottely, Pickwick, South Holston, Watauga, and Wheeler Reservoirs.

Herrmann, N. P. (2006). Ground Penetrating Radar Survey of the Tyree Cemetery in Smith County, Tennessee.

Ahlman, T., Marcel, D., Herrmann, N. P., & Creswell, B. (2005). Salvage of an Eroding Feature at the Tellico Blockhouse, Tellico Reservoir, Monroe County, Tennessee. Tennessee Archaeology, 1(2), 127–134.

Herrmann, N. P. (2005). Ground Penetrating Radar Survey of the McCloud Cemetery in Halls, Knox County, Tennessee.

Ahlman, T., Guymon, G., & Herrmann, N. P. (2005). Archaeological Overview and Assessment of the Cumberland Gap National Historical Park, Kentucky, Tennessee, And Virginia.

Herrmann, N. P. (2004). Ground Penetrating Radar Survey of the Quarles/Burton Slave Cemetery near Cookeville, Putnam County, Tennessee.

Herrmann, N. P. (2002). GIS Applied to Bioarchaeology: An Example from the Rio Talgua Caves in Northeast Honduras. Journal of Cave and Karst Studies, 64(1), 17–22.

Morey, D., Crothers, G., Stein, J., Fenton, J., & Herrmann, N. P. (2002). The Fluvial and Geomorphic Context of Indian Knoll, an Archaic Shell Midden in West-Central Kentucky. Geoarchaeology, 17(6), 521–553.

Herrmann, N. P., & Konigsberg, L. (2002). A Re-Examination of the Age-At-Death Distribution of Indian Knoll. In R. Hoppa & J. Vaupel (Eds.), Paleodemography (pp. 243–257). New York: Cambridge University Press.

Konigsberg, L., & Herrmann, N. P. (2002). Markov Chain Monte Carlo Estimation of Hazard Model Parameters in Palaeodemography. In R. Hoppa & J. Vaupel (Eds.), Paleodemography (pp. 222–242). New York: Cambridge University Press.

Meadows Jantz, L., Herrmann, N. P., Sparks, C., Weisensee, K., & Kopp, D. (2002). Nuestra Señora del Refugio (41RF1), Refurio County, Texas: Volume II Osteological Analysis.  Texas Department of Transportation,.

Herrmann, N. P. (2000). Report on the Analysis of Human Remains Recovered from 15ME62.

Frankenberg, S., & Herrmann, N. P. (2000). Archaeological Reconnaissance Survey of Tennessee Valley Authority Lands on the Tellico Reservoir.

Herrmann, N. P., & Frankenberg, S. (2000). Archaeological Reconnaissance Survey of Tennessee Valley Authority Lands on the Melton Hill Reservoir.

Frankenberg, S., Herrmann, N. P., & Ahlman, T. (2000). Archaeological Reconnaissance Survey of Tennessee Valley Authority Lands on the Cherokee Reservoir.

Ahlman, T., Frankenberg, S., & Herrmann, N. P. (2000). Archaeological Reconnaissance Survey of Tennessee Valley Authority Lands on the Watts Bar Reservoir.

Bennett, J., & Herrmann, N. P. (1999). The Differentiation of Traumatic and Heat-Related Fractures in Burned Bone. Journal of Forensic Sciences, 44(3), 461–469.

Herrmann, N. P., Benedix, D., Scott, A., & Haskins, V. (1999). A Brief Comment on an Intentionally Modified Tooth from the Rio Talgua Region in Northeastern Honduras. Dental Anthropology, 13(2), 9–12.

Herrmann, N. P. (1999). The Second Catholic Grave Yard: A Perspective of St. Louis History. Gateway Heritage, 20(1), 16–25.

Herrmann, N. P., & Rockhold-Zepho, L. (1999). A Case Study of a Hit and Run Fatality: Direction of Force. In A. Galloway (Ed.), Broken Bones: Anthropological Analysis of Blunt Force Trauma (pp. 287–290). Springfield: CC Thomas.

Herrmann, N. P. (1999). Report on the Analysis of Human Remains Recovered from 15UN127.

Herrmann, N. P. (1998). A Report on the Human Burial Recovered from Logan’s Fort (15LI95), Kentucky.

Simek, J., Faulkner, C., Frankenberg, S., Klippel, W., Ahlman, T., Herrmann, N. P., … Yarnell, R. (1997). A Preliminary Report on the Archaeology of a New Mississippian Cave Art Site in East Tennessee. Southeastern Archaeology, 16(1), 51–72.

Herrmann, N. P. (1997). A Report on the Human Skeletal Remains Recovered During the 1996-97 Field Seasons from the Campana At San Andrés, El Salvador.

Herrmann, N. P. (1996). Archaic Shell Mound Paleodemography: A Case Study From the Read Site(15Bt10). Current Research in Kentucky, 4, 69–88.

Haskins, V., & Herrmann, N. P. (1996). Shell Mound Bioarchaeology. In K. Carstens & P. Watson (Eds.), Of Caves and Shell Mounds (pp. 107–118). Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press.

Herrmann, N. P. (1996). Appendix A: A Report on the Human Burials From McCroskey Island, 40SV43.

Harl, J., Naglish, D., & Herrmann, N. P. (1996). Grave Information: Insights into Nineteenth Century Ideology Based on Archaeological Investigations at the Second Catholic Grave Yard (23SL733), St. Louis, Missouri.

Frankenberg, S., Ahlman, T., & Herrmann, N. P. (1995). Preliminary Archaeological Reconnaissance of a Possible Cemetery on the Planned Rivermont Estates, Kingsport, Tennessee.

Herrmann, N. P. (1994). Analysis of Skeletal Material from 15MA99.

Herrmann, N. P. (1994). Preliminary Analysis of Burial 1 from the Stelzer Site in North St. Louis County.

Herrmann, N. P., Ogilvie, M., Hilton, C., & Brown, K. (1994). Human Remains and Burial Goods, Volume XVIII.  In Across the Colorado Plateau: Anthropological Studies for the Transwestern Pipeline Expansion Project-Office of Contract Archeology, University of New Mexico.

Herrmann, N. P., Huser, W., Fenton, J., & Shaffer, B. (1994). Phase II Testing at Sites 15HD249, 15HD253 and 15HD420 in the Right-Of-Way of KY Route 313 Hardin County, KY.  Wilbur Smith Associates,.

Herrmann, N. P. (1994). Sites LA 88509, LA 88510, LA 88511, LA 88512, LA 88513, LA 88514 and LA 88524.

Herrmann, N. P. (1992). An unusual example of a Calcaneus Secundarius. Journal of the American Podiatric Medical Association, 82(12), 623–624.